06 Aug 2023
Supply schedules and ownership spread for Bitcoin and peers
Supply schedule and ownership concentration are important to evaluate when investing in cryptocurrencies. For payment tokens in the top 30 cryptos by market cap, the percentage of supply to be released in the coming years varies greatly.
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Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin have the same theoretical supply schedule. Bitcoin Cash is a fork of Bitcoin, and hence the supply and remaining issuance are almost identical. Litecoin, however, started later, and a larger percentage of the supply is still to be issued.Monero and Dogecoin have significantly different supply schedules from Bitcoin. Both Monero and Dogecoin have what is called constant tail emissions. Constant tail emissions
