Comparison of cryptocurrencies

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	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$6.34 billion	20,999,999.9769	Active	First blockchain
Tonal Bitcoin	TBC	2 January 2011	SHA256d			7,750,54.00	Active	First on-chain alternative
Ripple	XRP	2011	Ripple	Centralised	$139 million	28,989,252,282	Active
Namecoin	NMC	18 April 2011	SHA256d	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$9.83 million	20,999,999.9769	Malfunctioning	First alternative chain, bitDNS
Tenebrix	TBX	25 September 2011	Scrypt	Centralised + Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	None	10,499,999.9769	Dead	First Scrypt coin
Litecoin	LTC	7 October 2011	Scrypt	Proof-of-work (fixed, halving)	$154 million	83,999,949.9076	Active
Peercoin	PPC	19 August 2012	SHA256d	Proof-of-work + proof-of-stake (difficulty factor)	$15.5 million	Unlimited	Active
BitSharesX	BTSX	29 September 2013	BitSharesX	?	$66.5 million	1,999,992,536	Active
Nxt	NXT	29 September 2013	Nxt	Centralised	$29.0 million	999,997,096	Active
Dogecoin	DOGE	6 December 2013	Scrypt	Proof-of-work (random)	$12.7 million	Unlimited	Active	Was joke, became huge
Darkcoin	DRK	19 January 2014	Combo11	Proof-of-work (fixed, curve)	$12.5 million	18.4 million (estimate)	Active
Monero	XMR	18 April 2014	CryptoNight	Proof-of-work (random, smooth)	$6.27 million	18,446,744,073,709,551,615	Active
MaidSafeCoin	MAID	22 April 2014	Mastercoin	Centralised	$8.54 million	452,552,412	Active

See Also

• List of alternative chains