Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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The cryptocurrency market is explosive which currently serves 865 currencies. Most of them are obvious scams—including many which purport to have a large market cap. This article aims to list only the most relevant cryptocurrencies in terms of novel technological advancements or strong engineering teams, or due to widespread awareness thereof. Direct, low-level scams should not be listed here.

Cryptocurrency Exchange symbol Launched Anonymity Notes Website
Bitcoin BTC 2009-01-03 Low First blockchain. bitcoin.org
Bitcoin Cash BCC 2017-08-01 Low A hard fork of Bitcoin with activated Segregated Witness (SegWit), and increased block size limit to 8MB. bitcoincash.org
Dash DASH 2014-01-18 Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm, which is just a composite function of multiple hashing algorithms. Had a significant failure mode in the beginning which equated to a majority premine by a small number of Amazon EC2 customers. This technically compromises their Master Node algorithm, especially over time. dash.org
Ethereum ETH 2015-08-07 Low Massive ethereum.org
Ethereum Classic ETC 2016-07-24 Low ethereumclassic.org
Litecoin LTC 2011-10-07 Low litecoin.org
Monero XMR 2014-04-18 High Introduced Ring Confidential Transactions. getmonero.org
NEM XEM 2015-03-31 Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm. nem.io
Zcash ZEC 2016-10-28 High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol. z.cash
Zcoin XZC 2016-09-28 Medium First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocoin protocol which also makes it the first useful Zero-knowledge proof based anonymous cryptocurrency. First that implements Merkle Tree Proof of Work (MTP). zcoin.io
Cryptocurrency Max supply Algorithm Proof Type
Bitcoin ~21,000,000 SHA256 PoW
Bitcoin Cash 21,000,000 SHA256 PoW
Dash 22,000,000 X11 PoW/PoS
Ethereum Infinite Ethash PoW
Ethereum Classic Infinite Ethash PoW
Litecoin ~84,000,000 Scrypt PoW
Monero Not Applicable CryptoNight PoW
NEM 8,999,999,999 ? PoI
Zcash ~21,000,000 Equihash PoW
Zcoin ~21,000,000 Lyra2RE PoW