Modern informative technologies have reached seemingly conservative things, and intangible digital analogues of real objects are gaining more and more popularity in the world. These processes also affected money, and many cryptocurrencies appeared on the market. Consider the most popular types of virtual currency, as well as popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Today, thousands of types of digital media can be found on the network, but in our review the most popular cryptocurrencies in the world. The cryptocurrency market is quite dynamic, so information about them can become outdated very quickly. Here is a chart of the largest cryptocurrencies by market capitalization at the end of 2019:
The most popular cryptocurrency, if we consider the financial side, is not provided with anything, and, we can say that Bitcoin, as a monetary asset, is valuable in itself. This "electronic gold" can be used for online payments on the network or exchanged for another type of currency. Interestingly, the currency denomination of Bitcoin is constantly increasing. The famous cryptocurrency was released on the network in 2009, when a group of programmers generated the first 50 bitcoins, and a year and a half later, real goods were purchased for this electronic currency.
