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A Common Problem – The Vertcoin Solution

ASICs, highly specialized computers, have put the power to mine cryptocurrencies in fewer peoples’ hands. This centralization of power weakens the security of the coin and may impact the long term value. Vertcoin is wholly dedicated to decentralization through meaningful innovation.

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Features

Stealth Addresses

Stealth Addresses provide privacy on the public ledger, much like what you would expect from any traditional bank. Vertcoin was the first to offer this incredible breakthrough in cryptocurrency technology.

Mobile Wallets

Vertcoin wallets are available on Android, iOS (pending approval) and (coming soon) Windows Phone. If you would like to install the pre-release iOS app, please contact a432511@vertcoin.org.

VertVerser

Spend Vertcoin wherever Bitcoin is accepted using VertVerser. Simply enter the Bitcoin address, send your Vertcoin and VertVerser does the rest.

Decentralized

Vertcoin is highly decentralized and the development team is wholly committed to keeping it that way. This ensures the long term security and fair distribution of the coin.

Dedicated Developers

Our team is comprised of top talent from all over the world. Each of us brings key strengths to the table from business acumen, to enterprise technical architecture to security.

Support

Our community is incredibly accommodating and growing fast. If you ever need help getting started, reach out and talk to us – we are more than happy to help. Start with our official forum or our lively sub-reddit.

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to offer stealth addresses. Your private transactions are hidden within the bits of data that comprise the public ledger.

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[Stealth Addresses]

Stealth Addresses

So, what are Stealth Addresses really?

Stealth addresses are a way for a payer and a payee to have a private exchange of funds.

[Invest]
Investing in Vertcoin

Getting Started

Step One - Wallet
The first thing you need to do is download and install the Vertcoin Wallet for your Operating System. Go ahead and check out the Wallets page to get your wallet. With Vertcoin – or any cryptocurrency – your money is stored using an address (like your bank account number) and a secret key to unlock the funds (like a pin number). That secret key is all you need in order to track and spend your Vertcoins. Wallets keep track of your secret keys so you can spend or receive Vertcoins with ease. Did you install your Vertcoin Wallet yet?

Step Two - Purchase Bitcoin
The most reliable way to purchase Vertcoin is to purchase Bitcoin first and trade it for Vertcoin. So, how do you get Bitcoin? Luckily that part is pretty easy. Just go to https://coinbase.com, sign up for an account there (or a similar exchange) and buy your Bitcoin. Don’t worry – you don’t need to buy a whole Bitcoin right out of the gate. You can purchase fractions of Bitcoin. Once you have your Bitcoin, you need to exchange it for Vertcoin.

Step Three - Bitcoin to Vertcoin
With your Bitcoin “in hand”, you are ready to get some Vertcoin! If you are looking for less than 150 Vertcoin (VTC), the easiest way to exchange your Bitcoin (BTC) for Vertcoin (VTC) is to use VertVerser. VertVerser allows you to send your Bitcoin to a Bitcoin address, and the system will send the equivalent amount of Vertcoin to the Vertcoin address you specify. So go to your Vertcoin Wallet and click the “Receive” tab. You should have at least one address in there – remember, that is your account number. Copy that and paste it into VertVerser; that is the address you want VertVerser to send the Vertcoins to. Then specify the number of Vertcoins you want to send and it will tell you how much Bitcoin you need and where to send it.

If you want to buy more than the limit on VertVerser, you will want to sign up for an account on one of the cryptocurrency exchanges like Poloniex, Mintpal or Cryptsy.

Step Four - Enjoy!
Welcome to the community! You are now an investor in Vertcoin and have joined many others in this wonderful community. Spend your VTC anywhere BTC is accepted, or use your VTC directly at one of many merchants that accept VTC.

Exchanges
Mintpal: BTC/VTC
Bittylicious: GBP/VTC
Bter: VTC/BTC and VTC/CNY
C-Cex.com: VTC/USD
Cryptsy: VTC/BTC
CoinedUp: VTC/BTC
Poloniex: VTC/BTC
CryptX.io: VTC/BTC
Comkort: VTC/BTC, VTC/LTC, VTC/DOGE
Vault of Satoshi: VTC/USD and VTC/CAD
Prelude.io: VTC/USD and VTC/BTC
Bleutrade: VTC/BTC
Swisscex: VTC/BTC, VTC/LTC and VTC/DOGE
Cryptoaltex: VTC/BTC

Market Capitalization
View our 30 day or current market capitalization

Spend Your Vertcoin
You can also use Vertcoin to buy gift cards for merchants like Amazon, the Apple store, Playstation Plus and more! Check out the full list of merchants here.

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Details
Vertcoin is designed to resist centralization…

Vertcoin’s algorithm is designed to resist the development of custom mining hardware and multipool mining, ensuring that transactions are validated by a widely distributed network and avoiding the selling pressure when large mining pools indiscriminately flood the market with freshly mined coins.

