Revision as of 10:13, 6 January 2014

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)

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin
(merged mined with BTC)
https://github.com/vinced/namecoin
http://namecoin.info/
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: ???? BTC
Launch Date: April 18, 2011

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

PPCoin (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
EXTRA: 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.

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.

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 halfed 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 halfed 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

Minor

Megacoin (MΣC)

http://www.megacoin.co.nz/
https://forum.megacoin.co.nz
Block Target is 2.5 minutes
Block reward halved every every 420,000 blocks
25 coins per block
42 Million total coins
Difficulty changes every block

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)

https://anoncoin.net/
https://forum.anoncoin.net
Block Target is 3.4 minutes
Block reward halfed every 306k blocks
5 coins per block
4.2 million total coins
Difficulty changes every block

Anoncoins goal is to make the user more Anonymous by having built-in support for I2P, Coincontrol, and more in the future.

Franko (FRK)

http://www.frankos.org/
http://forum.frankos.org
Block Target is 0.5 minutes
Block reward halfed every 22m blocks
0.25 coins per block
11.2 million total coins
Difficulty changes every 720 blocks

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)

http://feathercoin.com/
A fork of Litecoin
243 million total coins

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)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36701.0
(merged mined with BTC)
blocks every 10 min
Coin supply* 21 million coins will be available
difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
hashing algorithm SHA1
Reward 96 coins per block

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)

http://freico.in/
http://www.freicoin.org/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89843.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3816.0
blocks every 10 minutes
coin supply* 100 million coins will be available
difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
hashing algorithm SHA-256
Arithmetically decreasing reward
EXTRA:

-- 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)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36425.0 ; https://github.com/kr105rlz/i0coin
Perhaps should be moved to Dead section?

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)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60026.0
blocks every 10 minutes
no cap as block subsidy has a minimum of 1 coin
Constant difficulty of 0.5
Coin reward drops over time

BBQCoin (BQC)

http://blog.bbqcoin.org http://www.bbqcoin.com
blocks every 1 minute
coin supply* 88 million coins will be available
difficulty adjustment 60 blocks
hashing algorithm Scrypt
Reward 42 coins per block

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

Dead / dying

MMM MMMcoin

dead

Weeds

[1]

Beertoken

[2]

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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.
 * 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)
 == Major ==
 === Bitcoin (BTC) ===
 * http://bitcoin.org/
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 * Launch Date: approx August 19th, 2012  (date of its [http://ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf whitepaper])
 ** The public design phase of this coin was very brief.
 == New ==
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 * Coin supply* '''1 billion''' coins exist from the start distributed by 74 founding stake holders
 * Launch Date: September, 29, 2013
 == Minor ==
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 * Portable in-game currency for Minecraft Servers
 * 206,847 total coins
 === Tonal Bitcoin (TBC) ===
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 * Launch Date: Sept 2nd, 2013
-== dead / dying ==
+== Dead / dying ==
 ===Qubic===
 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112676.0

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