Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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 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.

These coins are currently ordered according to launch date.

Coin	Ticker	Launched	Algorithm	Market cap	Blockrate (s)	Unit cap	Status	Notes
Bitcoin	BTC	3 January 2009	SHA-256d	$6.34 billion	600	20,999,999.9769	Active	First blockchain
Tonal Bitcoin	TBC	2 January 2011	SHA-256d		600	7,750,54.00	Active	First on-chain alternative
Namecoin	NMC	18 April 2011	SHA-256d	$9.83 million	600	20,999,999.9769	Malfunctioning	First alternative chain
Tenebrix	TBX	25 September 2011	Scrypt	None	300	10,499,999.9769	Dead	First Scrypt coin
Litecoin	LTC	7 October 2011	Scrypt	$154 million	150	83,999,949.9076	Active
Peercoin	PPC	19 August 2012	SHA-256d	$15.5 million	600	Unlimited	Active
BitSharesX	BTSX	29 September 2013	BTSX	$66.5 million	N/A	1,999,992,536	Active
Nxt	NXT	29 September 2013	NXT	$29.0 million	60	999,997,096	Active
Dogecoin	DOGE	6 December 2013	Scrypt	$12.7 million	60	Unlimited	Active
Darkcoin	DRK	19 January 2014	Combo11	$12.5 million	150	?	Active
Monero	XMR	18 April 2014	CryptoNight	$6.27 million	60	18,446,744,073,709,551,615	Active
MaidSafeCoin	MAID	22 April 2014	?	$8.54 million	?	?	Active

See Also

• List of alternative chains