Decred (DCR) Trading 14.5% Lower Over Last Week

Decred (DCR) traded up 4.1% against the US dollar during the 1 day period ending at 21:00 PM ET on August 8th. One Decred coin can now be purchased for approximately $10.44 or 0.00017077 BTC on cryptocurrency exchanges. Decred has a total market cap of $169.59 million and $3.01 million worth of Decred was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. During the last week, Decred has traded 14.5% lower against the US dollar.

Here’s how similar cryptocurrencies have performed during the last 24 hours:

• Compound (COMP) traded up 7.3% against the dollar and now trades at $40.66 or 0.00066501 BTC.
• Bitcoiva (BCA) traded up 6.1% against the dollar and now trades at $5.13 or 0.00008383 BTC.
• EverGrow Coin (EGC) traded 7.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0000 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• dForce USD (USX) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00001617 BTC.
• Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) traded 11% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0722 or 0.00000118 BTC.
• WhiteCoin (XWC) traded 3.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0058 or 0.00000010 BTC.
• Navcoin (NAV) traded 5.5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0433 or 0.00000071 BTC.
• Memetic (MEME) traded up 7.6% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0113 or 0.00000018 BTC.
• ReddCoin (RDD) traded up 52.2% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0001 or 0.00000000 BTC.
• Aion (AION) traded 6.1% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0019 or 0.00000003 BTC.

Decred Profile

Decred (DCR) is a PoW/PoS coin that uses the BLAKE256 hashing algorithm. It launched on February 8th, 2016. Decred’s total supply is 16,242,341 coins. The Reddit community for Decred is https://reddit.com/r/decred and the currency’s Github account can be viewed here. Decred’s official message board is medium.com/decred. The official website for Decred is decred.org. Decred’s official Twitter account is @decredproject and its Facebook page is accessible here.

According to CryptoCompare, “Decred (DCR) is a hybrid PoW/PoS blockchain-based cryptocurrency, designed to ensure community involvement, open governance, and sustainable development funding. Stakeholders, or DCR holders, play a pivotal role in determining consensus rules, the blockchain’s evolution, and treasury funds allocation. Block rewards in Decred are split between PoW miners (10%), stakeholders (80%), and the Decred Treasury (10%). Stakeholders can stake their DCR for voting tickets, which grants them the power to vote on rule change proposals and approve PoW miners’ work. The Decred Treasury’s usage is decided via Politeia proposals and voting by live ticket holders. Launched in 2016 by co-founders including Alex and Jake Yocom-Piatt, Decred aims to create a truly decentralized cryptocurrency governed actively by its community.”

Decred Coin Trading

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

DCR/USD price chart by TradingView