Ever since the advent of Bitcoin and the cryptocurrencies that followed, the world seems to have been bitten by the craze of blockchain and cryptocurrencies. While there now hundreds of tokens and blockchain solutions, some parts of the crypto sphere remain imminent. One of them in Ethereum.
ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio building decentralized applications on Ethereum, offered a census of the cryptocurrency’s contributions to blockchain in a recent blog.
The blog explains the state of Ethereum and told that in particular, late 2017 and early 2018 saw a massive increase in popular attention due to rapid price increases across the entire crypto-asset ecosystem.
In two years, the word “Ethereum” has been included in over 110 million Google searches. The hashtag #ethereum is tweeted, on average, 20,000 times a day.
- On January 4, 2018 over 350,000 new addresses were created, the most addresses generated within a 24 hour period to date. Ethernodes reports just under 17,000 nodes running the Ethereum blockchain across six continents, making it the most decentralized blockchain platform in existence.
- MetaMask, a browser extension allowing users to to run dApps without running an entire Ethereum node, has reached over 1 million users.
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