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. 2020 Aug 4;4(9):1843–1846. doi: 10.1016/j.joule.2020.07.013

Table 1.

Top 20 Mineable Cryptocurrencies by Market Capitalization on 03/27/2020

# Name Symbol Algorithm Market cap [USD million] Market cap [%] Hashes/s (network) Efficiency (device) [Hashes/s/W] Rated power (network) [kW] Rated power (network) [%]
1 Bitcoin BTC SHA-256 122.768 79.69% 1.09E+20 2.53E+10 4.291.366 68.39%
2 Ethereum ETH Ethasha 15.209 9.87% 1.64E+14 2.28E+05 719.087 11.46%
3 Bitcoin Cash BCH SHA-256 4.183 2.72% 3.88E+18 2.53E+10 153.374 2.44%
4 Bitcoin SV BSV SHA-256 3.181 2.07% 3.04E+18 2.53E+10 120.077 1.91%
5 Litecoin LTC Scrypt 2.595 1.68% 1.36E+14 8.27E+05 164.796 2.63%
6 Monero XMR RandomXa 864 0.56% 1.27E+09 6.00E+00 210.277 3.35%
7 Dash DASH X11 639 0.41% 4.59E+15 1.23E+08 37.386 0.60%
8 Ethereum C ETC Ethasha 597 0.39% 9.87E+12 2.28E+05 43.278 0.69%
9 Zcash ZEC Equihash 310 0.20% 4.42E+09 9.00E+01 49.022 0.78%
10 DogeCoin DOGE Scrypt 229 0.15% 1.30E+14 8.27E+05 157.494 2.51%
11 Bitcoin Gold BTG ZHasha 133 0.09% 2.64E+06 0.00E+00 8.949 0.14%
12 Decred DCR Blake 125 0.08% 4.16E+17 1.89E+10 22.013 0.35%
13 RavenCoin RVN X16Rv2a 89 0.06% 3.14E+13 1.16E+05 270.792 4.32%
14 MonaCoin MONA Lyra2REv2 85 0.05% 9.16E+13 1.17E+07 7.844 0.13%
15 Bytom BTM Tensority 61 0.04% 5.30E+08 1.82E+02 2.915 0.05%
16 SiaCoin SC Sia 55 0.04% 5.70E+15 1.22E+09 4.664 0.07%
17 DigiByte DGB SHA-256 53 0.03% 6.60E+16 2.53E+10 2.608 0.04%
18 Horizen ZEN Equihash 48 0.03% 6.86E+08 9.00E+01 7.606 0.12%
19 Komodo KMD Equihash 46 0.03% 6.08E+07 9.00E+01 674 0.01%
20 Bytecoin BCN CryptoNight 43 0.03% 2.33E+08 5.00E+02 467 0.01%
TOTAL 151.315 98.23% 6.274.688 100%

The table displays the top 20 mineable currencies with their respective algorithms, efficiencies of suitable mining devices, and rated power of the networks. Details on methodology, data, and sources can be found in the Supplemental Information and Tables S2, S3, and S4.

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ASIC-resistant algorithms