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Revision as of 15:50, 6 June 2017

The cryptocurrency market is explosive which currently serves 735 currencies.

This article aims to list only the most relevant cryptocurrencies. To be listed here, a currency must have one of the following qualities:

  • At one point had significant notoriety.
  • A market cap of 1 billion US dollars.
  • Highly decentralized (anonymous).
  • First to introduce an innovative protocol.
  • Been an infamous fraud.
Launched Coin Symbol Consensus tool Distribution Market cap, rounded Unit cap Status Anonymity Significant notoriety
2009-01-03 Bitcoin BTC SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $36 billion 20,999,999.9769 Active Low First blockchain
2010-10-21 Bitcoin Testnet 1 TNBTC SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Abandoned Low First altcoin[1]
2011-01-02 Tonal Bitcoin TBC See Bitcoin See Bitcoin See Bitcoin 7,750,54.00 Active Low First on-chain alternative
2011-03-01 Ripple XRP Ripple Central $8.2 billion 28,989,252,282 Active Low XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
2011-04-18 Namecoin NMC SHA256d - merged mined with Bitcoin Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $23 million 20,999,999.9769 (like Bitcoin) Active Low First alternative chain, bitDNS
2011-10-07 Litecoin LTC scrypt Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $1.2 billion 83,999,949.9076 Active Low
2012-04-12 Bitcoin Testnet 3 TNBTC SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Active Low Current Bitcoin testnet
2012-07-04 Bytecoin BCN CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $414 million 184.46 billion Active Low Introduced CryptoNote.
2012-08-19 Peercoin PPC Central authoriy[2] Proof-of-work/stake $36 million Unlimited Active Low
2013-07-07 Primecoin XPM Cunningham Proof-of-work $7 million Unlimited Active Low Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
2013-09-29 Nxt NXT Consensus through obscurity[3] Proof-of-stake $52 million 999,997,096 Active Low
2013-12-06 Dogecoin DOGE scrypt Proof-of-work (random) $278 million Unlimited Active Low Was joke, became huge
2014-01-18 Dash DASH X11 Proof-of-work (fixed, curve) $914 million 19 million (estimate) Active Medium Introduced the X11 algorithm.
2014-04-18 Monero XMR CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $584 million ~18,400,000 then <1% inflation Active Medium
2015-03-31 NEM XEM Proof-of-importance Peer-to-peer $1.7 billion 9 billion Active Medium Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
2015-08-07 Ethereum ETH Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ? $21 billion ? Active Low
2016-02-01 PIVX PIVX Quark proof-of-stake 3.0 $84 million Unlimited Active Medium Introduced the Quark algorithm.
2016-07-24 Ethereum Classic ETC Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) ? $1.6 billion ? Active Low
2016-09-28 Zcoin XZC Zerocoin (Zero-knowledge proofs), Merkle Tree Proof of Work ( Proof-of-work) $17 million 21,000,000 (like Bitcoin) Active High 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).
2016-10-28 Zcash ZEC Zerocash Zero-knowledge proofs, Proof-of-work (Equihash), with a portion of each block subsidy distributed to founders for the first four years. $338 million 21,000,000 (like Bitcoin) Active High First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
2016-11-10 Zclassic ZCL Zerocash See Zcash $5 million See Zcash Active High First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
2017-02-05 Komodo KMD Zerocash ? $54 million ? Active High

See Also

References

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