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_Decentralized Electronic Peer-to-Peer Cash & Payments_



# Awesome Coins - Crypto Currency Timeline 



## 1997



### Hashcash



- [Hashcash Announcement - Hash cash postage implementation - A partial hash collision based postage scheme](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/hashcash-announce.txt) by Adam Back, March 1997

- [Hashcash White Paper - A Denial of Service Counter-Measure (PDF)](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/hashcash.pdf) by Adam Back, August 2002

- [Hashcash @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash)



## 1998



### B-money



- [B-money White Paper - A scheme for a group of untraceable digital pseudonyms to pay each other with money and to enforce contracts amongst themselves without outside help](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bmoney.md) by Wei Dai, November 1998

- [B-money › Wei Dai @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Dai#b-money)



### Bit gold



- [Bit Gold White Paper](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bitgold.md) by Nick Szabo, December 2005

- [Bit Gold › Nick Szabo @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold)



## 2009



### Bitcoin (BTC)



3rd January, 2009 @ 18:15:05 - [Genesis Block #0](https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f)



> Investment opportunity: you can buy an inscription on an online registry that gives you absolutely no rights and no income.

> Also investors must pay $3B per year or the registry ceases to exist.

> BUT there's a limited number of registry entries so it must be worth a lot.

>

> -- [Trolly McTrollface, Best of Bitcoin Maximalist - Inside The New New Crypto Ponzi Economics](https://bitsblocks.github.io/bitcoin-maximalist)



Website: [`bitcoin.org`](https://bitcoin.org), Source Code @ github: [`bitcoin`](https://github.com/bitcoin)

incl. [Bitcoin Core](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) ★36 825



Founders: Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym)



1 Bitcoin = 100 000 000 Satoshi (8 Digits)



- Block Time: ~10 Minutes

- Block Reward: 50 Bitcoin  (halves every four years, 25 Bitcoin in ?, 12 1/5 Bitcoin in ?, etc.)

- Proof of Work with SHA-256 Hashing



Major Hard Forks:

- 1st August 2017 @ Block #478 558 - **Bitcoin Cash (BCH) • Bitcoin ABC (Adjustable Blocksize Cap)**     

  Hard Forks (of Hard Forks):

  - 15th November 2018 @ Block #556 766  - **Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (SV) (BSV)**

- 24th October 2017 @ Block #491 407 - **Bitcoin Gold (BTG)**



Documents:

- [Bitcoin Announcement - Bitcoin P2P e-cash paper](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bitcoin-announce.txt) by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym), October 2008

- [Bitcoin White Paper - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System](https://bitsblocks.github.io/bitcoin-whitepaper) by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym), October 2008

- [Bitcoin Announcement - Bitcoin v0.1 released](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bitcoin-v0.1-released.txt) by Satoshi Nakamoto (pseudonym), January 2009

- [Bitcoin Gold White Paper (PDF)](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bitcoin-gold.pdf)

- [Bitcoin Retail Merchants White Paper (PDF)](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/bitcoin-retailmerchants.pdf)

- [Bitcoin @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin)

  - [List of Bitcoin Forks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks)

  - [Bitcoin Cash @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash)

  - [Bitcoin Gold @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Gold)

- [Bitcoin @ Rational Wiki](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin)

- [There can only ever be 21 million forks of Bitcoin: a survey so far](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/11/20/there-can-only-ever-be-21-million-forks-of-bitcoin-a-survey-so-far/) by David Gerard, November 2017



## 2010



## 2011



### Namecoin (NMC)



> Namecoin an attempt to implement an alternate Internet Domain Name Service (DNS) system on a blockchain.

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



Website: [`namecoin.org`](https://www.namecoin.org),

Source Code @ github: [`namecoin`](https://github.com/namecoin)



Founders: Vincent Durham (pseudonym)



- [Namecoin @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin)



### Litecoin (LTC)



7th October, 2011 @ 07:31:05 -

[Genesis Block #0](http://explorer.litecoin.net/block/12a765e31ffd4059bada1e25190f6e98c99d9714d334efa41a195a7e7e04bfe2)



>  Litecoin is the "me too" coin. It was marketed as "the silver to Bitcoin's gold." The main difference

>  from Bitcoin is a different hash designed to be resistant to GPU mining (though ASICs eventually came out)

>  and a shorter block time.

