{"id":56209,"date":"2022-01-19T18:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56209"},"modified":"2025-09-04T05:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:15:13","slug":"report-two-thirds-of-canadians-willing-to-be-paid-in-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/report-two-thirds-of-canadians-willing-to-be-paid-in-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Two-thirds of Canadians willing to be paid in cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>67% of Canadians are interested in moving salary payments to digital assets over the next five years. These results<a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.capterra.ca\/blog\/2409\/crypto-trends-in-canada\\\"> were reported<\/a> by the marketing and consulting firm Capterra.<\/p>\n<p>The survey involved 1,008 Canadian residents aged 18 and over.<\/p>\n<p>One in four respondents had already acquired cryptocurrency, with 58% of them taking that step during the pandemic. 37% of respondents expressed interest in purchasing cryptocurrency in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Participants most often mentioned Bitcoin (81%), Ethereum (48%), Dogecoin (28%), Litecoin and Cardano (18% each).<\/p>\n<p>Among crypto investors, the largest share was among those aged 18\u201322 (34%) and 23\u201335 (41%).<\/p>\n<p>As obstacles to buying digital assets, respondents cited a lack of necessary knowledge (64%), concerns about cryptocurrencies disappearing (44%), and high volatility (40%).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers also identified motivating factors for purchasing cryptocurrencies. 58% cited profit-seeking, 48% a desire to belong to an innovative community, 44% support for a decentralized future, 29% a focus on privacy, and 26% a desire to gain independence from the banking system.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Huobi analysts found that in the United States 68% of crypto investors <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-68-of-us-cryptocurrency-investors-made-their-first-trade-in-2021\">made<\/a> their first trade in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>67% of Canadians are interested in moving salary payments to digital assets over the next five years. These results come from the marketing and consulting firm Capterra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56210,"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":[771,1269,167],"class_list":["post-56209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-canada","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56209","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=56209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56211,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56209\/revisions\/56211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}