List of cryptocurrencies
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This is a list of cryptocurrencies. There were more than 710 cryptocurrencies available for trade in online markets as of 11 July 2016[update] and more than 740 in total[1] but only a few dozen had reached a market capitalization above $10 million above as of early 2017.
| Release | Status | Currency | Symbol | Founder | Hash algorithm | Timestamping (POS, POW, or other) |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Active | Auroracoin | AUR | Baldur Odinsson (pseudonym)[2] |
Scrypt | POW | Created as an alternative to fiat currency in Iceland. |
| 2009 | Active | Bitcoin | BTC,[3][4] XBT | Satoshi Nakamoto[nt 1] | SHA-256d[5][6] | POW[6][7] | The first decentralized ledger currency. Cryptocurrency with the most famous, popular, notable and highest market capitalization. |
| 2014 | Active | BlackCoin | BC | Rat4 (pseudonym) | Scrypt | POS | Secures its network through a process called minting. |
| 2014 | Active | Burstcoin | BURST | Burstcoin Community | SHA-256d | Proof of Capacity | First Proof of Capacity coin, First Smart Contract, First Atomic Cross Chain Transfer. |
| 2014 | Inactive | Coinye | KOI, COYE | Scrypt | POW | Used American hip hop artist Kanye West as its mascot, abandoned after trademark lawsuit. | |
| 2014[8] | Active | Dash | DASH | Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan[9] |
X11 | POW & Proof of Service[nt 2] | A bitcoin-based currency featuring instant transactions, decentralized governance and budgeting, and private transactions. |
| 2013 | Active | Dogecoin | DOGE, XDG | Jackson Palmer & Billy Markus[10] |
Scrypt[11] | POW | Based on an internet meme. |
| 2014 | Active | DigitalNote | XDN | XDN-dev team, dNote[12] | CryptoNight[13] | POW | A private cryptocurrency with an instant untraceable crypto messages and first blockchain banking implementation, use CryptoNote protocol. |
| 2013[14] | Active | Emercoin | EMC | EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman | SHA-256 | POW & POS | Trusted storage for any small data: acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS, PKI store, SSL infrastructure and other. |
| 2015 | Active | Ethereum | ETH | Vitalik Buterin[15] | Dagger Hashimoto[16] | POW | Supports Turing-complete smart contracts. |
| 2013[17][18] | Active | Gridcoin | GRC | Rob Hälford [19] | Scrypt | Decentralized POS | The first cryptocurrency linked to citizen science through the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing[20][21] |
| 2011 | Active | Litecoin | LTC | Charles Lee | Scrypt | POW | The first cryptocurrency to use Scrypt as a hashing algorithm. |
| 2014 | Active | MazaCoin | MZC | BTC Oyate Initiative | SHA-256d | POW | The underlying software is derived from that of another cryptocurrency, ZetaCoin. |
| 2014 | Active | Monero | XMR | Monero Core Team[22] | CryptoNight[13] | POW | Privacy-centric coin using the CryptoNote protocol with improvements for scalability and decentralization. |
| 2011 | Active | Namecoin | NMC | Vincent Durham[23][24] | SHA-256d | POW | Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS. |
| 2014 | Active | Nxt | NXT | BCNext (pseudonym) |
SHA-256d[25] | POS | Specifically designed as a flexible platform to build applications and financial services around its protocol. |
| 2013 | Active | Omni | MSC | J. R. Willett [26] | SHA-256d[27] | N/A | Omni is both digital currency and communications protocol built on top of the existing bitcoin block chain. |
| 2012[6] | Active | Peercoin | PPC | Sunny King (pseudonym)[28] |
SHA-256d[29] | POW & POS | The first cryptocurrency to use POW and POS functions. |
| 2014 | Active | PotCoin | POT | Scrypt | POW | Developed to service the legalized cannabis industry | |
| 2013 | Active | Primecoin | XPM | Sunny King (pseudonym)[28] |
1CC/2CC/TWN[30] | POW[30] | Uses the finding of prime chains composed of Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains for proof-of-work, which can lead to useful byproducts. |
| 2013 | Active | Ripple[31][32][33] | XRP[33] | Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb[34] |
ECDSA[35] | "Consensus" | Designed for peer to peer debt transfer. Not based on bitcoin. |
| 2015 | Active | SixEleven | SIL | fflo (pseudonym)[36] | SHA-256d | POW | Also acts as an alternative, decentralized DNS. |
| 2014 | Active | Synereo AMP | AMP | Dor Konforty & Greg Meredith[37] | POS | POS | Trying to create a world computer, Synereo’s 2.0 tech stack incorporates all faculties needed to support decentralized computation without central servers.[38] |
| 2014 | Active | Titcoin | TIT | Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen[39] | SHA-256d | POW | The first cryptocurrency to be nominated for a major adult industry award.[40] |
| 2017 | Active | Ubiq | UBQ | Julian Yap[41] | Dagger Hashimoto[16] | POW | Supports Turing-complete smart contracts; air-gapped fork of Ethereum |
| 2014 | Active | Vertcoin | VTC | Bushido | Lyra2rev2 | POW | Next-gen ASIC resistance and first to implement stealth adresses. |
| 2016 | Active | Zcash | ZEC | Zooko Wilcox | Equihash | POW | The first open, permissionless financial system employing zero-knowledge security. |
Notes[edit]
- ^ It is not known whether the name "Satoshi Nakamoto" is real or a pseudonym, or whether it represents one person or a group.
- ^ Via Masternodes containing 1000 DASH held as collateral for "Proof of Service". Through an automated voting mechanism, one Masternode is selected per block and receives 45% of mining rewards.
References[edit]
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- ^ "[XDN] DigitalNote - private money and messages transfer, №1 blockchain bank".
- ^ a b "CryptoNight".
- ^ EmerCoin — Innovative blockchain services! — Bitcoin Forum, thread started at December 08, 2013
- ^ Out in the Open: Teenage Hacker Transforms Web Into One Giant Bitcoin Network
- ^ a b Dagger Hashimoto
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- ^ fflo/sixeleven, GitHub
- ^ Meredith, Greg. "A Brief History of Synereo". Synereo Blog. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
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