Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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.

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

Minor

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.

PhenixCoin (PXC)

• http://www.phenixcoin.com/
• http://forum.phenixcoin.com
• Block Target is 1.5 minutes
• Block reward halfed every 840k blocks
• 50 coins per block
• 168 million total coins
• Difficulty changes every 600 blocks

Key elements of infrastructure and sites to use PXC on already in place. More and more sites adopt PXC as a means of payment.

Strategic partnership with Feathercoin (FTC) and Worldcoin (WDC) created.

FeatherCoin (FTC)

• http://feathercoin.com/
• A fork of Litecoin
• 24,3 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://net.cryptomunity.boards.net/
• 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

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

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See Also

• List of all cryptocoins curated list on BitcoinTalk forum.