I want to dive a little bit deeper today to see how old these mainstream crypto currencies are. I have several criteria for my filter:

1. top 50 market cap coins from coin market cap website.

2. code commit starts earlier than 2014

my approach is to use first github commit to decide how old it is. It may not be 100% accurate regarding how early they started their projects. But it still can show some level of information that when they started to write code. As a programmer, this is the main part I care about regarding investing my hardworking money to their coins.

So let's started.

Surprise! there are only 6 coins has more than 4 years history that their market cap is in top50 now. So you can realized how quickly crypto currencies die. Think twice about investing your money on alt-coins.





No. 6.

Ethereum

ETH's code commits started at Dec 22nd 2013. It's the first smart contract cryptocurrency and it worth investing in long term.





No. 5.

Monero

It starts Nov 10th 2013, which is one month earlier than ETH. Monero is arguably best anonymous cryptocurrency now.





No. 1.2.3.4

BITCOIN, LITECOIN, DASH, DOGECOIN.

They are started roughly around August 30th 2009 regarding their github code commit.

Bitcoin actually released Jan, 2009. So the winner is bitcoin for sure.

But you can see, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Dash are oldest alt coins in market.













My conclusion:

Coins come and go quickly. Time is a trustworthy friend who sieves all shit out and keeps gold. Think twice before investing to young altcoins and learn from history. These gold here are still valuable and have so much space to grow.

Happy new year!





Except these, I also bullish on Bitcoin Cash. It's the only one possibly takes over BTC in long term.









P.S.

this is my original work. please upvote if you find this is interesting and useful.