9 Best BitCoin Alternatives – Profitable Cryptocurrencies Mining With Home Computers

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How to get BitCoin? You’ll have to either invest in it by buying or build a rig to mine it. BitCoin may be the most popular digital currency but it is getting harder and harder to mine. Today, there are so called ‘Professional Miners’ with dedicated hardware mining BitCoins, their average household computer doesn’t have the computing power to compete, not even those with 3 SLi NVidia Graphic Cards. Because the entry barrier gets higher and higher as the pool of BitCoin available for mining shrinks.

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Profitable Cryptocurrencies Mining With Home Computers

For those still interested in Digital Currency, also known as Cryptocurrency [ Wikipedia ], here are 10 alternative digital coins. They are easier to mine, however, the down side is these companies might cease to exist if their popularity wanes. Which is the biggest alternative digital currency? Here are the Top 100 Crypto-Currency Market Capitalizations.

1. Dash

P2P Cryptocurrency

Dash

Dash (DASH) is an open sourced, privacy-centric digital currency with instant transactions. It allows you to keep your finances private as you make transactions without waits, similar to cash.

  • PRIVATE – Keep your payments private so nobody can track you thanks to Darksend.
  • LOW FEES – Much lower than banks or credit cards, often even free.
  • INSTANT – Payments are received instantly by the other party thanks to InstantX.
  • PEER TO PEER – Uses a decentralized network, so no centralized third party to trust.
  • SECURE – Advanced encryption and a 2-tier network for complete security.
  • GLOBAL – You can send money anywhere in the world.

2. Safecoin

Self-Encryption Digital Token

Safecoin

Safecoin is a digital token. It can be thought of as the oil in the engine of the SAFE Network, a built in way of ensuring that all users of the network are compensated for the value they provide. Let’s find out how it works. Safecoins are distributed entirely by the algorithms within the SAFE Network. Human beings are not involved in the process. Only 4.3 billion coins will ever be in circulation at one time and each will have its own unique identity. Safecoins will be recycled when users exchange them for network services, ensuring there is always a supply for users to earn.

  • Login and secure your data with no middle man.
  • Self-Encryption: Data which encrypts itself, with itself.
  • Distributed network with opportunistic data caching.
  • Data availability and built-in redundancy.
  • Unneeded duplicates are automatically removed.

3. Steem

Blockchain Based Social Media Currency

Steem

Steem is a blockchain-based social media platform where anyone can earn rewards. Cryptocurrency tipping platforms require users to give something up to reward others for their contributions. With Steem, rewarding others is as simple as voting for a post, such as you may on Reddit, or as you would Like a post on Facebook. The blockchain distributes payouts as 50% Steem Power for voting and 50% Steem Dollars.

Rewards are distributed by the blockchain, similar to how miners are paid by Bitcoin, and occur roughly 24 hours after content and votes have been submitted. Steem is a form of esteem, which means to prize or value. Steem is also a homophone for steam, which is frequently associated with power, and a step further, steam powered trains gave influence to English idioms, such as ‘this conversation is picking up steam.’ The associations with prizing, language and empowerment only felt right.

4. Litecoin

Open Source P2P Digital Currency

Litecoin

Litecoin is a peer-to-peer Internet currency that enables instant, near-zero cost payments to anyone in the world. Litecoin is an open source, global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities. Mathematics secures the network and empowers individuals to control their own finances. Litecoin features faster transaction confirmation times and improved storage efficiency than the leading math-based currency. With substantial industry support, trade volume and liquidity, Litecoin is a proven medium of commerce complementary to Bitcoin.

