Awesome Crypto Currency Tools And Algorithms

Coin Market Tools & Utilities

• Coinbin.org — Human–friendly API for quickly getting coin data (exchange rates, predictions, &c.)
  • List of All Known Coins /coins
  • BTC Current Value /btc
  • BTC Daily Historical Value /btc/history
  • BTC / ETH Exchange Rate /btc/to/eth
  • 20.01 BTC Value /btc/20.01
  • 42 ETH Value in BTC /eth/42/to/btc
  • Supports all crypto–currencies.
• CoinMarketCap — Shows all currencies on a real-time dashboard.
• MoneyHash — Compare money markets with available hashing power and profitability on NiceHash.

Reading Material

• Overview of Cryptocurrencies — GitHub Repo.
• Map of Coins – Explore the visualized history of the cryptocurrencies, from their whitepapers up to present days.
• A massive collection of white papers
• Mastering Bitcoin (ebook)
• Bitcoin Developer Reference
• Blockchain for humans — Ultra-simplified blockchain explanation (in construction).

Coin Mining Pools

Here's a list of WhatToMine.

• #: https://www.nicehash.com/ — Mine any algo (optimized for your GPU) & get paid in BTC.
• BTC: https://pool.bitcoin.com/
• ETH: https://eth.nanopool.org/
• SC: https://sia.nanopool.org/
• PASC: https://pasc.nanopool.org/
• XMR: https://xmr.nanopool.org/
• ZEC: https://zec.nanopool.org/
• ETC: https://etc.nanopool.org/

Hashing Power for Rent

• NiceHash — Supports all popular algos, pay in BTC for raw throughput.
• Bitcoin.com Pool — I've heard good things.
• BitMain Hosted — Looks complicated and sketchy, but they offer hosted ASIC solutions.

 Coin Wallets

Hosted Coin Wallets

Notice: the coin community frowns upon use of these services, as you are not in direct control of your coins — in fact, you don't own them at all — the service does — much like the way a standard bank operates.

• Coinbase BTC
• Coinbase ETH
• Coinbase LTC

Actual Hosted Coin Wallets:

• MyEtherWallet ETH
• Dogechain DOGE
• Gamecredits GAME

Coin Debit Cards

• Cryptopay BTC Debit Card

Physical Coin Wallets

• Sia Paper Wallet
• Cryptosteel — Made of steel!

Coin Exchanges

• Cryptopia — Wallets for all currencies, trading to/from all currencies.
• Shapeshift — The fastest exchange on Earth.
• Bittrex — Wallets for all currencies, trading to/from all currencies.
• Qvolta — Sell and buy crypto assets around the world for local payment methods.

Universal GUI Apps

• Sia UI — SC wallet, file hosting, storage.
• LBRY — LBRY wallet, media consumption & publishing platform.

Windows GUI Apps

• NiceHash Miner — Resells your GPU/CPU to miners for profit! Benchmarks all algos against your hardware, and automatically picks the most profitable configuration (adjustable).

MacOS GUI Apps

• MacMiner — Wraps bfgminer, cgminer, and sgminer in a GUI.

MacOS CLI Apps

• bfgminer — Modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C, featuring overclocking, monitoring, fan speed control and remote interface capabilities.
• cgminer — ASIC and FPGA miner in C for Bitcoin.
• sgminer — Scrypt GPU miner.
• nheqminer — Equihash CPU & GPU miner.

Recommended Hardware

• NVidia GTX 1080 TI OC — The most powerful consumer graphics card in the world.
• Asrock H110 Pro BTC+ Mining Motherboard — Can apparently host 12x PCI-E GPUs.

Cool Coin/Blockchain Stuff

• Bit — Python’s fastest Bitcoin library with an API allowing transactions to be made in only 3 lines of code.
• bcoin — Bitcoin fullnode implementation written entirely in Node.js that you can even run in a browser, includes wallet, mempool, chain, and mining.
• BTC Mempol and Fee Explorer
• Tezos — Self-healing blockchain.
• Tendermint — Byzantine fault-tolerant replicated state machines in any programming language.
• Cosmos — Network and a framework for interoperability between blockchains.
• URI scheme for Blockchain exploration
• Blockply — Collection of the most interesting and outstanding blockchain projects
• Blockchain demo — Web-based demonstration of blockchain concepts.

Algos supported by NiceHash Stratum Proxy

• Scrypt (Litecoin / LTC)
• SHA256 (Bitcoin / BTC)
• ScryptNF (Scrypt-Adaptive-Nfactor) (GPU Coin, GPUC)
• X11 (Dash / Darkcoin, Dashcoin, ASIC-Resistant)
• X13 (MaruCoin / MARU) (CPU/GPU)
• Keccak (MaxCoin / MAX)
• X15 (HTML5 Coin, HTML5)
• Nist5 (Talkcoin, TAC)
• NeoScrypt (Phoenixcoin (PXC), Imperialcoin (IPC), Feathercoin (FTC), UFOcoin (UFO), Guncoin (GUN), Bollywoodcoin (BDC), Orbitcoin (ORB), Halcyon (HAL))
• Lyra2RE (VertCoin / VTC, CryptoCoin)
• WhirlpoolX (Vanillacoin / VNL)
• Qubit (QuibitCoin / Q2C)
• Quark (QRK)
• Axiom (Axiom Coin / AXIOM)
• Lyra2REv2 (VertCoin / VTC)
• ScryptJaneNf16 (Diamond / DMD)
• Blake256r8 (Blake Coin / BLC)
• Blake256r14 (Blake Coin / BLC)
• Blake256r8vnl (Blake Coin / BLC)
• Hodl (HodlCoin / HODL)
• DaggerHashimoto (Ethereum / ETH)
• Decred (DCR)
• CryptoNight (XCN, CPU-only)
• Lbry (LBC)
• Equihash (Zcash / XEC, ZClassic, HUSH, Komodo)
• Pascal (PASC)
• X11Gost (SIBCoin / SIB)
• Sia (SC)
• Blake2s (NevaCoin, Netko Coin, Verge, TajCoin)
• Skunk (Signatum Coin / SIGT)