List of all cryptocoins

[Cheetahx]

THE ORIGINAL CRYPTOCOIN LIST [version 20.06.2013]

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)

-DVC Devcoin- merged mined with BTC, 90% of generation goes to foundation, 10% to miners
-NVC NovaCoin-  scrypt hashing[like LTC], proof of stake [like PPC]
-TRC Terracoin- BTC clone, many diff algo updates.
-FRC Freicoin-  4.89% anual demurrage. for the first 3 years 80% block subsidy goes to foundation, 20% to miners.
-FTC FeatherCoin- LTC clone with 4x more coins. starting diff 0
-IXC IxCoin- merged mined with BTC, BTC clone.

CANDIDATES:
(not stable yet, with some community support)

-CNC CHNCoin- LTC clone, announced on chinese forum first.0 starting diff
-BQC BBQCoin- forgotten , now revived and active. faster version of LTC.
-BTB BitBar-  scarce, PoW + PoS[like PPC] scrypt. 0 starting diff + quick adjustment.
-DGC DigitalCoin- LTC clone. 20 sec blocks. 0 starting diff + progresive reward.
-YAC YACoin-  Yet Another altCoin. NovaCoin fork, with modified scrypt hashing
-WDC Worldcoin- LTC clone. 15 sec blocks. 0 starting diff.
-MNC Mincoin- LTC clone, started with no binaries and 25000% reward blocks. 0 starting diff


THE PURGATORY:
(many new clones)

-BTG bitgem- NVC scarce clone. 0 starting diff
-BTE Bytecoin- the 1:1 bitcoin copy  
-FLO Florin coin- a coin with trasaction comments
-anoncoin- a coin with I2P support
-NBL nibble- LTC clone. progresive starting reward.
-FRK Franko- LTC clone. fast blocks. 0 starting diff. scarce.
-MEC Megacoin- LTC clone based on 8.2 code. 0 starting diff.
-JKC JKC- LTC clone. 0 starting diff with superblocks, random superblocks.
-PXC PhenixCoin- LTC clone. 1'000'000 coins premine
-AMC Americancoin- premined LTC clone with 6.5k-14k blocks giving zero reward
-FST Fastcoin- LTC clone. 12 sec blocks. 0 starting diff.
-GLD gldcoin- LTC clone. 0 starting diff, 2000% superblocks at start
-SPC supercoin- JunkCoin clone. 0 starting diff
-doubloons- LTC clone. 0 starting diff
-LKY LuckyCoin- superblocks at start, random superblocks [JunkCoin clone].
-MEM MEMEcoin-  premined LTC clone. 10 sec blocks. 0 starting diff + superblocks.
-EZC EzCoin- LTC clone. 0 starting diff and superblocks
-ARG Argentum- premined LTC clone
-StableCoin- 1.2mln premined, 0 starting diff
-ZTC ZenithCoin-Freicoin based -demurrage +Scrypt. 50% tax for developer.
-ONC Onecoin- a coin that has total supply of 1, Scrypt-jane
-IFC infinitecoin- LTC clone with huge reward of  524288
-SYC Skycoin- premined LTC clone
-SXC Sexcoin- JunkCoin clone
-RYC RoyalCoin- starting superblocks LTC clone
-DNC Dragoncoin- smallchange clone
-Emerald- LTC clone. progresive starting reward. scarse.
-USC UScoin- premined LTC clone
-Noirbits- LTC clone
-REC RealCoin- premined LTC clone
-ALF Alphacoin- LTC clone with 1000000 premined and starting superblocks.
-One last Coin- premined LTC clone
-Quantumcoin- dead and relaunched clone



DEAD / DYING :


-PWC Powercoin-] LTC clone. 30 sec blocks.  killed by 51%
-SRC sunrisecoin- LTC clone. 0 starting diff. Dying because of no prime node from the start.
-Icecoin- DoA, relaunched by someone else and dead again..
-HYC Hypercoin-] DoA, relaunched by someone else and dead again..
-HYC Hypercoin-LTC clone + premine. dying of extremely low hashrate
-ELACoin- progtresive inlfation. tripple-failed launch - DOA
-FTC Gamecoin- yes, FTC. unfinished FTC clone , 51%'ed on launch. Ongoing tries for revival unde GME ticker.
-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 interesting idea of cpu-friendly mining with scrypt, but premined with 7.7milion coins
-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. Dead, 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  https://www.rucoin.org/
-TimeKoin - PHP webbased coin, alive but not used or traded. http://timekoin.org/
-Beertokens-abitious [impossible?] try to stabilize price against commodity.
-MMM MMMcoin - Dead coin by notorious scamer SPMavrodi, named "yes we can" "my mozem mnogoye" 30s between blocks, retarget every 1440 blocks.  10T premined and 0.01 reward, fees "shredder" feature, 51% protection. Abandoned by developers

