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* Market Cap: $144,000,000 (Jan 5th, 2013)
 
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=== TestNet Bitcoins ===
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* http://bitcoin.org/
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* blocks every '''10 min'''
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* coin supply* '''21 million''' coins will be available
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* difficulty adjustment* '''2016 blocks''', or '''every 20 minutes'''[https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/686]
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* hashing algorithm '''double-SHA-256'''
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* Initial Reward '''50 '''coins per block
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* Market Cap: None, coins are free
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* Launch Date: 2011-02-02 (TestNet 3 genesis block)[http://blockexplorer.com/testnet/block/000000000933ea01ad0ee984209779baaec3ced90fa3f408719526f8d77f4943]
  
 
=== Namecoin (NMC) ===  
 
=== Namecoin (NMC) ===  

Revision as of 11:23, 11 January 2013

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

TestNet Bitcoins

  • http://bitcoin.org/
  • blocks every 10 min
  • coin supply* 21 million coins will be available
  • difficulty adjustment* 2016 blocks, or every 20 minutes[1]
  • hashing algorithm double-SHA-256
  • Initial Reward 50 coins per block
  • Market Cap: None, coins are free
  • Launch Date: 2011-02-02 (TestNet 3 genesis block)[2]

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

LQC Liquidcoin

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 / experimental / scam

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