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Cryptocurrency Ecosystem => Ethereum Forum => Ethereum News & Updates => Topic started by: PRIBO247 on December 17, 2018, 04:56:17 PM
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The number of unique Ethereum (ETH ) wallet addresses has
broken 50 million on Saturday, Dec. 15, according to data from the
ETH BlockExplorer Etherscan .
On Saturday, the Ethereum network saw a daily increase of
168,506 unique crypto wallets, following a steady growing trend
this year. With that, the highest historical daily growth of unique
Ethereum addresses took place on Jan. 4, 2018, with 352,888 new
addresses created on the Ethereum network.
While the unique address growth chart indicates the number of
existing crypto wallets, there is also an index that shows the
number of active crypto addresses, representing the number of
unique sending and receiving addresses carrying out transactions
on a certain day, according to the daily cryptocurrency data
website Coinmetrics .
Referring to data from BitInfoCharts, the number of active Ethereum
addresses has been decreasing steadily in 2018. Having peaked at
around 1.1 million on Jan. 4, 2018, the amount of active Ethereum
addresses has dropped below one million in mid-January, and has
fallen by around 70 percent over the year — to 328,400 addresses
recorded yesterday, Dec. 16.
According to Blockchain.com , the latest recorded number of
unique Bitcoin (BTC ) wallets accounted for 364,387 on Dec. 15,
down from around one million on Jan. 3, 2018. The number of
active BTC addresses amounts to around 461,000 as recorded
yesterday, Dec. 16. The highest amount of active Bitcoin
addresses was registered on Dec. 14, 2017, with more than 1.13
million active wallets, according to BitInfoCharts.
Recently, Cointelegraph reported that the number of crypto users
has grown by almost 50 percent in 2018, having gained around 17
million new ID-verified users.
source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/