Major
Bitcoin (BTC)
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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
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hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Initial Reward 50 coins per block
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Market Cap: $144,000,000
(Jan 5th, 2013)
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Launch Date: January
3rd, 2009
Namecoin (NMC)
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(merged mined with BTC)
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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
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hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Initial Reward 50 coins per block
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Market Cap: ????
BTC
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Launch Date: April 18,
2011
Litecoin (LTC)
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blocks every 2.5 min
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coin supply* 84 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
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hashing algorithm scrypt
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Initial Reward 50 coins per block
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Market Cap: 150,000 BTC
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Launch Date: October
2011
Dogecoin (Doge)
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blocks every 1 min
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coin supply* 99 Billion coins will be available
and 5 Billion added every year.
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hashing algorithm scrypt
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Initial Reward 1,000,000 - 0 (Random) coins per block
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Market Cap: $56,000,000
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Launch Date: December
2013
PPCoin (PPC)
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blocks every 10 min
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Coin supply* non-deterministic coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment each block
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hashing algorithm SHA-256
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Reward varies on difficulty coins per block
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EXTRA: Incorporates Proof Of Stake coin Generation,
contains central checksums to kickstart the protocol
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Market Cap: ????
BTC
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The public design phase of this coin was
very brief.
Mastercoin (MSC)
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Coin supply:
619478.59338440 MSC
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Launch Date: September
1, 2013
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Blockchain: Uses Bitcoin for transport,
storage and security, inherits Bitcoin Protocol properties
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Extended Properties: Distributed Exchange,
Savings & Guardian Addresses, Contracts for Difference, Smart Properties,
User Currencies
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Protocol: Master Protocol
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.
Hashcoin (HSC)
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Block reward: 1024 HSC
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Block time: 10 seconds
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Hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Retarget: Every 720 blocks or every 2 Hours
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Coin supply: 28.4 billion (28,401,840,000) total coins
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Block reward halved every 9,467,280 blocks
(~ 3 years)
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Extended Properties: Decentralised
Exchange, Real-time Payroll, Digitised Property Rights, Contract Rights &
Intellectual Property Rights, Trading Locales, DNA Records, Patents, Shares.
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Launch Date: January 3,
2014
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Site Go-Live: April 5,
2014
Coino (CON)
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PoW algorithm: Scrypt
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Block reward: 35 CON (First 140 Blocks only 1
Coin for instamine)
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Block time: 25 seconds
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Retarget: 1 Hour
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Coin supply: 100 million total coins
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Launch Date: January 18,
2014
RonPaulCoin (RPC)
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Blocks every 2 min
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Coin supply 2.1 million total coins
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Difficulty adjustment 1 day
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Hashing algorithm scrypt
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Initial Reward 1 coin per block
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Block reward halved every 262k blocks (~ 4
years)
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Launch Date: December
29, 2013
Betacoin (BET)
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Blocks every 4 min
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Coin supply* 32 million coins will be mined in ~
first 6 years + 0,39% annual
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Difficulty adjustment* 6 blocks
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Hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Initial Reward 128 coins per block
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Block reward halved every 126k blocks (~ 1
year)
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Launch Date: October,
2013
Nxt (NXT)
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Pronounced as
"Next"
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Blocks every 1 min
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Designed as 100% PoS (Proof-of-Stake)
system
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Coin supply* 1 billion coins exist from the
start distributed by 74 founding stake holders
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Launch Date: September,
29, 2013
Globe (GLB)
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Blocks every 1 min
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Difficulty adjustment 1 day
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Hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Initial Reward 10 coin per block
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Block reward halved at 86.4k blocks, 5
coins per block thereafter, with 4% increase annually
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Launch Date: December
06, 2013
Minor
Megacoin (MΣC)
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Block Target is 2.5
minutes
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Block reward halved every every 420,000
blocks
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25 coins per block
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42 Million total coins
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Difficulty changes every
block
The implentation of the
Kimoto Gravity well retargets difficulty every block. This keeps mining fair
and secure for all miners and users of the coin, and prevents the rampant
multipool abuse that was (and still is) common with most all other altcoins out
on the market today.
AnonCoin (ANC)
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Block Target is 3.4
minutes
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Block reward halved every 306k blocks
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5 coins per block
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4.2 million total coins
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Difficulty changes every
block
Anoncoins goal is to
make the user more Anonymous by having built-in support for I2P, Coincontrol,
and more in the future.
Franko (FRK)
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Block Target is 0.5
minutes
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Block reward halved every 22m blocks
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0.25 coins per block
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11.2 million total coins
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Difficulty changes every
720 blocks
Franko is considered the
crypto with the fairest adoption length. Accepted by over 50 merchants and 10
brick and mortar stores.
Base currency used by
the Franko Collective, a democratic group of developers.
FeatherCoin (FTC)
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A fork of Litecoin
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243 million total coins
CraftCoin (CRC)
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Based on Litecoin
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Portable in-game currency for Minecraft
Servers
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206,847 total coins
Tonal Bitcoin (TBC)
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(merged mined with BTC)
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(blockchain shared with
BTC)
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(automatically converted to/from BTC)
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blocks every 10 min
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Coin supply* 7.8 tam coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
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hashing algorithm SHA-256
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Initial Reward 1,2905.2 coins per block
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Market Cap: $144,000,000
(Jan 5th, 2013)
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Launch Date: January
2rd, 2011
IxCoin (IXC)
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(merged mined with BTC)
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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
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hashing algorithm SHA1
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Reward 96 coins per block
Devcoin (DEV)
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(merged mined with BTC)
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blocks every 10 min
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coin supply* constant generation coins will be available
(???)
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difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
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hashing algorithm SHA256d
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Reward 50,000 coins per block
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EXTRA 90% block subsidy goes to foundation
Freicoin (FRC)
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blocks every 10 minutes
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coin supply* 100 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks
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hashing algorithm SHA-256
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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)
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Perhaps should be moved to Dead section?
Terracoin (TRC)
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blocks every 2 minutes
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coin supply* 42 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment 30 blocks
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hashing algorithm SHA-256
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Reward 20 coins per block
Liquidcoin (LQC)
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blocks every 10 minutes
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no cap as block subsidy has a
minimum of 1 coin
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Constant difficulty of 0.5
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Coin reward drops over
time
BBQCoin (BQC)
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blocks every 1 minute
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coin supply* 88 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment 60 blocks
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hashing algorithm Scrypt
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Reward 42 coins per block
BitBar (BTB)
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blocks every 10 minutes
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hashing algorithm Scrypt
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Reward 1 coin per block
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Coin reward drops over
time
Netcoin (NET)
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blocks every 1 min
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coin supply* 320.6 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment* 60 blocks
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hashing algorithm Scrypt
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Initial Reward 1024 coins per block
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Reward Halves Every 3 months or
129,600 Blocks
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Market Cap: approx. $200,000 (Dec 4th,
2013)
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Launch Date: Sept 2nd,
2013
GoldCoin (GLD)
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blocks every 2 minutes
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coin supply* 123 million coins will be available
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difficulty adjustment* 60 blocks
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hashing algorithm Scrypt
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reward 45 coins per block
Dead / dying
Qubic
TimeKoin
SC Solidcoin
GG Geist Geld
TBX Tenebrix
FBX Fairbrix
CLC Coiledcoin
RUC Rucoin
MMM MMMcoin
dead
Weeds
Beertoken