Investors' perception of crypto is changing for the better: Economist survey

cointelegraph.com:

A report published by the Economist paints a bright future for cryptocurrency adoption, with survey respondents anticipating growing demand in the near future.

Economist Impact published findings of its ‘Digimentality Report’, delving into consumer trust in digital payments and the stumbling blocks that have hampered the digitization of basic monetary functions. The data obtained provide food for thought and perspective, as it compares trends from previous surveys on the subject carried out in 2020 and 2021.

Information was gleaned from a consumer survey completed by 3,000 consumers in early 2022, with half of the respondents living in developed economies including the United States, United Kingdom, France, South Korea, Australia and Singapore. The other half were respondents hailing from developing countries including Brazil, Turkey, Vietnam, South Africa and the Philippines.

Around 75 percent of the participants had tertiary education or higher and had used a variety of digital payments methods to pay for goods or services. The latter part of the survey involved 150 institutional investors and corporate treasury management respondents - giving insight into the attitude of the wider conventional financial system on the subject.

A key takeaway was the prevailing sentiment from investors who agreed on open-source cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH) are useful as a diversifier in a portfolio or treasury account.

85 percent of respondents held this view, while nine in ten institutional investors and Corporate treasury survey takers indicated that demand for all cryptocurrencies, including CBDCs and enterprise blockchains, has increased over the past three years.

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