{"id":415056,"date":"2020-02-18T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=415056"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:42:08","slug":"crypto-wealth-distributions-suggest-bitcoin-use-greater-than-xrp-bch-and-bsv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/crypto-wealth-distributions-suggest-bitcoin-use-greater-than-xrp-bch-and-bsv\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Wealth Distributions Suggest Bitcoin Use Greater than XRP, BCH and, BSV"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot of proponents of so-called altcoins<\/a> make a big deal about their favourite crypto project’s superiority to Bitcoin. Networks like BSV, BCH, and XRP have been especially tailored towards their associated assets’ use as a medium of exchange.<\/p>\n

Being distributed and largely pseudonymous, actual usage of a cryptocurrency is difficult to assess. One metric that analysts can use to judge the level of a specific crypto asset’s usage is by looking at how wealth distributions change over time.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin Wealth Becoming More Distributed, Others Less So<\/h2>\n

According to the most recent CoinMetrics report <\/a>in a series titled “State of the Network”, the circulating supply of Bitcoin is becoming more distributed. This, the researchers conclude, suggests an increasing number of network users.<\/p>\n

Purchases, gifts of crypto, salary payments, and investments all contribute to the widening of a digital currency’s total distribution. Meanwhile, trading at a centralised exchange, which involves funds deposited to the trading venue (likely already one largest “holders” of that digital currency), will decrease a coin’s distribution.<\/p>\n

The Coin Metrics researchers looked at eight different sizes of wallet balances. The largest being those that held at least 1\/1,000th of the total supply of the coin. The smallest group of wallets were those holding at least 1\/10 billionth but not more than one billionth of the total supply.<\/p>\n

As highlighted in the following tweet by CasaHODL co-founder Jameson Lopp, Bitcoin actually tops the list in terms of its overall distribution. Granted, it has had a head start, and didn’t launch with a pre-mine.<\/p>\n

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How concentrated is crypto wealth? As of February 2020, large addresses storing over 1\/1000th of the total money supply on a given network hold about:
95% of XLM
85% of XRP
46% of LTC
40% of ETH
29% of BCH
24% of BSV
11% of BTC
H\/T
@Coinometrics<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/2fLR5I1T6A<\/a><\/p>\n

— Jameson Lopp (@lopp) February 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n