Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies, even those too minor to have their own wiki entry. See also Category:Alternative cryptocurrencies

It is based on this thread.

Currencies

The order / grouping of these coins are still TBD.

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.

  • Using market cap will make Tonal Bitcoin a "Major" despite de facto minor usage. Therefore, I suggest finding a different method of categorizing. --Luke-jr (talk) 05:06, 4 March 2013 (GMT)


Major

Bitcoin (BTC)

  • http://bitcoin.org/
  • blocks every 10 min
  • coin supply* 21 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment* 2016 blocks
  • hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Initial Reward 50 coins per block
  • Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)
  • Launch Date: January 3rd, 2009

Namecoin (NMC)

Litecoin (LTC)

  • http://litecoin.org/
  • blocks every 2.5 min
  • coin supply* 84 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
  • hashing algorithm scrypt
  • Initial Reward 50 coins per block
  • Market Cap: 150,000 BTC
  • Launch Date: October 2011

Dogecoin (Doge)

  • http://www.Dogecoin.com/
  • blocks every 1 min
  • coin supply* 99 Billion coins will be available and 5 Billion added every year.
  • hashing algorithm scrypt
  • Initial Reward 1,000,000 - 0 (Random) coins per block
  • Market Cap: $56,000,000
  • Launch Date: December 2013

Peercoin (PPC)

  • http://ppcoin.org/
  • https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101820.0
  • blocks every 10 min
  • Coin supply* non-deterministic coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment each block
  • hashing algorithm SHA-256
  • Reward varies on difficulty coins per block
  • Mining: Incorporates Proof of Stake coin Generation, contains central checksums to kickstart the protocol
  • Market Cap: ???? BTC
  • Launch Date: approx August 19th, 2012 (date of its whitepaper)
    • The public design phase of this coin was very brief.

Mastercoin (MSC)

  • http://www.mastercoin.org
  • Coin supply: 619478.59338440 MSC
  • Launch Date: September 1, 2013
  • Blockchain: Uses Bitcoin for transport, storage and security, inherits Bitcoin Protocol properties
  • Extended Properties: Distributed Exchange, Savings & Guardian Addresses, Contracts for Difference, Smart Properties, User Currencies
  • Protocol: Master Protocol
  • Spec Github Repo: https://github.com/mastercoin-MSC/spec

New

New in on the scene. Please put here any coins whose concept are new. If a coin is discussed for 6 months and launched yesterday, it is not new.

Hashcoin (HSC)

  • http://hashcoin.technology
  • Block reward: 1024 HSC
  • Block time: 10 seconds
  • Hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Retarget: Every 720 blocks or every 2 Hours
  • Coin supply: 28.4 billion (28,401,840,000) total coins
  • Block reward halved every 9,467,280 blocks (~ 3 years)
  • Extended Properties: Decentralised Exchange, Real-time Payroll, Digitised Property Rights, Contract Rights & Intellectual Property Rights, Trading Locales, DNA Records, Patents, Shares.
  • Launch Date: January 3, 2014
  • Site Go-Live: April 26, 2014

Coino (CON)

  • http://www.coino.org
  • PoW algorithm: Scrypt
  • Block reward: 35 CON (First 140 Blocks only 1 Coin for instamine)
  • Block time: 25 seconds
  • Retarget: 1 Hour
  • Coin supply: 100 million total coins
  • Launch Date: January 18, 2014

RonPaulCoin (RPC)

  • http://www.ronpaulcoin.com
  • Blocks every 2 min
  • Coin supply 2.1 million total coins
  • Difficulty adjustment 1 day
  • Hashing algorithm scrypt
  • Initial Reward 1 coin per block
  • Block reward halved every 262k blocks (~ 4 years)
  • Launch Date: December 29, 2013

Betacoin (BET)

  • http://betacoin.org/
  • Blocks every 4 min
  • Coin supply* 32 million coins will be mined in ~ first 6 years + 0,39% annual
  • Difficulty adjustment* 6 blocks
  • Hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Initial Reward 128 coins per block
  • Block reward halved every 126k blocks (~ 1 year)
  • Launch Date: October, 2013

Nxt (NXT)

