Nearly half of Britons believe investments in digital assets are no riskier than buying shares on the stock market. A Piplsay survey found that 41% of Britons said as much.<\/p>\n
The survey involved 6,070 Britons aged 18 and over. More than 40% are confident in the safety of investing in digital assets, and 23% plan to buy them this year.<\/p>\n
More than a third say they have some understanding of the industry, and 18% are fairly familiar with cryptocurrencies. More than a third say they have insufficient knowledge of the sector, and 9% have never heard of digital assets.<\/p>\n
Among the respondents, 20% have already invested in cryptocurrency. Another 57% are not interested in this, and 58% do not believe in the safety of digital assets or doubt it. The greatest concerns for Britons are the likelihood of hacking or fraud, lack of knowledge, regulatory laws and volatility.<\/p>\n
About 45% described cryptocurrency as a more risky investment than stocks on the stock market. Nearly half of respondents said that major brands should accept payments in digital assets.<\/p>\n
According to Binance Research, users buy cryptocurrency<\/a> for long-term investments (55%) and due to distrust of the traditional financial system (38%).<\/p>\n According to a January survey of residents of Russia, 63% of them want to buy digital assets<\/a>. In total, 14% of Russians do not intend to deal with cryptocurrency under any circumstances.<\/p>\n As reported by Gemini, the Bitcoin exchange study showed that the share of Britons who have traded digital assets over the past 1.5 years rose from 6% to 13.5%<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 full news feed, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nearly half of Britons believe investments in digital assets are no riskier than buying shares on the stock market. A Piplsay survey found that 41% of Britons said this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36756,"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":[1269,167,810],"class_list":["post-36755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-research","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755","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=36755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36757,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36755\/revisions\/36757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}