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If you are interested which coins were popular in the past you can visit the historical version of Coinmarketcap.com. In this version, it is possible to display Coinmarketcap at any time from the past, and you can see the ranking of all cryptocurrencies at that time and their price.

At https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/ there are several times to choose from:

https://www.talkimg.com/images/2023/05/19/bitcoins113321ad9182b990.jpeg


The earliest time is April 28, 2013.

Alternatively, you can also customize the URL by changing the date accordingly. The URL has a modifiable part that contains the date in the format YYYYMMDD (year-month-day):

https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20140505/

For example, this will show Coinmarketcap on May 5, 2014. If you want to see May 6, 2014, you can change the link to:

https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/20140506/

However, for the first few months of historical data this customized variant doesn’t offer data for every day.

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العربية (Arabic)	Nalain420	Coinmarketcap التاريخية: ترتيب جميع العملات المشفرة ف (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5482527.0)
Nigeria (Naija)	Chilwell	Historical Coinmarketcap: ranking for all cryptos at any time from the past (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5481513.0)
Română (Romanian)	GazetaBitcoin	Istoric Coinmarketcap: date despre toate criptomonedele, la orice moment trecut (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5268524.0)
Urdu (Pakistan)	ThemePen	تاریخی کوئین مارکیٹ کیپ: ماضی سے کسی بھی وقت  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg63537522#msg63537522)

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This page should serve as a warning to not “invest” in the low level alts as most of the alts from 2013 and mid 2014 aren’t even in existence anymore, to my knowledge.

Unless the altcoin you are investing in is implementing some new technology that is an improvement on what existing coins offer, it is probably best to stay away.

Nice info! I just found out that XRP is one of the oldest cryptocurrency. How come it exists for a long time? I read nothing good about XRP.. lol.

Anyway, newbies (including me) should already know that shitcoins will get rekt. Just look at the current market trend.

I see Namecoin, Peercoin, Novacoin and more there, these has very low volume considering the situation then. Novacoin has a $300+ volume, Namecoin having $15k or so. These are not anymore active.
Thank you anyway.

Ripple isn't that bad as a project, just that their operation are just too centralized for a community promoting decentralization that's why there are many negative news against them. Another project that'll make it as far as XRP has done is EOS (not a financial advice though).

The team members of a project matters alot, that's what ripple has and have kept it for this long. A project that has a strong team is likable to succeed than a project with just unique idea.

Interesting information that gives us an idea of just how risky investment is in this area. I barely recognize any of the names on the list of top market capped (choosing data from July 2013 for example), and if you enter their individual charts, many have practically disappear by now.

It is also interesting to contrast with the overall aggregate marketcap evolution that can be retrieved here: https://coinmarketcap.com/es/charts/

Totally agreed on this mate because even how good the new project is but in future it may dump and die,just like what happen in the given listing and still happening these days
But this is very few to expect since almost all of the possible project has been existing already and only waiting for the mass adaptation to be used so basically we can't expect something new in our time now

The limit of the possibility is our own knowledge. While it's true that with increased knowledge breakthrough rarely happens in a short amount of time, it's still possible that we'll find something entirely new. Science has shown this many times, and I believe the same thing could happen in crypto.

As the snapshot suggests, only BTC stays at the top. Will we see Bitcoin at the top for the next 10 years? Who knows, but it should happen. With ETF, Bakkt and other institutional platforms which will likely push another bull mania for Bitcoin and crypto in general. That will be the time when your shitcoin can give max profits, after that they'll die. History will repeat itself.

Yes, the vast majority of altcoins will die and become almost worthless, at the latest when the developers will run out of money to continue the project or when they notice that their promise and business model is not possible to realize.
It's very impressive that so many projects from 2013 / 2014 failed when the intention of a project wasn't to collect money how it's nowadays. That's important to consider how 99% of all projects launched in the ICO hype will end...
Will be funny to see coinmarketcap in 2 or 3 years which coins will disappear.


Well, that's a good thing.  :D
There is a huge bot army spreading fake-FOMO about XRP and they got busted recently. xD

I agree that XRP is a very bad choice, there are so many aspects why XRP is a shitcoin. Like their large bag of XRP that they have given into escrow (almost 55% of all XRP) and they sell monthly up to 1 billion XRP for their own profit. It's like Satoshi would sell the remaining unmined Bitcoins for his own profit via theymos as escrow instead of giving the BTC as reward to the miners...LOL
And the number of unmined BTC (14% of the total supply of BTC) is around 4 times lower compared to the number of unsold XRP (55% of the total supply of BTC)
That's why premined shitcoins are a bad solution...
But I doubt that XRP dies, they have a very efficient funding model and almost unlimited funds as result of their selling-strategy...
Sorry for off-topic, couldn't resist.  ;)

Most of the ERC-20 (and similar) "coins" resemble something closer to a private company raising money via Venture Capital than a cryptocurrency (this is actually why I have a lot of faith in Etherum and similar ). If you are running a VC fund (that invests in very early stage companies), having 95% of the companies you invest in fail is considered a success. I suspect that many "investors" in these tokens do not fully understand these types of risks.

