Comparison of cryptocurrencies: Difference between revisions

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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

and meet one of the following qualities:

Launched	Cryptocurrency	Symbol	Market cap, rounded	Anonymity	Introduced an innovative protocol
2009-01-03	Bitcoin	BTC	$36 billion	Low	First blockchain
2011-03-01	Ripple	XRP	$8.2 billion	Low	XRP is the native currency of the Ripple network that only exists within the Ripple system
2011-04-18	Namecoin	NMC	$23 million	Low	First alternative chain, bitDNS. merged mined with Bitcoin.
2011-10-07	Litecoin	LTC	$1.2 billion	Low
2012-07-04	Bytecoin	BCN	$414 million	Low	Introduced CryptoNote.
2013-07-07	Primecoin	XPM	$7 million	Low	Implements a unique scientific computing proof-of-work system.
2014-01-18	Dash	DASH	$914 million	Medium	Introduced the X11 algorithm.
2014-04-18	Monero	XMR	$584 million	Medium
2015-03-31	NEM	XEM	$1.7 billion	Medium	Introduced the proof-of-importance (POI) algorithm.
2015-08-07	Ethereum	ETH	$21 billion	Low
2016-02-01	PIVX	PIVX	$84 million	Medium	Introduced the Quark algorithm.
2016-07-24	Ethereum Classic	ETC	$1.6 billion	Low	Fastest growing cryptocurrency on the market ever.
2016-09-28	Zcoin	XZC	$17 million	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	$338 million	High	First cryptocurrency that implemented the zerocash protocol.
2016-11-10	Zclassic	ZCL	$5 million	High	First Zcash-based currency without the 20% fee for miners made by Zcash.
2017-02-05	Komodo	KMD	$54 million	High

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+| [[File:Ripple.png|16px|link=]] Ripple
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+| [[File:Namecoin.png|16px|link=]] Namecoin
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+| [[File:Litecoin.png|16px|link=]] Litecoin
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+| [[File:Bytecoin-16x16.png|16px|link=]] Bytecoin
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+| [[File:Primecoin.png|16px|link=]] Primecoin
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+| [[File:Dash.png|16px|link=]] Dash
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+| [[File:Monero.png|16px|link=]] Monero
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+| [[File:NEM-16x16.png|16px|link=]] NEM
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+| [[File:Ethereum.png|16px|link=]] Ethereum
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+| [[File:PIVX-16x16.png|16px|link=]] PIVX
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+| [[File:Ethereum_Classic-32x32.png|16px|link=]] Ethereum Classic
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+| [[File:Zcoin-800x800.png|16px|link=]] [[Zcoin]]
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+| [[File:Zcash-16x16.png|16px|link=]] [[Zcash]]
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+| [[File:Zclassic-32x32.png|16px|link=]] [[Zclassic]]
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+| [[File:Komodo.png|16px|link=]] [[Komodo]]
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