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Comparison of cryptocurrencies
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<p>NikosBentenitis: </p>
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<div>This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies, even those too minor to have their own wiki entry. See also [[:Category:Alternative cryptocurrencies]]<br />
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It is based [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0 on this thread].<br />
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= Currencies =<br />
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The order / grouping of these coins are still TBD.<br />
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[[User:Ripper234|Ripper234]] proposes a grouping of Major, Minor and New by an arbitrary market cap limit. This can be done once the market caps of the alts are known.<br />
* Using market cap will make Tonal Bitcoin a "Major" despite de facto minor usage. Therefore, I suggest finding a different method of categorizing. --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] ([[User talk:Luke-jr|talk]]) 05:06, 4 March 2013 (GMT)<br />
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== Major ==<br />
=== Bitcoin (BTC) ===<br />
* http://bitcoin.org/ <br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* coin supply* '''21 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment* '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA256d'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''50 '''coins per block<br />
* Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)<br />
* Launch Date: January 3rd, 2009<br />
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=== Namecoin (NMC) === <br />
* https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin<br />
* (merged mined with BTC) <br />
* https://github.com/vinced/namecoin <br />
* http://namecoin.info/<br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* coin supply* '''21 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA256d'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''50 '''coins per block<br />
* Market Cap: ???? BTC<br />
* Launch Date: April 18, 2011<br />
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=== Litecoin (LTC) ===<br />
* http://litecoin.org/<br />
* blocks every '''2.5 min'''<br />
* coin supply* '''84 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''scrypt '''<br />
* Initial Reward '''50''' coins per block<br />
* Market Cap: 150,000 BTC<br />
* Launch Date: October 2011<br />
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=== PPCoin (PPC) ===<br />
* http://ppcoin.org/<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101820.0<br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* Coin supply* '''non-deterministic ''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''each block'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA-256'''<br />
* Reward '''varies on difficulty''' coins per block<br />
* EXTRA: Incorporates [[Proof Of Stake]] coin Generation, contains central checksums to kickstart the protocol<br />
* Market Cap: ???? BTC<br />
* Launch Date: approx August 19th, 2012 (date of its [http://ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf whitepaper])<br />
** The public design phase of this coin was very brief.<br />
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=== Mastercoin (MSC) ===<br />
* http://www.mastercoin.org<br />
* Coin supply: 619478.59338440 MSC<br />
* Launch Date: September 1, 2013<br />
* Blockchain: Uses Bitcoin for transport, storage and security, inherits Bitcoin Protocol properties<br />
* Extended Properties: Distributed Exchange, Savings & Guardian Addresses, Contracts for Difference, Smart Properties, User Currencies<br />
* Protocol: Master Protocol <br />
* Spec Github Repo: https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC/spec<br />
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== New ==<br />
New in on the scene.<br />
Please put here any coins whose concept are new. If a coin is discussed for 6 months and launched yesterday, it is not new.<br />
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=== RonPaulCoin (RPC) ===<br />
* http://www.ronpaulcoin.com <br />
* Blocks every '''2 min'''<br />
* Coin supply '''2.1 million''' total coins<br />
* Difficulty adjustment '''1 day'''<br />
* Hashing algorithm '''scrypt'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''1 '''coin per block<br />
* Block reward halfed every 262k blocks (~ 4 years)<br />
* Launch Date: December 29, 2013<br />
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=== Betacoin (BET) ===<br />
* http://betacoin.org/ <br />
* Blocks every '''4 min'''<br />
* Coin supply* '''32 million''' coins will be mined in ~ first 6 years + '''0,39% annual'''<br />
* Difficulty adjustment* '''6 blocks'''<br />
* Hashing algorithm '''SHA256d'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''128 '''coins per block<br />
* Block reward halfed every 126k blocks (~ 1 year)<br />
* Launch Date: October, 2013<br />
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=== Nxt (NXT) ===<br />
* http://nextcoin.org<br />
* Pronounced as "Next"<br />
* Blocks every '''1 min'''<br />
* Designed as 100% PoS (Proof-of-Stake) system<br />
* Coin supply* '''1 billion''' coins exist from the start distributed by 74 founding stake holders<br />
* Launch Date: September, 29, 2013<br />
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== Minor ==<br />
=== Megacoin (MΣC) ===<br />
* http://www.megacoin.co.nz/<br />
* https://forum.megacoin.co.nz<br />
* Block Target is 2.5 minutes<br />
* Block reward halved every every 420,000 blocks<br />
* 25 coins per block<br />
* 42 Million total coins<br />
* Difficulty changes every block<br />
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The implentation of the Kimoto Gravity well retargets difficulty every block. This keeps mining fair and secure for all miners and users of the coin, and prevents the rampant multipool abuse that was (and still is) common with most all other altcoins out on the market today. <br />
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=== AnonCoin (ANC) ===<br />
* https://anoncoin.net/<br />
* https://forum.anoncoin.net<br />
* Block Target is 3.4 minutes<br />
* Block reward halfed every 306k blocks<br />
* 5 coins per block<br />
* 4.2 million total coins<br />
* Difficulty changes every block<br />
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Anoncoins goal is to make the user more Anonymous by having built-in support for I2P, Coincontrol, and more in the future.<br />
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=== Franko (FRK) ===<br />
* http://www.frankos.org/<br />
* http://forum.frankos.org<br />
* Block Target is 0.5 minutes<br />
* Block reward halfed every 22m blocks<br />
* 0.25 coins per block<br />
* 11.2 million total coins<br />
* Difficulty changes every 720 blocks<br />
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Franko is considered the crypto with the fairest adoption length. Accepted by over 50 merchants and 10 brick and mortar stores.<br />
