Bitcoin (BTC) continues to pb the popularity contest among the peak cryptocurrencies —  but it has fewer addresses with bodily coins in them than Ethereum.

According to information from on-chain market place analyst Glassnode, Bitcoin has almost three times as many daily active addresses as Ethereum (ETH), eleven times more than Litecoin (LTC) and 140 times more than Ripple (XRP).

Bitcoin: Active Addresses vs. Ethereum: Active Addresses

Source: Glassnode

Bitcoin is growing faster than others

The number of new Bitcoin addresses being created each solar day is almost five times that of Ethereum. New Bitcoin addresses reached almost 470K in 24 hours, the day after the Bitcoin halving, in dissimilarity to Ethereum increasing by only 90K new addresses daily

Bitcoin: New Addresses vs. Ethereum: New Addresses

Source: Glassnode

The number of addresses holding more than than 0.1 BTC and more than than 1 BTC as well reached ATHs of 3,053,970 and 815,698 respectively.

Is it true growth?

Still, 95% of the full number of Bitcoin addresses in existence — 626 million — hold zippo Bitcoin. This calls into question the land of the network's true growth.

Bitcoin: Addresses with Non-Zero Balance vs. Bitcoin: Total Addresses

Source: Glassnode

Ethereum is looking positive

Following the 2022/2018 balderdash run, millions of Bitcoin addresses were emptied to zero on multiple occasions, still the number of Ethereum addresses with a positive residue continued to grow at a steady charge per unit.

Since February 2022, Ethereum has overtaken Bitcoin in the number of 'non-zero' addresses and currently has almost ten one thousand thousand more than Bitcoin. The need to keep addresses with small amounts of Ethereum for gas may business relationship for some of the difference.

Bitcoin: Addresses with Non-Zero Balance vs. Ethereum: Addresses with Non-Zero Balance

Source: Glassnode

The number of agile wallets to non-zero wallets on Bitcoin and Ethereum sit down at iii% and 0.8% respectively. Considering Ethereum has millions more than addresses with tokens in them, but merely 1 tertiary of Bitcoin'south active addresses, it suggests that small hodlers and network users are more inclined to invest in Ethereum while large hodlers and traders are more probable to invest in bitcoin.