POW POS Etc

[bradleyb5155]

Could someone please put together a list of the "different" types of crypto currencies, for example we have POS, POW etc. Im confused to what each mean and how many there are, please provide a few examples of what coin falls into which category.
Thank You

[digitalindustry]

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[nsimmons]

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these aren't the coins your looking for...

[Willisius]

Could someone please put together a list of the "different" types of crypto currencies, for example we have POS, POW etc. Im confused to what each mean and how many there are, please provide a few examples of what coin falls into which category.
Thank You

Coin Generation / Securing the Blockchain:

PoW (Proof-of-Work): Mining entails peforming a hashing algorithm on data until it meets specific criteria. This requires using computational power (work).
Examples: Bitcoin (original implementation of PoW), Litecoin, Dogecoin

PoS (Proof-of-Stake): Staking (sometimes called "minting") entails having coins that haven't been spent for a certain amount of time (this time is called "coin age"). When staking, you actually send coins to yourself, thereby reducing the coin age to zero, proving your "stake."
Examples: Peercoin (original implementation of PoS), Cinnicoin, Mintcoin

If you have another type of coin that needs clarifying, I'll just update this post so it can all be linked to conveniently.

[scv00]

Proof of Reserve (PoR)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=734477.0

Proof of Reserve (PoR) is a brand new block generation method based on PoS but having additional features

• Reserves held by users are vaulted balances for a specified timeframe, having a specified return option.
• Returns are calculated by the network and paid every 6 hours to active balances.
• The amount of the return is decided by the longevity of the ReserveRate you choose.
• Reserve rates are
  
  
  • 7.5% per year for a Reserve of 3 days
  • 8% per year for a Reserve of 7 days
  • 8.5% per year for a Reserve of 10 days
  • 9% per year for a Reserve of 15 days
  • 9.9% per year for a Reserve of 30 days

• Reserved units can be released from Reserve before the end of the reserving period for a fee of 0.5% of the Reserved amount. The fee is sent to a burn address so it helps in balancing the inflation.