Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own Cryptocurrencies
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Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own Cryptocurrencies

THELOGICALINDIAN - Ukrainians are more acquainted of cryptocurrencies and 13 percent of those application the Internet own agenda bill according to a new analysis The absolute of the circadian about-face on the three arch cryptocurrency exchanges in the country currently alcove 2 actor USD

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Majority of Ukrainians Know About Bitcoin

A ample majority of the respondents in an online analysis in Ukraine accept said they are acquainted of agenda currencies – 72 percent of those questioned apperceive what cryptocurrency is. Another 23 percent accept heard the term, while 5 percent told interviewers they were audition the chat for the aboriginal time. Ukrainian men are bigger abreast about bill – 81 percent, as able-bodied as youngsters – 79 percent.

Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own Cryptocurrencies

The poll has been conducted by Kantar TNS, the bounded adumbrative of the business analysis close Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS). 1,000 residents, age-old 18-55, accept been contacted online throughout Ukraine, with the barring of the battle zones in the eastern allotment of the country and Crimea.

The after-effects appearance that bitcoin (BTC) charcoal the best acclaimed cryptocurrency, with 98 percent of the Ukrainians with admission to the web adage they apperceive about it. It’s followed by litecoin with 29 percent and bitcoin back-bite (BCH), 27 percent. Fourteen percent of the participants admit dash, and 6 percent – NEM.

Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own CryptocurrenciesThe authors of the study accept additionally approved to actuate how complex Ukrainians are with cryptocurrencies. According to their data, 13 percent of the respondents own agenda money. Among them 88 percent accept acquired bitcoin amount (BTC), and 25 percent – bitcoin banknote (BCH). 18 percent own litecoin, and birr and ethereum – 7 percent each. The blow either do not assurance cryptocurrency, don’t accept the abstruse agency to access it, or do not accept its principles.

Participants were asked if they anticipation cryptocurrencies should be advised aloof like regular, authorization money. The acknowledgment options yes/no/I don’t apperceive accustomed about a third of the votes each.

Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own Cryptocurrencies

A majority of 41 percent said authorities should abutment the chargeless apportionment of cryptos, 19 percent declared it should be banned by the government, and 37 percent had no opinion. Only 1 present of the polled accept adjustment is necessary, while 2 percent anticipate the accompaniment should not baffle at all.

Ukrainians Trade $2 Million Worth of Crypto Daily

Survey: 13% of Net-Savvy Ukrainians Own CryptocurrenciesDespite the abridgement of absolute abstracts about the admeasurement of the Ukrainian cryptocurrency market, it has been estimated that the circadian crypto-hryvnia about-face on the three above exchanges alcove $1.9 – $2 actor USD (~$700 actor a year), bounded media reported.

Experts note, however, that the affairs on these trading platforms, Exmo, Kuna and BTC Trade UA, are alone a allotment of the total. More than a dozen added platforms, as able-bodied as bags of alone traders are alms barter services, both online and offline.

Other sub sectors are additionally accidental to the advance of the industry. “According to bazaar sources, about $80 actor accept been invested in mining in Ukraine. About 90 – 95,000 Ukrainians own cryptocurrencies. The majority accept invested baby amounts in 2017 – 2018,” Ekaterina Belous, an able alive on the USAID “Financial Sector Transformation” project, told Realist. For the accomplished several years, added than 50 baronial admiral and associates of assembly accept declared agenda assets on their tax returns.

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