Topic: How many Altcoins are there in the crypto world? (Read 361 times)

Over a thousand. Most of these altcoins are absolutely unknown to people, and they will vanish as fast as they appeared. Most guys know well top-20 of alts and deal with these coins. Here is the list of over 1300 alts:

https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/

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I checked in the website Coinmarketcap, There are over 1340 coins and tokens in the market. That is really a big number for investors

You can check coinmarketcap there are over a thousands of them are right now some of  them are dead or have turned scam many more are not listed so the figure could go up to two and more created everyday so the number go up daily and expect that to happen

I believe the figure will be close to 2000 in numbers, there are some projects that they have been delisted form exchange and not traded on exchanges, thanks to ethereum and EtherDelta that made ICO and exchange lisitng as easy as it is today

At least 20K of which 17K are dead.

if not mistaken, it is more than 3600! hope i m not wrong.
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Coinmarketcap.com doesn't have all the coins listed. Apart from those at ICOs, there are several others through with ICO and are now operating but are not listed on the CMC. Examples are hextracoin and Westerncoin. So, I think it's a tough call getting the exact number of cryptos existing.

Are you kidding me? you are trying to predict the total number of altcoins? While you and me are writing posts in this forum there is another ANN thread posting out there in the ANN section. They are truly countless because most of them just never get recognition and end up being rotten in the private keys of users because they don't have any exchanges. Coinmarketcap has just around 1320 but coinmarketcap has not listed all of them. So I would say its truly countless because every now and then a new token is being created and an old one's life span has just ended.

Bitcoin may be the most well-known cryptocurrency, being the example that most illustrates a virtual coin. However, Bitcoin is one of many cryptocurrencies and in recent years, ‘alternate coins’ (Altcoins) have been making gains in the peer to peer, decentralised and anonymous currency market.

Many of the Altcoins a built upon the fundamentals and framework provided by Bitcoin, with different coins aiming to provide a different and unique selling point, using Bitcoin’s technology for a unique application like, for example, some coins’ ability to use Smart contracts; software designed to enforce contracts automatically and without error.

The recent rise in ICOs, alongside continued growth in the cryptosphere has enabled more currencies to rise, creating more room for opportunity. The breakthrough fostered by Bitcoin has undoubtedly bloomed into something exciting. Whether or not the up and coming projects will continue to go from strength to strength in light of plans for regulation is yet to be seen. How decentralised systems will continue to work once regulation is in place is another difficult question. For now, the Altcoins provide unique applications and a different texture from ‘mainstream’ Bitcoin. Aor today, there are about 500 different types of coins.

Currently, many cryptocurrencies have emerged.
And I think many more altcoins will continue emerge. There is not an exact amount.

Source? I wouldn't be surprised but according to CMC there are less. I know not everyone is going to be on CMC but still it is probably most reputable and accurate. Unless I see a concrete source saying otherwise I will follow what they have up.

We have more than 2000 coin available right now

Also inclined to such a forecast. Bitcoin need rest and transferring the baton to altcoins

There are only 1320 coins and tokens listed in CoinMarketCap. I'm sure there are at least 1000 coins not listed in Coinmarketcap. It is more than 2500 in total. 

More than 1000 active but around 80 of them major. (Major: Coins that have over 100 million USD marketcap.)
You can't follow all of them, you should pick 30-40 coins and narrow them down to find which coins to invest.

I think we have more than 1000 ALtcoins so far, alot of them are not on coinmarketcap and some are still looking to find exchanges to list them, I still feel there will be another ICO madness next year when the market had adjusted to the current BTC rally

Coinmarketcap is largest coin market.But there are many new ICOs coming and there coin added another exchange site.I see etherdelta exchange site added new coin everyweek.So I really don't know how many coin in crypto world

40 a day holly cow thats crazy !!

I think coinmarketcap by far doesn't list all the coins nowadays. There are more than 40 new ICOs a day now. No Chance to have them all on the exchanges