Nowadays Cryptocurrency and specially Bitcoin is Buzzword and comes in daily news. I know several people who have double, triple even made 10 times their invested amount.
Before I suggest the top alternatives to bitcoin, let’s see what are the names in the digital currency i.e., cryptocurrency world, following are the names:
| Currency Name | Currency Symbol | Currency Founder | Released Since |
| Bitcoin | BTC,XBT | Satoshi Nakamoto | 2009 |
| Litecoin | LTC | Charles Lee | 2011 |
| Namecoin | NMC | Vincent Durham | 2011 |
| SwiftCoin | STC | 2011 | |
| Peercoin | PPC | Sunny King | 2012 |
| Dogecoin | DOGE, XDG | Jackson Palmer,& Billy Markus | 2013 |
| Emercoin | EMC | EvgenijM86 & Yitshak Dorfman | 2013 |
| Gridcoin | GRC | Rob Hälford | 2013 |
| Omni | MSC | J. R. Willett | 2013 |
| Primecoin | XPM | Sunny King | 2013 |
| Ripple | XRP[26] | Chris Larsen & Jed McCaleb | 2013 |
| Auroracoin | AUR | Baldur Odinsson | 2014 |
| BlackCoin | BC | Rat4 (pseudonym) | 2014 |
| Burstcoin | BURST | Burstcoin Community | 2014 |
| Dash | DASH | Evan Duffield & Kyle Hagan | 2014 |
| DigitalNote | XDN | XDN-dev team, dNote | 2014 |
| MazaCoin | MZC | BTC Oyate Initiative | 2014 |
| Monero | XMR | Monero Core Team | 2014 |
| NEM | XEM | UtopianFuture (pseudonym) | 2014 |
| Tether | USDT | Jan Ludovicus van der Velde | 2015 |
| Nxt | NXT | BCNext | 2014 |
| PotCoin | POT | Potcoin core dev team | 2014 |
| Synereo AMP | AMP | Dor Konforty & Greg Meredith | 2014 |
| Titcoin | TIT | Edward Mansfield & Richard Allen | 2014 |
| Vertcoin | VTC | Bushido | 2014 |
| Ethereum | ETH | Vitalik Buterin | 2015 |
| Ethereum Classic | ETC | 2015 | |
| IOTA | IOT, MIOTA[46] | David Sønstebø, Sergey Ivancheglo, Dominik Schiener and Dr. Serguei Popov | 2015 |
| SixEleven | SIL | fflo (pseudonym) | 2015 |
| Decred | DCR | 2016 | |
| Waves Platform | WAVES | Sasha Ivanov | 2016 |
| Lisk | LSK | Max Kordek | 2016 |
| Zcash | ZEC | Zooko Wilcox | 2016 |
| Bitcoin Cash | BCH, BCC | 2017 | |
| Ubiq | UBQ | Julian Yap | 2017 |
And following are the top ten alternatives to bitcoin:
- Dogecoin
- Golem
- Ripple
- Litecoin
- Stellar
- NEO
- Monero
- Zcash
- Dash
- Ethereum
