Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency in many areas, has not impressed a Chinese government-backed research institute which has put the original blockchain project in 11th spot out of 37. At the top of the list, and an all-time leader, is EOS, a smart contract platform that is in competition with Ethereum, the project that is ranked second overall by the Chinese CCID Research Institute. Tron comes in at thrid, having dropped a spot since the last ranking. Bitcoin at 11th is actually up one spot from the last ranking, however, even after adding two more projects this time around - Cosmos and Zilliqa - there is still no ... (full story)