Mini CryptoDirectory

Quote from: HabBear on May 01, 2018, 07:27:54 PM

And if you're going to include one cryptocurrency, you should include them all! Make a second list that can be a directory of cryptos that provides a link to their whitepaper and briefly explains the coins/tokens purpose or intended utility for the market.

"Bitcoin has not just been a trendsetter, ushering in a wave of cryptocurrencies built on a decentralized peer-to-peer network, it’s become the de facto standard for cryptocurrencies. The currencies inspired by Bitcoin are collectively called altcoins and have tried to present themselves as modified or improved versions of Bitcoin."

So, I made some list of some popular Altcoins that you can try and invest in.
(I based my list on the top 13 on Coinmarketcap and their popularity)
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1.ETHEREUM (ETH)
Website: https://www.ethereum.org/
Whitepaper: http://www.ethdocs.org/en/latest/

Ethereum was initially invented by Vitalik Buterin in 2013 and released on 30 July 2015, Ethereum was initially invented by Vitalik Buterin in 2013, which was the result of his research work for the community of BITCOIN. Soon, after the invention, Vitalik had published the white paper known as “Ethereum white paper”, describing the details of the design technicalities and rationale for “smart contract structure” and “Ethereum protocol”. Vitalik formally announced the program in January 2014, at “The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida, USA”. During that time Vitalik began working in collaboration with Dr Gavin Wood, jointly founded the Ethereum.
Ethereum is an open blockchain platform that lets anyone build and use decentralized applications that run on blockchain technology. Like Bitcoin, no one controls or owns Ethereum – it is an open-source project built by many people around the world. But unlike the Bitcoin protocol, Ethereum was designed to be adaptable and flexible. It is easy to create new applications on the Ethereum platform, and with the Homestead release, it is now safe for anyone to use those applications.
Ethereum’s blockchain connects thousands of computers (known as nodes) around the world, forming a massive, many times mirrored “world computer.” Anyone can access it, upload programs, and execute programs on.
Ethereum is based on a programmable blockchain that provides the user with the pre-defined set of operations and allows the users to create the operation of their own choice, according to their wishes. This sort of system has given a platform for every user in a decentralized type of blockchain application which is beyond, cryptocurrencies. At the core of there lies Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), executing the codes of complex arbitrary algorithmic. In the science and computer terminology “Ethereum” means “Turning Complete”.

3. RIPPLE (XRP)
Website:https://ripple.com/
Whitepaper: https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

the project was released in 2012, The company building the Ripple protocol, OpenCoin, was co-founded by CEO Chris Larsen and CTO Jed McCaleb. McCaleb is well-grounded in digital currency, coming from Mt. Gox, which currently handles the majority of the world's bitcoin trades. Larsen previously co-founded and led the online financial company E-LOAN. Other developers on Ripple's team also have a bitcoin background.
Ripple is a real-time gross settlement system (RTGS), currency exchange and remittance network created by the Ripple company. Also called the Ripple Transaction Protocol (RTXP) or Ripple protocol, it is built upon a distributed open source internet protocol, consensus ledger and native cryptocurrency abbreviated as XRP (ripples). Released in 2012, Ripple purports to enable "secure, instantly and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks." It supports tokens representing fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodity or any other unit of value such as frequent flier miles or mobile minutes. At its core, Ripple is based on a shared and public database or ledger which uses a consensus process that allows for payments, exchanges and remittance in a distributed process.
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. By joining Ripple’s growing, global network, financial institutions can process their customers’ payments anywhere in the world instantly, reliably and cost-effectively. Banks and payment providers can use the digital asset XRP to further reduce their costs and access new markets.

3. Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Website: https://www.bitcoincash.org/
Whitepaper: https://t.co/FDawrIfCt5

In May 2017, bitcoin transactions took up to four days to complete.[9] In order to speed transactions, users could pay a transaction fee, which at the end of 2017 averaged about $28.The delay and especially the fees made bitcoin impractical for everyday use to make small purchases.
Bitcoin Cash brings sound money to the world, fulfilling the original promise of bitcoin as "Peer to Peer Electronic Cash" merchant and users are empowered with low fees and reliable confirmations. the future shines brightly with unrestricted growth, global adoption, permissionless information and decentralized development
Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency. In mid-2017, the developers not content with the Segregated Witness feature implemented a change to the bitcoin code. The change, called a hard fork, took effect on August 1, 2017. As a result, the bitcoin ledger called the blockchain and the cryptocurrency split in two. At the time of the fork, anyone owning bitcoin was also in possession of the same number of Bitcoin Cash units.
Bitcoin Cash differs from Bitcoin Classic in that it increases the block size from 1 MB to 8 MB. It also removes Segregated Witness (SegWit), a proposed code adjustment designed to free up block space by removing certain parts of the transaction. The goal of Bitcoin Cash is to increase the number of transactions that can be processed, and supporters hope that this change will allow Bitcoin Cash to compete with the volume of transactions that PayPal and Visa can handle by increasing the size of blocks.

