BERNcash ranks #439 of 504 cryptocurrencies. On a list that also counts tokens, memecoins, wrapped coins, staked derivatives and stablecoins it appears at #5478: 5039 of the 5477 assets ahead of it are not native coins but tokens or claims. A token is issued on a host blockchain rather than running its own; a claim stands for an asset already counted.
| CoinSpectrum Grade | pending — launch under review |
|---|---|
| Rank among cryptocurrencies | #439 |
| Rank counting claims | #5478 |
| Price | $0.000629 |
| Circulating supply | 0 BERN |
| Maximum supply | no fixed cap |
| Consensus family | Hybrid |
| Consensus mechanism | X14 PoW + PoS |
| Own hashrate | — |
| Network purpose | Payments |
| Ledger type | Single-asset ledger |
Market figures from the 28 October 2026 build. Open the live view for every exchange's price, and charts.
Grade pending. BERNcash's launch — how much went to insiders, whether it was sold to investors — is still being researched. A grade is not given until it is, so that a coin is never rated higher for what is not yet known.
| Criterion | Score | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| Leading Consensus Mechanisms (Source) | 4.5 | group average |
| Consensus: leader ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of consensus families ranked by their largest chain's market cap |
| Consensus: family ladder | 4.5 | Hybrid: 4.5 of 10 on the ladder of families ranked by the combined market cap of their chains |
| Cryptocurrency Standards (Source) | 6.4 | group average, 7 of 12 measured |
| Sound Money Properties (6 checks) (Source) | 7.5 | 3 of 4 points, 2 not yet measured source |
| Scarcity (Limited supply · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §6) | – | |
| Durability (Sustainability · 1 Store of value) | ✓ | 10 full years since its first recorded price, no halt, freeze or reversal in five years |
| Fungibility (Interchangeability · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | every unit identical and worth any other |
| Portability (Scalability · 2 Medium of exchange) | – | about 738 transactions a second, 8 on the throughput scale (5 is the busiest networks' median demand) |
| Divisibility (Flexibility · 3 Unit of account) | ✓ | 6 decimal places, the smallest unit worth $6.3e-10 |
| Verifiability (Authenticity check · 1 Store of value · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | node software open source; no light clients or pruned nodes |
| Scalability (fees, throughput, block time, block space, features) | 6.1 | average of 4 parts source |
| Fees ($0.001 or less 10, $1 or more 0) | – | not yet measured |
| Throughput (2,478 a second, the busiest network's peak day, 10; 119, the median of the ten busiest, 5) | 8 | about 737.5 simple transactions a second |
| Block time (10 minutes 10, less either side) | 6.4 | a block every 1 minute |
| Block space per 10 minutes (32 MB or more 10) | 10 | 10 MB limit, 100 MB per 10 minutes |
| Features (3 checks) | 0 | 0 of 2 passed, 1 not yet researched |
| Fast payments (Safe to accept within seconds · Whitepaper §11) | – | Not established for a live network: the Novacoin-era code has no replace-by-fee, but no running node or explorer was found. |
| Pruned nodes (Old history dropped, every rule checked · Whitepaper §7) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): no -prune option; the node keeps the full block history. |
| Light clients (Payments verified from headers · Whitepaper §8) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): hybrid PoW/PoS chain; stake blocks cannot be checked from headers without the UTXO set and the protocol has no light-client proof scheme. |
| Security (miner pay and 7 checks) | — | 2 of 3 points, 6 not yet measured source |
| Miner pay (A day, $1,000 0 to $10 million 10; 2 points) | – | |
| Own hashrate (Half its algorithm's largest, not merge-mined) | – | |
| Largest pool (Pool or validator under 50%) | – | |
| Largest three (Under 75% together) | – | |
| Clients (More than one maintained) | ✗ | 0 |
| Open source (Node software) | ✓ | A single pseudonymous developer (BernieCoinDev) maintained the MIT-licensed client in BERNiecoin/BERNcash. |
| Real use (1,000+ transactions a day) | – | |
| No 51% attack (Nor a deep reorganisation, five years) | ✓ | |
| Decentralisation | 6.8 | section average, 4 of 8 measured |
| Censorship resistant (Source) | 10 | No authority can halt the chain or freeze funds: No freeze or admin key in the code. source |
| No central team (Source) | 0 | A central team directs it: A single pseudonymous developer (BernieCoinDev) maintained the MIT-licensed client in BERNiecoin/BERNcash. source |
| Who can mint (Source) | 7.1 | Hybrid: 7.1 of 10 on the ladder of who produces blocks |
| Nodes (Source) | — | Not yet counted |
| Holder concentration (Source) | — | Not yet measured |
| Premine (allocated at launch) | — | Block 1 pays a 10,000,000 BERN 'instamine' (code comment: '5% of 200 mil'); later PoW blocks pay 250 BERN to height 720,000, then 25, 100 and 10, plus 10% a year PoS interest, under a 100M MAX_MONEY. Current supply is not published, so the share cannot be computed (10M is 10% of the 100M cap). |
| Fundraising | — | Launch not yet researched |
| Developer share (after launch) | 10 | No developer share: every new coin goes to the miners or validators who produce blocks. PoW and PoS rewards go to the block producer; there is no developer output in the code. source |
| Privacy | 4 | section average |
| Privacy (5 checks) | 4 | 2 of 5 passed source |
| Protocol level privacy (Keys not tied to an identity · Whitepaper §10) | ✓ | BERNcash's Bitcoin-derived node (BERNiecoin/BERNcash) has no identity rule: anyone generates keys and receives and sends the coin. |
| UTXO ledger (A new key for each payment · Whitepaper §2, §9) | ✓ | |
| Network privacy (Origin hidden by default) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): no Dandelion relay in the node; Tor is only an optional proxy setting (-tor/-onion) the user must configure. |
| Hidden amounts (Amounts confidential) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): Bitcoin-style transparent outputs; no confidential amounts. |