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Base currency used by the Franko Collective, a democratic group of developers.<br />
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=== FeatherCoin (FTC) ===<br />
* http://feathercoin.com/<br />
* A fork of Litecoin<br />
* 243 million total coins<br />
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=== CraftCoin (CRC) ===<br />
* http://craftcoin.net/<br />
* Based on Litecoin<br />
* Portable in-game currency for Minecraft Servers<br />
* 206,847 total coins<br />
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=== Tonal Bitcoin (TBC) ===<br />
* [[Tonal Bitcoin]]<br />
* (merged mined with BTC)<br />
* (blockchain shared with BTC)<br />
* (automatically converted to/from BTC)<br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* Coin supply* '''7.8 tam''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA-256'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''1,2905.2''' coins per block<br />
* Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)<br />
* Launch Date: January 2rd, 2011<br />
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=== IxCoin (IXC) ===<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36701.0<br />
* (merged mined with BTC)<br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* Coin supply* '''21 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA1''' <br />
* Reward '''96 '''coins per block<br />
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=== Devcoin (DEV) ===<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.0<br />
* (merged mined with BTC)<br />
* blocks every '''10 min'''<br />
* coin supply* '''constant generation''' coins will be available (???)<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA256d'''<br />
* Reward '''50,000''' coins per block<br />
* '''EXTRA 90% block subsidy goes to foundation'''<br />
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=== Freicoin (FRC) ===<br />
* http://freico.in/<br />
* http://www.freicoin.org/<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89843.0<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3816.0<br />
* blocks every '''10 minutes'''<br />
* coin supply* '''100 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''2016 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA-256'''<br />
* [http://www.freicoin.org/freicoin-generation-graph-t41-20.html#p532 Arithmetically decreasing] reward<br />
* EXTRA: <br />
-- 4.89% annual [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency demurrage]<br />
-- 80% block subsidy [http://www.freicoin.org/application-developer-best-practices-t87.html#p919 goes to foundation for the first 3 years] (about 500 coins for each of first 161280 blocks, total 80m)<br />
-- [u]In need of Dev work on daemon, client etc but network still running[/u]<br />
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=== I0coin (I0C) ===<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36425.0 ; https://github.com/kr105rlz/i0coin<br />
* Perhaps should be moved to Dead section?<br />
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=== Terracoin (TRC) ===<br />
* http://terracoin.org/<br />
* blocks every '''2 minutes'''<br />
* coin supply* '''42 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''30 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''SHA-256'''<br />
* Reward '''20''' coins per block <br />
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=== Liquidcoin (LQC) ===<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60026.0 <br />
* blocks every '''10 minutes'''<br />
* '''no cap''' as block subsidy has a minimum of 1 coin<br />
* Constant difficulty of '''0.5'''<br />
* Coin reward drops over time<br />
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=== BBQCoin (BQC) ===<br />
* http://blog.bbqcoin.org http://www.bbqcoin.com<br />
* blocks every '''1 minute'''<br />
* coin supply* '''88 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment '''60 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''Scrypt'''<br />
* Reward '''42''' coins per block<br />
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=== BitBar (BTB) ===<br />
* http://bitbar.biz/home<br />
* blocks every '''10 minutes'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''Scrypt'''<br />
* Reward '''1''' coin per block<br />
* Coin reward drops over time<br />
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=== Netcoin (NET) ===<br />
* Main - http://netcoin.org.uk/<br />
* Forums - http://forum.netcoinfoundation.org/<br />
* blocks every '''1 min'''<br />
* coin supply* '''320.6 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment* '''60 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''Scrypt'''<br />
* Initial Reward '''1024 '''coins per block<br />
* Reward Halves '''Every 3 months or 129,600 Blocks'''<br />
* Market Cap: approx. $200,000 (Dec 4th, 2013)<br />
* Launch Date: Sept 2nd, 2013<br />
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=== GoldCoin (GLD) ===<br />
* http://gldcoin.com/<br />
* https://www.gldtalk.org/<br />
* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=317568.0<br />
* blocks every '''2 minutes'''<br />
* coin supply* '''123 million''' coins will be available<br />
* difficulty adjustment* '''60 blocks'''<br />
* hashing algorithm '''Scrypt'''<br />
* reward '''45''' coins per block<br />
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== Dead / dying ==<br />
===Qubic===<br />
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112676.0<br />
Qubic Forum: http://qubic.boards.net<br />
===TimeKoin===<br />
Still alive* http://timekoin.org/* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php topic=88467.0<br />
===SC Solidcoin===<br />
scam?* https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/SolidCoin ; http://solidcoin.info/<br />
===GG Geist Geld===<br />
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42417.0 ; https://github.com/Lolcust/GeistGeld<br />
===TBX Tenebrix===<br />
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45667.0 ; https://github.com/Lolcust/Tenebrix<br />
===FBX Fairbrix===<br />
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46528.0 ; https://github.com/coblee/Fairbrix<br />
===CLC Coiledcoin===<br />
killed in 51% attack ; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56675.0<br />
===RUC Rucoin===<br />
https://www.rucoin.org/ ; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48582.0<br />
===MMM MMMcoin===<br />
dead<br />
===Weeds===<br />
[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9493.0]<br />
===Beertoken===<br />
[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9493.0]<br />
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==See Also==<br />
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* [http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0 List of all cryptocoins] curated list on BitcoinTalk forum.<br />
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[[Category:Alternative cryptocurrencies]]</div>
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