Overview of top cryptocurrencies

  • This is just an FYI for anyone thinking about using Coinbase for their trades. Coinbase makes you periodically re-verify your identity. This process used to be manual. It is 100% automated now and it rarely works (look at Coinbase community forums for more on this). I've had a support ticket open regarding this issue for 3 weeks now and the only response I've gotten so far is "As we experience rapid growth, we are also experiencing a high volume of support requests and we regret not being able to answer your inquiry in a reasonable amount of time." I don't have any serious money tied up in Coinbase, but if i did I would be freaking the fuck out right now with this appalling support service.

  • Nice! A few comments...

    I think XRP is down to about 60% founder control, they've been giving it away to strategic partners.

    Ethereum Classic doesn't have anything to do with Cryptonote. It's a straight fork of Ethereum.

    I don't think Golem or Augur are actually in production yet, they're just tokens on Ethereum that will play a role in the actual systems once those are live.

  • A comment regarding bytecoin: it was exploited with a double spend bug which allowed the unlimited minting of new coins, a lot of which I'm sure were dumped on poloniex. See some details here: https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-i...

    I'm surprised polo still has it listed

  • You should consider differentiating "tokens" from crypto-currencies backed by their own unique blockchain implementation. For example, Golem is a token built on Ethereum, however, it's not really a true "crypto-currency", rather a payment layer for Golem's "fog" computing platform.

  • > Stellar Lumens Cons: "No mining available. 95% of Lumens were given out"

    95% were given out? Maybe I'm misreading this but only 9.66B/102.94B XLM has been given out. (To people who own BTC or XRP. It's basically a living advertisement for XRP.)

    The creators still own 93.28B XLM. They own approx. 90% of all XLM.

  • Ethereum cons: smart contracts get hacked

  • None of them can solve the micropayment problem.

    GNU Taler can.

  • Fascinated by Golem (GNT) when coupled with an orchestration layer http://blog.streamr.com/2017/05/golem-plus-streamr-equals-he...

  • OP here, feel free to make a pr to correct any errors or if you want to add any new information.

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