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Today, April 4, the well-known business publication Cointelegraph published the results of a recent study, the subject of which was the active development of the digital asset industry around the world. According to reports, the initiators of the survey were the founders of the Gemini crypto exchange – brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Between November 2021 and February 2022, they managed to interview about 300,000 respondents in 20 countries.
Given that the researchers’ primary goal was to gain insight into the rapidly growing digital asset ecosystem, all survey items included probing questions about the types and methods of investment preferred by citizens.
Most notably, more than half (53%) of residents from India, Brazil and Hong Kong purchased their first cryptocurrency in 2021. This suggests, the report says, that the highest “influx” of new crypto users in the entire history of virtual money took place last year.
The report, dubbed “The Global State of Crypto in 2022,” also speaks of an increase in the activity of crypto traders in Latin America and the Pacific region. Last year, about 46% and 45% of respondents, respectively, purchased cryptocurrency for the first time in their lives.
The lowest number of traders added in 2021 was in regions where digital assets have always enjoyed high popularity. Thus, in the United States and European countries, the number of new cryptocurrency holders increased by only 40%.
As for which countries are leading in terms of the number of crypto-supporters living in them, Brazil and Indonesia have become such. There, according to a survey, about 40% of all citizens are actively investing in digital assets. It is noteworthy that in the US this figure is 20%, and in Europe and Australia – 17%.
In conclusion, it is worth adding that a fairly high level of ownership of cryptocurrencies is recorded in Singapore, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. In these countries, about 35% of the population owns virtual money.
As a reminder, we previously reported that, according to a recent survey, the number of crypto-supporters in Germany has significantly increased over the past year.
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