4. EOS (EOS)
Website: https://eos.io/
Whitepaper:https://github.com/EOSIO/Documentation/blob/master/TechnicalWhitePaper.md

EOSIO is a cryptocurrency token and blockchain that claims to operate as a smart contract platform for the deployment of decentralized applications and decentralized autonomous corporation EOSIO aims to become a decentralized operating system supporting industrial-scale applications, with claims to eliminate transaction fees and also conduct millions of transactions per second.
The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. This is achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication, and the scheduling of applications across many of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that may ultimately scale to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment and maintenance of decentralized applications, in the context of a governed blockchain.
The aim of the platform is to provide decentralized application hosting, smart contract capability and decentralized storage enterprise solutions that solve the scalability issues of blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum, as well as eliminating all fees for users. EOSIO accomplishes this by being both multi-threaded (able to run on multiple computer cores) as well using delegated proof-of-stake for its consensus protocol.It aims to be the first decentralized operating system (EOSIO) that provides a development environment for decentralized applications like Steemit, a social network with monetary incentives and BitShares, a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange (DEX).

5. CARDANO (ADA)
Website: https://www.cardano.org/en/home/
Whitepaper: https://whitepaperdatabase.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cardano-ada-whitepaper.pdf

Cardano is a distributed computing platform that runs the blockchain for the Ada cryptocurrency.[4][5] Daedalus is currently the only (software) cryptocurrency wallet that holds Ada and allows transfers to other wallet addresses.
Cardano is a decentralised public blockchain and cryptocurrency project and is fully open source. Cardano is developing a smart contract platform which seeks to deliver more advanced features than any protocol previously developed. It is the first blockchain platform to evolve out of a scientific philosophy and a research-first driven approach. The development team consists of a large global collective of expert engineers and researchers
Coins are mined and decisions are made via a proof-of-stake algorithm called Ouroboros instead of a proof-of-work system;consensus is generated by coin-holder vote. In this protocol, slot leaders generate new blocks in the blockchain and verify the transactions. Anyone holding an Ada coin can become a slot leader. This staking mechanism makes it unnecessary to brute force the hash code. Thus saves a significant part of the energy required by work-based systems, and allows a resource-efficient and cost-saving blockchain creation.

6. LITECOIN (LTC)
Websites:https://litecoin.com/
https://litecoin.org/
Whitepaper:https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf (since litecoin is identical to bitcoin)

Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011, by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee. The Litecoin network went live on October 13, 2011. It was a fork of the Bitcoin Core client, differing primarily by having a decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased maximum number of coins, a different hashing algorithm (script, instead of SHA-256), and a slightly modified GUI.
Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Litecoin is an open source, a global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. Mathematics secures the network and empowers individuals to control their own finances. Litecoin features faster transaction confirmation times and improved storage efficiency than the leading math-based currency. With substantial industry support, trade volume and liquidity, Litecoin is a proven medium of commerce complementary to Bitcoin.
Litecoin is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license.Creation and transfer of coins are based on an open source cryptographic protocol and is not managed by any central authority. The coin was inspired by, and in technical details is nearly identical to, Bitcoin (BTC).

7. STELLAR (XLM)
Website: https://www.stellar.org/
Whitepaper: https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf

Stellar is an open-source protocol for value exchange founded in early 2014 by Jed McCaleb (creator of eDonkey) and Joyce Kim. Its board members and advisory board members include Keith Rabois, Patrick Collison, Matt Mullenweg, Greg Stein, Joi Ito, Sam Altman, Naval Ravikant and others.The Stellar protocol is supported by a nonprofit, the Stellar Development Foundation.
Stellar is a platform that connects banks, payments systems, and people. Integrate to move money quickly, reliably, and at almost no cost.
Stellar is an open-source protocol for exchanging money. Servers run a software implementation of the protocol, and use the Internet to connect to and communicate with other Stellar servers, forming a global value exchange network. Each server stores a record of all “accounts” on the network. These records are stored in a database called the “ledger”. Servers propose changes to the ledger by proposing “transactions”, which move accounts from one state to another by spending the account’s balance or changing a property of the account. All of the servers come to agreement on which set of transactions to apply to the current ledger through a process called “consensus”.

