➡️Network Performance Comparison
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COMPARISON
Bitcoin and Ethereum are the most popular cryptocurrencies currently. In this section, we compare Friddy against the two leading cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is only used as a cryptocurrency, while Ethereum is used as a cryptocurrency plus a blockchain network for developing decentralized applications. The following table compares the important aspects among the cryptocurrencies.
FRIDDY vs BITCOIN vs ETHEREUM
[1] Sources [a] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtime.html [b] https://etherscan.io/chart/blocktime [c] https://support.kraken.com/hc/en-us/articles/203325283-Cryptocurrency-deposit-processing-times [d] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees.html [e] https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/ethereum-transactionfees.html [f] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ [g] https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption/ [h] https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/12/8/125 [i] https://github.com/ethereum/eth-hash [j] https://www.cs.ru.nl/bachelors-theses/2018/Lotte_Fekkes___4496426___Comparing_Bitcoin_and_Ethereum.pdf [k] https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-gives-ether-token-its-value
Feature
Friddy
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Ref.
Block Interval
Instant
10 minutes on average
10 - 20 seconds
[a], [b]
Confirmation Time
3 seconds
About 40 minutes
About 5 minutes
[c]
Transaction Fees
Free
$20 - $50 per txn
$10 - $70 per txn
[d], [e]
Energy Use
Negligible
135.12 TWh (comparable to Sweden)
57.55 TWh (comparable to Uzbekistan)
[f], [g]
Distribution
Faucets, Games, Contests
Mined
Minted
-
Transaction Throughput
High and Unlimited
3 - 7 TPS
15 - 25 TPS
[h]
Participation
Permissionless
Permissionless
Permissionless
Cryptography
Advanced
Basic
Stronger than Bitcoin
[j]
Hashing Algorithm
Blake2b (2012)
SHA256 (2001)
Keccak-256 (2012)
[i]
Signing Algorithm
ed25519 (2011)
ECDSA (2009)
ECDSA (2009)
[j]
Consensus
Open Representative Voting
Proof of Work
Proof-of-Work to Proof-of Stake
[j]
Backing
Major Crypto Assests
Speculation
Speculation
[k]
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