{"id":66245,"date":"2022-08-24T14:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66245"},"modified":"2025-09-07T00:21:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T21:21:53","slug":"nearly-half-of-americans-surveyed-are-dissatisfied-with-crypto-investment-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/nearly-half-of-americans-surveyed-are-dissatisfied-with-crypto-investment-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of Americans surveyed are dissatisfied with crypto investment profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>46% of cryptocurrency holders in the United States earned profits from investments that were lower than expected. Data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2022\/08\/23\/46-of-americans-who-have-invested-in-cryptocurrency-say-its-done-worse-than-expected\/\">Pew Research Center poll<\/a>, conducted among more than 6,000 respondents.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen percent of respondents said that profits from digital-asset investments exceeded their expectations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/9DEyQ0E1e_ooEe1aRo5NrvyNTZBu-90Zb5Ph4ldp1jdzRAwz49oRgSma-IIPlhA2ymjET8XQ1JngKuAWhUk-dBWo5EgQ_UlHBTB90921NZbJW35-YyD1wogGez9R7qvVYIkvPfnEods1nFLdrgg-dgQ\" alt=\"Almost half of surveyed Americans are unhappy with crypto investment profits\"\/><figcaption>Data: Pew Research Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About half of respondents had heard of NFTs, but only 2% had ever purchased them.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Cwh0AJ57eyB3kyWq-Ys64_ANpW5nlmFt6wKQpS3rVdiQTkJioXxHNjroJC7X0twDnIxb37ERzIuhE-lv-Hkius-Qc9hORFR6OotLPPDw6LOOznmpLzo4U2Pl7e7DVBWnjSLsvYxa05m6KT9EOAsZPqw\" alt=\"Almost half of surveyed Americans are unhappy with crypto investment profits\"\/><figcaption>Data: Pew Research Center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Women made up more than half of the respondents, with the majority of the sample aged over 50.<\/p>\n<p>According to another survey conducted by the financial services provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devere-group.com\/boomers-and-gen-x-are-getting-into-crypto-new-survey\/\">deVere Group<\/a>, nearly half of the 700 clients belonging to the baby boomer generation and <span data-descr=\"in this context: the generation born between 1965 and 1985\" class=\"old_tooltip\">Gen X<\/span> already own digital assets or plan to acquire them by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Green, CEO and founder of DeVere Group, believes that most people from the Gen X generation invest &#8220;within a retirement-planning framework.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also cautions Americans against investments without seeking advice from professional market participants first.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the investment firm Alto found that nearly 40% of American millennials <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/researchers-determine-the-average-age-of-the-most-active-bitcoin-investors-in-the-united-states\">prefer investing in cryptocurrencies<\/a>, rather than in traditional financial instruments.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 news on cryptocurrencies, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>46% of cryptocurrency holders in the U.S. earned profits that were lower than expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66246,"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":[167,26],"class_list":["post-66245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","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\/66245","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=66245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66247,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66245\/revisions\/66247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}