8. IOTA (MIOTA)
Website: https://www.iota.org/
Whitepaper: http://www.iota.org/IOTA_Whitepaper.pdf

a cryptocurrency for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) industry. The main feature of this novel cryptocurrency is the tangle, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) for storing transactions. The tangle naturally succeeds the blockchain as its next
evolutionary step and oers features that are required to establish a machine-to-machine micropayment system.
An essential contribution of this paper is a family of Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. These algorithms select attachment sites on the tangle for a transaction that has just arrived.

9. TRON (TRX)
Website: https://tron.network/
Whitepaper: https://o836fhe91.qnssl.com/tron/whitebook/TronWhitepaper_en.pdf

TRON is an ambitious project dedicated to building the infrastructure for a truly decentralized Internet. The Tron Protocol, one of the largest blockchain based operating systems in the world, offers scalable, high-availability and high-throughput support that underlies all the decentralized applications in the TRON ecosystem.
TRON Protocol and the TVM allow anyone to develop DAPPs for themselves or their communities, with smart contracts making decentralized crowdfunding and token issuance easier than ever. Tron DAPP projects already include Peiwo, Obike, Uplive, game.com, Kitty live and Mico, with 100M+ active users from more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

11. NEO(NEO)
Website: https://neo.org/
Whitepaper: http://docs.neo.org/en-us/

NEO was founded in 2014 and was real-time open source on GitHub in June 2015. Since its inception, the NEO team has experienced the upsurge and boom of the blockchain industry and the frenzy and cooling of the digital money market. We believe technology drives progress and together we can create the future. Motivated by this, NEO has been created to shift our traditional economy into the new era of the "Smart Economy".
NEO is a non-profit community-based blockchain project that utilizes blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, to automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts, and to realize a "smart economy" with a distributed network.

12. MONERO (XMR)
Website: https://getmonero.org/
Whitepaper: https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf

Monero is a decentralized cryptocurrency, meaning it is secure digital cash operated by a network of users. Transactions are confirmed by distributed consensus and then immutably recorded on the blockchain. Third-parties do not need to be trusted to keep your Monero safe.
Monero uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses to obfuscate the origins, amounts, and destinations of all transactions. Monero provides all the benefits of a decentralized cryptocurrency, without any of the typical privacy concessions.
Monero is fungible because it is private by default. Units of Monero cannot be blacklisted by vendors or exchanges due to their association in previous transactions.

13. DASH (DASH)
Website:https://www.dash.org/
Whitepaper: https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/5472261/Whitepaper

At Dash’s core is a unique fully-incentivized peer-to-peer network. Miners are rewarded for securing the blockchain and master nodes are rewarded for validating, storing and serving the blockchain to users.
Master nodes represent a new layer of network servers that work in highly secure clusters called quorums to provide a variety of decentralized services, like instant transactions, privacy and governance, while eliminating the threat of low-cost network attacks.
Dash aims to be the most user-friendly and scalable payments-focused cryptocurrency in the world. The Dash network features instant transaction confirmation, double spend protection, anonymity equal to that of physical cash, a self-governing, self-funding model driven by incentivized full nodes and a clear roadmap for on-chain scaling to up to 400MB blocks using custom-developed open source hardware. While Dash is based on Bitcoin and compatible with many key components of the Bitcoin ecosystem, its two-tier network structure offers significant improvements in transaction speed, anonymity and governance.

-The price indicated in the image is its price today
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Sources
Ethereum
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/
https://www.ethereum.org/
https://steemit.com/ethereum/@najoh/ethereum-explained-for-beginners
Ripple
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/
https://ripple.com/company/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(payment_protocol)
https://www.coindesk.com/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-ripple/
BitcoinCash
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/
https://www.bitcoincash.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bitcoin-cash.asp
EOS
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/eos/
https://eos.io/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS.IO
CARDANO
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cardano/
https://www.cardano.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardano_(platform)
LITECOIN
https://litecoin.org/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin
STELLAR
https://www.stellar.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_(payment_network)
IOTA
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/iota/
https://www.iota.org/
TRON
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tron/
https://tron.network/enindex.html
NEO
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/neo/
https://neo.org/
MONERO
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/monero/
https://getmonero.org/
DASH
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/
https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/5472261/Whitepaper
https://www.dash.org/