  • http://nextcoin.org
  • Pronounced as "Next"
  • Blocks every 1 min
  • Designed as 100% PoS (Proof-of-Stake) system
  • Coin supply* 1 billion coins exist from the start distributed by 74 founding stake holders
  • Launch Date: September, 29, 2013

Globe (GLB)

  • http://www.globecrypto.com/
  • Blocks every 1 min
  • Difficulty adjustment 1 day
  • Hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Initial Reward 10 coin per block
  • Block reward halved at 86.4k blocks, 5 coins per block thereafter, with 4% increase annually
  • Launch Date: December 06, 2013

Valutacoin(VAC)

  • http://valutacoin.com/
  • blocks every 10 min
  • coin supply* 21 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment* 2016 blocks
  • hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Initial Reward 50 coins per block
  • Launch Date: April 2014

Minor

Megacoin (MΣC)

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.

Anoncoin (ANC)

Anoncoin's goal is to make the user more Anonymous by providing built-in support for I2P and Zerocoin.

Franko (FRK)

Franko is considered the crypto with the fairest adoption length. Accepted by over 50 merchants and 10 brick and mortar stores.

Base currency used by the Franko Collective, a democratic group of developers.

FeatherCoin (FTC)

CraftCoin (CRC)

  • http://craftcoin.net/
  • Based on Litecoin
  • Portable in-game currency for Minecraft Servers
  • 206,847 total coins

Tonal Bitcoin (TBC)

  • Tonal Bitcoin
  • (merged mined with BTC)
  • (blockchain shared with BTC)
  • (automatically converted to/from BTC)
  • blocks every 10 min
  • Coin supply* 7.8 tam coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
  • hashing algorithm SHA-256
  • Initial Reward 1,2905.2 coins per block
  • Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)
  • Launch Date: January 2rd, 2011

IxCoin (IXC)

Devcoin (DEV)

  • https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.0
  • (merged mined with BTC)
  • blocks every 10 min
  • coin supply* constant generation coins will be available (???)
  • difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
  • hashing algorithm SHA256d
  • Reward 50,000 coins per block
  • EXTRA 90% block subsidy goes to foundation

Freicoin (FRC)

-- 4.89% annual demurrage
-- 80% block subsidy goes to foundation for the first 3 years (about 500 coins for each of first 161280 blocks, total 80m)
-- [u]In need of Dev work on daemon, client etc but network still running[/u]

I0coin (I0C)

Terracoin (TRC)

  • http://terracoin.org/
  • blocks every 2 minutes
  • coin supply* 42 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment 30 blocks
  • hashing algorithm SHA-256
  • Reward 20 coins per block

Liquidcoin (LQC)

BBQCoin (BQC)

BitBar (BTB)

  • http://bitbar.biz/home
  • blocks every 10 minutes
  • hashing algorithm Scrypt
  • Reward 1 coin per block
  • Coin reward drops over time

Netcoin (NET)

  • Main - http://netcoin.org.uk/
  • Forums - http://forum.netcoinfoundation.org/
  • blocks every 1 min
  • coin supply* 320.6 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment* 60 blocks
  • hashing algorithm Scrypt
  • Initial Reward 1024 coins per block
  • Reward Halves Every 3 months or 129,600 Blocks
  • Market Cap: approx. $200,000 (Dec 4th, 2013)
  • Launch Date: Sept 2nd, 2013

GoldCoin (GLD)


Dead / dying

Qubic

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112676.0 Qubic Forum: http://qubic.boards.net

TimeKoin

Still alive* http://timekoin.org/* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php topic=88467.0

SC Solidcoin

scam?* https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/SolidCoin ; http://solidcoin.info/

GG Geist Geld

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42417.0 ; https://github.com/Lolcust/GeistGeld

TBX Tenebrix

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45667.0 ; https://github.com/Lolcust/Tenebrix

FBX Fairbrix

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46528.0 ; https://github.com/coblee/Fairbrix

CLC Coiledcoin

killed in 51% attack ; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56675.0

RUC Rucoin

https://www.rucoin.org/ ; https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48582.0

MMM MMMcoin

dead

Weeds

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Beertoken

[2]

See Also