Do Chinese investors own the majority of ETH?
Ethereum Pagmamay-ari ba ng mga mamumuhunang Tsino ang karamihan sa ETH? 5 minuto ang nakalipas Balita ng Ethereum ng Bitcoin A forensic researcher has iminungkahi that Chinese investors may well own the vast majority of ether (ETH) in circulation via a raft of agents, LLCs, directors, advisors, and corporate structures. Bilang detalyado ng @BoringSleuth (aka TruthLabs), Ethereum was one of the first coins to distribute its initial supply through a pre-mine. Rather than a Bitcoin-like fair launch — distributing coins via mining rewards through the public operation of a blockchain — Ethereum‘s co-founders pre-mined the majority of their currency’s supply at genesis. The idea of a ‘pre-mine’ allocated for early investors and project developers was highly controversial when Ethereum held its initial coin offering (ICO) and it remains so today. Who owns all those early ETH wallets? Ethereum has been famously tight-lipped about the owners of most of its earliest wallets. Although Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation happily disclose some of their stash, most co-founders and pre-ICO team members received large allocations into anonymous wallets. To this day, most decline to publicly identify their wallets. Any sophisticated investor would have found it relatively easy to contribute bitcoin to Ethereum‘s ICO through anonymous wallets that allowed them to obfuscate