Siacoin (SC) traded 0.9% higher against the US dollar during the 24 hour period ending at 9:00 AM ET on April 23rd. Over the last seven days, Siacoin has traded 8.8% lower against the US dollar. Siacoin has a total market cap of $213.69 million and $1.88 million worth of Siacoin was traded on exchanges in the last 24 hours. One Siacoin coin can currently be bought for approximately $0.0040 or 0.00000014 BTC on major exchanges.

Here's how related cryptocurrencies have performed over the last 24 hours:

• Bitcoin (BTC) traded 0.9% higher against the dollar and now trades at $27,611.83 or 1.00000000 BTC.
• Dogecoin (DOGE) traded up 1% against the dollar and now trades at $0.0802 or 0.00000291 BTC.
• Litecoin (LTC) traded up 0.5% against the dollar and now trades at $86.75 or 0.00314197 BTC.
• UNUS SED LEO (LEO) traded down 0.1% against the dollar and now trades at $3.49 or 0.00012647 BTC.
• Monero (XMR) traded up 2.9% against the dollar and now trades at $157.83 or 0.00571620 BTC.
• Ethereum Classic (ETC) traded 0.9% lower against the dollar and now trades at $19.98 or 0.00072356 BTC.
• Bitcoin Cash (BCH) traded down 0.2% against the dollar and now trades at $121.24 or 0.00439077 BTC.
• DEI (DEI) traded down 0.3% against the dollar and now trades at $0.21 or 0.00000774 BTC.
• Pax Dollar (USDP) traded 0.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $1.00 or 0.00003609 BTC.
• NyanCoin (NYAN) traded 2.2% lower against the dollar and now trades at $2.40 or 0.00008809 BTC.

Siacoin Profile

Siacoin is a proof-of-work (PoW) coin that uses the Blake2b hashing algorithm. Its genesis date was June 1st, 2015. Siacoin's total supply is 53,875,642,991 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."

Siacoin Coin Trading

It is usually not presently possible to buy alternative cryptocurrencies such as Siacoin directly using US dollars. Investors seeking to trade Siacoin should first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum using an exchange that deals in US dollars such as Coinbase, Gemini or GDAX. Investors can then use their newly-acquired Bitcoin or Ethereum to buy Siacoin using one of the exchanges listed above.

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