So recently I have seen a lot of newbies completely oblivious to the fact that there is anything other than Bitcoins out there, so I thought I would quote a sticky from the Altcoin forum until they are able to get out and post there.
Couldnt find a list, so I made one. [version 24.04.2013] available at
http://newbitcoins.comMAJOR:
-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:
-TRC Terracoin based on BTC, fast difficulty adjustment, initialy flaved but corrected
-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 - back alive. 4.89% anual demurrage. for the first 3 years 80% block subsidy goes to foundation, 20% to miners
CANDIDATES:
-BTE Bytecoin- the 1:1 bitcoin copy, nothing changed. extremally high starting hype/hashrate.
-BBQ BBQCoin- forgotten after 51% attack on launch, now revived and active. super fast version of LTC.
-MNC Mincoin- similar to BBQ, but very bad launch giving 10% of all coins to insiders.
-FC FeatherCoin- LTC clone with 4x more coins. welcomed by community with big hashrate and superb reception.
DEAD / DYING :
-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/DigiCash DigiCash 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/faq-------------------------------------end of list------------------------------------------------------More information :
BTC Bitcoin -
http://bitcoin.org/ blocks every 10 min, 21 million coins will be available, difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks, hashing algorithm double-SHA-256, initial reward 50 coins
LTC Litecoin -
http://litecoin.org/ ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0 blocks every 2.5 min, 82 million coins will be available, difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks, hashing algorithm scrypt Reward 50coins per block
NMC Namecoin -
http://namecoin.info/ ;
https://github.com/vinced/namecoin hashing algorithm double-SHA-256 Reward 50 coins per block
PPC PPcoin -
http://ppcoin.org/ ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101820.0 blocks every 10 min, difficulty adjustment each block, hashing SHA-256
DVC Devcoin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34586.0 blocks every 10 min, constant generation coins will be available, difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks, hashing algorithm double-SHA-256 Reward 50,000 coins per block,
TRC Terracoin -
http://terracoin.org/ blocks every 2 minutes, 42 million coins will be available, difficulty adjustment 30 blocks, hashing algorithm SHA-256 Reward 20 coins per block
NovaCoin - had a controversial half-stealth launch, premined 110k were destroyed, still considered a scam by some
bitcointalk.org topic difficulty adjustment each block, hashing algorithm scrypt
FRC Freicoin -
http://www.freicoin.org/ ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=89843.0 10 minutes block, difficulty retargeting every 2016 blocks,
IXC Ixcoin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36218.0 blocks every 10 min, 21 million coins will be available, difficulty adjustment 2016 blocks, Reward 96 coins per block
Bytecoin nice start with binaries available and no premine. may be a aprill fool's joke, but welcomed to comunity with big hashes.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164569.0 http://www.bytecoin.in/ [future]
BBQ BBQCoin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=93437.0 ,
http://bbqcoin.org/ retarget every 60 blocks, 42 BQC reward, block every minute.
-MNC Mincoin- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=165397.0 ,
reward of ~1 milion coins on start , than 2 coins per block. block every minute.
-FC FeatherCoin- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178286.0 reward 200 coins, retarget 4064 blocks, total of 336 million coins
LQC Liquidcoin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60026.0 blocks every 10 minutes, no cap on coin supply, Constant difficulty of 0.5, Coin reward drops over time to a minimum of 1 coin
Qubic -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=112676.0SC Solidcoin -
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/SolidCoin ;
http://solidcoin.info/GG Geist Geld -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=42417.0 ;
https://github.com/Lolcust/GeistGeldTBX Tenebrix -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=45667.0 ;
https://github.com/Lolcust/TenebrixFBX Fairbrix -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=46528.0 ;
https://github.com/coblee/FairbrixI0C I0coin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36425.0 ;
https://github.com/kr105rlz/i0coinCLC Coiledcoin -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56675.0RUC Rucoin -
https://www.rucoin.org/ ;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=48582.0difficulty adjustment 72 blocks, hashing algorithm SHA-256d and scrypt, Reward 50 coins per block
TimeKoin -
http://timekoin.org/ -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=88467.0-Beertokens - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9493.0MMM MMMcoin - site is dead ; 30s between blocks, retarget every 1440 blocks. 0.01 coin block reward, fees "shredder" feature, 51% protection. Abandoned by developers
--------------------------------Chronological list by Sunny King----------------------------------------------Name Symbol Release Author
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bitcoin BTC 2009/01 satoshi
namecoin NMC 2011/04 vinced
multicoin 2011/06 sacarlson
devcoin DVC 2011/08 Unthinkingbit
ixcoin IXC 2011/08 Nasakioto
solidcoin SC 2011/08 CoinHunter
geist geld GG 2011/09 Lolcust
tenebrix TBX 2011/09 ArtForz, Lolcust
rucoin RUC 2011/10
fairbrix FBX 2011/10 coblee
litecoin LTC 2011/10 coblee
coiledcoin CLC 2012/01 makomk
liquidcoin LQC 2012/01 Nicksasa
timekoin 2012/06 knightmb
bbqcoin 2012/07 Cubox
ppcoin PPC 2012/08 Sunny King
qubic 2012/09 Come-from-Beyond
terracoin TRC 2012/10
freicoin FRC 2012/12 maaku, jtimon
ripple XRP 2013/01 jed/OpenCoin
novacoin NVC 2013/02 Balthazar
bytecoin BTE 2013/04 Maria 2.0
mincoin MNC 2013/04
feathercoin FC 2013/04 bushstar
Timeline list origin :
https://github.com/ppcoin/ppcoin/wiki/History-of-cryptocurrencyCorrections / 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
