Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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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.

These coins are currently ordered according to launch date.

Coin Ticker Launched Protocol Distribution Market cap Unit cap Status Notes
Bitcoin BTC 3 Jan 2009 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $6.34 billion 20,999,999.9769 Active First blockchain
Bitcoin Testnet 1 TNBTC 21 Oct 2010 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Abandoned First altcoin[1]
Tonal Bitcoin TBC 2 Jan 2011 Pegged to Bitcoin 7,750,54.00 Active First on-chain alternative
Ripple XRP 1 Mar 2011 Ripple Central $139 million 28,989,252,282 Active
Namecoin NMC 18 Apr 2011 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $11.14 million 20,999,999.9769 Broken First alternative chain, bitDNS
Tenebrix TBX 25 Sep 2011 scrypt Central, Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 10,499,999.9769 Dead First scrypt coin
Litecoin LTC 7 Oct 2011 scrypt Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $154 million 83,999,949.9076 Active TBX clone
Bitcoin Testnet 3 TNBTC 12 Apr 2012 SHA256d Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) None 20,999,999.9769 Active Current Bitcoin testnet
Bytecoin BCN 4 Jul 2012 CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $2.73 million 184.46 billion Active First CryptoNote coin
Peercoin PPC 19 Aug 2012 SHA256d Proof-of-work/stake $15.5 million Unlimited Active
Freicoin FRC 21 Dec 2012 SHA256d Proof-of-work $84 thousand ? Active First demurrage cryptocurrency
Feathercoin FTC 16 Apr 2013 scrypt Proof-of-work (fixed, halving) $1.15 million ? Active LTC hardfork
Primecoin XPM 7 Jul 2013 Cunningham Proof-of-work $1.2 million ? Active First "useful proof-of-work" altcoin
BitSharesX BTSX 29 Sep 2013 BitSharesX ? $66.5 million 1,999,992,536 Active
Nxt NXT 29 Sep 2013 Nxt Central $29.0 million 999,997,096 Active
Dogecoin DOGE 6 Dec 2013 scrypt Proof-of-work (random) $12.7 million Unlimited Active Was joke, became huge
Darkcoin DRK 19 Jan 2014 Combo11 Proof-of-work (fixed, curve) $12.5 million 18.4 million (estimate) Active
HunterCoin HUC 1 Feb 2014 SHA256d and/or scrypt Game rewards, Proof-of-work $47 thousand 42,000,000 Active First blockchain-based game
Monero XMR 18 Apr 2014 CryptoNight Proof-of-work (random, smooth) $6.27 million ~18,400,000 then <1% inflation Active
MaidSafeCoin MAID 22 Apr 2014 Mastercoin Central $8.54 million 452,552,412 Active

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