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



Website: [`litecoin.org`](http://litecoin.org),

Source Code @ github: [`litecoin-project`](https://github.com/litecoin-project)

incl. [Litecoin Core](https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin) ★3231



Founders: Charlie Lee



1 Litecoin = 100 000 000 Photons / Microlitecoins  (8 Digits)



- Block Time: ~2 1/2 Minutes

- Block Reward: 25 Litecoin (till 2019; halved every four years)

- Proof of Work with Scrypt Hashing



- [Litecoin - a lite version of Bitcoin. Launched!](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/litecoin.md) by Charlie Lee, October 2011

- [Litecoin @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litecoin)



## 2012



### Peercoin • PPCoin¹ (PPC)



Website: [`peercoin.net`](http://www.peercoin.net),

Source Code @ github: [`peercoin`](https://github.com/peercoin)



Founders: Sunny King (pseudonym)



- [Peercoin @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peercoin)

- [Peercoin White Paper - Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Currency with Proof-of-Stake (PDF)](https://github.com/openblockchains/blockchain-whitepapers/blob/master/peercoin.pdf) by Sunny King (pseudonym), Scott Nadal; August 2012



¹: Peer-to-Peer (PP)



### Freicoin (FRC)



> Freicoin uses demurrage - negative interest - to discourage speculative hoarding.

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



Website: [`freico.in`](http://freico.in),

Source Code @ github: [`freicoin`](https://github.com/freicoin)



Founders: Mark Friedenbach



- Proof of Work with SHA-256 hashing



## 2013



### Dogecoin (DOGE)



> Dogecoin started originally as a joke based on the "Doge" Shiba Inu Internet meme.

> The idea was mostly to have some fun with cryptocurrency cheap enough to mess around with;

> and who knows, maybe we'll all get rich!

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



Website: [`dogecoin.com`](http://dogecoin.com),

Source Code @ github: [`dogecoin`](https://github.com/dogecoin)



Founders: Jackson Palmer, Billy Markus



- Proof of Work with Scrypt hasing



- [Dogecoin @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogecoin)



## 2014



### DafuqCoin (DFQ)



> DafuqCoin compromised exchanges with a rootkit because the exchanges failed to check the

> code before running it.

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



## 2015



### Ethereum / Ether (ETH)



30th July, 2015 @ 15:26:13 - [Genesis Block #0](https://etherscan.io/block/0)



>  If Bitcoin is like an Excel spreadsheet, then Ethereum is like a spreadsheet with macros.

>

> -- [David Gerard, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain](https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/table-of-contents/)



Website: [`ethereum.org`](https://ethereum.org),

Source Code @ github: [`ethereum`](https://github.com/ethereum)

incl. [Go Ethereum](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum) ★22 393



Founders: Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin



1 Ether = 1 00 000 000 000 000 000 Wei (18 Digits)



Major Hard Forks:

- 20th July, 2016 @ Block #1 920 000 - **Ethereum Classic (ETC)**  



Documents:

- [Ethereum White Paper - A Next-Generation Blockchain Service Contract and Decentralized Application Platform](https://bitsblocks.github.io/ethereum-whitepaper) by Vitalik Buterin, et al

- [Ethereum @ Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum)



## 2016



### Ethereum Classic (ETC) - Ethereum Fork



- 20th July, 2016 @ Block #1 920 000 



Website: [`ethereumclassic.org`](https://ethereumclassic.org), Source Code @ github: [`ethereumclassic`](https://github.com/ethereumclassic)  



## 2017



### Bitcoin Cash (BCH) • Bitcoin ABC (Adjustable Blocksize Cap) - Bitcoin Fork



1st August 2017 @ Block #478 558 



Website: [`bitcoincash.org`](https://www.bitcoincash.org), Source Code @ github: [`Bitcoin-ABC`](https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC)



### Bitcoin Gold (BTG) - Bitcoin Fork



24th October 2017 @ Block #491 407 



Website: [`bitcoingold.org`](https://bitcoingold.org), Source Code @ github: [`BTCGPU`](https://github.com/BTCGPU)



## 2018



### Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (SV) (BSV) - Bitcoin Cash Fork



15th November 2018 @ Block #556 766 



Website: [`bitcoinsv.io`](https://bitcoinsv.io), Source Code @ github: [`bitcoin-sv`](https://github.com/bitcoin-sv)



Major Protocol "Hard Fork" Network Upgrades

- 4th February 2020 @ Block #?? - Genesis Upgrade



## 2019



## 2020