PAC coin, short for People’s Alternative Choice, is a cryptocurrency with a hybrid Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. PAC Coin aims to encourage cryptocurrency adoption by improving usability and community governance. The network will rely on a system of masternodes to help verify transactions.

Bitcoin Diamond is a hardfork of Bitcoin that was created in 2017. Although the network's code preserves much of Bitcoin's original features, it aims to improve transaction speeds by implementing the Lightning network and increasing the storage capabilities of each block. The Lightning Network is a second layer payment protocol that works on the Bitcoin blockchain and is designed to place a large portion of the transaction data outside of the blockchain.