A list of the top quality alternative blockhains also known as Altcoins as of Mid-2015.
With all the new altcoins being announced each day the better quality ones often go unnoticed. These currencies are great for trading in the short term and for long term investments. Sadly many of these get neglected due to their stability and lack of 'hype'.
ZetacoinBTC Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=267545Dedicated Forum:
http://zetacoinforum.org/Main Website:
http://zetacoin.com (currently offline, use
http://getzetacoin.com instead)
Block Explorer:
https://coinplorer.com/ZETGenesis Block: 8/3/2013 4:56:26 PM (UTC)
Symbol: ZET
PoW Type: SHA256d
Total Initial Supply: 160 Million
Inflation: 1 ZET every 30 seconds
Why you should know about it:
Zetacoin was one of (if not) the first SHA256 coins to use fast blocks with state of the art difficulty re-adjustment. This along with the economics of the currency make it ideal for every day purchases and payments while having a transaction capacity that is 20 x that of Bitcoin's.
KittehCoinBTC Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=448003Dedicated Forum:
https://forums.kittehcoin.info/Main Website:
https://kittehcoin.info/Block Explorer:
https://explorer.kittehcoin.infoGenesis Block: 12/23/2013 10:21:24 AM (UTC)
Symbol: MEOW
PoW Type: Scrypt
Total Initial Supply: 25 Billion
Inflation: 2,000 MEOW every 60 seconds
Why you should know about it:
This is a low value and low inflation currency making it ideal for large scale money supply distribution across the globe. Thus encouraging the use of integers (instead of floating point values) for even the smallest of transactions. It's focus on the cat meme ensures popularity that will never fade while appealing to Asians via the 'Maneki-neko' (good luck cat) symbol.
UniversalCurrencyBTC Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1037825Dedicated Forum:
https://forum.cryptomining.farm/Main Website:
http://u-currency.com/Block Explorer:
https://explorer.unitcurrency.com/Genesis Block: 04/26/2015 5:05 PM (UTC)
Symbol: UNIT
PoW Type: SHA256d PoS hybrid
Total Initial Supply: 10.01 Million
Inflation: 5 UNIT every 60 seconds
Why you should know about it:
Universal Currency is a fairly new alternative currency taking the best elements of Bitcoin, Peercoin, and Zetacoin. The UNIT currency is the core part of a larger project for a Solar powered crypto currency mining farm. It's extremely low initial money supply makes it an ideal long term investment with sure fire returns.
