Digital Asset Facts

Our Digital Asset Facts provides information and useful links on the cryptocurrencies & tokens you can trade thorugh us.

Digital Asset Guide

BCH (Bitcoin Cash)

BSV (Bitcoin SV)

BTC (Bitcoin)

BTG (Bitcoin Gold)

DASH (Dash)

ETH (Ethereum)

XLM (Stellar)

XRP (Ripple)

EURS (EURS)

LTC (Litecoin)

USDT (Tether)

BCH (Bitcoin Cash)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Roadmap: https://www.bitcoincash.org/roadmap.html

Code repository: https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc

Operating system: Windows, OS X, Linux

Initial release: version 0.15.0 .1; date 12.11.2017

Split into 2 currencies: date 15.11.2018 ; Bitcoin Cash SV (BSV) and Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCH)

Timestamping scheme: Proof-of-work

Hash function: SHA-256

Block reward: 12.5 BCH (halved approx. Every 4 years, next halving in April 2020)

Block time: 10 min.

Block explorer: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/blocks

Supply Limit: 21,000,000 BCH

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://www.bitcoincash.org/
Bitcoin Cash Forum: https://forum.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-f119/
Market Capitalizations: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

BSV (Bitcoin SV)

Forked from: Bitcoin Cash

Roadmap: https://www.bitcoincash.org/roadmap.html

Written in: C++, Qt

Code repository: https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU

Initial release: date 15.11.2018

Timestamping scheme: Proof-of-work

Hash function: SHA-256

Block reward: 12.5 BSV

Block time: 10 min.

Block explorer: https://www.svblox.com/

Supply Limit: 21,000,000 BSV

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://bitcoinsv.io/
Market Capitalizations: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-sv/

BTC (Bitcoin)

Subunits: 1/1,000 = milibitcoin and 1/100,000,000 or 0.00000001 BTC = Satoshi

Original author: Satoshi Nakamoto

White paper: “Bitcoin: A peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System “ (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf)

Implementation(s): Bitcoin Core

Initial release: version 0.1.0 ; date 09.01.2009

Latest release: version 0.17.1 ; date 25.12.2018

Ledger start: 03.01.2009

Timestamping scheme: Proof-of-work (partial hash inversion)

Hash function: SHA-256

Block reward: 12.5 BTC (halved approx. Every 4 years, next halving in June 2020)

Block time: 10 min.

Block explorer: www.blockchain.com

Supply Limit: 21,000,000 BTC

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://bitcoin.org/en/
Bitcoin FAQ: https://bitcoin.org/en/faq
Bitcoin Forum: https://bitcointalk.org/
Market Capitalizations: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/

BTG (Bitcoin Gold)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Developers: Bitcoin Gold Organization

Roadmap: https://bitcoingold.org/wp content/uploads/2017/10/BitcoinGold-Roadmap.pdf

Code Repository: https://github.com/BTCGPU/BTCGPU

Written in: C++, Qt

Operating system: Windows, OS X, Linux

Initial release: version 0.15.0 .1; date 01.08.2017

Latest release: version 0.15.0.2 ; date 15.11.2018

Ledger start: 03.01.2009

Timestamping scheme: Proof-of-work

Hash function: Equihash

Block reward: 12.5 BTG (halved approx. Every 4 years, next halving in June 2020)

Block time: 10 min.

Block explorer: https://explorer.bitcoingold.org/insight/

Supply Limit: 21,000,000 BTG

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://bitcoingold.org
Bitcoin FAQ: https://bitcoingold.org/faq/
Bitcoin Forum: https://forum.bitcoingold.org/
Market Capitalizations: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-gold/

DASH (Dash)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Original author: Evan Duffiled

Developer: Alexander Block (core developer at Dash)

White paper: https://docs.dash.org/en/stable/introduction/about.html

Written in: C

Code repository: https://github.com/dashpay/dash

Initial release: date 18.01.2014

Block explorer: https://explorer.dash.org/chain/Dash

Supply Limit: 18,900,000 DASH

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://www.dash.org/
Dash FAQ: https://www.dash.com.sg/faqs/
Dash Forum: https://www.dash.org/forum/
Market Capitalization: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dash/

