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The World of Virtual Currency
1. THE WORLD OF VIRTUAL CURRENCIES
Ever heard aboutBitcoins,Internet Currencies?Get all the information related to the virtual
currencies in this presentation.
3. LITECOIN
Introduced
#02
https://litecoin.org
By Charles Lee, a former Google employee
ü Open Source
LTC, Ł
Features
ü It’s designed to make sure that mining is
much cheaper and more democratic than
Bitcoin.
ü One of the ways Litecoin achieves this is by
using a different cryptography protocol,
scrypt, that can be decoded effectively using
consumer-grade GPUs.
Website
LITECOIN
Price/Unit
October 2011
$3.10
4. PEERCOIN
Introduced
#03
https://peercoin.net
By Scott Nadal and Sunny King
PPC,Ᵽ
Features
Website
PEERCOIN
Price/Unit
August2012
$ 0.44
ü Built to Last:The world's first Proof-of-Stake coin.
ü Fair Distribution:No insider pre-sale or instant
mining.
ü Energy Efficient:Mint Peercoins on any device.
ü TransparentProtocol:The network is fully open
source.
5. NAMECOIN
Introduced
#04
http://namecoin.info
By Scott Nadal and Sunny King
ℕ, NMC
Features
Website
NAMECOIN
Price/Unit
April 2011
$ 0.41
ü Securely record and transfer arbitrary keys.
ü Attach a value (data) to the names(up to 520
bytes).
ü Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still
is one of the most innovative altcoins.
6. RIPPLE
Introduced
#05
https://ripple.com
By Arthur Britto, David Schwartz, Ryan Fugger
ℕ, NMC
Features
Website
RIPPLE
Price/Unit
2012
$ 0.0068
ü Ripple’s distributed financial technology allows
for banks around the world to directly transact
with each other without the need for a central
counterparty or correspondent.
7. ETHEREUM
Introduced
#06
https://www.ethereum.org
By Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood
ETH
Features
Website
ETHEREUM
Price/Unit
July 2015
$ 2.46
ü Ethereum is a decentralized platform that
runs smart contracts: applications that run
exactly as programmed without any possibility
of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party
interference.
9. DOGECOIN
Introduced
#08
http://dogecoin.com
By Billy Markus
DOGE
Features
Website
DOGECOIN
Price/Unit
December 2013
$ 0.0003
ü Dogecoin is a decentralized, peer-to-peer
digital currency that enables you to easily send
money online.
ü "Doge" is the friendly mascot! The Shiba Inu is a
Japanese breed of dog that was popularized as
an online meme and represents Dogecoin.
11. BITSHARES
Introduced
#10
https://bitshares.org
By Daniel Larimer
ℕ, NMC
Features
Website
BITSHARES
Price/Unit
November 2014
$ 0.003
ü BitShares is an industrial-grade financial
blockchain smartcontracts platform.
ü Built using the latest in industry research,
BitShares 2.0 delivers
a decentralized financial platform with
speeds approaching NASDAQ.