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Revision as of 22:17, 4 September 2014
This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies.
To be listed here, a currency must have one of the following qualities:
- The currency must have a market cap of one million dollars.
- The currency must be the first to introduce an innovative protocol.
- The currency must have at one point had significant notoriety.
- The currency must have been an infamous fraud.
These coins are currently ordered according to launch date.
Coin | Ticker | Launched | Protocol | Distribution | Market cap | Unit cap | Status | Notes |
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BTC | 3 Jan 2009 | SHA256d | Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) | $6.34 billion | 20,999,999.9769 | Active | First blockchain |
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TBC | 2 Jan 2011 | SHA256d | 7,750,54.00 | Active | First on-chain alternative | ||
Ripple | XRP | 1 Mar 2011 | Ripple | Central | $139 million | 28,989,252,282 | Active | |
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NMC | 18 Apr 2011 | SHA256d | Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) | $9.83 million | 20,999,999.9769 | Broken | First alternative chain, bitDNS |
Tenebrix | TBX | 25 Sep 2011 | scrypt | Proof-of-work (premined, fixed, halving) | None | 10,499,999.9769 | Dead | First scrypt coin |
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LTC | 7 Oct 2011 | scrypt | Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) | $154 million | 83,999,949.9076 | Active | |
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PPC | 19 Aug 2012 | SHA256d | Proof-of-work/stake | $15.5 million | Unlimited | Active | |
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BTSX | 29 Sep 2013 | BitSharesX | ? | $66.5 million | 1,999,992,536 | Active | |
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NXT | 29 Sep 2013 | Nxt | Central | $29.0 million | 999,997,096 | Active | |
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DOGE | 6 Dec 2013 | scrypt | Proof-of-work (random) | $12.7 million | Unlimited | Active | Was joke, became huge |
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DRK | 19 Jan 2014 | Combo11 | Proof-of-work (fixed, curve) | $12.5 million | 18.4 million (estimate) | Active | |
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XMR | 18 Apr 2014 | CryptoNight | Proof-of-work (random, smooth) | $6.27 million | 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 | Active | |
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MAID | 22 Apr 2014 | Mastercoin | Central (MSC) | $8.54 million | 452,552,412 | Active |