  • Open Source Software – Litecoin is an open source software project released under the MIT/X11 license which gives you the power to run, modify, and copy the software and to distribute, at your option, modified copies of the software. The software is released in a transparent process that allows for independent verification of binaries and their corresponding source code.
  • Blockchain – The Litecoin blockchain is capable of handling higher transaction volume than its counterpart – Bitcoin. Due to more frequent block generation, the network supports more transactions without a need to modify the software in the future. As a result, merchants get faster confirmation times, while still having ability to wait for more confirmations when selling bigger ticket items.
  • Wallet Encryption – Wallet encryption allows you to secure your wallet, so that you can view transactions and your account balance, but are required to enter your password before spending litecoins. This provides protection from wallet-stealing viruses and trojans as well as a sanity check before sending payments.
  • Mining Reward – Miners are currently awarded with 25 new litecoins per block, an amount which gets halved roughly every 4 years (every 840,000 blocks). The Litecoin network is therefore scheduled to produce 84 million litecoins, which is 4 times as many currency units as Bitcoin.
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5. Peercoin

Secure & Sustainable Cryptocoin

Peercoin

Peercoin seeks to be the most secure cryptocoin at the lowest cost, rewarding all users for strengthening the network by giving them a 1% annual PPC return when minting. Peercoin is one of the truly unique alternative coins. Although its code is based on Bitcoin, Peercoin is the first coin to introduce Proof of Stake to secure the network. Proof of Work is also used in Peercoin, to promote fair coin distribution, but is not necessary for the security of the network.

  • Fair Distribution – Proof of Work mining is used to spread the distribution of new coins, while the security of the network is maintained entirely by Proof of Stake minting. This means that Bitcoin mining vulnerabilities such as Selfish Mining do not impact Peercoin security.
  • Compatible with Bitcoin – Peercoin uses the same mining algorithm as Bitcoin, known as SHA-256. Any hardware that works on the Bitcoin network can also be used to mine Peercoins.
  • Sustainable Reward – The reward for mining a block gradually declines as the computing power of the network grows. Over time, mining will have an ever-decreasing impact on the growth of the money supply.

6. Namecoin

Decentralize all the things!

Namecoin

Namecoin is an experimental open-source technology which improves decentralization, security, censorship resistance, privacy, and speed of certain components of the Internet infrastructure such as DNS and identities. Namecoin was the first fork of Bitcoin and still is one of the most innovative “altcoins”. It was first to implement merged mining and a decentralized DNS. Namecoin was also the first solution to Zooko’s Triangle, the long-standing problem of producing a naming system that is simultaneously secure, decentralized, and human-meaningful. What can Namecoin be used for?

  • Protect free-speech rights online by making the web more resistant to censorship.
  • Attach identity information such as GPG and OTR keys and email, Bitcoin, and Bitmessage addresses to an identity of your choice.
  • Human-meaningful Tor .onion domains.
  • Decentralized TLS (HTTPS) certificate validation, backed by blockchain consensus.
  • Access websites using the .bit top-level domain.
  • Proposed ideas such as file signatures, voting, bonds/stocks/shares, web of trust, notary services, and proof of existence. (To be implemented.)
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7. Primecoin

Innovative Cryptocurrency

Primecoin

Primecoin is an innovative cryptocurrency, a form of digital currency secured by cryptography and issued through a decentralized mining market. Derived from Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin, Primecoin introduces a unique form of proof-of-work based on prime numbers.

  • Advantages of Primecoin – The innovative prime proof-of-work in Primecoin not only provides security and minting to the network, but also generates a special form of prime number chains of interest to mathematical research. Thus primecoin network is energy-multiuse, compared to bitcoin.
  • Value Behind Primecoin – Primecoin network searches for special prime number chains known as Cunningham chains and bi-twin chains. The distribution of these prime chains are not well-understood currently as even for its simplest case twin primes their infinite existence is not proven.

8. feathercoin

Open Source Internet Currency

feathercoin

An Internet currency free from any central bank or institution. feathercoin bypasses the old banking system by using peer-to-peer technology. Payments are borderless and can be processed by anyone with affordable computer hardware using free software. This work is rewarded with new feathercoins which are issued by the network.

Feathercoin is based on NeoScrypt and implements many features not seen in the majority of crypto coins. They have open source projects for ATM’s and Point of Sales equipment, t-shirt wallets, laser etched physical Feathercoins and Raspberry Pi based projects. There really are too many things to list but here are some of the technical aspects which differentiate Feathercoin from most.

