Five Most Future Crypto Currency Other Than Bitcoin

Bitcoin introduced a decentralized currency system based on a peer-to-peer network where currency is not issued per se; instead it is mined with advanced computers by cracking difficult math-based equations. Bitcoin can be called the trendsetter, as its success has spurred the launch of many other virtual currencies (there are more than 150 cryptocurrencies). The currencies inspired by Bitcoin are collectively called altcoins and have tried to present themselves as improvised and modified versions of Bitcoin. These currencies are easier to mine, but involve greater risk in terms of lesser liquidity, acceptance and value retention. Here are five digital currencies picked from the lot.

Litecoin
Litecoin, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world was launched in the year 2011. It was created by Charlie Lee, a MIT graduate and former Google engineer and can be described as the second-in-command to Bitcoin. Litecoin is based on an open source global payment network that is not controlled by any central authority and uses "scrypt" as a proof of work, which can be decoded with the help of CPUs of consumer grade. Litecoin has a faster block generation rate and well as more rewards per block as compared to Bitcoins.

Darkcoin aka DASH
Darkcoin is a more secretive version of Bitcoin. Though Bitcoins are anonymous when compared to traditional money, there is still a record of all transactions ever carried out in a ledger “blockchain” which can reveal a lot of information. Darkcoin offers more anonymity as it works on a decentralized mastercode network that makes transactions almost untraceably. Launched in January 2014, Darkcoin has an increasing fan following in a short span of time. This cryptocurrency was created and developed by Evan Duffield and can be mined using a CPU or GPU.

Monero
Monero (XMR) is an open source cryptocurrency created in April 2014 that is focused on privacy, decentralisation and scalability. Unlike many cryptocurrencies that are derivatives of Bitcoin, Monero is based on the CryptoNote protocol and possesses significant algorithmic differences relating to blockchain obfuscation. Monero has ongoing support from the community, and its modular code architecture has been praised by Wladimir J. van der Laan, a Bitcoin Core maintainer. Monero's market capitalization in the 1-year period 5 Sep 2015 - 5 Sep 2016 varied between $3.7 Million (3 Dec 2015) and more than $170 Million (3 Sep 2016).

Monero was launched on 18 April 2014 originally under the name BitMonero, which is a compound of Bit (as in Bitcoin) and Monero (literally meaning coin in Esperanto). Five days later the community opted for the name to be shortened just to Monero. It was launched as the first fork of CryptoNote-based currency Bytecoin, however was released with two major differences. Firstly, the target block time was decreased from 120 to 60 seconds, and secondly, the emission speed was decelerated by 50% (later Monero reverted to 120 seconds block time while keeping the emission schedule by doubling the block reward per new block). In addition, the Monero developers found numerous incidents of poor quality code that was subsequently cleaned and re-constituted.[citation needed]

A few weeks after launch, an optimized GPU miner for CryptoNight proof-of-work function was developed.
On 4 September 2014, Monero recovered from an unusual and novel attack executed against the cryptocurrency network.

Ethereum
Ethereum is a public blockchain-based distributed computing platform, featuring smart contract functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), that can execute peer-to-peer contracts using a cryptocurrency called ether.

Ethereum was initially proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a cryptocurrency researcher and programmer. Development was funded by an online crowd sale during July–August 2014.

Ethereum was initially described in a white paper by Vitalik Buterin, a programmer involved with Bitcoin, in late 2013 with a goal of building decentralized applications. More specifically, Buterin "had argued to the bitcoin core developers that the platform needed a more robust scripting language for developing applications." Failing to gain agreement, he proposed development of a new platform with a more general scripting language. Buterin, believes that many applications could benefit from Bitcoin-like software.

The Ethereum software project was initially developed in early 2014 by a Swiss company, Ethereum Switzerland GmbH (EthSuisse). Subsequently, a Swiss non-profit foundation, the Ethereum Foundation (Stiftung Ethereum) was set up as well. Development was funded by an online a public crowdsale during July–August 2014, with the participants buying the Ethereum value token (ether) with another digital currency, bitcoin.[2] While there was early praise for the technical innovations of Ethereum, questions were also raised about its security and scalability.

Ethereum's live blockchain was launched on 30 July 2015.

The initial version of Ethereum—called "Frontier"—uses a proof of work consensus algorithm, although a later version is expected to replace that with a proof of stake algorithm.

By May 2016, the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency ether was more than US$1 billion and Vox noted that the relatively new digital currency was challenging bitcoin by offering a range of services that are not possible using bitcoin.

Waves
WAVES is a decentralized blockchain platform focusing on custom blockchain tokens operations.National currencies transfer is maintained on the WAVES blockchain through compliant gatewayoperators. Decentralized token exchange facilitates fundraising, crowdfunding, and trading offinancial instruments on the blockchain.