ETH (Ethereum)

Subunits: 1/1,000 = milibitcoin and 1/100,000,000 or 0.00000001 BTC = Satoshi

Original authors: Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood, Joseph Lubin

White paper: http://blockchainlab.com/pdf/Ethereum_white_paper-a_next_generation_smart_contract_and_decentralized_application_platform-vitalik-buterin.pdf

Written in: Go, C++, Rust

Operating system: Linux, Windows, macOS, POSIX, Raspbian

Platform: x86, AMD64, ARM

Code Repository: https://github.com/ethereum

Initial release: date 30.07.2015

Block explorer: https://etherscan.io/

Supply Limit: no limit

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://www.ethereum.org/
Ethereum Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum
Ethereum FAQ: https://www.ethereum.org/ether
Ethereum Forum: https://forum.ethereum.org/
Market Capitalizations: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

XLM (Stellar)

Original authors: Jed McCaleb, Joyce Kim

Developers: Stellar Development Foundation

White paper: https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pdf

Written in: C++, Go, JavaScript, Java, Python, Ruby, Shell

Code repository: https://github.com/stellar/stellar-core

Initial release: date 31.07.2014

Block explorer: https://stellarchain.io/

Supply Limit: 100 billion Lumens (XLM)

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://www.stellar.org/
Stellar FAQ: https://www.stellar.org/faq/
Stellar Forum: https://stellarcommunity.org/
Market Capitalization: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/stellar/

XRP (Ripple)

Original authors: Arthur Britto, David Schwartz, Ryan Fugger

Developers: Ripple Labs Inc.

White paper: https://ripple.com/files/ripple_consensus_whitepaper.pdf

Written in: C++

Operating system: GNU/Linux(RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu), Windows, macOS

Code repository: https://github.com/ripple/rippled

Initial release: year 2012

Stable release: version 1.0.0; date 15.05.2018

Block explorer: https://www.svblox.com/

Supply Limit: 100 billion XRP

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://developers.ripple.com/xrp-ledger-overview.html
Ripple FAQ: https://ripple.com/faq/
Ripple Forum: https://forum.ripple.com/
Market Capitalization: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ripple/

EURS (EURS)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Original author: Evan Duffiled

Developer: Alexander Block (core developer at Dash)

White paper: https://docs.dash.org/en/stable/introduction/about.html

Written in: C

Code repository: https://github.com/dashpay/dash

Initial release: date 18.01.2014

Block explorer: https://explorer.dash.org/chain/Dash

Supply Limit: 18,900,000 DASH

LTC (Litecoin)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Original author: Charlie Lee

Developers: Ripple Labs Inc.

Written in: C++

Operating system: Windows, OS X, Linux, Android

Code repository: https://github.com/litecoin-project/litecoin

Initial release: version 0.1.0; date 07.10.2011

Latest release: version 0.16.3; date 19.09.2018

Timestamping scheme: Proof-of-work

Hash function: scrypt

Block reward: 25 LTC (halved approx. Every 4 years, next halving in 05.08. 2019)

Block time: 2.5 min.

Block explorer: http://explorer.litecoin.net/chain/Litecoin

Supply Limit: 84 million LTC

Useful Links:
Official Website: https://litecoin.org/
Litecoin FAQ: https://blockgeeks.com/guides/litecoin/
Litecoin Forum: https://litecointalk.io/> https://litecointalk.io/
Market Capitalization: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/litecoin/

USDT (Tether)

Forked from: Bitcoin

Original author: Evan Duffiled

Developer: Alexander Block (core developer at Dash)

White paper: https://docs.dash.org/en/stable/introduction/about.html

Written in: C

Code repository: https://github.com/dashpay/dash

Initial release: date 18.01.2014

Block explorer: https://explorer.dash.org/chain/Dash

Supply Limit: 18,900,000 DASH