  • NeoScrypt Algorithm
  • Current Gen ASIC resistance
  • 80 Coin reward per block
  • 336 million coins total
  • Block target is 1.0 minutes
  • Block reward halves every 2,100,000 blocks
  • Retarget every block with 15, 120 and 480 block averages and 25% damping.
  • Default Feathercoin network port is 9336
  • Default RPC mining port is 9337
  • eHRC (enhanced Hash Rate Compensation)
  • ACP (Advanced Checkpointing)

9. Ethereum Classic

2nd Biggest Digital Currency

Ethereum Classic

Emergence of Ethereum Classic created a huge opportunity for miners. ETC is presently one of the most profitable tokens to mine and is attracting substantial hash power with zero switching cost. As a miner, it’s in your best interests to support ETC because the Ethereum Foundation is going to abandon its miners very soon, switching to an experimental PoS model. Ethereum Classic will continue employing a robust and time-tested PoW security model, rewarding miners for ensuring the future of the original chain. Do it for profit and principles; mine Ethereum Classic today!

10. Novacoin

Scrypt Hashing BitCoins

Novacoin

[ Discontinued ] Novacoin is the coin of the feature. It’s unique way of utilizing both Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake for block generation with separated target limits make it stand out. Though Novacoin is similar to PPCoin in some ways, it’s a project with its own ideology and independent codebase, that’s why it’s hard to perform such comparison. They can say definitely, that:

  • Novacoin uses newer version of bitcoin as the base.
  • NovaCoin has a different emission model (floating reward per coin-year).
  • NovaCoin uses scrypt hashing function for proof-of-work.
  • NovaCoin uses the both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake for chain trust score computation.
  • NovaCoin has separated target limits for proof-of-work and proof-of-stake.
  • NovaCoin has no proof-of-work block signatures.

37 Comments

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    Najeeb Malik [ Reply ]

    Should I buy $100 worth of LiteCoins OR Ethereum Classic as in future investment? Would I be able to get good profits out of them by next 1 – 5 years?

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    Niek Pellis [ Reply ]

    Hi Najeeb,

    Currently I work with Ethereum and Gnosis, good profit over the last month but no guarantees of course.

    Good luck!

    Niek

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    MR PATRICK E K SIMMONS [ Reply ]

    What is the best crypto platform our there?

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      MANISH Kumar KHATNAWLIYA [ Reply ]

      Atcc coin is best platform for invest urs money.u can get so much money by this coin

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        Bearmac [ Reply ]

        The best one for doing your self is Kraken I feel.
        However for a more automated service you should check out some trading plan or algo traders

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    Information needs updating you can no longer mine Steem

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    Ethereum seems to be one of the safer bets now to rise as it has become the second largest coin, it is getting interesting for old currency investors to come on board.

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    What is the very best cryptocurrency for mining purpose?

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    Sebastian [ Reply ]

    Nice article. Electroneum is a great alternative and is at ICO at the moment.
    The founders are known people in internet buisiness.
    But beware. Every invest has its risks and only invest what you can effort.

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    sakkie [ Reply ]

    You forgot about Pirl.It will be one of the top altcoins in 2018

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    BiblePay (BBP) is a fairly new Charity/Christian cryptocurrency, its CPU mining only and is ASIC Resistant, 10% of mined coins always go to Charity

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    What is the difference between Ethereum and Ethereum Classic?

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      Ngan Tengyuen [ Reply ]

      Just like BitCoin vs BitCoin Cash, just a fork that promised to be a better version than the previous one.

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    vankeechal [ Reply ]

    good post. can we buy or sell something using these all digital currencies?

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      Ngan Tengyuen [ Reply ]

      excellent question, unfortunately no. Even Steam stopped accepting BitCoin for digital downloadable games. BitCoin is just an investment assest, more like a huge bubble. Remember oil and gold? Both rallied to a new all time high and collapsed. At least Gold and Oil have utilities value to it, BitCoin on the other hand… is backed by nothing, just like fiat currency. Those that disagree are BitCoin speculators that wants everyone to join the fun so that their ‘wealth’ can increase by X fold.

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    Best exchange to get invested in altcoins is Binance

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      Jamie Lee Darby [ Reply ]

      Finance is EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE…had 419 trx…transferred to wallet and only got 118

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      scammers [ Reply ]

      Don’t support a chinese exchange

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    Ravi kumar [ Reply ]

    Which web is safe for investment in coin

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    Good post. I don’t mine but buy and sell short term. I am thinking about long term investment now. In your opinion, are all those coins good for holding or maybe something to buy for a several months or a year.

