Cryptooperation: more than a third of Russians don't understand how Bitcoin works
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According to a recent survey «Kaspersky Lab» a significant part of Russian citizens is not exactly how to construct the cryptocurrency. While digital assets owned less than a tenth of the population. People in General have heard about «electronic money», but really can't explain their subtlety and potential.
The Survey was conducted in the fall of 2018, with participation of respondents from 22 countries. Among them were 924 the Internet user from Russia. Data processing was engaged analyst firm B2B International order «Kaspersky Lab».
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Bullrun 2017 did their job. Thanks to the explosive growth of only 4% of the respondents never heard of the crypt. Thus, 46 percent of roughly understand how the cryptocurrency, but on a very superficial level. Among respondents there were only 13 percent of those who were able to clearly explain all the subtleties of the functioning of Bitcoin and altcoins.
Uncertainty is a serious obstacle to the adoption of something new. Almost half of Russians have never used a cryptocurrency and has no plans to jump on them in the future. Only 15 percent of respondents of those who never used bitcoin, would like to try digital assets in practice.
Among the more knowledgeable people also have a very interesting tendency. Five percent of respondents in this group ceased to carry out transactions in the crypt. They explained this by the shortage of money for investment and the depreciation of Bitcoin in 2018.
Source: Crypto Talks
Expert «Kaspersky Lab» Alexey Malanov explained that the reluctance of Russian citizens to move to bitcoins is justified. They do not want to invest in the it assets. Besides, about 2 per cent of the respondents shared bitter experience of losing their money due to hacker attacks.
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