{"id":48260,"date":"2021-08-25T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T10:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48260"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:22:12","slug":"poll-finds-only-24-of-britons-back-rollout-of-the-digital-pound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poll-finds-only-24-of-britons-back-rollout-of-the-digital-pound\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll finds only 24% of Britons back rollout of the digital pound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national digital currency would do more harm than good for the United Kingdom, according to 30% of Britons. The opposite view is held by 24%, according to data from <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/19\/Britcoin-Cover-Sheet.pdf\\\">\u043e\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0430 <\/a>\u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438 Redfield &#038; Wilton Strategies.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest concerns among residents in the event of introducing a sterling digital pound are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\\\"wp-block-list\\\">\n<li>threat of hacking attacks \u2014 73%;<\/li>\n<li>privacy violations \u2014 70%;<\/li>\n<li>the possibility that the state could confiscate assets \u2014 62%;<\/li>\n<li>negative impact on the environment \u2014 45%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, 16% of survey participants said they had used cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services, and 31% of respondents said it was very likely that they would acquire digital assets in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Among cryptocurrency holders, the main reason for their purchase was the prospect of profit \u2014 37% said so.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who have never invested in digital currencies, 64% attributed this to a lack of knowledge about them. Almost half of respondents are willing to take free online courses on cryptocurrencies if offered.<\/p>\n<p>40% of survey participants said they would support the government introducing legal norms for digital assets, while 16% were opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier polls showed that for 45% of young Britons cryptocurrencies<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poll-45-of-young-britons-made-cryptocurrencies-their-first-investment\"> became their first investment<\/a>, and 11% of adults in the country <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poll-finds-11-of-britains-adults-plan-to-buy-cryptocurrency\"> are considering purchasing<\/a> assets in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/vk.com\/forklogcom\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">VK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national digital currency is more likely to harm the United Kingdom than benefit, 30% of Britons think. The opposite view is held by 24%, according to data from a Redfield &#038; Wilton Strategies poll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48261,"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":[1095,167,810],"class_list":["post-48260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cbdc","tag-research","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260","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=48260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48262,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48260\/revisions\/48262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}