Comparison of cryptocurrencies
This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies, and is the only article allowed to discuss altcoins specifically. These coins are ordered according to market cap.
| Coin | Ticker | Launched | Algorithm | Market cap | Blockrate (seconds) |
Initial subsidy |
Difficulty period (blocks) |
Halving period (blocks) |
Halving rate | Coin supply | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bitcoin
|
BTC | 3 January 2009 | SHA-256d | $6.34 billion | 600 | 50 | 2016 | 210,000 | 0.5 | 20,999,999.9769 | Healthy |
| Tonal Bitcoin
|
TBC | 2 January 2011 | SHA-256d | $6.34 billion | 600 | 1,2905.2 | 2016 | 210,000 | 0.5 | 7,750,54.00 | Healthy |
 Namecoin
|
NMC | 18 April 2011 | SHA-256d | $9.83 million | 600 | 50 | 2016 | 210,000 | 0.5 | 20,999,999.9769 | Technical issues |
 Litecoin
|
LTC | 7 October 2011 | Scrypt | $154 million | 150 | 50 | 2016 | 840,000 | 0.5 | 83,999,999.9076 | Functioning |
 Peercoin
|
PPC | 19 August 2012 | SHA-256d | $15.5 million | 600 | 0-2,500 | 1 | 1 | Varies | Unlimited | Functioning |
| BitSharesX
|
BTSX | 29 September 2013 | BTSX | $66.5 million | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 1,999,992,536 | Functioning |
| Nxt
|
NXT | 29 September 2013 | NXT | $29.0 million | 60 | N/A | ? | N/A | N/A | 999,997,096 | Functioning |
| Dogecoin
|
DOGE | 6 December 2013 | Scrypt | $12.7 million | 60 | 0-1,000,000 | ? | 1 | 0.5 | Unlimited | Functioning |
| Darkcoin
|
DRK | 19 January 2014 | Combo11 | $12.5 million | 150 | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Functioning |
| Monero
|
XMR | 18 April 2014 | CryptoNight | $6.27 million | 60 | ? | 1 | ? | ? | 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 | Functioning |
| MaidSafeCoin
|
MAID | 22 April 2014 | ? | $8.54 million | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Functioning |
See Also
- Tonal Bitcoin
- List of all cryptocoins Curated list on BitcoinTalk forum.