Visa | Bitcoin | Ripple | Litecoin | Mastercoin | Nxt | Counterparty | Bitshares | Blackcoin | Qora | Crypti | Stellar | |
Operational | 57 years | 6 years | 3 Years | 3 Years | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year | 1 Year | 10 Months | 7 Months | 7 Months | 5 Months |
Consensus Mechanism | Consensus | Proof of Work | Consensus | Proof of Work | Timestamp Authority | Improved Proof of Stake | Timestamp Authority | Delegated Proof of Stake | PoW (distribution) / PoS | PoS | PoS: Purchase, Time, Identity | Consensus |
Block Production Time | - | 10 minutes | 10 seconds | 3,2 minutes | 10 minutes | 2 minutes | 10 minutes | 10 seconds | 1 minute | 1-5 minute | 1 minute | 2-5 seconds |
Recommended Confirmation Time | - | 6 blocks | 1 block | 6 blocks / 15 minutes | 6 blocks | 10 blocks | 6 blocks | 1 block | 10 blocks | 10 blocks | - | 1 block |
Worst Case for Confirmation Time | - | 100 blocks (20 hrs) | - | 100 blocks (4 hrs) | 100 blocks (20 hours) | 1440 blocks (48 hrs) | 100 blocks (20 hrs) | 51 blocks (8.5 min) | 120 blocks (2 hours) | - | - | - |
Max. Transaction Load | 47.000 TPS | 7 tps | - | 28 tps | 2 tps | 3,4 tps | 2 tps | 10 tps | 70 tps | - | - | - |
Average Transaction Load | 2000 TPS | 1,17 TPS | 0,5 TPS | 0,06 TPS | - | 0,05 TPS | 0,003 TPS | 0,05 TPS | 0,08 TPS | 0,001 TPS | - | - |
Number of Accounts | - | 2,7 million | 140.000 | 142.000 | - | 93.000 | 7.200 | 230.000 | 6500 | 6200 | - | - |
Transaction Fee Costs | 2% of transaction value | .0001 BTC | 0.00001 XRP | 0.001 LTC | .0001 BTC | 1 NXT | .0001 BTC | Variable | 0.001 BLK per kB | 1 QORA | Variable | 0.00001 STR |
Network Security Costs | - | tx fees + block reward | low ~ secure server administration costs | tx fees + block reward | 10% inflation via mining | tx fees | 10% inflation via mining | a fraction of transaction (tx) fees | max 1% of expected market cap | tx fees | tx fees | - |
Inflation | - | 10% | Deflationary | 30% | Deflationary | 0% | Deflationary | Delegate positions | 1% | 0% | Deflationary | 1% |
Share Supply | Unlimited | 13,7 million | 31 billion (out of 100 billion) | 35,5 million | 0,5 million | 1 billion | 2,6 million | 2,5 billion | 75 million | 10 billion | 100 million | 3,5 billion (out of 100,5 billion) |
Average Volume (mil USD) | 16518 | 237 | 1,3 | 2 | 0,002 | 0,03 | 0,03 | 0,1 | 0,05 | 0,0004 | 0,001 | 0,09 |
Share Divisibility (precision) | 2 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 6 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 5 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 8 decimal places | 6 decimal places |
Blockchain Size | - | 33,5 GB | 430 GB | 4 GB | 33,5 GB | 2,3 GB | 33,5 GB | 1,3 GB | 0,7 GB | 0,17 GB | STR + BTC + XRP | |
Brain Wallet | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Multisignature | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Planned | Yes | Yes | Yes | Planned | No | No |
Anonymous Transactions | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | In Development | No | Planned | No | In Development |
Instant Transactions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Planned | No | No | No | Planned | No | No |
Smart Contracts | No | Yes | In Development | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | In Development | No | In Development |
Automated Transactions | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | In Development | Yes | No | Yes | In Development | No | No |
Profit Sharing | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | In Development | Yes | No | No | No |
Decentralised Exchange / Asset Exchange | No | In Development | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | In Development | Yes | In Development | Yes |
Market Pegged Assets | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | In Development | No | No | No | No |
Marketplace | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Merchant Tools | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | In Development | No | In Development | No | No | Yes |
Order Matching | No | No | Automatic | No | Manual | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic | In Development | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic |
Messaging | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | In Development | In Development | In Development | Yes | No | In Development |
Encrypted Messaging | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | In Development | In Development | Planned | No | No | No |
Hardware Wallet | Yes | Yes | In Development | Yes | No | Planned | No | No | Planned | No | No | No |
Mobile Wallet | Yes | Yes | In Development | Yes | Yes | Yes | In Development | In Development | Yes | Planned | No | No |
Alias System | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
Voting System | No | Planned | No | No | No | In Development | In Development | Yes | In Development | Yes | Planned | No |
SuperNET | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |