54000 addresses currently holding a balance. Also note, the top address belongs to BTC38, of whom we hardly ever see, meaning 35.5% is held by *different* people.
How much does it cost to create a new address and send funds to it?
Thats right, its basically free.
There is no way for us to verify that different people hold that unless you want to get 54,000 'people' to sign a message confirming their address/es?
this is true and you've a right to be skeptical, i'm just pointing out facts i've noticed on my own. as far as i'm aware there've never been any campaigns to artificially inflate DGC's stats... which is saying something given the nature of most altcoins.
i do believe however that the differences between times addresses were last utilized can help determine the level of centralization of wealth. four addresses in bitpay's top ten are obviously under control of a single entity. one cannot reach that conclusion as easily when looking at DGC.