More than half of the respondents who own digital coins would prefer to shop from merchants who accept crypto assets as a means of payment.
About 92% of American millennials who currently own or have owned cryptocurrency in the past want to use digital coins to pay for purchases in their daily lives.
This became known from a survey conducted by the BitPay payment system and the news aggregator PYMNTS.com. More than 8 thousand adult respondents from the United States took part in the survey.
According to the survey, 16% of millennials currently own cryptocurrency or have owned it in the past. 92% of those surveyed who have never owned digital coins explained that the main limiting factor for buying cryptocurrency was a lack of knowledge in this area.
51% of millennials who own digital assets will choose to shop from merchants who accept cryptocurrency as payment.
A similar survey was conducted by the Kraken crypto exchange in Australia. Its results showed that almost 40% of the country’s residents, born between 1980 and 1990, found it more profitable to buy cryptocurrency than invest in real estate.
22% of Australian millennials believe that investing in cryptocurrency is a more efficient way to raise capital than keeping funds in a bank.
In April, the Gemini crypto exchange presented the results of its own survey , according to which the number of crypto investors in the United States could double by the end of 2021.