Analytics

[tjayrush]

Key allows us to do things we couldn't do well earlier because we have a database which allows for sorting and summarizing.

An example is something I did a long time ago where I simply counted two things:

1. The number of address with 1, 2, 3, .... n appearances, and
2. The number of appearances represented by those addresses with 1, 2, 3, ... n.

This produced an interest table of data:

From this we can see that very few addresses produce the VAST number of appearances. 2% of the addresses produce nearly 80% of the appearances.

I suspect that most people think this is true, but this clearly shows how severe this is.

It matters because I suspect that this is also true of the size of the state stored on-chain and we could a similar study for that.

It would also be interesting to look much more deeply at smart contract vs. non-smart-contract.