Types

Bitcoin. Following the economic downturn in 2009, Bitcoin was founded. Bitcoin was designed as an electronic peer-to-peer cash system, but it has also attracted crypto-curious investors as a store-of-value currency similar to gold. In 2008, an unidentified entity using the moniker Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper describing the Bitcoin concept. Nobody knows the author's...

After Bitcoin, Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. It's also a decentralized computing platform that can host a wide range of apps, including decentralized financial (or DeFi) apps and services. On the Ethereum blockchain, everything from financial tools and games to complicated databases is already functioning...

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a form of digital asset that can be used to hold substantial assets such as art, music, in-game items, and films. They are often stored using the same underlying software, plenty of cryptos, and thus are traded in the market online, often with bitcoin. NFTs are blockchain-based cryptographic assets with unique identification numbers...

Ripple is a technology that acts as both a cryptocurrency for financial transactions and a digital payment network. First released in 2012, it was co-founded by Chris Larsen and Jed McCaleb. Ripple's main process is an exchange and transfer system for payment processing. This is similar to the SWIFT system for international money and security transfers used by currency banks and financial intermediaries. Ripple is a blockchain-based digital payment network and protocol with its own cryptocurrency XRP...

Bitcoin Cash is a cryptocurrency created from a Bitcoin fork in August 2017. Bitcoin Cash was created to accommodate larger block sizes compared to Bitcoin and allow more transactions in a single block. Despite their philosophical differences, Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin share some technical similarities. Bitcoin Cash itself was forked in November 2018 and split into Bitcoin Cash ABC and Bitcoin Cash SV (Satoshi Vision). Bitcoin Cash proposes to solve the situation by increasing the block size from 8MB to 32MB...

EOS is a well-known trademark. Dan Larimer launched EOS, which means for Electro-Optical System, as just an open-source, decentralized operating system blockchain, in June 2018. Block.one, a private firm situated in the Cayman Islands, created the platform's open source software EOSIO. EOS.IO is an open-source platform that allows developers to create decentralized applications. Its functionality is similar to that of the Ethereum platform, but it is faster and more scalable. It enables developers...

Dogecoin, pronounced as “dohj coin”, according to the cryptocurrency’s co-founder, Billy Markus was created and started as a joke last 2013. Its logo was named and has an image of a Shiba Inu dog with bad spelling habits; thus “doge” instead of “dog” and it is considered an almost sarcastic meme coin. This cryptocurrency that started as a parody less than a decade ago has been on a wild ride this year as individual investors have piled in. It is based on Litecoin and uses the same proof-of-work technology...