By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T10:57:18-04:00January 7, 2020|Antoine Le Calvez, State of the Network|
Each blockchain has a unique process for issuing new supply. For some, like Bitcoin, the full issuance schedule and final supply are encoded into the protocol (and is unlikely to change, due to social consensus). Bitcoin issues new supply through [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T17:53:07-04:00January 1, 2020|Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
In this special edition of State of the Network (SOTN) we take a look back at how the major cryptoassets performed over 2019 across four categories: Valuation Usage and Adoption Economics Security and Health We selected several metrics for each [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T10:56:54-04:00December 24, 2019|Kevin Lu, State of the Network|
The upcoming block reward halving for Bitcoin, anticipated in May 2020, has already given rise to intense discussion about its potential impact. Several theories have been advanced to study supply-side dynamics surrounding halvings and its eventual impact (or lack thereof) [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T10:56:47-04:00December 17, 2019|Antoine Le Calvez, State of the Network|
In Medieval times, landed estates’ accounts were read out loud to a person charged by the local ruler to ensure that their steward had not swindled them. As the primary role of this person was to listen (audire in latin), they [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T10:56:37-04:00December 10, 2019|Nate Maddrey, State of the Network|
It takes a whole network of people to make a public blockchain work. You need miners to validate and secure the ledger. You need developers to maintain and update the protocol’s code. And you need users and investors who use [...]
By Coin Metrics|2023-03-24T10:56:09-04:00December 3, 2019|Kevin Lu, State of the Network|
Bubbles and subsequent crashes in financial assets occur with regular frequency in economic history, largely due to deeply-rooted cognitive biases in human psychology. In Bitcoin’s ten year history, at least three complete bubble-and-crash cycles have been observed. We examine the [...]
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