37% of Texans would vote in favour of legalising cryptocurrencies, 42% would support passing industry-friendly laws. Redfield & Wilton Strategies found these results, Newsweek reports.<\/p>\n
The researchers polled 9,700 residents across ten U.S. states from August 20 to 24. Between 8% and 14% had heard nothing about digital assets.<\/p>\n
Support for cryptocurrencies as a payment method ranged from 28% in Arizona to 37% in Texas and Wisconsin. About a quarter of respondents were undecided.<\/p>\n
Between 25% (Arizona) and 42% (Texas) of respondents would back such legislation to support the industry, similar to that approved in Wyoming.<\/p>\n
The sample also included residents of California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio.<\/p>\n
The study also showed a lack of enthusiasm regarding the potential issuance of digital dollar<\/a> among most respondents.<\/p>\n As of September 1, in Texas took effect<\/a> a law allowing commercial law to adapt to blockchain and cryptocurrencies. It provides a definition of digital assets and shapes the regulatory environment for investments in this field.<\/p>\n In June, the Texas Department of Banking allowed state banks to hold cryptocurrencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full feed of news, ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 37% of Texans would vote in favour of legalising cryptocurrencies, 42% would support passing industry-friendly laws. Redfield & Wilton Strategies found these results, Newsweek reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49958,"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":[1198,36,167,26],"class_list":["post-49957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crypto-payments","tag-regulation","tag-research","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957","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=49957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49959,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49957\/revisions\/49959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}