NOT BTC ALTERNATIVE /  NEVER FULLY LAUNCHED:
(do not have bitcoin characteristics )

eCash historical try for digital curency by David Chaum, operational but died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiCash
DigiCash was the company that made eCash . Possibly where Bitcoin came from.
Ripples XRP-  , 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 an altcoin"
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
Groupcoin - still alive but never realy active  
Opencoin - opensource version of digicash, opencoin.org , not launched yet
RealPay  100% coins at start, centralized, never realy launched ,site is dead
Qubic 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/faq
SMC smallchange functioning blockchain, but made just for research. might be a coin if reset.
-barcoin-functioning blockchain, but made just for research.


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Exchanges:

https://www.cryptsy.com/
https://bter.com/
https://mcxnow.com/
https://btc-e.com/
https://vircurex.com/

Mining profitability sites:

http://www.coinchoose.com/
http://www.coinwarz.com/
http://dustcoin.com/mining
http://www.wheretomine.com/


Chronological list  [Sunny King]


Corrections / additions are welcome.
If You find any information or categorization here hurtfull, unjust or wrong for any coin, please correct me.
 
 thx for input : FuzzyBear , Sunny King, Balthazar ,DannyM , ripper234 and others

 
 

Hello Xorxor,

Thank you for your post, it is very helpful, please note that threads like yours are certainly performing a valid service to the Crypto currency community and I thank you for your contribution.  Please accept my apologizes in advance for asking as you may have already answers this, how often do you update the list?  

After reading this thread I have a greater appreciation for the amount of time and energy you must have put into all of this.  As I am sure you already know there appears to have been quite a bit of activity in the Alt Coin arena as of late.

What would it take for you to update your list and move some of the Alt Coins that you have categorized in the PURGATORY list and qualify them into your CANDIDATES list?

Please note I did see your post where you highlighted three primary criteria...

1.) stable client,
2.) nice stable hashrate and
3.) buying support for some period of time.

Could you please elaborate how an Alt Coin would meet the above characteristics and what metrics you would use to both qualify and quantify as such for each of the criteria mentioned above?

Respectfully

Cheetahx

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[Bytas]

could we have a seperate category for "inovative coins".
basically for coins that try to add a mayor new concept to their coin and don't just clone/change block time.

The only coins that would fit in this category atm are:
bitcoin (yes, bitcoin was a new concept)
Litecoin ( Scrypt mining)
PPC (proof of share)
Primecoin (Prime hashing)

I personally see these coins as beacons of light on the way to a better future for cryptocoins. All other coins are just a sea of clones (some nicer than others) screaming for attention, that contribute little to nothing to the concept of cryptocurrency. Bringing new ideas should be encouraged, and official recognition is one of the ways to do that.

[ilovealtcoins]

could we have a seperate category for "inovative coins".
basically for coins that try to add a mayor new concept to their coin and don't just clone/change block time.

The only coins that would fit in this category atm are:
bitcoin (yes, bitcoin was a new concept)
Litecoin ( Scrypt mining)
PPC (proof of share)
Primecoin (Prime hashing)

I personally see these coins as beacons of light on the way to a better future for cryptocoins. All other coins are just a sea of clones (some nicer than others) screaming for attention, that contribute little to nothing to the concept of cryptocurrency. Bringing new ideas should be encouraged, and official recognition is one of the ways to do that.

Litecoin wasn't the innovative one Tenebrix was the first one to use scrypt.

[r3wt]

could we have a seperate category for "inovative coins".
basically for coins that try to add a mayor new concept to their coin and don't just clone/change block time.

The only coins that would fit in this category atm are:
bitcoin (yes, bitcoin was a new concept)
Litecoin ( Scrypt mining)
PPC (proof of share)
Primecoin (Prime hashing)

I personally see these coins as beacons of light on the way to a better future for cryptocoins. All other coins are just a sea of clones (some nicer than others) screaming for attention, that contribute little to nothing to the concept of cryptocurrency. Bringing new ideas should be encouraged, and official recognition is one of the ways to do that.

Litecoin wasn't the innovative one Tenebrix was the first one to use scrypt.

+1. almost all coins are innovative in some way or another. i don't understand why people seem to think you have to reinvent an already working wheel for your coin to be considered legitimate.

[ilovealtcoins]

could we have a seperate category for "inovative coins".
basically for coins that try to add a mayor new concept to their coin and don't just clone/change block time.

