Ethereum Nears 190M Holders—Triple Bitcoin’s Count In Widening Adoption Gap

A surge of validators awaiting Eth2 staking has pushed Ethereum’s node count to 11,259 — surpassing Bitcoin by more than 100. Ethereum 2.0 genesis stakers have pushed the total number of Ethereum nodes past the number of Bitcoin nodes for the second time this year.According to Ethernodes.org, 11,259 Ethereum nodes are currently active, giving it a roughly 1% lead over Bitcoin’s 11,136. Ethereum’s node count last surpassed Bitcoin’s in early September.The number of Ethereum nodes has increased by more than 50% in the past two weeks or so, spiking from 8,086 on Nov. 15 — 11 days after the....

Solana has made a name for itself in the decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible token (NFT) space over the last few years. Its growth has seen it become one of the largest contenders for the leading smart contract network Ethereum, as it presents faster and cheaper transaction options. Its transaction count had quickly multiplied in light of this, and now, the cryptocurrency has neared another important milestone. Almost 100 Billion Transactions With only two years of operations under its belt, Solana has quickly grown in prominence among crypto investors. With an average of 3,000....

The latest holder data from Santiment shows that crypto adoption is still increasing, even as prices are without a clear bullish trend across the market. Bitcoin is approaching a major wallet milestone, XRP has continued to grow its user base, and Ethereum is dominating the field by a wide margin. Numbers Reveal A Surge In Adoption New figures from on-chain analytics platform Santiment show that cryptocurrencies are witnessing intense adoption across the board. This data is particularly gotten from the holder count from Santiment, which looks at the number of addresses with non-empty....

Bitcoin has been around for about 7 years now and its adoption is gradually picking up. But when we say that bitcoin adoption is picking up and lot of people are using it to make payments etc., we are actually referring to only a fraction of total world's population. We have been reading about forecasts that say "bitcoin is going mainstream", but how can we call that "going mainstream" when bitcoin adoption is less than a meagre 1 percent. READ MORE: Bitcoin Community to Hit 5 Million Mark by 2019. Is bitcoin ever going to be mainstream? Banks incorporating bitcoin technology for their....

Recent on-chain reports show that Ethereum (ETH) has greatly surpassed Bitcoin (BTC) in a key metric, suggesting that the flagship cryptocurrency may not be as dominant as once thought. According to Santiment data, Ethereum’s holder count has exceeded Bitcoin’s by a staggering 320%, highlighting a surge in adoption and investor interest. With the market experiencing […]