Friday, May 24, 2013

Bitcoin and Variants and short forms:

BTC - Bitcoin

LTC - Litecoin

NMC - Name Coin

NVC - Novacoin

TRC - Terracoin

PPC - Peer-2-Peer Coin

FTC - Feathercoin

CNC - Chinacoin

 there are many more but most popular are  listed above. 

Amongst them.

1) BTC  is at one aimed at 21 million bitcoins is reached around the year 2140.

2) LTC

3) PPC

 

Currency Symbol Year Est. Author Active Ledger Website Value of money supply (May 2013) Bitcoin-based Note
Bitcoin BTC 2009 Satoshi Nakamoto Yes P2P network bitcoin.org ~$1 billion USD[6][7] Yes Decentralized ledger currency, SHA-256 proof-of-work
Litecoin LTC 2011 Coblee Yes P2P network litecoin.org ~$38 million USD[7] Yes Scrypt proof-of-work
Namecoin NMC 2011 Vinced Yes P2P network dot-bit.org ~$4.5 million USD[9] Yes Decentralized DNS, SHA-256 proof-of-work
PPCoin PPC 2012 Sunny King Yes P2P network ppcoin.org ~$4 million USD[7] Yes SHA-256 proof-of-work/proof-of-stake

Ref: Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

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