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Board Service Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [BlockScan] Counterparty (XCP) Block Explorer
by
Chaykaa
on 12/03/2015, 08:16:41 UTC
The GINI index - very interesting. I hope you will introduce more metrics as well. Makes it fun to compare assets.

For GINI I wonder if an adjusted calculation would add some value. For example, some assets have one owner/distribution address which holds almost all tokens. Look at FLDC. It has GINI > 99%. It's because the owner holds token that are yet not distributed.

Another thing is addresses with dust amounts. GINI is meant for a population (a finite amount of people). Bitcoin is made of an infinite amount of addresses and over time there will be lots of addresses with dust, which makes GINI look too high.

Suggested adjustment: 1) Do not include the one address with the largest holding. 2) Sort addresses and include only those that accumulated own 95% of all assets.