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. 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)
  • Launch Date: Jan 3rd 2009

Namecoin (NMC)

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
  • Launch Date: ???

Minor

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 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
  • Launch Date: approx August 19th, 2012 (date of its whitepaper)
    • The public design phase of this coin was very brief.

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

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.

LQC Liquidcoin

dead / dying / experimental / scam

-- Qubic Forum* http://qubic.boards.net
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