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| style="text-align: left;" | [[File:Darkcoin.png|16px|link=]] | | style="text-align: left;" | [[File:Darkcoin.png|16px|link=]] Darkcoin | ||
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Revision as of 21:53, 4 September 2014
This article aims to list relevant cryptocurrencies.
To be listed here, a currency must have one of the following qualities:
- The currency must have a market cap of one million dollars.
- The currency must be the first to introduce an innovative protocol.
- The currency must have at one point had significant notoriety.
- The currency must have been an infamous fraud.
These coins are currently ordered according to launch date.
| Coin | Ticker | Launched | Protocol | Distribution | Market cap | Unit cap | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Bitcoin
|
BTC | 3 January 2009 | SHA-256d | Mined (fixed, halving) | $6.34 billion | 20,999,999.9769 | Active | First blockchain |
| Tonal Bitcoin
|
TBC | 2 January 2011 | SHA-256d | 7,750,54.00 | Active | First on-chain alternative | ||
| Ripple | XRP | 2011 | Ripple | Purchased | $139 million | 28,989,252,282 | Active | |
 Namecoin
|
NMC | 18 April 2011 | SHA-256d | Mined (fixed, halving) | $9.83 million | 20,999,999.9769 | Malfunctioning | First alternative chain, bitDNS |
| Tenebrix | TBX | 25 September 2011 | Scrypt | Mined (fixed, halving) | None | 10,499,999.9769 | Dead | First Scrypt coin |
 Litecoin
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LTC | 7 October 2011 | Scrypt | Mined (fixed, halving) | $154 million | 83,999,949.9076 | Active | |
 Peercoin
|
PPC | 19 August 2012 | SHA-256d | Mined (difficulty factor) | $15.5 million | Unlimited | Active | |
 BitSharesX
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BTSX | 29 September 2013 | BitSharesX | ? | $66.5 million | 1,999,992,536 | Active | |
 Nxt
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NXT | 29 September 2013 | Nxt | Forged | $29.0 million | 999,997,096 | Active | |
 Dogecoin
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DOGE | 6 December 2013 | Scrypt | Mined (random) | $12.7 million | Unlimited | Active | Was joke, became huge |
 Darkcoin
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DRK | 19 January 2014 | Combo11 | Mined (fixed, curve) | $12.5 million | 18.4 million (estimate) | Active | |
 Monero
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XMR | 18 April 2014 | CryptoNight | Mined (random, smooth) | $6.27 million | 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 | Active | |
 MaidSafeCoin
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MAID | 22 April 2014 | Mastercoin | Purchased | $8.54 million | 452,552,412 | Active |