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Decentralized Electronic Peer-to-Peer Cash & Payments

Awesome Coins - Crypto Currency Timeline

1997

Hashcash

1998

B-money

Bit gold

2009

Bitcoin (BTC)

3rd January, 2009 @ 18:15:05 - Genesis Block #0

Investment opportunity: you can buy an inscription on an online registry that gives you absolutely no rights and no income. Also investors must pay $3B per year or the registry ceases to exist. BUT there's a limited number of registry entries so it must be worth a lot.

-- Trolly McTrollface, Best of Bitcoin Maximalist - Inside The New New Crypto Ponzi Economics

Website: bitcoin.org, Source Code @ github: bitcoin incl. Bitcoin Core ★36 825

Founders: Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym)

1 Bitcoin = 100 000 000 Satoshi (8 Digits)

  • Block Time: ~10 Minutes
  • Block Reward: 50 Bitcoin (halves every four years, 25 Bitcoin in ?, 12 1/5 Bitcoin in ?, etc.)
  • Proof of Work with SHA-256 Hashing

Major Hard Forks:

  • 1st August 2017 @ Block #478 558 - Bitcoin Cash (BCH) • Bitcoin ABC (Adjustable Blocksize Cap)
    Hard Forks (of Hard Forks):
    • 15th November 2018 @ Block #556 766 - Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (SV) (BSV)
  • 24th October 2017 @ Block #491 407 - Bitcoin Gold (BTG)

Documents:

2010

2011

Namecoin (NMC)

Namecoin an attempt to implement an alternate Internet Domain Name Service (DNS) system on a blockchain.

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Website: namecoin.org, Source Code @ github: namecoin

Founders: Vincent Durham (pseudonym)

Litecoin (LTC)

7th October, 2011 @ 07:31:05 - Genesis Block #0

Litecoin is the "me too" coin. It was marketed as "the silver to Bitcoin's gold." The main difference from Bitcoin is a different hash designed to be resistant to GPU mining (though ASICs eventually came out) and a shorter block time.

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Website: litecoin.org, Source Code @ github: litecoin-project incl. Litecoin Core ★3231

Founders: Charlie Lee

1 Litecoin = 100 000 000 Photons / Microlitecoins (8 Digits)

  • Block Time: ~2 1/2 Minutes
  • Block Reward: 25 Litecoin (till 2019; halved every four years)
  • Proof of Work with Scrypt Hashing

2012

Peercoin • PPCoin¹ (PPC)

Website: peercoin.net, Source Code @ github: peercoin

Founders: Sunny King (pseudonym)

¹: Peer-to-Peer (PP)

Freicoin (FRC)

Freicoin uses demurrage - negative interest - to discourage speculative hoarding.

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Website: freico.in, Source Code @ github: freicoin

Founders: Mark Friedenbach

  • Proof of Work with SHA-256 hashing

2013

Dogecoin (DOGE)

Dogecoin started originally as a joke based on the "Doge" Shiba Inu Internet meme. The idea was mostly to have some fun with cryptocurrency cheap enough to mess around with; and who knows, maybe we'll all get rich!

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Website: dogecoin.com, Source Code @ github: dogecoin

Founders: Jackson Palmer, Billy Markus

  • Proof of Work with Scrypt hasing

2014

DafuqCoin (DFQ)

DafuqCoin compromised exchanges with a rootkit because the exchanges failed to check the code before running it.

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

2015

Ethereum / Ether (ETH)

30th July, 2015 @ 15:26:13 - Genesis Block #0

If Bitcoin is like an Excel spreadsheet, then Ethereum is like a spreadsheet with macros.

-- David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

Website: ethereum.org, Source Code @ github: ethereum incl. Go Ethereum ★22 393

Founders: Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin

1 Ether = 1 00 000 000 000 000 000 Wei (18 Digits)

Major Hard Forks:

  • 20th July, 2016 @ Block #1 920 000 - Ethereum Classic (ETC)

Documents:

2016

Ethereum Classic (ETC) - Ethereum Fork

  • 20th July, 2016 @ Block #1 920 000

Website: ethereumclassic.org, Source Code @ github: ethereumclassic

2017

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) • Bitcoin ABC (Adjustable Blocksize Cap) - Bitcoin Fork

1st August 2017 @ Block #478 558

Website: bitcoincash.org, Source Code @ github: Bitcoin-ABC

Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - Bitcoin Fork

24th October 2017 @ Block #491 407

Website: bitcoingold.org, Source Code @ github: BTCGPU

2018

Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (SV) (BSV) - Bitcoin Cash Fork

15th November 2018 @ Block #556 766

Website: bitcoinsv.io, Source Code @ github: bitcoin-sv

Major Protocol "Hard Fork" Network Upgrades

  • 4th February 2020 @ Block #?? - Genesis Upgrade

2019

2020

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