{"id":55908,"date":"2022-01-14T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55908"},"modified":"2025-09-04T03:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T00:51:27","slug":"survey-68-of-us-cryptocurrency-investors-made-their-first-trade-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/survey-68-of-us-cryptocurrency-investors-made-their-first-trade-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: 68% of US cryptocurrency investors made their first trade in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around seven in ten investors in digital assets in the United States took their first steps in the cryptocurrency space in 2021. Such results <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/huobi-survey-reveals-7-in-10-crypto-holders-began-investing-in-2021-301460315.html\">\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0447\u0438\u043b\u0438<\/a> \u0430\u043d\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0438 Huobi Group.<\/p>\n<p>In the December survey on cryptocurrency perceptions, 3,144 adult US residents participated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the illustration below shows, four years or more of crypto-investing experience was reported by only 9% of respondents. 12% of them began trading two to four years ago, one in five (21%) \u2014 one to two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>41% of respondents had encountered digital assets in practice less than six months ago, 27% \u2014 in the first half of 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-606.png\" alt=\"\u041e\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0441: \u0432 \u0421\u0428\u0410 68% \u0438\u043d\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432 \u0432 \u043a\u0440\u0438\u043f\u0442\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u044e\u0442\u044b \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0448\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0432\u0443\u044e \u0441\u0434\u0435\u043b\u043a\u0443 \u0432 2021 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0443\" class=\"wp-image-161667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-606.png 624w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-606-300x202.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>\u0414\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0435: Huobi Global.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>46% of respondents said their crypto assets did not exceed $1,000, 25% of others invested the equivalent of $1,000\u2013$10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The study identified barriers to investment. 44% attributed small investments to a lack of sufficient knowledge, 34% mentioned the lack of market regulation, and only 24% of respondents noted a shortage of sufficient capital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, 28% of respondents at the time of the interview held a portion of their capital in cryptocurrencies. Almost a quarter said they planned to realise this in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-predicts-explosive-growth-in-cryptocurrency-adoption-in-2022\">predicted<\/a> explosive growth in cryptocurrency adoption in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around seven in ten US investors in digital assets took their first steps in the cryptocurrency space in 2021, according to analysts at Huobi Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55909,"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":[1269,230,167],"class_list":["post-55908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-huobi","tag-research"],"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\/55908","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=55908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55910,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55908\/revisions\/55910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}