Qtum Price Up 7.4% Over Last Week (QTUM)

Qtum (QTUM) traded 4.2% higher against the dollar during the twenty-four hour period ending at 21:00 PM Eastern on April 22nd. During the last week, Qtum has traded up 7.4% against the dollar. One Qtum coin can now be bought for about $4.42 or 0.00006591 BTC on major exchanges. Qtum has a total market capitalization of $462.51 million and $60.13 million worth of Qtum was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here is how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last day:

• Ethereum (ETH) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $3,217.32 or 0.04802660 BTC.
• Cardano (ADA) traded up 3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.52 or 0.00000772 BTC.
• Avalanche (AVAX) traded up 5.4% against the dollar and now trades at $39.57 or 0.00059071 BTC.
• NEAR Protocol (NEAR) traded 7.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $7.00 or 0.00010443 BTC.
• Internet Computer (ICP) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $15.23 or 0.00022734 BTC.
• Uniswap (UNI) traded 5.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $8.26 or 0.00012328 BTC.
• Cronos (CRO) traded up 3.1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.13 or 0.00000200 BTC.
• Cosmos (ATOM) traded up 2.4% against the dollar and now trades at $8.99 or 0.00013414 BTC.
• Hedera (HBAR) traded up 1.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0911 or 0.00000136 BTC.
• Fetch.ai (FET) traded 3.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $2.54 or 0.00003790 BTC.

Qtum Coin Profile

Qtum (CRYPTO:QTUM) is a proof-of-stake (PoS) coin that uses the POS 3.0 hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was December 19th, 2016. Qtum’s total supply is 107,822,406 coins and its circulating supply is 104,755,842 coins. Qtum’s official Twitter account is @qtum and its Facebook page is accessible here. The Reddit community for Qtum is https://reddit.com/r/qtum and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. The official website for Qtum is qtum.org.

According to CryptoCompare, “QTUM is a blockchain platform that combines Bitcoin and Ethereum elements to provide a secure and decentralized environment for building and running smart contracts and dapps. Its hybrid consensus mechanism combines proof-of-work (PoW) and proof-of-stake (PoS) to achieve security and scalability. The platform uses familiar programming languages such as Solidity and C++ to make it easier for developers to build and deploy smart contracts and dapps. QTUM was created by a team led by Patrick Dai and is primarily used for building and running smart contracts and dapps, with the QTUM token used for payments, incentivizing network participants, and governance decisions.”

Qtum Coin Trading

It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Qtum directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to acquire Qtum should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as Changelly, Coinbase or Gemini. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Qtum using one of the aforementioned exchanges.

QTUM/USD price chart by TradingView