Siacoin (SC) traded up 1% against the dollar during the 24-hour period ending at 17:00 PM E.T. on April 16th. In the last seven days, Siacoin has traded 2.2% higher against the dollar. Siacoin has a market capitalization of $236.00 million and approximately $3.98 million worth of Siacoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Siacoin coin can now be purchased for approximately $0.0044 or 0.00000014 BTC on popular exchanges.

Here is how related cryptocurrencies have performed in the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded up 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $30,341.42 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded 2.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $0.0908 or 0.00000299 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded up 5.2% against the dollar and now trades at $101.21 or 0.00333554 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded 0.3% higher against the dollar and now trades at $3.41 or 0.00011238 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 1.4% higher against the dollar and now trades at $22.29 or 0.00073450 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $163.23 or 0.00537976 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded up 2.2% against the dollar and now trades at $135.35 or 0.00446102 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded up 0.8% against the dollar and now trades at $0.22 or 0.00000726 BTC.
• Conflux (CFX) traded up 2.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.38 or 0.00001252 BTC.
• Pax Dollar (USDP) traded 0.2% higher against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003300 BTC.

Siacoin Profile

Siacoin (SC) is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Blake2b hashing algorithm. It was first traded on June 1st, 2015. Siacoin's total supply is 53,847,172,991 coins. The official website for Siacoin is sia.tech. 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.

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 buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Siacoin directly using U.S. dollars. Investors seeking to trade Siacoin should first buy Ethereum or Bitcoin using an exchange that deals in U.S. dollars such as GDAX, Gemini or Changelly. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Ethereum or Bitcoin to buy Siacoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

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