Its quite difficult to understand how bad the market have been over the years for bad coins. Though having different names, most of them were one or the other same and were just a fork of btc. Everything followed the same tech but had different hashing algorithms which doesn't make much difference. Litecoin seems to be little stable over the years, but they along with the others doesn't have much outstanding tech when compared to btc.

The only coins which impresses me always is Ethereum and Monero. I am very much sure this could prove to be a stable competitor to btc and might have a very long run similar to btc and not just like the erc-20 shitcoins and other forkcoins.

Ethereum is like a decentralized world computer equivalent and smart contracts can help us in solving many Real Life problems which are currently prevailing. An added advantage is that, devs can make use of solidity and can help their companies to solve the problems through a decentralized system. If bitcoin is a mode of payment, ethereum is a decentralized world computer for developers. I have not delved much into Ethereum but they do seem to impress and inspire developers like me much towards them.

Even though Monero is similar to bitcoin in terms of using them as a mode of payment, they help in performing the transactions in a very secure way. On the whole Monero and Ethereum can be much more stable in terms of market and would have a strong run in the coming years.

Very true. Use #XRP in one of your tweets and you'll likely get retweeted by XRP bot. I still don't understand who run this bot army or why they should even do that if XRP is the best. They no longer need shilling like ICO/IEO out there, almost listed on every exchange out there. Should've done better if they focus marketing XRP to future clients instead of traders and moonboys. Way more productive.

Thank you for the info. Yes, it was only bitcoin remain to be the strongest crypto.in the market and most of the alt coins are just being dump especially nowadays ICO is not really profitable because once the ICO period is done and when the coin is put to exchange, the coin market price will drop this results for the investors lost in the liquidity of the coin they hold from the ICO period and after putting it to exchange.

Who cares about ranking, ranking based on market capacity will not make any difference.
In other words, if shitcoin becomes number one, does that mean it is better than Bitcoin? of course not.

Curiously, there are currencies since 2013 unheard of. This shows the importance of technology.

Yeah you are right,,,ranking isn't a big thing here but its important which one have the largest users community and accepted as payment method. In this criteria other cryptos haven't got the power to make competition with bitcoin IMO. Bitcoin has already been the most fastest and secure payment method worldwide and i believe its just a beginning only.  

I have seen so many coin/token which were on top 10 list in the past but now they are nothing but a bad dream. So just getting higher place on ranking isn't the only achievement or development for a crypto currency i think.

Monero is very interesting, unfortunately I hadn't the time yet to make a sufficient research about it but owning a few of them is a good idea.

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Exactly, that reminds me of all the shitcoin ICOs where it's necessary to do so much spam marketing that someone invests. Maybe Ripple has so much money and don't know where to spend it rather than shills...

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+1, nice guide for beginners  :)

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I consider marketcap rankings like such ones from coinmarketcap more as an estimated overview without a very good accuracy. The supply of each currency can be displayed very differently and affecting the marketcap, depending on how the circulating supply is calculated. While it's clear for a mined currency like BTC, some projects are including / excluding parts of it in a very intransparent way and that makes an exact calculation sometimes not possible.
And the difference between circulating and total supply is not included in the rankings. That's very important to look at because if there's a big discrepancy and still lots of coins have to be issued the price will be affected if more coins come into circulation. The rate of not issued coins for BTC is already very low (around 14% of all BTC are not issued yet) compared to other coins. An example is Stellar, more than 80% (!) of all Stellar are not issued yet and therefore not included in the ranking:

https://i.postimg.cc/bJnGdC3W/stalle.jpg

This will affect the price in a negative way if they come into circulation later.

If I will be permit I love to take this topic to my local board naija "pidgin language".

Hello, dear Chilwell  :)

Nigerian translation is still available and I would be happy to have my topic translated to your local board.
Your reserved translation is noted in my list:

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When your translation is done, you can announce it here.  :)

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1miau

If you allow me to translate this topic of yours into our Bengali language.
I waited for you.

AirtelBuzz

Hello  :)

Please, can you read first...

My last reply says:


And OP says:


Due to abuse (see here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5471131.msg63111902#msg63111902)), reserving new translations is currently not available.
We might update our translation process.
I'm sure, you'll find other interesting topics to translate for your local board.  :)

Thanks sir, ❤️
I didn't know that. Actually I was not active in my local board then so I am not aware of this matter.

But if I get a chance to translate your post in the future, I will. I would really like to translate one of your posts, I don't know if I'm lucky enough to have that opportunity  :D

I'm sure there will be opportunities.  :)
In any case we will be checking all future translations with trusted, native proofreaders to ensure a quality translation.
If you want, I can send you a PM once I'll re-open translations here for my topic "Historical Coinmarketcap: ranking of all cryptos at any time from the past".

Probably they wont do that as they only deemed showed are historical figures but if they will have that feature then much better. I guess thats leave to users due diligence either he will invest or not as info like this already existed and make much sense to those figures.

Old projects can sometime create new or subproject for that tech alone thats why this space is too much saturated with based dev who literally will do anything to farm users.

I am waiting for the historic time of you sending me that PM sir.

