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64% of Germans are aware of Bitcoin, says survey

64% of Germans are aware of Bitcoin, says survey
John Joseph
February 20, 2018

It’s a remarkably huge!

The result of the survey from German Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom) has recorded a shocking found that almost two thirds of Germans are aware of Bitcoin (BTC).

The result of the survey was doubled from the previous year.

It can be glanced that the awareness of the most popular cryptocurrency has doubled since 2016, when 36 percent of German citizens were familiar with Bitcoin, and quadrupled since 2013, Bitkom reports.

According to this year’s survey, 4 percent of the 1,009 respondents actually own Bitcoin, 19 percent said that they have an idea of how to buy Bitcoin, and 72 percent stated they had no interest in the digital currency.

“Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a good example of how the digital age is able to change the financial world. This is not so much about the individual currency itself as it is about the underlying blockchain technology. It will have an impact on the whole economy,” Bitkom CEO Bernhard Rohleder said.

Also cited on the survey that the two main reasons cited by the 72 percent of Germans who have no interest in Bitcoin are risks from high price volatility and lack of knowledge of Bitcoin’s practical use.

It was widely known that the European Supervisory Authorities warned consumers that cryptocurrencies are “highly risky” assets that show “clear signs of a pricing bubble”.

Awareness of cryptocurrencies is high in Germany compared to some other countries, more than 56 percent of Russians have heard of Bitcoin, based on January survey.

In August 2017, Charles Xue, a Chinese-American billionaire investor, suggested that the vast majority of people in China, 70-80 percent, have never heard of Bitcoin.

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Blockchain
February 20, 2018
John Joseph

Related ItemsBitcoin (BTC)chinaFeaturedGerman Federal Association for Information TechnologyGermanyRussiaTelecommunications and New Media (Bitkom)

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