Table 1.
# | Name | Symbol | Algorithm | Market cap [USD million] | Market cap [%] | Hashes/s (network) | Efficiency (device) [Hashes/s/W] | Rated power (network) [kW] | Rated power (network) [%] |
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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.
ASIC-resistant algorithms