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THE ORIGINAL CRYPTOCOIN LIST
MAJOR:
(big market, high security)
-BTC Bitcoin - first, strongest, most accepted, most mined, high volume market, a true currency
-LTC Litecoin - second only to BTC , faster than BTC, Smaller efficiency gap between GPUs and CPUs , ASIC-hostile
-NMC Namecoin merged mined with BTC, used for alternative p2p domain system
-PPC PPcoin Proof Of Stake [very innovative, low energy ] , compatibile with BTC miners
MINOR:
(established, but small)
-TRC Terracoin diff resonance . based on BTC, many diff algo updates, still bad.
-DVC Devcoin merged mined with BTC, 90% of generation goes to foundation, 10% to miners
-IXC IxCoin merged mined with BTC, premined 580k coins but still alive
-NVC NovaCoin - scrypt hashing[like LTC] , proof of stake [like PPC] , controversial start
-FRC Freicoin - hi diff slowdown 4.89% anual demurrage. for the first 3 years 80% block subsidy goes to foundation, 20% to miners
-FTC FeatherCoin- WARNING BLOCKCHAIN 51%'ed LTC clone with 4x more coins.
CANDIDATES:
(new, but secure hashpower)
-GWKBZC Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzungencoin - Tweaked Litecoin derivative
-BTE Bytecoin- hi diff slowdown the 1:1 bitcoin copy, nothing changed. extremally high starting hype/hashrate.
-BQC BBQCoin- diff resonance forgotten after 51% attack on launch, now revived and active. super fast version of LTC.
-MNC Mincoin- diff resonance similar to BBQ, but very bad launch [no binaries + 25000% superblocks] giving 10% of all coins to insiders.
-CNC CHNCoin-hi diff slowdown similar to BBQ, announced on chinese forum first.
-BTB BitBar- scarce version of NovaCoin. low starting diff like FTC and CNC, but quick adjustment.
-JKC JKC- low diff started as a joke, but now working ok. low starting diff and slow retarget like BTE, FTC, MNC, CNC
-YAC YACoin- Yet Another altCoin. NovaCoin fork, with modified hashing - for now CPU-ONLY
-WDC Worldcoin-diff resonance Another LTC clone. ultra fast. criticized for instamine, bloating and low security. Active support
NEW:
(mainly spam)
-RYC Royalcoin- Another LTC clone, starting with low diff and superblocks like MNC ...
-FRK Franko- Another faster LTC, again 0.00... starting diff. scarce.
-NBL nibble- A try for nice, no-instamine start. failed to launch on time
-PWC powercoin- instamine clone
-SRC sunrisecoin- instamine clone
-GLD gldcoin- instamine clone
-SPC supercoin- instamine clone
-BTG bitgem- instamine clone, scarse
-DGC DigitalCoin- preannouced for 23rd as diff 1, but than suddenly launched on 20th with 0.00024 diff
-doubloons- instamine clone
-PXC PhenixCoin- ltc clone, 1'000'000 coins premined
-LKY LuckyCoin- very nice idea for disabling instamine, but used for ultra instamine instead... ,random superblocks.
-MEM MEMEcoin- openly made for maximum instamine - superblocks and sudden launch.
DEAD / DYING :
-ELACoin- a try for less unfair, preannounced start and build-in inlfation. tripple-failed launch
-FTC Gamecoin- yes, FTC. clone so bad it was 51%'ed the first day.
-LQC Liquidcoin made to be very fast at constant difficulty, dead [pool closed, exchange closed]
-SC Solidcoin - dying (10-20% fee), designed to improove IxCoin, hard to be neutral on this one, 1.0 was a premine scam, 2.0 says BTC is pyramid scheme.
-GG Geist Geld experiment on BTC algorithm, how fast can it go? just for sience.
-TBX Tenebrix great idea of cpu-friendly mining with scrypt, but premined with 7.7milion coins - alive but little support due to premining
-FBX Fairbrix - Tenebrix without the premine, bad launch, alive but little support.
-I0C I0coin - ixcoin without the premine. Dead
-CLC Coiledcoin - some nice ideas, but killed in 51% attack
-RUC Rucoin - copy of bitcoin, only difference is that it was developed in russian not english.than reborn much different, not confirmed if it is the same blockchain, both scrypt[like LTC] and sha256d , nice client !warning! not opensource ! dying again
-TimeKoin - PHP webbased coin, alive but not used or traded.
-Beertokens -abitious [impossible?] try to stabilize price against commodity.
-MMM MMMcoin - Dead coin by notorious scamer SPMavrodi, named "yes we can" "my mozem mnogoye"
NOT AN OPENSOURCE COMMODITY CRYPTO COIN / NEVER FULLY LAUNCHED:
eCash historical try for digital curency by David Chaum, operational but died.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCashDigiCash was the company that made eCash . Possibly where Bitcoin came from.
Ripples (XRP) -
http://ripple.com , no mining - all coins available at start 80% foundation, and 20% develeopers. centralized, not opensource. not designed to be a currency, but an IOU exchange. Very innovative and usefull, but "not a coin"
Amazon Coin - centralized private scrip launched by Amazon and pegged to USD, not cryptographic at all, just a name.
WEEDS never realy active and now dead -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24209.msg300830#msg300830Groupcoin - still alive but never realy active
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=24813.0Opencoin - opensource version of digicash, opencoin.org , not launched yet
RealPay 100% coins at start, centralized, never realy launched ,site is dead
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?all=;topic=62565.0Qubic coins are produced at the rate determined by quorum of miners, not set by developers. Never launched.
Swiftcoin company operated, centralized and pegged, not opensource
http://www.firstnationalbnak.com/faqSMC smallchange functioning blockchain, but made just for research. might be a coin if reset.
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