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How Often Do Cryptocurrencies Commit New Code?

28 points by dror 9y ago

jonathanmarcus 9y ago
"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.
Canada 9y ago
Another factor to consider is the content of each commit. Is it just copying from another project or making trivial changes, or is there real work being done?
CryptoPunk 9y ago
Is this only looking at one repository per project? Some projects, like Ethereum, have a number of repositories: https://github.com/ethereum https://github.com/ethereum
- onestone 9y ago
  Yeah, flagged for being inaccurate.
lacker 9y ago
Seems like there would be a big difference in metrics here if committers squash their commits or not.
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bitemix 9y ago
Here's a site that tracks exactly this: https://cryptomiso.com/ https://cryptomiso.com/
sharemywin 9y ago
I was curious about market cap to twitter followers or posts in https://bitcointalk.org https://bitcointalk.org.
jerkstate 9y ago
I love this. I've been kicking around the idea of building an automated crypto index buyer that orchestrates purchases/transfers on exchanges, around metrics like commits as well as use metrics like the ratio of on-chain value transfers to speculative on-exchange trading. Would be nice to couple this with a Linux distribution that made it easy to create an offline wallet for new cryptocurrencies that become interesting, so you could immediately shift your coins off of exchanges. A lot of them will probably become worth very little/go to zero, but there's a reasonable chance that the Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google etc. of the crypto world already exists as a fledgeling project.
- omilu 9y ago
  commit metric would be so easy to fake though
granaldo 9y ago
Coingecko has been tracking this too, for example https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum/developer https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum/developer

28 points by dror 9y ago

"The chart below shows that, of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, some - like EOS, Cardano, Monero, and Bitcoin - have had a lot more commits than others - like Populous or Bitconnect". Since Bitconnect is a now defunkt ponzi scheme and not a cryptocurrency, their lack of Github activity makes sense :) This analysis would be more helpful if the author properly curated the projects / tokens to include in the study.

Canada 9y ago

Another factor to consider is the content of each commit. Is it just copying from another project or making trivial changes, or is there real work being done?

CryptoPunk 9y ago

Is this only looking at one repository per project? Some projects, like Ethereum, have a number of repositories: https://github.com/ethereum https://github.com/ethereum

onestone 9y ago
Yeah, flagged for being inaccurate.

lacker 9y ago

Seems like there would be a big difference in metrics here if committers squash their commits or not.

deleted 9y ago

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bitemix 9y ago

Here's a site that tracks exactly this: https://cryptomiso.com/ https://cryptomiso.com/

sharemywin 9y ago

I was curious about market cap to twitter followers or posts in https://bitcointalk.org https://bitcointalk.org.

jerkstate 9y ago

I love this. I've been kicking around the idea of building an automated crypto index buyer that orchestrates purchases/transfers on exchanges, around metrics like commits as well as use metrics like the ratio of on-chain value transfers to speculative on-exchange trading. Would be nice to couple this with a Linux distribution that made it easy to create an offline wallet for new cryptocurrencies that become interesting, so you could immediately shift your coins off of exchanges. A lot of them will probably become worth very little/go to zero, but there's a reasonable chance that the Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google etc. of the crypto world already exists as a fledgeling project.

omilu 9y ago
commit metric would be so easy to fake though

granaldo 9y ago

Coingecko has been tracking this too, for example https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum/developer https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/ethereum/developer