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60 Cryptocurrency Statistics and Facts

11/09/2022
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General Cryptocurrency Statistics

1. There are 19,146 cryptocurrencies in 2022. (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

2. There are currently 36,926 Crypto ATMs throughout the world, with 32,462 of them being in the USA. (Source: Coin ATM Radar) 

Bitcoin Statistics and Facts

3. In April 2022, Bitcoin represented 41.4% of the global market cap of $101,221,556,821, with a $1,790,868,233,427 market cap. 

4. In Q3 of 2020, the market cap of Bitcoin was $199.62 billion, being only 16% lower than in Q4 of 2017, during the crypto boom ($237.62 billion). (Source: Statista) 

5. Bitcoin’s market cap had a 5,619.77% increase in the past five years, going up from $3.49 billion in Q3 2015 to $199.62 billion in Q3 2020. (Source: Statista) 

6. As of Q3 2020, there are 18.5 million Bitcoin in circulation. That leaves only 2.5 million BTC locked in the blockchain, waiting to be mined. (Source: Blockchain.com) 

7. The last BTC is estimated to be mined in 2140. (Source: Buy Bitcoin Worldwide) 

8. 78.95% of British people that have holdings in cryptocurrency bought Bitcoin. (Source: Finder) 

9. It is estimated that Satoshi Nakamoto owns around 980,000 BTC. (Source: Bitslog) 

10. Bitcoin’s lowest price in 2020 was $4,996.69 on March 16. (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

11. In 2020, the maximum total USD value transacted in BTC in one day was $11.87B, on January 15. The minimum total USD value transacted in BTC in one day was $2.33B, on April 2. However, the average daily USD value transacted by BTC in 2020 is $6B. (Source: Coinmetrics) 

12. The 2020 Bitcoin Network miners’ repartition by countries is as follows:  

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  • China 65.08%  
  • USA 7.24% 
  • Russia 6.90% 
  • Kazakhstan 6.17%  
  • Malaysia 4.33% 
  • Iran 3.82%  
  • Canada 0.82%  
  • Germany 0.56% 
  • Norway 0.48% 
  • Venezuela 0.42% 
  • Others 4.18% 

(Source: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index) 

13. Europeans expect cryptocurrencies to still be around ten years from now but expect Bitcoin to wear off. Of 10,000 surveyed residents, 63% were positive that cryptocurrencies will last, and 49% expect BTC to fall in the next 10 years. If that’s the case, who’s going to mine the last Bitcoin in 2140? (Source: Bitflyer Europe) 

Stats & Facts on Blockchain

14. According to the Deloitte 2020 Blockchain Survey, 55% of organizations or projects say that blockchain will be critical for 2020. 39% of the respondents cited that they brought the blockchain into production. (Source: Deloitte Blockchain Survey) 

15. The number of unique blockchain wallets in Q3 2020 is 54.27 million. That is a 12M increase since Q3 2019 and a 25M increase since Q3 2018. (Source: Blockchain.com) 

16. In Q3 of 2020, The Bitcoin Blockchain size grew by over 300,000 MB, adding over 45,000 MB of data since the beginning of the year. That’s more than 2 times more data added this year than in the same time frame in 2019. (Source: Blockchain.com) 

17. The Bitcoin Blockchain reached 100 million transactions in December 2015, 200 million transactions in February 2017, 300 million transactions in February 2018, 400 million transactions in April 2019, and in February 2020, it processed the 500,000,000th transaction. (Source: Blockchain.com) 

18. In 2020, the annualized estimated consumption of the Bitcoin network was estimated at 70.10 TWh. This accounts for 0.32 % of the world’s total energy consumption. (Source: Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index) 

19. The Bitcoin Lightning Network mainnet was launched as a beta in 2018. And as of October 2020, there are 5,711 routing nodes and 31,201 channels around the world. (Source: Coinzilla Academy) 

20. In October 2020, Ethereum comprised 8,679 live mainnet nodes globally. (Source: Ethernodes) 

21. With that many nodes, In October 2020, Ethereum’s use reached almost 120M unique addresses. (Source: Etherscan) 

22. In October 2020, Ethereum registered 88.72k daily dapps active users and $84.53M in dApps’ 24h transactions volume. (Source: State of the DApps) 

Altcoins Statistics and Facts

23. Currently, Tether is the #1 cryptocurrency by 24-hour purchase volume, having a total volume of close to $48 billion. Bitcoin comes in second with close to $40 billion. (Source: Statista) 

24. The #1 traded cryptocurrency, calculated by the total spot trading volume reported by all exchanges over a 24 hours time frame, is Tether (USDT). USDT has a $56B 24h volume, surpassing Bitcoin with $16B. (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

25. By considering the return on investment, the best crypto investments crypto made in the last decades besides Bitcoin were Ethereum and Binance Coin, both of them holding an ROI of over 9,000%. (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

26. There are 3,809 known dapps, and they are built on: 

  • Ethereum (2,977)
  • EOS (331)
  • TRON (203)
  • Steem (80)
  • Klaytn (59)
  • Hive (45)
  • Blockstack (24)
  • Neo (22)
  • POA (20)
  • ICON (12)
  • Loom (14)
  • xDai (13)
  • GoChain (7)
  • OST (2)

