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History of Cryptocurrencies
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Bitcoin
Year of creation: 2009. Significance: First decentralized digital currency, which introduced the concept of blockchain technology.
Ethereum
Year of creation: 2015. Significance: Introduced smart contracts, enabling decentralized applications (DApps).
Ripple
Year of creation: 2012. Significance: Aimed to enable secure, instant, and nearly free global financial transactions of any size with no chargebacks.
Litecoin
Year of creation: 2011. Significance: Created as a 'lite' version of Bitcoin with faster transaction times and a different hashing algorithm.
Dash
Year of creation: 2014. Significance: Focused on privacy and transaction speed, originally named XCoin and later Darkcoin before rebranding to Dash.
Monero
Year of creation: 2014. Significance: Provides strong privacy protections with ring signatures, stealth addresses, and RingCT to obfuscate transactions.
Zcash
Year of creation: 2016. Significance: Offers both transparent and shielded transactions, allowing users to choose between privacy and transparency.
Cardano
Year of creation: 2017. Significance: Emphasizes a research-driven approach to design and is aimed at achieving scalability, interoperability, and sustainability.
Polkadot
Year of creation: 2020. Significance: Aims to enable a decentralized web where independent blockchains can exchange information and transactions trustlessly.
Chainlink
Year of creation: 2017. Significance: Created to provide secure and reliable oracles for smart contracts on any blockchain.
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