Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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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)

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.

Minor

AnonCoin (ANC)

Anoncoins goal is to make the user more Anonymous by having built-in support for I2P, Coincontrol, and more in the future.

PhenixCoin (PXC)

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.

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 SHA256d
  • Initial Reward 1,2905.2 coins per block
  • Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)
  • Launch Date: January 2rd, 2011

IxCoin (IXC)

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)

-- 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)

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)

BBQCoin (BQC)

BitBar (BTB)

  • http://bitbar.biz/home
  • blocks every 10 minutes
  • hashing algorithm Scrypt
  • Reward 1 coin per block
  • Coin reward drops over time

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.


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

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