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Coins Rating Location / origination Email/Twitter Notes / $ = Source code (Github, Etherscan) $ WhoIs
Coins on Exchanges            
Bitcoin.org BTC A Satoshi Nakamoto team, USA   The original standard has become slow with high fees * $ Priv
Ethereum.org  ETH A Vitalik Buterin, USA @VitalikButerin Smart contracts, platform for many crypto projects $ Yes
Bitcoin.com Cash BCH A- Roger Ver, St. Kitts   First venture capital funder of digital currency projects $ Priv
Z.Cash ZEC A Zooko Wilcox, transparent www.z.cash/team.html Twitter.com/zooko emphasizes privacy $ Yes
Monero.org XMR A Riccardo Spagni and getmonero.org/community/team xmrmonero@gmail.com emphasizes privacy $ Yes
VergeCurrency.com XVG A https://vergecurrency.com/#developers Twitter emphasizes privacy $ Yes
Cardanohub.org A US Charles Hoskinson and smart team Twitter (Charles H.) Dev team with excellent degrees and qualifications $ Yes
Veda.ch A Ayur Veda, Felix Kaegi Veda.ch/token-kaufen Financed health products, and a share in an AG    
Envion EVN token A Envion is a Swiss-based blockchain startup from Berlin

 

 question@envion.org
 Twitter
Good use case, portable miners in low cost locations   Yes
Steemit.com

 

B Dan Larimer info@steemit.com Social media platform.
Earn Steemit dollars while posting and getting Likes
  Yes
Stellar Lumens  XLM A Stanford, IBM   Global payment system    
CFDToken.com A Richard Heart   Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) - useful proof of work   Yes
MinePi.com A Enter "yeshayah"        
Waves.exchange A User friendly site and 24/7 support info@WavesAssociation.com Waves is the native token, includes creating and trading coins    
EOS / Block.one A Brock Pierce, Brenden blumer, Daniel Larimer B1.com Faster token on the ETH network    
Atlas USV B Tai Lopez's project support@ThaiLopez.com  $497 investment in Whales Course for weekly Zomo classes   Yes
Ripple.com XRP B Chris Larsen, Ripple Labs, SF, CA 94104  Twitter used by banks including AmEx, no limite to XRPs created, controlled by 1 company. Has risen high though.  Banker's crypto?   Yes
Electronium ETN B mineable by mobile phone        
Matic coin B Admin keys have back door to the system        
ByteBall B Tony Churyumoff  Twitter
 byteball@byteball.org
Smart contracts made simple
But Tony owns too many coins, and changed model
  Yes
PulseChain.com PLS C Richard Heart, USA t.me/PulseChainCom Ffork of ETH, DPOS, low fees, faster transactions, 135 Trillion PLS $ Yes
IOTA C Dominik Schiener  Twitter Wallet does not work. Website slow to load - too much flash. Does not accomplish stated goal as shown by
https://shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-used-for-iot-loss-of-funds-may-occur-e45b1ed9dd6b
Richard Heart says Iota lost money from the wallet
  Yes
ErosCoin.org D No names found yet of founder or staff
Based in Panama
 Twitter Lists people on their Executive Team without their knowledge or permission.  Lists "Potential Partners"   Yes
Hex.com  HEX on Pulse
Hex on ETH (old) is a C
D Richard Heart, USA @Hexcrypto Telegram ETH based, stakes avg 40% interest/year, 1st blockchain CD staking failed to stop crash to 3 cents, RH owns 88%, OGs did well, but has been a Ponzi since Sept 2021 $ Yes
             
Hapebeast-gang.me F Scam rug pull with admin keys        
EmCoin.Net F Based in Aba, Nigeria. Registrant Phone: +234.070 6151 2097 johnsondaniel325@gmail.com Sadly, a Pump & Dump. After a lot of adverts, it closed   Yes
BitConnect.co BCC F Based in Panama. Trading bot system, early joiners profit, not later people   BCC = BitConnectCoin.  Under investigation by SEC / TX
BitConnectX is a $50 ICO (too high) Closing
  Yes

Coins In Progress

           
SecureX.com token B Nicholas Nicholson, Sean Brizendine Info@SecureX.com Domain Trusts, blockchain-based business models   Yes
In evaluation for certification...            
Tron   Justin Sun  Twitter  Watch it trading here
 https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tron/
   
District0x   Matus Lestan, co Founder, Tech lead  matus@district0x.io
 hello@district0x.io
 Twitter
 Watch it trading here
 https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/district0x/
   