| Hidden parties (Sender and receiver hidden) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): Bitcoin-style transparent addresses; no ring signatures, zero-knowledge spends or stealth addresses. |
| Programmability (tokens, contracts, 5 checks) | 1.1 | 1 of 9 points source |
| Token issuance | 0 | No token issuance on the chain itself |
| Smart contracts (Scripting for spending conditions) | 1 | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): Bitcoin-style Script (signatures, hashes, CHECKMULTISIG) limited to spending conditions; no contract platform. |
| Multisig and time locks (Without a third party) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): CHECKMULTISIG is present, but the script interpreter has no OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY or OP_CHECKSEQUENCEVERIFY (the code base predates BIP65/BIP112), so no output can be time-locked. |
| Atomic swaps (With other chains) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): without a lock-time opcode Script cannot express the refund branch of an HTLC, and no adaptor-signature swap exists for the coin. |
| Native exchange (Built into the protocol) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): no order book or market maker in the ledger rules. |
| Cross-chain messaging (Verified by the chain itself) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): no cross-chain message or light-client verification in the protocol. |
| NFTs (Carried by the chain's rules) | ✗ | BERNcash v1.3.1 (Jan 2020): no token or NFT type in the consensus rules. |
| Supply & Demand | 0 | group average, 1 of 2 measured |
| Supply & Demand (Source) | 0 | average of 1 measure |
| Exchanges (10 or more: 10) | 0 | no exchange the site reads trades it |
| Daily volume ($10K 0, $1B or more 10) | – | no volume reported |
| Turnover (volume ÷ market cap, 5% a day: 10) | – | not measured |
| Order-book depth (bids and asks within 2% ÷ market cap, 1%: 10) | – | not measured |
| Market cap ($1M 0, $10B or more 10) | – | not measured |
| Paper trading (futures, options and margin ÷ market cap, 0%: 10, 100%: 0) | – | not measured |
| Supply (smaller is better) | — | Supply not reported |
| Record | 6.7 | group average |
| Record (origin, claims, halts) | 10 | 3 positive, 0 negative source |
| Positive record | ||
| Launched with a stated purpose, not as a joke | ✓ | |
| No claims by its founders that contradict its own design | ✓ | |
| No halt, freeze or reversal in five years | ✓ | |
| Age (years since genesis) (Source) | 10 | 10 full years since 2016-04-14, the first day with a recorded price (genesis not yet researched, so the age can only be understated). |
| Development (work, improvements, unfixed issues) | 0 | 0 positive, 4 negative source |
| Negative | ||
| Steady work, 0 of 6 | ✗ | 0 commits in 0 of the last 12 months (github.com/BERNiecoin/BERNcash); BERNiecoin/BERNcash v1.3.1, 4 Jan 2020 (last commit 1 Sep 2020). |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52914: crafted orphan transactions can stall the node for hours in the uninterruptible orphan-resolution loop; still in BERNcash v1.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-03, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2020-14198: misbehaving peers are auto-banned into an unbounded ban list, so many attacker addresses can exhaust CPU and memory; still in BERNcash v1.3. |
| Unfixed vulnerability, disclosed 2024-07-31, −1 | ✗ | CVE-2024-52919: addr-message spam can overflow the address manager's 32-bit id counter and crash the node, with no addr rate limit; still in BERNcash v1.3. |
Twenty criteria, weighted equally. The Cryptocurrency Standards have five sections: sound money (six qualities: scarcity, durability, fungibility, portability, divisibility, verifiability), scalability (four measures and three features), security (miner pay and seven checks), decentralisation (censorship resistance, no central team, who can mint, nodes, holders, premine, fundraising and developer share) and privacy (five checks); programmability (token issuance, smart contracts and five checks) follows them. Provisional: criteria marked — are not yet measured and are left out of the average. A rating of structure and market depth, not a price forecast or investment advice. How the grade is built · Highest-graded cryptocurrencies.
0 BERN are in circulation, against no fixed cap — issuance has no defined end.
| Developer share received since launch | 0% of today's supply |
|---|---|
| Developer share of new coins today | 0% |
Block 1 pays a 10,000,000 BERN 'instamine' (code comment: '5% of 200 mil'); later PoW blocks pay 250 BERN to height 720,000, then 25, 100 and 10, plus 10% a year PoS interest, under a 100M MAX_MONEY. Current supply is not published, so the share cannot be computed (10M is 10% of the 100M cap).
None documented.
Not established: what happened to the 10M instamine is not documented.
PoW and PoS rewards go to the block producer; there is no developer output in the code.
A 2016 political-themed coin (BernieCoin), X14 PoW/PoS. jokeOrigin is false because no founder statement disclaiming purpose was found.
Sources: github.com · github.com · bitcointalk.org. Researched 2026-10-26, low confidence.
No source we can reach publishes a hashrate for BERNcash.
No SEC/CFTC determination — unclassified.
The regulator's position, reported as stated, not CoinSpectrum's. Assets nobody has ruled on are left unclassified rather than sorted by a guess.
BERNcash is #439 among cryptocurrencies and #5478 in the market ranking, which lists wrapped coins, staked derivatives, stablecoins and tokens alongside them. CoinSpectrum counts an asset once, and counts only cryptocurrencies: assets with their own blockchain and their own consensus. A wrapped coin, a staked derivative or a stablecoin is a claim on something already counted; a token, memecoin or otherwise, runs on another chain's blocks. All of them are listed, each in its own section, and none is added to the total. The 5039 places between BERNcash's two ranks are held by claims and tokens, not by other networks. The methodology sets out the rule and the counting rule argues for it.
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