Siacoin (SC) traded 1.9% higher against the U.S. dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 18:00 PM E.T. on April 13th. One Siacoin coin can currently be purchased for approximately $0.0043 or 0.00000014 BTC on major cryptocurrency exchanges. In the last week, Siacoin has traded down 0.9% against the U.S. dollar. Siacoin has a market capitalization of $231.72 million and $3.62 million worth of Siacoin was traded on exchanges in the last day.

Here is how other cryptocurrencies have performed in the last day:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 1.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $30,349.55 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 5% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0870 or 0.00000287 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded up 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $94.31 or 0.00310748 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded up 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $3.39 or 0.00011165 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $22.38 or 0.00073755 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 0.1% lower against the dollar and now trades at $162.21 or 0.00534482 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 1.5% against the dollar and now trades at $130.95 or 0.00431486 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded up 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.25 or 0.00000810 BTC.
• Conflux (CFX) traded 1.7% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.39 or 0.00001281 BTC.
• Pax Dollar (USDP) traded up 0% against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003287 BTC.

Siacoin Coin Profile

Siacoin (SC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Blake2b hashing algorithm. It launched on June 1st, 2015. Siacoin's total supply is 53,833,762,991 coins. The Reddit community for Siacoin is and the currency's Github account can be viewed here. Siacoin's official Twitter account is @skynetlabs and its Facebook page is accessible here. Siacoin's official website is sia.tech.

According to CryptoCompare, "Sia is a decentralized storage platform where users contribute disk storage from their computers to create a decentralized network. Users can rent storage from hosts on Sia using siacoins, and smart storage contracts on the Sia blockchain ensure payment to the host only after keeping the file for a specific amount of time. The distributed nature of the Sia network offers benefits in latency, throughput, reliability, and security, and anyone with storage can get paid, reducing the overall price of cloud storage. The Sia cryptocurrency is live, and the platform is still in beta, supporting uploads that are 500mb or less in size."

Buying and Selling Siacoin

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

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