Good day sir,
I want to let you know that I have translated this topic https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140111.0 to my local board naija, here is the link to my translation https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5481513.msg63495251#msg63495251
Thanks for giving me the opportunity for the translation,

Hello, dear Chilwell  :)

Your translation is approved and I've just added it to my list:

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Nigeria (Naija)	Chilwell	Historical Coinmarketcap: ranking for all cryptos at any time from the past (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5481513.0)

Well done and hopefully your local board will remember this helpful site to check out past snapshots of crypto marketcapitalization.  :)
It's always helpful to see how massively some Altcoins have lost value compared to BTC in the past - and we can draw conclusions about future developments, where probably today's top Altcoins will have a similar fate - losing massively ground compared to Bitcoin in the future.

This is going to be very useful to me.
I've spent the last 10 minutes just going through different dates and although it shouldn't be a surprise to see how a lot of altcoins perform so poorly, it still surprises me.

Some coins are over 10 years old and not even worth up to a dollar. Some were worth over $10 in the past but are nowhere to be found.
I have a couple of people around me that won't give up on shitcoins, maybe this will help my case against them because I know it will definitely help me.
One thing is certain looking at those numbers "only Bitcoin is constant"

What I do not understand is how some of the market cap of these coins keep increasing even though their prices remain less than less than a dollar

It's due to new coins coming into circulation.
Because Marketcap is calculated by circulating coins x price per coin = marketcap.
And when more coins are coming into circulation, which is a big problem for many shitcoins, price goes down per coin.
It's called "dilution", supplies of each coin are getting diluted and prices per coin are getting devalued when many new coins are coming into circulation.
A little bit like inflation, when new USD is printed but inflation is much lower for USD compared to most shitcoins.

Shitcoins often don't have a max supply like Bitcoin has (21,000,000 coins) and are at high risk of suffering from massive inflation.

I've exposed some common tricks of shitcoins (Polkadot) here: Bitcoin vs. Altcoins – projected Marketcap (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5419558.0)
Polkadot is a good example how each coin is getting devalued / diluted due to many new coins coming into circulation.

This is a research down memory lane, I thank the OP for sharing the links so we can understand the hysterical pertans of altcoins, to help us in knowing those that have stood the test of time and others that have been forgotten. It should be a reminder for investors to carry out thorough research before putting money in altcoins, they should know how long the coins have survived in the market and the innovations of their developer teams, because the hysterical facts states that many of them have become worthless. This is why I still prefer top altcoins that have proven their reputations like Bitcoin, and are still profitable in the crypto space, a good example is Ethereum.

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Hello dear @1miau

I am seeking your permission to translate this useful and informative topic in our local board Arabic language with Arabic brothers and Everyone should know about Historical Coinmarketcap. If you grant me the permission  I will start my work soon.

Have a good day  :)

Thanks

Nalain420 ~

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When you are ready and your translation is done, you can announce and link your translated topic here in my topic.
No hurry, as usual, of course.  :)

Hey 1miau,

I would like to translate your topic in my local language Urdu. I hope this topic will help my community members. I want to reserve my position as a translator for you topic Historical Coinmarketcap.... When you will give my permission I will start my work as soon as possible. Thanks. :)

Hello  :)
I've reserved your local language translation and it's noted in my list:

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Urdu (Pakistan)	ThemePen	reserved (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5140111.msg63526966#msg63526966)

As you are new to my translations, please note that it's very important to present an accurate quality translation, which will be checked by local board native proofreaders.
I'm sure you can deliever a good quality translation.
Looking forward to it.  :)


But it's called Coinmarketcap, not Coinmarketcam.  :D

First of all thank you for this you gave me permission to translate.

Yes this is the first time with you and I will try my best to give a quality translation. And I am sure that it will be approved by the translation. I have translated one of the topic of GazetaBitcoin and the second one is under preview. I hope soon it will be approved.

Hahaha!
That is a typing mistake will correct after posting this reply.

Again thanks for this opportunity. I will start my work as soon as possible. :)

If GazetaBitcoin was satisfied, your translation work is really quality work because I know GazetaBitcoin always applies a high standard.  :)

Alright, looking forward to it.
No hurry, of course. Take your time and I'm sure your translation will be approved.

When you are ready, you can announce and link your translation here in a new reply.  :)

Exactly 💯💯
He always applies a high standard. By the way I am happy my second post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg63534481#msg63534481) also has approved by GazetaBitcoin.


Hmmm! Thanks dear.
I have published the post in my local community thread. Here is the link.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg63537522#msg63537522
Let me know if approve.

I hope we will work again in future.  :)

Hi @1miau!

Recently, I have completed translation in Arabic language and this my translation link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5482527.msg63539538#msg63539538

Thanks @1miau for giving me this opportunity to translate this important and useful topic into Arabic board. I hope to translate other your topics in future.

Have a nice day   :)

Nalain420 ~

Congrats, bro  :)

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I hereby can inform you that your translations are of good quality and have been approved.
Many thanks for your work to bring my topic to your local boards.  :)
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Urdu (Pakistan)	ThemePen	تاریخی کوئین مارکیٹ کیپ: ماضی سے کسی بھی وقت  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.msg63537522#msg63537522)