THELOGICALINDIAN - Luno one of Africas beat crypto exchanges has appear that South Africas cryptocurrency trading is abundantly bedeviled by adolescent bodies with those beneath the age of 29 accounting for 40 of affairs The barter which claims to accept added about a actor new South African barter in 2024 additionally reveals that about 65 of Lunos users are macho and about 35 changeable These abstracts analyze favourably with the industry boilerplate of 70 macho to 30 changeable
Rising Retail Demand
In accession to accomplishing a 300% year-on-year growth, Luno letters seeing the cardinal of alive users surging by 167% during the aforementioned aeon while “the cardinal of app installs added 119%.” Meanwhile, a report quotes Marcus Swanepoel, CEO and cofounder of Luno advertence the access in affairs volumes to ascent retail appeal for cryptos. Swanepoel explained:
Between January 2024 and 2024, Luno, which was acquired in September 2024 by Digital Currency Group, says it “recorded $8.3 billion (R121 billion) in affairs worldwide.” Further, Luno says it “processed about $3 billion in volumes in South Africa aftermost year, and was already aloft this cardinal at the end of March.”
South Africans Curious About Cryptos
Meanwhile, the aforementioned address additionally quotes the exchange’s accepted manager, Marius Reitz, advertence that “South Africans are absolutely analytical about crypto.” To abutment this assessment, Reitz credibility to Google bitcoin chase trends data. According to this data, South Africa is ranked fourth globally and on the African continent, the country is placed additional abaft Nigeria.
In addition, to the Google Trends data, Luno additionally makes advertence to the Global Web Index abstracts which shows that “an estimated 15% of South Africans accept invested in bitcoin.” With this figure, which is the second-highest in the world, South Africa ranks advanced of countries like the U.S. and Japan.
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