Governance | Consensus | Hash | Signatures | Data structure | Tokensupply | Programmable Transactions | Usage |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Private / Permissionless | Proof of work | SHA-256 | ed25519 | Merkle tree | finite | simple conditions | computation |
Public / Permissioned | Proof of stake | SHA-512 | ring | UTXO database | infinte | smart contracts | file storage |
Hybrid | Proof of burn | blake2b | secp256k1 | ... | ICO | ... | external data |
Foundation | Proof of acticity | ... | ... | ... | pre mining | ... | monetization |
... | Proof of capacity | ... | ... | ... | open mining | ... | payments |
... | Proof of elapsed time (PoET) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Characteristics | Usage | Governance | Consensus | Hash | Signature | Structure | Tokensupply | Transaction | Blocktime |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin Core | payment | distributed | PoW | SHA2-256 and RIPEMD160 | ... | UTXO database | 21 mio | simple conditions | 10 min |
Stellar | payment | Foundation | Stellar Consensus Protocol (federated Byzantine agreement) | SHA256 | ed25519 | ... | 100 bil lumens | ... | ... |
Monero | payment | ... | PoW | ZK | ring (CryptoNote) | ... | ... | ... | 1 min |
Zcash | payment | Foundation | PoW (equihash) | zk-SNARKs black | ... | ... | 21 mil | ... | 150 sec |
Ethereum | computation | Foundation / Classic | PoW -> PoS (Casper) | ? / Keccak-256 | ... | smart contracts | ... | ... | 20 sec |
Sia | file storage | ... | PoW | blake2b | ed25519, entropy | ... | ... | ... | 10 min |
BigchainDB | file storage | ... | PoS | SHA3-256 | ed25519 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Tendermint | cross-blockchain communication | ... | Byzantine Consensus Algorithm | SHA256 | ed25519 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Mediachain | media | open-source (Spotify) | RAFT (federated) | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Hyperledger Fabric | ... | Linux | Batch Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (bPBFT) | SHA256 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Hyperledger Sawtooth Lake | supply chain, securitization, settlement | Linux | Proof-of-Elapsed-Time (PoET) | SHA512 | secp256k1 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Chain | assets | incorporated | Federated | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
๊ฉ (Tezos) | governance | ... | PoS | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Blockstack | identity | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Monax | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Augur, Gnosis, Steemit, Counterparty
private blockchain, public blockchain, bft, blockless, decentralized, mining, nodes, Hash, Mempool, Merkle root, Seed,
persistence, data exchange/data synchronization, immutability, availability, throughput, anonymity/pseudonymity, trustlessness, node operator, intregrated payment processes, currency, (near) real time