Bitcoin is the original cryptocurrency, and its meteoric rise has made it a mainstay of conversation for investors, media, and technologists alike.
Bitcoin actually helped to birth a new market over 800 other cryptocurrencies and assets that are available for online trading.
The cryptocurrency market cap stands on $102 Billion while bitcoin itself stands on 40$ Billion, that means that all cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin stand on 62$ Billion.
Here is some of the cryptocurrencies coins that you should take a look at:
Litecoin:
Lite coin is one of the first altcoins.
Litecoin was released via an open-source client on GitHub on October 7, 2011 by Charlie Lee, a former Google employee. Litecoin also uses blockchain network like most of the cryptocurrencies coin. Litecoin can be used to purchase any almost service.
Litecoin stands on 2.1$ Billion of the market cap at the time of writing.
Ripple:
Ripple's distributed financial technology enables banks to send real-time international payments across networks.
Ripple was first developed in 2004 by Ryan Fugger, a web developer in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Over 15 banks of the top 50 work with Ripple at this time.
Ripple stands on 10.2$ Billion of the market cap at the time of writing.
Ethereum:
Ethereum, launched in 2015, is the largest coin by market capitalization aside from Bitcoin.
Ethereum enables developers to build and deploy decentralized applications, while also enabling smart contracts.
The tokens used to power the network are called Ether, but they can also be traded online.
Ethereum stands on 28$ Billion of the market cap at the time of writing.
