Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations ranking which shows the market size of Bitcoin and other virtual currencies

BySteve Jurvetson

It exists on the net and does not have realityVirtual currencySpeaking of synonymous with "Bitcoin" (bit coin), there are many people who think of it, but there are more virtual currencies on the actual net. A site that compares the market share of each such virtual currency to ranking formCrypto-Currency Market Capitalizationsis.

Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations
http://coinmarketcap.com/

In this site, over 700 virtual currencies and assets are ranked, it is possible to compare by sorting by items such as market capitalization, unit price and distribution volume for each currency.


The top ten when comparing by market capitalization at the time of article creation is as follows.

◆ First place:Bitcoin (BTC)Market capitalization: $ 10.9 billion (about 1.17 trillion yen)
Needless to say, Bitcoin is the top of Dantotsu and market capitalization exceeds 1 trillion yen. Looking at the chart, it was the graph which peaked at the maximum peak around the summer of 2013 and then slowly depressed, but since the latter half of 2015 it has entered a rising phase. And it is showing an aspect of surging as it entered June 2016, and it is interesting about what will happen to the price move after this.


◆ 2nd place:Ethereum (ETH)Market capitalization: 1.35 billion dollars (about 145 billion yen)
Ethereum (2nd place)Ethicalam) Entered, its market capitalization is 1.35 billion dollars, which is about eight times as wide as the first bit coin. Transactions are suddenly getting bigger from around February 2016, and the market capitalization is being raised in conjunction with Bitcoin.


◆ 3rd place:Litecoin (LTC)Market capitalization: $ 250 million (about 27 billion yen)
3rd place Litecoin (Light coin) Has a market capitalization of 250 million dollars, five times as wide as Ethereum, the second place. Litecoin is a supplementary commerce medium of Bitcoin, which is the peak of price movements around December 2013 and June 2015.


◆ 4th place:Ripple (XRP)Market capitalization: $ 200 million (about 21.6 billion yen)
Ripple (Ripple) Is a settlement system applying Bitcoin's technology and a foreign exchange / remittance network, a system that allows settlement in a few seconds faster than Bitcoin.


◆ 5th place:The DAO (DAO)Market capitalization: $ 180 million (about 19.7 billion yen)
The DAOIs a digital type distributed automation organization (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), one form of investor venture capital fund. We are procuring funds through cloud funding.


◆ 6th place:Dash (DASH)Market capitalization: 51 million dollars (about 5.5 billion yen)
One of the virtual currencies DASH (dash) Was once called "Darkcoin (dark coin)". The main stream of virtual currency following Bitcoin and the expectation voice are also big currencies.


◆ 7th place:Lisk (LSK)Market capitalization: $ 43 million (about 4.6 billion yen)
Lisk (risk) is a block chain application platform launched on May 24, 2016. It seems that we have gathered a lot of attention from investment sources.


◆ 8th place:Dogecoin (DOGE)Market capitalization: $ 29 million (about 3.1 billion yen)
Dogecoin (Dodge coin) is one of virtual currencies similar to Bitcoin.Currency of Shiba InuAlso known as the episode that Jamaica's Bobsleigh team utilized it for fundraising.


◆ 9th place:DigixDAO (DGD)Market capitalization: $ 24 million (about 2.6 billion yen)
Like the DAO in 5th place, it is a trading (trading) as an investment asset DigixDAO. It is one of the features that you can buy and sell genuine asset gold at Ethereum.


◆ 10th place:MaidSafeCoin (MAID)Market capitalization: $ 23 million (about 2.5 billion yen)
Next generation non-centralized InternetOne of the "Bitcoin 2.0" currencies. One of the features is that "mining (mining)" like Bitcoin is not carried out, and currency acquisition is done by donating resources called "Farming (cultivation)".


In the virtual currency world, emerging forces called "Bitcoin 2.0" are appearing one after another, and the rise of virtual currency as investment products is also occurring intensely, but still the situation that Bitcoin's scale is overwhelming others It has become.

In addition, at the time of writing the article, the Japanese-born "44th place"Mona CoinIt is a place where you can not miss being ranked in.

◆ 44th place:MonaCoin (MONA)Market capitalization: $ 212,000 (about 230 million yen)


In the virtual currency area, it is only reported that the Mitsubishi UFJ Bank of Japan develops its own virtual currency. "MUFG coin" which the bank is developing is expected to be able to make transactions with smartphones and the like at "1 coin = 1 yen" in the development of the virtual currency by the first bank in the world, and many It is also seen that there are few speculative elements like the virtual currency. It is interesting to see when the MUFG coin actually appears to be close to "electronic money" rather than "virtual currency".

Mitsubishi UFJ Silver develops its own virtual currency, expecting to lower cost during development: Asahi Shimbun Digital
http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ1W4RWKJ1WULFA012.html

Mitsubishi UFJ Bank issues "virtual currency"? Can you do that?: J-CAST News
http://www.j-cast.com/2016/06/10269361.html