Dent      Twitter      
NEM            
Stellar            

ICO's

           
InitiativeQ.com B Initiative Q payment network        
Exchanges:            
Altcoin.Io A Decentralized   Decentralized exchange , can't be hacked   Yes
AZBit.com B Team with Roger Ver advisor LinkedIn Does not accept USDT-PLS conversions    
Binance.US / Binance.com A JP CEO Changpeng Zhao support@binance.com x widely used, no major problems, moved from China to Japan,
Binance.US is for USA customers, with KYC. 10 day hold on ACH
  Yes
BitStamp.net A UK, Luxemburg  info@bitstamp.net one of largest   Yes
Bittrex.com B US, Seattle. Submit a token for listing here  Twitter halted new registrations for now
some reports of inside hacks
  Yes
BitThumb.com A CEO, Kim jae-wook, Seoul, Korea  contact2@bithumb.com widely used, no major problems   Yes
BitFinEx.com B British Virgin Islands  admin@bitfinex.com widely used, some problems. Appears to have an excellent interactive tutorial in the trading area   Yes
BitMEx.com A Paris, France.  support@bitmex.com widely used, no major problems. Does not serve the USA   Yes
CoinBase.com
https://www.coinbase.com/join/adc_i
A US Juan Suarez, Coinbase, SF, CA support@coinbase.com Good intro to BCT, BCH,ETH,LTC. Has gotten overloaded with customers  $US but customer service is still good.
Requires a lot of KYC verification
  Yes
CoinEx.com A Scottsdale, AZ. works with Pool.ViaBTC.com  support@coinex.com good, seems to have no problems or major complaints   Yes
CoinPayments.Net A Panama, Lawrence Chan  Add a coin Accept over 165 coins for only 0.5%. They provide services for people doing an ICO, plugins to enable shopping carts to accept cryptocurrencies, and a payment request/invoice maker   Yes
eToro.tw A+ Cyprus, London, Tel Aviv, NJ, Sydney, Shanghai   USD can go in for trading, then out through USD, but no send or receive of crypto    
Gemini.com A US Winkelvoss Twins, NY hello@gemini.com NY certified, well known management
Customer support a bit back logged though. $US
  Yes
HitBTC.com A Kr        
Kraken.com A US based, large volume Jesse Powell support@kraken.com "world's largest"   Yes
KuCoin.com A- Does not work in USA        
LAToken.com A US based in L.A.        
LocalBitcoins.com A FN helps people meet up support@localbitcoins.com Find someone in your local area to exchange with    
Neironix.io A NAT token for exchange        
             
Poloniex.com A US based poloniex.com/contact widely used, no major problems    
Safe.Trade A Canada @safetradeadmin
https://discord.gg/BBvrgXM
https://t.me/SafeTradeEx
tested and works fine    
ShapeShift.Io A Erik Vorhees, Robert Garrett
104.20.158.46, USA
  Easy web site to transfer from one digital currency to another.   Yes
Uphold.com A   partners@uphold.com Switch between many different currencies    
ZTB.im A Tested the site and works well serviceee@ztb.im $50 minimum deposit    
CEX.IO B   support@cex.io Was running GHash.io mining pool but closed it.    
TidEx.com B   listing@tidex.com      
IndaCoin.com C UK support@indacoin.com 2014, used by RS, but no longer serves USA, cannot cash out, web site error    
Alcurex.com C  Based in Finland -- under review  Twitter
 support@alcurex.info x
Just a news site   Yes
Poly Network D danger   has Admin keys that could be hacked    
CryptoRush F scalping        
www.Quadrita F          
In review:            
www.Cobinhood            
https://OpenLedger.info
https://OpenLedger.IO
           
CoinGather.com F closed by authorities for no license       No
CoinOne.com F Korea info@coinone.co.kr widely used, closed    
Cryptopia.Co.NZ F  NZ  Twitter widely used, but got Hacked   No
Koinex.in F India Twitter      
LiveCoin.net F   help@livecoin.net   now dead    
MaxPayz.io F India   closed    
Palth.net F exchange closed up and left       No
UseCryptos.com F exchange closed for repairs   "Updating our system, be back shortly" since 2016   No
Coins-e.com F exchange closed up and left       No
Apps            
BlockFolio.com A     Over 2000 coins   Yes
Coin-Data A     Over 2000 coins   Yes
Mining Pools:            
AntPool.com B Hong Kong   One of the largest BTC, BCH, LTC, Dash, ZEC
does not pass along transaction fees
  Priv
iSpace.co.uk A United Kingdom   Fast payouts   Yes
SlushPool.com A          
ViaBTC.com A     One of first to offer BCH. BTC, LTC, Dash, ZEC    
GHash.io F pool closed   Once was the world's largest, now gone    
Miners:            
BitMainTech.com A Hong Kong, delivers well   Good customer service, shipping, exchanges    
WiFi Antennas A Wifi_Expert   MiniPCI U.FL to RP-SMA Antenna WiFi Pigtail Cable    
112Bit.com B          
ButterflyLabs.com D Late on deliveries, clo sed by FTC
Leawood, KS
  https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2014/09/23/ftc-shuts-down-bitcoin-miner-butterfly-labs.html
Slow deliveries, broken shipment promises
   
Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs):            
www.PulseChain.com A+ Richard Heart, trustworthy   RH was trusted with $700 m sacrificed for PLS and $1.2 billion for PLSX, could have disappeared, but came through.    
envion.org/en A Switzerland,  https://envion.org/en/team   Good, new idea, helps environment, full disclosure   Yes
 facebook.com/ICOHeadStartPlatform B          
 facebook.com/crypterium.io B          
PowerSupplies            
CoolMaxUsa.com A Ontario CA  Brian Hsu   Works great, good tech support   Yes
Sentey.com A     Good tech support, honors warranty   Yes
ThermalTake.com A         Yes
Hardware / Offline Storage            
Trezor.io A     First, excellent, easy to use
Getting to be high price
  Yes
LedgerWallet.com A-     Good, a bit hard to navigate and connect with wallet
NanoX has a batter which may go dead, losing crypto
NanoS has no battery
  Yes
Gnosis-safe.io A+ Security on the block chain       Yes
Exodus.Io A JP Richardson, Dimejet
104.198.106.181, Mt. View, CA
  Runs on your computer, saves to a flash device.   Yes
Opportunities            
www.MyPayingCryptoAdc.com F Ponzi   https://www.newsonlineincome.com/mypayingcryptoads/   No
Usi-Tech F Ponzi        
Security            
Google Authenticator A 2FA   works well, no problems reported    
Authy A 2FA   works well, no problems reported    
Information            
BlockChain.Info A          
cryptocompare.com A     unbiased, wide variety of info    
Bitcoin.org A-     biased to BTC    
Bitcoin.com A-     biased to BCH    
CoinDesk.com A          
CoinMarketCap.com A     lists top 100 coins by market cap    
CryptoCurrencyTalk.com A Example: post by BC   good forum for exchange of ideas and warnings    
CoinTelegraph.com A          

Commentators (YouTube, DTube) Rating Location / origination Notes WhoIs
Andreas Antonopoulus A Cyprus @aantonop Very generous and experienced commentator.  Faculty of U of Nicosia Masters in Digital Currency Yes
Andy Hoffman A US Daily broadcast CryptGoldCentral.com  Yes
Adam Meister A- Baltimore, MD BitcoinMeister consulting 100% for holding BTC even when price goes down Yes
Chris Dunn A US Intro to bitcoins, alt coins Yes
Crypto Analyst        
CryptoCrow - Jason Appleton A US Gives many videos about trading about every day, a bit too many personal details Yes
Crypto Jack A-     Yes
Data Dash A US Knowledgable about Bitcoin trading and Fibonacci Retracement levels Yes
David Hay A UK Daily tips about Bitcoin and other currencies Yes
Doug Polk A US Daily broadcasts about crypto Yes
Erik Voorhees A US @ErikVoorhees ShapeShift.io founder  
Jane King A US JaneKingShow  
Matt Rajewski, Crypto Coffee A+ US, Chicago crypto-coffee.org
https://www.youtube.com/c/cryptocoffee369
Yes
Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert A US  @MaxKeiser RT Economics experts with daily broadcast, early into BTC Yes
Michael Suppo, SuppoMan A UK Cheerful, knowledgeable, gives many videos and $10 Udemy course Yes
Mike Alfred A US    
Peter Saddington A+ US Decentralized TV first to buy Lambo with BTC   TheBitcoin.Pub  Yes
RG3 Captain A US    
Roger Ver A Japan, Kitts  @RogerKVer First investor in Bitcoin businesses Yes
Rick Falkvinge A Swe, Ger  @Falkvinge We Are All Satoshi channel  
Sheldon Evans A UK Good predictor of the market  
Jason Sterling A US Gives a trading seminar  
Jordi Alexander A US    
Taylor Kennedy A US Hex and Pulse expert, helps beginners on Telegram chat Yes
Teeka Tiwari A US Editor, Palm Beach Confidential Yes
World Crypto Network A US Today in Bitcoin.  Great speakers Yes
James Altucher B US Sells his course rather than gives knowledge  
Tone Vays B US Trading instructor but says he has no time to trade Yes
BitBoy B US Often pushes altcoins of the week  
Richard Heart C US 100's of videos, sometimes with naughty words, founder of pump and dump Hex and vapor ware Pulsechain, 80%+ owned by him.  Called BTC top Yes
Anna Macko C VI

Many people get rekt while trading on margins  TwoPercentTheory.com

 

Craig S. Wright

D Australia   @ProfFaustus Pretended to be Satoshi Yes
Wobit F Netherlands? Not licensed or regulated, pays for good reviews  

 

      Yes
Consultants Coaches & Developers        
Nick Szabo A Seattle BitGold, Bitcoin developer  
BitcoinBox A HK    
BlockStream B   Bitcoin core team Yes
Rick Shaddock A Washington, DC How to get started, exchanges, backup, creating new coins (BitRaam) Yes
Sean B A LA, California BitRaam, BitCentavo, GuccioCaoin, etc. Yes
Billy Cretan A New York, NY TomahawkCoin Yes
Matthew Mitchell A+ London, UK Digital currency developer, SHA-256 Yes
Tony D'Sousa, PhD B California Digital currency marketing Yes
Mayank (pending pending California Web site design and consulting  
Ricky Dubey A California Web site design and consulting  
Investment Advisors        
         

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