Exchange cryptocurrency demonstrated “record transaction volumes” in 2018, according to a new report of the company Diar.
According to her, the number of transactions and trading volume on bitcoin exchanges in the past year increased compared to the 2017 year. Diar expects earnings this year will be lower than in 2017, despite the likely increase in the range of traded cryptocurrencies.
As the authors of the report, the total dollar trading volume on us exchanges Coinbase in 2018 increased by 21%. At the same time, exchanges Kraken and Bitfinex recorded 192% and 50% growth respectively.
In addition to the growth of Coinbase demonstrated an increase in the number of transactions by 14.1% from 82.7 million in 2017 up to 94.4 million in 2018.
Diar has also reviewed the activities on the bitcoin mining for the past year. According to her statement, the income of miners over this period exceeded $5.8 billion in January, the miners earned $1.2 billion, but by December, the value dropped by 83% and amounted to only $210 million.
In the beginning of last year, mining-pools BTC.com, Antpool and ViaBTC controlled 53% of the hash rate of the bitcoin network, but this year they are up for only 39%.
Analysts note that the reallocation of hash-power in favor of a larger number of less influential pools is essential to ensure network security crypto-currencies:
“Currently, the bitcoin is less likely to become a victim of an attack, since the controlled BTC.com pools lost its dominant position”.
In its December Diar research highlighted the problem of ICO, which, according to her account, every month, are attracting less and less money.
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