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Which cryptocurrencies -- from the top 100 by market cap, say -- have limited supply and in what current/future amounts?

My reason for asking this question is that having a limited supply is a feature of cryptocurrencies that has a huge impact on its viability and attractiveness in the eyes of many crypto-investors (not conclusive for its value, but of great importance to many when it comes to the supply-demand factor driving many coins’ value over coming years).

"Does it have limited supply, with what ceiling, on what schedule?" are among the most important questions asked over and over when people evaluate the investment potential of any given altcoin. You would therefore *think* that the answer to this question should already be easy to find somewhere online in the form of a simple list showing all those major cryptos with built-in limited supply followed by the two essential numerical details for (i) that crypto’s current supply along with (ii) its maximum possible future supply. All put together in a very simple clear list.

Remarkably, despite a long search, I have been totally unable to find any such exact list anywhere online.

I am not looking for a debate on whether hard forks represent a de facto inflationary corruption of a given coin, etc. It’s a simple question that only needs a simple answer, in basic list format with just three data sets: the name of the crypto, the current supply, and the max future supply. Why doesn’t this exist anywhere online, when this is what almost every crypto investor wants to know? Can anyone provide this, either as an original list or as a link to anywhere this exists?

Relevant link: https://coinmarketcap.com

I would recommend that you expand your criteria to include the top 250, maybe top half of all coins out there.  Or run two different lists and compare over time.  The reason I say this is because there is so much change taking place at any given time that the top 100 will change.  

 If you're looking for potential investments, definitely expand the range of coins.

Having said that, the information is out there but you will need to filter it yourself.

coingecko.com, coinmarketcap.com both list total and available supplies.

You can create an Excel file, copy the top 100 from coinmarketcap into it and then add and remove columns as needed.  You will probably have to fill in a lot of the information manually, like totals though.

I was able to copy and paste the top 100 in one step.  Good luck!

Thanks for your reply, but my whole reason for my post is precisely because I do not want to personally spend the many hours it would take for me to (a) identify all the cryptocurrencies out of the current top 100-250 cryptocurrencies (as of Dec 2017) which have *limited supply*, then assemble these into a list numerically ranked by market cap, and also include columns specifically indicating each coin's respective (b) current circulating supply, alongside its (c) maximum future supply (ideally also including an indication of its projected "supply ceiling year" (eg "year 2140" for Bitcoin) and its 'coin-minting'/supply-production rate (how is its production rationed over what schedule, when do the halvings occur).

This kind of data table I am describing is such important and fundamental information for any crypto-investor that I am frankly really astonished this exact kind of data-table does not appear to already be available anywhere online. Neither coinmarketcap nor coingecko provide this exact kind of data-table in the manner I describe. One would still have to sift through a lot of info on those sites, in addition to other sites, and then make one's own table in order to arrive closer to the kind of data-list I am describing.

It's not a matter of laziness on my part, but efficiency. I am very busy (as I am sure we all are), and while I am keen to keep educating myself on crypto, I maintain my position that this particular kind of data-table, as I've described it, is so fundamentally important to crypto-investing that I am really shocked that this exact kind of list does not already exist anywhere online in the manner I've described.

I do not care about the obvious fact that the list will always be changing. I want to know at least what is that data-set as it looks NOW (i.e. Dec 2017).

The supply-demand balance (a coin's limited supply vs virtually unlimited (ever-rising) demand) is one of the foremost driving forces of a cryptocoin's investment potential, its viability as a deflationary medium of exchange (as opposed to infinitely printable fiat inflationary currencies), etc. etc. Therefore the list I am describing MUST surely already exist somewhere out there.

I am truly astonished that no one else seems to have put together such a list anywhere, whether in as a one-off, fixed-format Excel table for a given point in time (e.g. Dec 2017), or with a more sophisticated always-updating real-time list along the lines of coinmarketcap. I have been looking everywhere and still cannot find this.

Your post has not brought me any closer to finding this information. I already acknowledged coinmarketcap as a relevant link within my original post. Coingecko provides essentially the same information and does not get me any closer to the exact particular data-table I am trying to find.

Thanks for your response, but I am still wandering through the internet trying to find this in some form already made by someone. I have already a long time trying to find this online without success. If I do not get any answers to this post with an exact solution to my query within the next few days, then I will be left with no choice other than to assemble this exact data-list myself from scratch. Unfortunately I am very very slow at doing this kind of thing (this kind of research and fiddling with Excel is really just not one of my strengths), so it will literally take me days to do this. That is why I was really hoping that someone could please point me to a place where this exact data-list already exists.....?

Maybe this guy could help you. It looks like he is interested in, and currently compiling, a list such as the one you are seeking. https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@datageek/crypto-currencies-with-finite-supply  Also, maybe coinbase has some API's that could help you in your pursuit. Good luck.

Thanks very much for this link, it's a strong step in the right direction.

Hi

I found the information through coinmarketcap's API (https://coinmarketcap.com/api/).

https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=EUR&limit=2000

This will give you info for all available cryptos in this format:

[
    {
        "id": "bitcoin",
        "name": "Bitcoin",
        "symbol": "BTC",
        "rank": "1",
        "price_usd": "13104.5",
        "price_btc": "1.0",
        "24h_volume_usd": "13491300000.0",
        "market_cap_usd": "219803416562",
        "available_supply": "16773125.0",
        "total_supply": "16773125.0",
        "max_supply": "21000000.0",
        "percent_change_1h": "-1.65",
        "percent_change_24h": "-3.97",
        "percent_change_7d": "-6.43",
        "last_updated": "1514701460",
        "price_eur": "10916.0485",
        "24h_volume_eur": "11238252900.0",
        "market_cap_eur": "183096245997"
    },
...
    {
        "id": "casinocoin",
        "name": "CasinoCoin",
        "symbol": "CSC",
        "rank": "1372",
        "price_usd": "0.508835",
        "price_btc": "0.00002727",
        "24h_volume_usd": null,
        "market_cap_usd": null,
        "available_supply": null,
        "total_supply": "38601187.0",
        "max_supply": null,
        "percent_change_1h": null,
        "percent_change_24h": null,
        "percent_change_7d": null,
        "last_updated": "1513606441",
        "price_eur": "0.423859555",
        "24h_volume_eur": null,
        "market_cap_eur": null
    }
]

You'll have to parse it, but the info is there and it can be obtained automatically.

Hope this helps

Hi Jordibes, thanks very much for that info!

https://coincheckup.com/ You can rearrange the list by total supply, etc.

I stumbled upon your question b/c I wondered about the same thing... If you come up with the data table like you're talking about, please share it. And I'll keep an eye on what I can find (or create) along those lines

Here is a link to a Limited Supply crypto listing I just created. Feel free to share any comments you have.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HgQzbijIG2bDJsmQ4tmiBkHe3nScsnh_GQYj6pdZfE8/edit?usp=sharing (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HgQzbijIG2bDJsmQ4tmiBkHe3nScsnh_GQYj6pdZfE8/edit?usp=sharing)