Vitalik Buterin conducted a survey on finding an alternative to Ethereum
The winner of the first survey among subscribers was the Cardano cryptocurrency
17.01.2022 - 07:15
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What’s new? Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin conducted a survey among his Twitter followers. The key question to users was: “You wake up in 2035, and 80% of all transactions and savings in the world are in one currency that is not ETH. Which would you prefer it to be?”
Poll for Ethereum community. You wake up in 2035, and 80% of all transactions + savings in the world are in one currency that is not ETH. Which would you prefer it to be?— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 13, 2022
Which cryptocurrencies topped the top? The Cardano cryptocurrency came in first place in users' preferences, followed by Bitcoin, and Solana rounded out the top three. Interestingly, 6,5% of the respondents chose the US dollar. A total of just over 600 000 people took part in the survey.
Following the first survey, Vitalik Buterin published the second one, in which the TRON project won (51,3% of those who voted).
BNB (22,8%) and NEO (21,8%) took second and third place respectively. The fourth place went to the digital yuan. More than 358 000 users took part in this survey.
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