For more detail, read the Vertcoin Paper by David Muller

Technical Details

Algorithm: Scrypt-N
Generation: 84 million VTC
Block time: 2.5 minutes
Block Rewards: 50 coins per block
Subsidy halves every 840,000 blocks (~4 years)
Difficulty Re-Target Time: Retargets every block (Kimotos Gravity Well)
Premine: Zero – not premined

Vertcoin now has a merge-mined sidechain: Monocle

Download the Monocle wallet from Github and configure your miner according to the details in the ANN thread at bitcointalk. The best way to merge-mine VTC, MON, PLX and other merge-mined coins on the VTC chain is by running your own p2pool node, a “node in a box” and easy HOWTO are available: https://github.com/Paul-Bradley/EasyNode

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Mining

Miners by Hardware

ATI/AMD
Download the Vertcoin GPU miner for Windows,Linux x64, build from source, see the ChangeLog, read the build HOWTO, the Ubuntu 13.10 headless HOWTO and get configuration/tuning help

nVidia
For nVidia GPUs, get CUDAMiner Windows binary,Mac OS X binary or the source (note that the –algo=scrypt:2048 switch is needed to mine VTC with CUDAMiner)

CPU
Get the CPU miner for Windows or source code

Pools
Mine on the distributed p2pool networks (Network 1 for higher hashrates, 2 for medium and 3 for smaller miners) – p2pool is preferred and offers a number of advantages in security and payout size for miners.

[The Team]
The Team

Founder : Bushido
Our founder, Bushido has worked for major companies such as Accenture and Microsoft as a developer, and has returned to education as a masters student at Johns Hopkins. Persuaded that centralization was the bane of existing cryptocurrencies, he set out to create something that would encourage the wide distribution of mining power, increasing the security and safety of the Vertcoin network. Like most creative technical people, his main concern is to see substance and technical innovation behind Vertcoin, and he is always pushing to keep us innovative and keep us thinking about how we can do things better.

Timothy
Timothy is a writer and semi-polymath type, with a full Great Books type background, math, science and the soft stuff. He’s written screenplays, short films, and is currently working on a novel. Professionally his background is in ultra-high end hospitality, writing, and the non-profit sector. With an extensive leadership history, Timothy brings a rich background of business expertise and life-skills, and is an all-rounder on the team. With a passion for cryptocurrencies, and convinced that Vertcoin is CryptoCurrency iteration 3.0, Timothy wants to assist in any way he can to help Vertcoin achieve it’s rightful place as the most used, most trusted digital currency in the world.

DCvtc
DCvtc is our Social Media expert. He currently manages social media assets for a telecomunications company full time, with 140,000 likes on Facebook and 30,000 Twitter followers. He works closely with the other marketing team members to assist in supporting their work via social media and specialises in customer engagement and dispute resolution.

Webbs
Webbs is the designer/animator and creative mind behind the Vertcoin brand. With 20 years experience in web/broadcast and advertising, Webbs has worked for the largest ad agency outside of london in the UK and worked for major clients including Microsoft, Norton, Yamaha, Toyota, Carphone Warehouse, Discovery, Ministry of Sound etc. He spent most of last year working for a well known international celebrity helping her to take new products to market. Webbs helps us bring the VTC brand to the world in a funky, interesting way and keeps us ahead of the competition image wise.

Casp3r
Having run online businesses for over 8 years now, Casp3r advises startups on branding and online marketing issues and build brands via smart PR. Doing newsworthy things, being innovative then giving it the right angle and pitching it to media outlets. Once projects are established he works with the heavyweights in the different niches together running joint ventures to maximize value. Casp3rs role is as a marketing advisor, knowing how to steer brands into the right direction and maximize their potential.

Boris
With an extensive background in technical fields, including financial IT, Boris has more recently moved on to other things in his day-to-day professional life but still keeps involved with interesting and worthwhile projects like Vertcoin. A mixture of a strong technical background, with experience running a number of businesses gives Boris the ideal mixture of skills to be a bridge between the technical side of the project, and the fluffier, more user-friendly public face of Vertcoin. Boris also looks after our official website, and maintains our trusted build system (https://github.com/vertcoin/gitian.sigs.vtc) so that binaries can be validated and publicly verified as clean and trustworthy.

a432511
a432511 is an enterprise technical architect with a deep passion for security and privacy. His primary development stack is Microsoft (.NET), however, he has authored applications across many platforms and languages (Android, iOS, Java, PHP, etc). In addition to development, he will be helping with communication and marketing.

Aleks
Our goto man for Windows builds and issues, Aleks is a crypto enthusiast and entrepreneur. He has been an avid computer geek for the last 25 years, starting out with the BBC Micro in the 80s, moving through Commodore Amiga and onto PC. He now runs a mixture of Linux, OSx and Windows, though he won’t be drawn on which one he prefers. Aleks is actively working with CryptoCurrency startups and brings technical understanding together with plain english and business experience. With VertCoin since day one, Aleks looks after all our native Windows build needs.

Bengt
Bengt studies computer science at bachelor’s level and has a couple years of programming experience from that and other projects. Lately he’s been working a lot with getting our distributed peer-to-peer pool network running smoothly. He’s passionate about crypto as a new form of currency and looks forward to the day that Vertcoin gains wide-spread adoption. Writes python and java.

Othe
Othe is a smart investor (in BTC since 2009) and was involved in efforts to get the Litecoin proof-of-work changed to try to achieve the initial purpose of Litecoin – ASIC resistance. When the Litecoin team proved reluctant to change things, Othe moved on to VTC and is now a key part of the team. Skilled in Python, Flask, PHP, Django and Drupal, Othe was also closely involved in the p2pool port to VTC. As an import/export guy, Othe also brings a keen business mind to VTC along with his technical skills.