A Walk Down Memory Lane: A 5-year History of Bitcoin & Altcoin Growth

With a new year quickly approaching, and altcoins primed to absolutely explode in 2018, let's take a stroll down memory lane and check out the top coins over the past few years. I went through and pulled a few different historical snapshots and compared that with coins listed and total market cap.

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April 28th, 2013 - First Coin Listings on CoinMarketCap

Total Market Cap: $1,596,170,359.00

New Coins on the list: BTC, LTC, PPC, NMC, TRC, DVC, NVC

Coins Listed: 7

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December, 29th, 2013

Total Market Cap: $10,059,549,969

New Coins: XRP,OMNI, NXT, QRK, PTS, WDC, MEC, XPM, FTC, IFC, DOGE, ZET

Coins Listed: 66

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December 28, 2014

Total Market Cap: $5,513,974,470

New Coins: XPY, BTS, MAID, XLM, XCP, DASH, NMC, FC2, UNITY, YBC, XMR,

Coins Listed: 506

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December 27th, 2015

Total Market Cap: $6,840,297,446

New Coins: BCN, NSR, GRC

Coins Listed: 562

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December 28th, 2016

Total Market Cap: $16,106,710,995

New Coins: REP, STEEM, ICN, FCT, WAVES, DGD, ZEC

Coins Listed: 644

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December 24th, 2017

Total Market Cap: $538,097,814,846

Coins Listed: 1334

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