These are the most importent alternatve Cryptocurrencies:
MAJOR:
-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
Website:
http://newbitcoins.com/
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BTC:1Bv4XhVRZyNfBWuyFbqS8HwYwB3STJXdQA
LTC:LWmXeH9Ur2xEbfoS8eiQJSxnra7dSHKkqA
TRC:1EVWcNsS72GjtpqbS2GVDCGMor6CyAMHh5
PPC:PRvLnmuEAsFrkRX8FtGHRMrA5SjHNQo1BD
FRC:17mAkoD4peryKPLNHbw6RpF5V3qEvjMPw3
