Nearly 40% of Chinese Investors Willing to Bet on Cryptocurrencies in Future

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A new survey on the state of the cryptocurrency market in China has found that around 40% of respondents would be willing to invest in virtual money in future.

China’s PANews recently conducted a survey on the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market which drew responses from roughly 4200 participants.

According to the results of the survey 98.22% of respondents said that they had heard of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, with those born after 1995 possessing the best understanding of the technology.

63% of respondents said that they felt there was no need to use cryptocurrencies as a payments medium, however, with Chinese instead more inclined to view them more as an investment channel.

82.81% of respondents considered cryptocurrencies to be a “new wave” of investment activity, while 14.24% of respondents had invested in some form of cryptocurrency in the past, and 39.64% would be willing to do so in future.

In September 2017 China’s financial regulators launched a crackdown on cryptocurrencies which saw a ban on initial coin offerings and the closure of online bitcoin exchanges.