After searching the google for almost five minutes, I was unable to find a good overview of different categories of Cryptocurrency projects. Setting out, the goal was to find a quick overview of what is different categories were available so a person could pick projects from different categories to better distribute their investments. I have heard this stock investors talk about doing similar things with their portfolio's in the past.

Strong as my Google-Fu is, my searches were fruitless. So, I am going to take a crack at providing you with such a list. Obviously, I will not be listing coins, there are far too many for me to take that project on alone. However, if you see value in this and find a coin or project you feel strongly should be listed, please let me know about it in the comments below.

Undoubtably, someone will be irritated that I have placed project x in category y, please make your case in the comments below. I'm not opposed to making changes if they are warranted.

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Categories

• Currencies - Must have high degree of liquidity. Value is driven from use and scarcity (supply and demand).
  • Store of Value - not suitable for micro transactions
  • Privacy - projects with privacy built in
  • Other - Me too coins
• Smart Contracts - Value is derived from contracts or other projects using the platform. Scarcity is maintained by burning small amounts of currency referred to as gas.
• Social Media
• Decentralized Organization / Business
• Shared Distributed Computing
  • Processing
  • Storage
• Peer to Peer Commerce - coins that enable person to person private transactions or exchanges
• Settlement Networks - bank interests
  • Credit Cards
• Government Funded and Other Coins Without Utility and/or Scarcity - disgusting I know (perhaps we should label these "True Sh^t Coins")

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*(Links to the following can be found by searching for the name or ticker symbol on https://coinmarketcap.com/)*

Currencies

Store of Value

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
BitCoin	BTC	First mover advantage, slow with high transactions fees. Commonly used as the reserve / exchange currency

Privacy

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
DASH	DASH	Fast, has smart organization to pay developers/organization, master node holders and minors
Monero	XMR	Obscures details on Ledger
ZCash	ZEC	(pending)
ZenCash	ZEN	(pending) A fork of ZCash and ZClassic, private messaging and transactions

Other

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
LiteCoin	LTC	One of the First BitCoin Forks, adopts proposed solutions and processes transactions faster than BitCoin

Smart Contracts

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
Ethereum	ETH	First mover advantage
Ethereum Classic	ETC	Ethereum Fork
Ubiq	UBQ	Enterprise ready, stable fork of Ethereum
NEO	NEO	Formerly Ant Shares, developed in China with the aim to allow developers to create smart contracts with a variety of languages

Social Media / Ecosystem

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
Steem	STEEM	Exchange Currency for SteemIt.com
Steem Backed Dollars	SBD	Rewards Currency for SteemIt.com
Basic Attention Token	BAT	Currency to enable safe distributed advertisement, rewards viewers of advertisement and content producers
LBRY	LBC	Designed to reward content producers; a free, open, community-run digital marketplace

Decentralized Organization / Business

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
Aragon	ANT	Allows people to make digital organizations (built on Ethereum) includes it's own legal system.
Golem	GNT	Currently in development, will allow distributed GPU utilization in the near future
MaidSafe	MAID	Distributed Processing, Storage and Networking
Shift	SHIFT	Decentralized web
Sia	SC	Decentralized private cloud storage
StorJ	SJCX	Decentralized private cloud storage
iEx	RLC	Decentralized private cloud computing
SNOM	SNOM	Like Golem, but they are using current technologies.

Peer to Peer Commerce

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
Swarm City	SWT	Currently in development, Boardwalk was released in June 2017 allowing people to exchange SWT for goods and services
Chronobank	TIME	Recruitment and labor based cryptocurrency designed to eliminate the third parties.

Dividend Paying Investments

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
BlockChain Capital	BCAP	Like a mutual fund, token holders are rewarded from investments made into companies by VC investors.
DigixDAO	DGD	Allows holders to receive dividends when DGX (a soon to be released gold backed cryptocurrency is traded)
Iconomi	ICN	Invest and manage digital assets (semi centralized)
Melonport	MLN	Like Iconomi, only more decentralized and still under development.
Veritaseum	VERI	Enables peer to peer capitol markets

Settlement Networks

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
BitShares	BTS	Decentralized financial service, banking and exchange
Ripple	XRP	Banking industry settlement network (possible sh^t coin?)
TokenCard	TKN	an Ethereum based debit card that will allow you to spend numerous coins

Government Funded and Other Coins With No Utility (Sh^t Coins)

Name	Ticker Symbol	Notes
Unknown	UNKNOWN	Coming soon to an ICO / Exchange near you. Seriously, if you know of any sh^t coins, let me know and I will post them here to warn others

A big shout out goes to @crypt0, I listed many of the tokens he mentioned on his June 22nd, 2017 post

So how do you distribute your cryptocurrency holdings?

What projects did I miss that you are excited about?