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. I propose 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.
Major
Bitcoin (BTC)
- http://bitcoin.org/
- blocks every 10 min
- coin supply* 21 million coins will be available
- difficulty adjustment* 2016 blocks
- hashing algorithm double-SHA-256
- Initial Reward 50 coins per block
- Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)
Namecoin (NMC)
- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin
- (merged mined with BTC)
- https://github.com/vinced/namecoin
- http://namecoin.info/
- blocks every ???
- coin supply* ???? coins will be available
- difficulty adjustment ????
- hashing algorithm double-SHA-256
- Initial Reward 50 coins per block
- Market Cap: ???? BTC
Litecoin (LTC)
- http://litecoin.org/
- blocks every 2.5 min
- coin supply* 82 million coins will be available
- difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
- hashing algorithm scrypt
- Initial Reward 50coins per block
- Market Cap: ???? BTC
Minor
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 double-SHA-256
- Reward 50,000 coins per block
- EXTRA 90% block subsidy goes to foundation
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
New
New in on the scene
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
Freicoin (FRC)
- http://www.freicoin.org/
- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89843.0
- blocks every 10 minutes
- coin supply* 100 million coins will be available
- difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
- hashing algorithm SHA-256
- Reward ????coins per block
- 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)
LQC Liquidcoin
- 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
dead / dying / experimental / scam
-- Qubic Forum* http://qubic.boards.net
- TimeKoin* Still alive* http://timekoin.org/* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php topic=88467.0
- BBQ BBQCoin* killed in a 51% attack* https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93437.0
- 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