I don't think he/she is right about ZenCloud addresses. GAW can keep those coins in one wallet, accounting done via database.
As for Paybase - yes, each user has to have at least one address (I don't recall if you can generate multiple). It might even be possible to find out which ones belong to Paybase specifically - they might be all swept to the same cold wallet. However this also means that deposit addresses are likely to be empty most of the time, so going by non-zero balance alone is not a good way to gauge the number of users. Someone needs to do some blockchain sleuthing.
Having said that I wouldn't be surprised if the number of GAW/Paybase customers doesn't reach five figures. You'd think there would be a lot more outcry if they had 100k or even 10k customers seeing their "investments" decimated by 90%.
Someone in the ht thread said that a total of more than 100,000 addresses were ever used.
In other news, Josh unbanned me (again) yesterday after his post on bans. Wonder what motivated that.
Having said that I wouldn't be surprised if the number of GAW/Paybase customers doesn't reach five figures. You'd think there would be a lot more outcry if they had 100k or even 10k customers seeing their "investments" decimated by 90%.
I agree. The total number of active wallets was 6,700. Could some people have 10-100 addresses? Of course. As it stands there is no more than 6,700 wallets (addresses) with any coins in them. I'd suspect the actual number of people to be less than that for obvious reasons. People having multiple wallets on different exchanges etc. It's a good point that there isn't too much of an outcry.
I personally have 4 addresses. The one I had for the desktop wallet, the one on zencloud, the one on paybase, and the one on cryptsy.
If that's the case for more folks it could easily cut the number down significantly.
How many of those have coins in them right now? Probably only your desktop one, if you still have any there.
I think most of them have tiny fractions of XPY in them - the drippings when you aren't 100% exacting about your withdrawals because the display doesn't provide enough precision. The zencloud and cryptsy one have some in them at the moment too but again it's fractions of xpy.