Both numbers have risen steadily over the past year and are showing no signs of slowing down.
Non-zero Bitcoin addresses experienced their greatest degree of fluctuation back in 2018, in the wake of the bull run; as prices shot up, the number of addresses followed suit, before quickly dropping back down.
Growth in non-zero Ethereum addresses, by contrast, has been nearly constant since 2017.
This makes a kind of intuitive sense—as crypto adoption becomes increasingly mainstream, more and more traders are getting on board with these two coins, which have the largest and second-largest market capitalizations in crypto.
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