(Source: State of the DApps)

27. On 2 September 2020, Ethereum’s average transaction fee reached its highest level ever, $15.21. That’s 4X times more than the peak average transaction fee for Ethereum in 2018. (Source: Blockchair) 

28. In 2020, USDT saw the greatest “overnight” increase in market cap ever. On 30-31 March, it increased by $1.5B, on 14-15 May, it increased by $2.4B, and on 31 August – 1 September, it increased by $3.3B. (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

29. On 1 September 2020, USDT once again surpassed XRP as the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, becoming the second-largest altcoin after Ether (ETH). (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

30. Although Chainlink is deeply tied to memes, as an investment, it is quite serious, reaching an ROI of 7,301.19% (Source: CoinMarketCap) 

Crypto Exchanges Statistics and Facts

31. As of October 2020, there are more than 350 cryptocurrency exchanges on the market, with 27 launched in 2020 alone. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

32. According to traders, the biggest problems of cryptocurrency exchanges are: 

  • Security (40%);
  • High trading fees (37%);
  • Lack of liquidity (36%);
  • Customer support (33%).

 (Source: Statista)

33. Binance has the largest 24h trading volume of all the exchanges – over $9B. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

34. In 2020, the #1 Cryptocurrency Spot Exchange and Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange by 24h trading volume is Huobi Global, with $14.69B. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

35. The #1 Decentralized Exchange (DEX) by 24h volume in 2020 is Uniswap (V2), with $260M. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

Cryptocurrency Marketing Statistics and Facts

36. Since June 2016, 14,688,332 web pages have mentioned Bitcoin. That’s roughly 9,200 pages per day. Or 6 pages per minute. (Source: Ahrefs Content Explorer)

37. On December 22, 2017, the Bitcoin search term had the most interest over time ever. South Africa was the #1 region from which the searches came. (Source: Google Trends) 

38. And for the Ethereum search term, the most interest over time ever was shown On December 13, 2017. Kosovo was the #1 region from which the searches came. (Source: Google Trends)

39. In 2020, the most interest shown in the Bitcoin search term was on March 13. The #1 region to search for this term was Nigeria. (Source: Google Trends)

40. In 2020, the most interest shown in the Ethereum search term was on August 2. The #1 region to search for this term was Nigeria. (Source: Google Trends)

41. In 2019, the top 15 crypto ad networks combined revenue reached almost $25M. (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

42. In 2017, ICOs raised $10B, and it took only 966 ICOs to do so. However, although they raised $11.4B in 2018, it took 2,284 ICOs. And because of the numerous scams, this way of raising money became less and less popular, to the point where 350 ICOs managed to raise only $0.37B in 2019. (Source: Coinzilla Academy) 

43. In 2018, 42 IEOs raised $0.266B, and in 2019, 309 IEOs raised $1.89B. (Source: Coinzilla Academy) 

44. The top 5 communication channels used by crypto projects are: 

  • Twitter (92.8%)
  • Facebook (73%)
  • Telegram (67.9%)
  • Linkedin (42.1%)
  • Medium (41.2%)

(Source: Coinzilla Academy)

45. 18.91% of the crypto projects are present on at least one more channel, such as LINE, BiYong, StackExchange, Keybase, KiwiIRC, Meetup, TALK, Discuss.status.im, Gitlab, Vimeo, Slack, StackOverflow, Skype, WhatsApp, Band, Pinterest, Gab, ZenDesk, JQ. (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

46. Channels such as LINE, Vk, BiYong, Weibo, and WeChat are most popular in the Asian market.

47. On average, crypto projects use 5.01 communication channels. (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

48. Besides external communication channels, 44.43% of the projects also have internal communication channels such as a blog, a news section, or a forum. (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

49. When it comes to social media channels, crypto projects use:

  • Facebook (73%)
  • Twitter(92.8%)
  • Linkedin (42.1%)

50. Telegram is the top messaging app used in the Crypto Market. 67.8% of the crypto projects have an official Telegram channel. (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

51. The share of people owning cryptocurrency in Europe is relatively low – 9%. And while in Western Europe, the percentages are lower, Eastern European countries like Poland (11%) and Romania (12%) have the most cryptocurrency owners. However, the first position is occupied by Turkey (18%). (Source: Coinzilla Academy)

Cryptocurrency Security Statistics and Facts about DeFi

57. By the end of the Q3 of 2020, the total Value Locked in DeFi passed $11B. Uniswap decentralized exchange represents 24.43% of the Total Value Locked, around $2.74B (Source: DeFi Pulse)

58. Up to this point, 251 DeFis are divided into 3 main ecosystems: Ethereum 81.6% (205) Bitcoin 9.6% (24) EOS 8.8% (22) (Source: DeFiprime)

59. On January 31, 2019, the Wrapped Bitcoin was officially launched as a tokenized version of Bitcoin (BTC) that runs on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

60. With the emergence of DeFi tokens, at the end of 2020, the cryptocurrency that held the highest price in the market was YFI from yearn.finance. (Source: CoinMarketCap)

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