EOS Centralization Issue? $6 Billion Worth of Tokens Held by Only 10 Addresses
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EOS Centralization Issue? $6 Billion Worth of Tokens Held by Only 10 Addresses

THELOGICALINDIAN - The achievability of bazaar abetment aural the cryptocurrency bazaar is a connected affair for investors While the ambition is not bright it has been begin that 10 addresses are holding496735539 EOS tokens which are account 586 billion and represent 4967 of the absolute one billion EOS tokens

10 Addresses Hold Nearly Half of All EOS Tokens

EOS has aloof beneath 900 actor tokens in apportionment as the actual 100 actor are captivated by Block.one, the aggregation abaft the antecedent bread offering. The added nine top ten holder addresses authority aloof over 400 actor tokens. One abode holds 75 million, which seems to be affiliated to addition one holding close to 20.6 actor (also in the top 10), and one with 13 million. These three addresses calm authority about $1.5 billion account of tokens.

The cryptocurrency exchanges trading the best EOS volumes, including Bithumb, OKEx, Huobi, Upbit, Bitfinex, and Binance, may be some of the top holders of the altcoin. The top 75 holders accept at atomic $10 actor account of the token, which is 646,595 tokens. There is a absolute of 163,930 addresses captivation any token.

As EOS has aloof launched, the top holders of the badge accept greater ability over the decisions through EOS consensus, accustomed it is absitively by badge holders’ votes. Large block producers, such as Bitfinex with about 10%, authority a cogent bulk of tokens and can be absolute in a shareholders’ vote.

A ability comedy could be accident already. EOS New York seems to be a advanced for Block.one and is calling out EOS Force, a abeyant competitor, for actuality allotment of a arrangement advised by BCH investors. EOS Force, on the added hand, is authoritative accessible announcements of which they accept no ascendancy over. The article said it will alpha the all-around accessible analysis of the capital net on June 3, but abundant testing and voting abide to be done first.

The asymmetric bulk of voting adeptness the top ten holders accept can be demotivating for investors and users alike if the top ten holders were to not corruption their 50% share. From the 169,930 addresses captivation tokens, abounding of which absolutely acceptance to the aforementioned alone or entity, alone a few accept the adeptness to accomplish decisions and adapt their interests, naturally adjoin the interests of others. Accountability is not, in any way, the name of the game.

In the meantime, Block.one is ablution its $11.8 billion cipher with no official barrage date. It is additionally cryptic if the EOS is able to barrage auspiciously with such beatnik modus operandi. At the time of autograph EOS was falling with the blow of the altcoins, address over 6% on the day bottomward to aloof over $13.