https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/electra/#charts
The price has stayed fairly consistent, but just within the last hour the market cap which was previously around 4 million briefly dropped to zero and then shot up to 109 million.
So this would mean that, the circulating supply of ECA that coinmarketcap can detect instantly jumped from around 900 million to around 22 billion. Where is it seeing all that ECA?
I really hope you mean that somehow CMC is 'seeing' the coins at Coinsmarkets and that this is the sign we were hoping for?
I don't think so.
https://twitter.com/ElectracoinECA/status/954087933912416261
ECA said that "Coin Market Cap has updated Electra ECA to reflect accurate statistics"....... whatever that's supposed to mean.
Something doesn't seem right.
https://coinmarketcap.com/faq/
Circulating Supply is the best approximation of the number of coins that are circulating in the market and in the general public's hands.
Total Supply is the total amount of coins in existence right now (minus any coins that have been verifiably burned).
Max Supply is the best approximation of the maximum amount of coins that will ever exist in the lifetime of the cryptocurrency.
Why is the Circulating Supply used in determining the market capitalization instead of Total Supply?
We've found that Circulating Supply is a much better metric for determining the market capitalization. Coins that are locked, reserved, or not able to be sold on the public market are coins that can't affect the price and thus should not be allowed to affect the market capitalization as well. The method of using the Circulating Supply is analogous to the method of using public float for determining the market capitalization of companies in traditional investing.
Look at the chart for the last month -> https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/electra/#charts
Why did the ECA circulating supply drop from 22 billion to around 900 million (around January 7th) and then shoot back up to 22 billion earlier today?
If this Coin Market Cap data is being determined based on what active exchanges are reporting, then this shouldn't be happening because coinsmarkets is not back online and there is no indication of it coming back.
If the data is manually "corrected" then this doesn't seem right:
In Coin Market Cap's own words:
We've found that Circulating Supply is a much better metric for determining the market capitalization. Coins that are locked, reserved, or not able to be sold on the public market are coins that can't affect the price and thus should not be allowed to affect the market capitalization as well.
to me that sounds like the ECA locked on coinsmarkets should not be considered as part of the circulating supply.