The only coins that would fit in this category atm are:
bitcoin (yes, bitcoin was a new concept)
Litecoin ( Scrypt mining)
PPC (proof of share)
Primecoin (Prime hashing)

I personally see these coins as beacons of light on the way to a better future for cryptocoins. All other coins are just a sea of clones (some nicer than others) screaming for attention, that contribute little to nothing to the concept of cryptocurrency. Bringing new ideas should be encouraged, and official recognition is one of the ways to do that.

Litecoin wasn't the innovative one Tenebrix was the first one to use scrypt.

+1. almost all coins are innovative in some way or another. i don't understand why people seem to think you have to reinvent an already working wheel for your coin to be considered legitimate.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Its just like chairs... Why don't we go to the chair forum and complain about all chairs because they aren't innovative enough.

[r3wt]

could we have a seperate category for "inovative coins".
basically for coins that try to add a mayor new concept to their coin and don't just clone/change block time.

The only coins that would fit in this category atm are:
bitcoin (yes, bitcoin was a new concept)
Litecoin ( Scrypt mining)
PPC (proof of share)
Primecoin (Prime hashing)

I personally see these coins as beacons of light on the way to a better future for cryptocoins. All other coins are just a sea of clones (some nicer than others) screaming for attention, that contribute little to nothing to the concept of cryptocurrency. Bringing new ideas should be encouraged, and official recognition is one of the ways to do that.

Litecoin wasn't the innovative one Tenebrix was the first one to use scrypt.

+1. almost all coins are innovative in some way or another. i don't understand why people seem to think you have to reinvent an already working wheel for your coin to be considered legitimate.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Its just like chairs... Why don't we go to the chair forum and complain about all chairs because they aren't innovative enough.

you said it man. while we're at it lets go complain that our Cadillac Escalade only get 12 miles to the gallon.

[servicehidden]

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=211165.0 Offical launch of PhenixCoin.com

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[r3wt]

xorxor, i believe you have several coins to add to the list now. bet it didn't seem like this much of an undertaking when you took on the list did it?

[CryptoBeggar]

How often does this list update (if it does)? I'm all interested in Cryptographic Boullion!

[Mooshire]

It scares me just how many altcoins there are here. Why don't we just make a program to create new altcoins. Enter name, block size, number of blocks, algo, amount to premine, press go.

[TsuyokuNaritai]

It scares me just how many altcoins there are here. Why don't we just make a program to create new altcoins. Enter name, block size, number of blocks, algo, amount to premine, press go.

Don't tempt them.

Someone could even automate the whole process, choosing a random coin name, making an logo using google image search and a few image filter effects, and posting the announcement here with a bot account.

In the future every coin will be world-famous for fifteen minutes.

[pyromaniac]

What about ElephantCoin? Why still not in the list? 

[dego]

I think NuCoin can also be considered as dead: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241128.0

[bernard75]

This is so senseless, everyday 2 altcoins appear and 3 disappear.

[xchrix]

This is so senseless, everyday 2 altcoins appear and 3 disappear.

just focus on the coins with exchanges like coins-e and cryptsy. all others are irrelevant atm

[r3wt]

still waiting for this list to be updated with Nanotoken and Primecoin, both trading happily(and at good prices) on cryptsy.

[xenofanesSkarak]

Why don't we just make a program to create new altcoins. Enter name, block size, number of blocks, algo, amount to premine, press go.

yes I agree. some application for Android. and also for Apple Stole and windows 8 store. call it Millionare in 15 minutes and sell it for $99 or make special price buy 3 pay 2 for $199.        

This is a chance for young smart developers. It must have very simple GUI, in all known languages, people just click click, OK click, click
 must be able to create everything except new username and discussion thread about coin on bitcointalk.org and some simple webpage for new altcoin within minutes, must include some shiny flash introduction full of naked people swimming in gold or something like this.

People would only click on some shiny pictures, application itself would randomly choose name of currency, amount of coins and all other things so that user dont have to think about such hard things and in the end application would print big cheque on $ 1,000,000 with due date 2256 or 3984 (any random date starting from year 3000)          

[xenofanesSkarak]

maybe I missed it somewhere but didnot you forget on XenCoin https://cryptocointalk.com/topic/638-xencoin-xnc-information/ in your list? http://xencointalk.com - it is traded in large volumes on coins-e http://www.coins-e.com/exchange/XPM_BTC/ and btw it is very cheap      
It is my favourite coin, dont let this coin die, buy something   , you can make fortune on it.        

[huytungvn]

still waiting for XPM pool but I think that we cannot have a pool 

[mullick]

When you have a moment you may want to look into Bottlecaps. I'll let you decide where they end up on the list.

The list is looking great. Thanks for the effort