A report from Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc. (formerly Square) has concluded that bitcoin (BTC) will play an increasingly large role in the payment and remittance sectors – and that the more people’s peers own BTC, the more likely they are to invest.
The findings, compiled in the report, were based on a survey conducted by the research firm Wakefield Research. The firm spoke to “more than 9,500” adults in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and APAC counties in January this year – and had “ensured” it had included “100 bitcoin owners per region.”
The report’s authors concluded:
“People with lower incomes, regardless of where they live in the world, recognize bitcoin’s utility as a payments ecosystem, seeing it as a way to send remittances and buy goods and services.”
While half of the high-income respondents said that they wanted to buy BTC to make money, only just over a third of lower-income individuals agreed. In fact, 42% of these individuals said they would buy bitcoin to...
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