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Top 10 Cryptocurrency Alternatives to Bitcoin

 

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Bitcoin

 

 

Bitcoin . The world of virtual currencies is getting crowded with altcoins. These days, there are about 20 types of cryptocurrency that sell for more than $1, according to CoinMarketCap.com. Even more are in penny-stock range.

Here are 12 cryptocurrency alternatives to Bitcoin. Prices and market capitalization of altcoins are based on data from CoinMarketCap.com on Feb. 28, 2014, and not all are in the top 10 by either measure.

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Litecoin

 

 

 

 

Litecoin sets itself up as the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold.” Confirmations of transactions are purportedly processed more quickly with Litecoin than Bitcoin. The way it’s mined also eliminates some of the advantage for miners with specialized computer hardware.

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Peercoin

 

 

Peercoin markets itself as using less energy and being more environmentally sustainable than some of the other coins on the market. It says it is designed to have a 1 percent rate of inflation.

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Primecoin

 

 

Primecoin With this coin, miners have to use their computers to find Cunningham chains, which are sequences of prime numbers. Primecoin touts the mining of such prime numbers as “providing potential scientific value in addition to minting and security for the network.”

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Namecoin

 

 

Namecoin was created to explore the record-keeping side of the cryptocurrency technology. It acts as a peer-to-peer, decentralized domain name system for dot-bit domains. People can purchase dot-bit domains with Namecoin, and then Namecoin tracks the transaction in the “block chain,” or public ledger.

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Ripple

 

 

 

Ripple has already attracted millions in venture capital, including from Google Ventures. In contrast to Bitcoin, there is no mining of Ripples. Ripple also is set up as a payment network, not only for Ripple, but for other currencies, and as an automated system for currency trades.

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Quarkcoin

 

 

 

The Quark coin uses nine rounds of encryption to ensure security and anonymity in its transactions. It claims that, because Quark is mined using regular computer processing power, it offers the “fairest distribution model available.”

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NXTcoin

 

 

 

 

 

Nxt, like Ripple, does not build on the Bitcoin code. Instead, it uses its own code written from Java software.

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Mastercoin

 

 

Mastercoin Created to address some of the security and price stability issues of Bitcoin, it implements more advanced features on top of the block chain. It appears the importance of Mastercoin is more in its technology than in its currency.

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Auroracoin

 

 

Auroracoin was created after a purported Icelandic entrepreneur came up with the idea of distributing cryptocurrency to everyone in his country. Auroracoin is based on the Litecoin and is 50 percent pre-mined. The pre-mined coins will be distributed to the entire population of Iceland beginning at midnight March 25.

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