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