Investors Data: Bitcoin Is The Most Popular Crypto Asset

The investors data that is received from CoinMakretCap, about Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies market capitalization figures, besides the bigger reliability than the data on daily volumes, only informs about how much of every cryptocurrency is out there as we are reading further in the bitcoin latest news.

However, with the huge amount of these coins being held by early adopters, whales, exchange wallets or just forever lost it is not providing an answer to the question. Which are the cryptos that investors are holding in their portfolios in reality? Luckily the Shrimpy Portfolio Management has published a snapshot from their extensive sample of investors data to provide some insight.

With disregard for market capitalization, we will set our focus on the dominance of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptos within the portfolios and their popularity. It is indicated by the dominance in itself that the average weighting of certain crypto within a certain portfolio. This is while ignoring the relative values of the portfolios. For example, a $100 million portfolio contains 25% Bitcoin (BTC) and a $10k portfolio containing 75% Bitcoin (BTC), would still average out 50% of Bitcoin (BTC).

The popularity measured what is the percentage of the sample portfolios that hold certain crypto while ignoring the relative proportion in each. For example, if 10 portfolios contained 5% of Ethereum (ETH) the popularity of Ethereum (ETH) would have been 100%. It is obvious that there is likely some overlap among Bitcoin (BTC), crypto market capitalizations, and our dominance and popularity metrics. Let as taking in consideration popularity.

Shrimpy had an unsurprising discovery that Bitcoin (BTC) is the most popular cryptocurrency, that appears in 72.4% of the portfolios. But, Ethereum (ETH) is also held by something more than half of the investors at 54.5%. Cryptocurrencies of prominent popularity were Binance Coin (40.1%), XRP (38.7%), Litecoin (37.7%), Stellar (32%), EOS (27%), Cardano (26.3%), Bitcoin Cash (24.5%) and Monero (21.4%). Naturally, Bitcoin (BTC) is again on the top in the dominance metric, making up an average of 26% of the portfolios sampled. But, Ethereum (ETH) is of an average weighting of 7.4%, unexpectedly if we take into consideration the market capitalization of the coin. Shrimpy also published a report in which it tries to asses the actual number of trades that are processed by cryptocurrency exchanges at a daily level.