{"id":119917,"date":"2019-11-30T18:19:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=119917"},"modified":"2019-11-30T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:43:49","slug":"horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizen (ZEN) ranked first by active nodes, while Bitcoin (BTC) second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned analyst is making a compelling case for ranking cryptocurrencies. Instead of taking into account their market capitalization, he puts emphasis on the number of nodes instead.<\/p>\n<h2>CoinMarketCap rankings are &#8220;nonsense&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Aat de Kwaasteniet, a former electrical designer at Vialis, explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/ranking-cryptos-by-number-of-nodes-57a12e4ae51a\">Medium post<\/a> that the way <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/products\/coinmarketcap\/\">CoinMarketCap<\/a> ranks cryptocurrencies is \u201chighly questionable.\u201d He specified that the price of a given crypto should not be the only factor to consider when raking these assets.<\/p>\n<p>Under CoinMarketCap\u2019s gauge, the higher the price of a digital asset in combination with the higher the number of tokens in circulation, the better positioned they would be. Kwaasteniet maintains that the industry puts a lot of weight on a \u201chigh market cap quotation,\u201d but this value is \u201cvery fictitious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kwaasteniet explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLet\u2019s say, John launches and cryptocurrency and calls it JohnDoeCoin. He sets up the blockchain in such a way that at the beginning there are 100 million JohnDoe\u2019s (the so-called pre-mined tokens). Then, he goes to his friend William and asks if he wants to buy one JohnDoe from him for \u20ac10. According to the market cap definition, JohnDoeCoin now has a market cap of \u20ac1 billion and CoinMarketCap ranks it around the 10th place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The analyst believes that this way of raking cryptocurrency is \u201cnonsense.\u201d He suggests that instead, cryptos should be ranked based on the \u201cnodes\/peers that are active in the network and are involved in checking\/approving the transactions.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Rankings by number of nodes<\/h2>\n<p>Kwaasteniet stressed that for some tokens the only data available was provided on their own blockchain explorer. But, not all nodes in the network are counted in most cases.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 24, for instance, the top 10 cryptocurrencies by the number of nodes\/peers that were connected to their networks were: Horizen (ZEN), Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Zcoin (XZC), PAC Global (PAC), Polis (POLIS), Dash (DASH), Zilliqa (ZIL), DigitalNote (XDN), and Gulden (NLG).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119918\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-119918 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nodes_Crypto_Rakings-1024x778.png\" alt=\"Crypto Rankings by Active Nodes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nodes_Crypto_Rakings-1024x778.png 1024w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nodes_Crypto_Rakings-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nodes_Crypto_Rakings-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Nodes_Crypto_Rakings.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryptocurrency Rankings by Active Nodes. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/coinmonks\/ranking-cryptos-by-number-of-nodes-57a12e4ae51a\">Medium<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It is worth noting that this list represents a snapshot of how many nodes were connected on Nov. 24. And, these values can vary at any time. Kwaasteniet believes that this way of ranking cryptocurrencies is \u201cfairer\u201d and serves the purpose of Bitcoin\u2019s developer, Satoshi Nakamoto.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is fairer to make a comparison between [cryptocurrencies] that have made more or less the same start and that have obtained and enlarged their circulation supplement through mining as Satoshi Nakamoto intended.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A renowned analyst is making a compelling case for ranking cryptocurrencies. Instead of taking into account their market capitalization, he puts emphasis on the number of nodes instead. CoinMarketCap rankings are &#8220;nonsense&#8221; Aat de Kwaasteniet, a former electrical designer at Vialis, explained in a Medium post that the way CoinMarketCap ranks cryptocurrencies is \u201chighly questionable.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":119929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,2376,37],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.9 (Yoast SEO v21.9.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Horizen (ZEN) ranked first by active nodes, while Bitcoin (BTC) second<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An analyst makes a compelling case for ranking cryptocurrencies by the number of active nodes instead of their market capitalization.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Horizen (ZEN) ranked first by active nodes, while Bitcoin (BTC) second\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An analyst makes a compelling case for ranking cryptocurrencies by the number of active nodes instead of their market capitalization.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CryptoSlate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-30T18:19:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-11-30T18:43:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/nodes.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ali Martinez\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cryptoslate\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ali Martinez\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/horizen-zen-ranked-first-by-active-nodes-while-bitcoin-btc-second\/\"},\"author\":{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/#person\",\"name\":\"Ali Martinez\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/\"},\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/author\/ali-martinez\/#authorimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/victor-charles-profile-e1555981456737-300x300.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/victor-charles-profile-e1555981456737-300x300.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Ali Martinez\"},\"jobTitle\":\"Analyst\",\"description\":\"Ali came across Bitcoin\u2019s whitepaper in 2014. 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