{"id":50608,"date":"2021-10-04T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=50608"},"modified":"2025-09-02T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:09:07","slug":"poll-finds-most-africans-invest-in-cryptocurrency-for-childrens-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poll-finds-most-africans-invest-in-cryptocurrency-for-childrens-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll finds most Africans invest in cryptocurrency for children&#8217;s futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the surveyed crypto investors in Africa said that their main motivation for earning money is to secure their families&#8217; financial well-being. <a href=\"https:\/\/africa.businessinsider.com\/local\/markets\/nigerians-have-more-knowledge-of-cryptocurrencies-than-kenyans-south-africans\/t0bchm5\">Business Insider Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a survey by Luno, 78% of respondents save regularly; among the general population the figure is lower\u201465%. Only 3% have no investment plan.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half (48%) of respondents are willing to invest their wages in cryptocurrencies to pay for their children&#8217;s education, 43% to build a start-up capital for children and\/or grandchildren, and 39% to save.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of Nigerians (55%), South Africans (56%) and Kenyans (64%) do not consider investing in digital assets due to a lack of awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the survey showed that men <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-men-invest-in-cryptocurrencies-twice-as-often-as-women\">invest in cryptocurrencies<\/a> more often than women. The latter, according to a recent study, buy digital assets, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-finds-59-of-women-base-crypto-purchases-on-market-capitalisation\">based on their market capitalization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, polls showed that one in four Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poll-one-in-four-americans-would-back-bitcoin-legalization\">would back the legalisation of Bitcoin<\/a>, and one in three residents of Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/poll-one-in-three-texans-ready-to-pay-with-cryptocurrency\">would be willing to pay with cryptocurrency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the surveyed crypto investors in Africa said that their main motivation for earning money is to secure their families&#8217; financial well-being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50609,"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":[284,167],"class_list":["post-50608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-africa","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608","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=50608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50610,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50608\/revisions\/50610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}