{"id":35108,"date":"2021-01-21T10:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T08:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35108"},"modified":"2025-08-28T23:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T20:45:48","slug":"survey-shows-63-of-russians-want-to-buy-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-shows-63-of-russians-want-to-buy-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows 63% of Russians want to buy cryptocurrencies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">Most Russians are willing to buy cryptocurrencies, and about half are open to using the digital ruble as a payment method. This is according to the results of a survey by Otkritie Bank, writes <\/span><a href=\\\\\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/10510405\\\\\" target=\\\\\"_blank\\\\\" rel=\\\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\\\"><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">\u0422\u0410\u0421\u0421<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">63% of Russians want to try buying digital currencies amid their rise in price. 14% do not intend to deal with cryptocurrencies under any circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">Seven per cent of respondents already have experience buying and selling cryptocurrencies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">The majority (53%) are neutral about the possibility of making the digital ruble a new payment method. 47% are ready to use the asset to pay for goods and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">15% of respondents are not ready to engage with the digital ruble. The main reasons are fraud risks, a lack of understanding of how to use it, and distrust of digital currency, the respondents said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">Residents of Saint Petersburg are best informed about the digital ruble (48%), with the North Caucasian Federal District and the Volga Federal District the least informed. More than 65% of residents in these regions know nothing about the digital ruble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">57% of respondents believe that digital currency will eventually displace ordinary money. 22% are confident that this will never happen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">The survey involved one thousand men and women aged 18-65 across Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">As reported in the September<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-finds-10-of-russian-bank-clients-want-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies\"><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">\u043e\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0443 IDF<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\\\">, 10% of Russian bank clients want to invest in cryptocurrencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s news on Telegram: <a href=\\\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\\\" target=\\\\\"_blank\\\\\" rel=\\\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\\\" target=\\\\\"_blank\\\\\" rel=\\\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Russians are willing to buy cryptocurrencies, and about half are open to using the digital ruble as a payment method. This is according to the results of a survey by Otkritie Bank, as reported by TASS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1165,167,27],"class_list":["post-35108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-digital-ruble","tag-research","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35110,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35108\/revisions\/35110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}