The ten biggest cryptocurrencys in the world
1.Bitcoin
More than 16 million bitcoin's are currently in circulation. At a current price of $ 2500 per bit coin, representing a market value of more than $ 20 billion. No other cryptocurrency will come anywhere near their value after Bitcoin.
- Ethereum
Look at is Ethereum not a cryptocurrency, but a platform for the processing of smart contracts. To do this, Ethereum also has an own cryptocurrency called ether. There are total 89.494.572 ether in circulation at the present state.
- Dash
Dash was originally called darkcoin and scores from a user due to transactions in a matter of seconds and the possibility to send sums of money as anonymously. Worldwide more than 7 million are dash worth something more than 318 million US$ into circulation.
- Ripple
Ripple is designed as a combination of trade and payment network. The currency-neutral network also has an own cryptocurrency, which is traded under the stock code XRP. The currency can be generated in contrast to many other competing systems from the user by mining. XRP nearly 37.5 billion are currently in circulation. This corresponds to a value of more than $ 228 million at the current exchange rate.
- locally
Locally wants to score points compared to Bitcoin with more anonymity and greater decentralization. The market capitalisation is currently at over $ 222 million.
6.Litecoin
Litecoin is similar in many respects to the famous bit coin currency. However, the makers of the open-source project wanted to present specifically that there is a strong centralization of mining like in Bitcoin. Currently, more than 50 million Litecoin with a current total value of over $ 194 million are in circulation.
7.Ethereum classic
In June 2016, 3.6 million ether were unusable by attacking Ethereum. By voting the community decided at that time to a secession, to undo the operation. This resulted in two Blockchains: the new named continue to Ethereum, while the old classic called the Ethereum. The cryptocurrency brings it still on a market capitalization of $ 126 million.
8.NEM
NEM was intended to improve the cryptocurrency NXT. Today, the underlying technology is used, for example, at the private Japanese Blockchain Mijin. NEM has a market capitalization of just under $ 100 million.
9.Zcash
The cryptocurrency Zcash was only 2016. currently exist about 800,000 units of currency.
10.Factom
The startup Factom wants to model business processes within a Blockchain. The underlying cryptocurrency cannot be created, but will be similar as with ripple output. There are currently Factom to the value of more than $ 27 million in circulation.