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    Robert Aslobrook [ Reply ]

    Do you know how much energy it takes to support these currencies.
    Please find out about the true environmental cost of crypto-currencies and act responsibly.

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      Ngan Tengyuen [ Reply ]

      I couldn’t agree more. It cost alot of energy just to calculate (mine) a bitcoin or any other crypto-currencies, personally I find it a waste of energy, especially most of these farms are located in China and a large portion of China’s energy are generated by coal, which is very damaging to the environment.

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    All investments are a risk no matter if it’s digital or fiat currency. You put your hard earned money and hope that the value of your investments go up not down or disappear all together. This is why it’s called high risk investments so take a chance create an account on a couple exchanges then invest diversely over 5-10 coins and pray or which ever method you chose to settle your stressed brain over the investment. Or you can mine a currency then trade it when it’s at a high to another that is low withdrawing 15-20% until you recoup the cost of your mining rig. If you no longer wish to mine sell the rig for 1/2 the initial build cost (which is now profit) invest it into digital currency again. Now the tree huggers would be happy (not waisting energy) your out of pocket cost is $0 and you no longer need to worry about losing anything as you have invested nothing but time. This is as close to risk free as you will get in any investment as long as your not the type to count chicks before they are hatched. If a coin goes bust you have only lost potential profit and if you pay attention to your investments and switch from coin to coin as soon as you find instability in the current investment you can always make some profit. There is more profi in trading coins and a lot more time consuming to get going as a miner but as I said, about as safe as you will get. As for which coin to mine pick the ones that have the best profit to cost ratio then keep a second option open till you figure you no longer need to mine.

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    ValdeSoft [ Reply ]

    There is a survey / statistic to see which is the best cryptocurrency to invest in 2018. You can participate in the survey or see the statistics

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    Most of these in the article are old and reached ATHs 4 or 5 years ago. If you want good returns buy Ethereum (mother of alt coins). If you didn’t buy in late November or early December 2017 most of the top 100 coins have already pumped, just spend some time looking at their price charts. You need to dig deeper and find low cost coins with good project/team and circulating supply under 200 million to have a good chance to get 10x or better. Also masternode coins will do well this year. BiblePay (BBP), may do well as someone else here already mentioned, but I don’t have that one and haven’t done much research on it yet.

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    Quarant [ Reply ]

    Interesting article. I am a newbie in this cryptocurrency business and have no knowledge of how it works. I want to invest in it but don’t know where to begin. I want to start slowly, then gradually increasing my stakes. How do i make the smallest profit in the shortest time with cryptocurrencies? Please help

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    what is bitcoin [ Reply ]

    Hi, I have not I believe there are many ways to get it to bitcoin mining I guess the first step is to set goals and how you want to execute them. I am with bitclub as far as bitcoin mining is cncerned

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    I feel JSECOIN will do well its a PRE ICO coin mineable by CPU only IPO later on this year.
    i have been mining a few months and have built up over 20000 coins :-)

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    Great article!Proof of Work (POW) in Crypto Mining

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    Adam kjllerberg [ Reply ]

    I think there is one great cryptocurrency missing here: Webchain (WEB). Based on a modified CryptonightV7 egalitarian PoW algorithm. Webchain is not only ASIC resistant but also CPU only minable. There is more great information at webchain.network/

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      Webchain Believer [ Reply ]

      I actually believe WEB (Webchain) is a very promising AND environmentally friendly choice…the only coin I’m currently invested in.

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    Just Want an Easy Way to Mine? Try Honeyminer, it allows you to start mining within just a few minutes. It will automatically mine the most profitable coin and pay you in Bitcoin (BTC). You can then trade the BTC for any other coin or trade it for cash.

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    luiz fernando [ Reply ]

    Now is the best time to invest/mine your bitcoin now the price is down and the market value is high, why save your bitcoin? i advice any miner or investor to start investing now rather then losing all your coin, i will show and guide you through the crypto mining investment platform a they are good btc miners,i gain up to 1.5 btc per day and up to $ 6000 from ETH to month.A good business man should know that bitcoin would become very expensive, and now should be the right time to invest.

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