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Revision as of 11:57, 31 May 2017

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 US 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.
Coin Symbol Launched Consensus tool Distribution Market cap Unit cap Status Anonymous Notes
Anoncoin ANC 2 Jun 2013 Zerocoin Zero-knowledge proofs $0.8 million 4,200,000 Developed Yes First built in support of I2P and Tor. Zerocoin will be implemented in an upcoming release
Bitcoin BTC 3 Jan 2009 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $6.34 billion 20,999,999.9769 Active No First blockchain
Bitcoin Testnet 1 TNBTC 21 Oct 2010 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Abandoned No First altcoin[1]
Bitcoin Testnet 3 TNBTC 12 Apr 2012 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Active No Current Bitcoin testnet
BitSharesX BTSX 29 Sep 2013 Consensus through obscurity ? $66.5 million 1,999,992,536 Active No
Bytecoin BCN 4 Jul 2012 CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $2.73 million 184.46 billion Active Yes First CryptoNote coin
Cloakcoin CLOAK ? ? ? $4,7 million ? Active Yes
Dash DASH 18 Jan 2014 X11 Proof-of-work (fixed, curve) $12.5 million 19 million (estimate) Active Yes
Dogecoin DOGE 6 Dec 2013 scrypt Proof-of-work (random) $12.7 million Unlimited Active No Was joke, became huge
Feathercoin FTC 16 Apr 2013 scrypt Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $1.15 million ? Active No LTC hardfork
Freicoin FRC 21 Dec 2012 SHA256d Proof-of-work $0.084 million ? Active No First demurrage cryptocurrency
HunterCoin HUC 1 Feb 2014 SHA256d and/or scrypt Game rewards, Proof-of-work $1.9 million 42,000,000 Active No First blockchain-based game
Litecoin LTC 7 Oct 2011 scrypt Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $154 million 83,999,949.9076 Active No TBX clone
MaidSafeCoin MAID 22 Apr 2014 Bitcoin Central $8.54 million 452,552,412 Active No
Monero XMR 18 Apr 2014 CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $6.27 million ~18,400,000 then <1% inflation Active Yes
Namecoin NMC 18 Apr 2011 SHA256d - merged mined with Bitcoin Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $11.14 million 20,999,999.9769 Active No First alternative chain, bitDNS
NEM XEM 31 Mar 2015 ? ? $1.7 billion 9 billion Active Yes
Nxt NXT 29 Sep 2013 Consensus through obscurity[2] Central $29.0 million 999,997,096 Active No
Peercoin PPC 19 Aug 2012 Central authoriy[3] Proof-of-work/stake $15.5 million Unlimited Active No
PIVX PIVX 1 Feb 2016 ? ? $83.9 million ? Active Yes It was first launched under the name of Darknet (DNET) on February 1st 2016.
Primecoin XPM 7 Jul 2013 Cunningham Proof-of-work $1.2 million Unlimited Active No First "useful proof-of-work" altcoin
Ripple XRP 1 Mar 2011 Ripple Central $139 million 28,989,252,282 Active No
Tonal Bitcoin TBC 2 Jan 2011 See Bitcoin See Bitcoin See Bitcoin 7,750,54.00 Active No First on-chain alternative
Zcash ZEC 28 Oct 2016 Zerocash Zero-knowledge proofs, Proof-of-work (Equihash), with a portion of each block subsidy distributed to founders for the first four years. $66.63 million 21,000,000 Active Yes
Zclassic ZCL ? See Zcash See Zcash See Zcash ? Active Yes First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
Zcoin XZC 28 Sep 2016 Zerocoin Zero-knowledge proofs $16.9 million ? Active Yes The first Zero-knowledge proof based anonymous cryptocurrency still alive.

See Also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jw5pm/im_gavin_andresen_chief_scientist_at_the_bitcoin/
  2. ↑ https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
  3. ↑ Peercoin Source | Centralized Checkpointing Public Key
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