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	Protocol	Distribution	Market cap	Unit cap	Status	Notes
Ripple	XRP	2004	Ripple	Purchased	$139 million	28,989,252,282	Active
Bitcoin	BTC	3 January 2009	SHA-256d	Mined (fixed, halving)	$6.34 billion	20,999,999.9769	Active	First blockchain
Tonal Bitcoin	TBC	2 January 2011	SHA-256d	Pegged to BTC		7,750,54.00	Active	First on-chain alternative
Namecoin	NMC	18 April 2011	SHA-256d	Mined (fixed, halving)	$9.83 million	20,999,999.9769	Malfunctioning	First alternative chain, bitDNS
Tenebrix	TBX	25 September 2011	Scrypt	Mined (fixed, halving)	None	10,499,999.9769	Dead	First Scrypt coin
Litecoin	LTC	7 October 2011	Scrypt	Mined (fixed, halving)	$154 million	83,999,949.9076	Active
Peercoin	PPC	19 August 2012	SHA-256d	Mined (difficulty factor)	$15.5 million	Unlimited	Active
BitSharesX	BTSX	29 September 2013	BitSharesX	?	$66.5 million	1,999,992,536	Active
Nxt	NXT	29 September 2013	Nxt	Forged	$29.0 million	999,997,096	Active
Dogecoin	DOGE	6 December 2013	Scrypt	Mined (random)	$12.7 million	Unlimited	Active	Was joke, became huge
Darkcoin	DRK	19 January 2014	Combo11	Mined (fixed, curve)	$12.5 million	18.4 million (estimate)	Active
Monero	XMR	18 April 2014	CryptoNight	Mined (random, smooth)	$6.27 million	18,446,744,073,709,551,615	Active
MaidSafeCoin	MAID	22 April 2014	Mastercoin	Purchased	$8.54 million	452,552,412	Active

See Also

• List of alternative chains