Some really interesting crypto facts

- Between 2012 and November 2021, Bitcoin has gained 311,914% - The total cryptocurrency market cap is over $3 trillion, or equivalent to the 8th largest economy globally - The average daily cryptocurrency trade volume has risen dramatically to $ 130 billion per day - As of February 2021, there were nearly 15,000 Bitcoin ATMs globally - Bitcoin remains the most popular cryptocurrency, with dominance hitting almost 43% - There are 430 global cryptocurrency spot exchanges globally - Global stablecoin volume per 24 hours is $ 77.86 billion - Global mining income is $ 20,180,061,869 per year - Global market size of digital payments surpassed 700 billion transactions - The average number of digital payments amount to almost 100 digital transactions per year per person - $ 281m of crypto was stolen in 2020, but ~ 80% has since been claimed and recovered - Almost 70 million people use Blockchain Wallets worldwide - A social media post about crypto appears every 2 seconds - Nigerians report the most common ownership and use of virtual currencies (32%), with U.S. coming in 9th at 6% - 67% of Millennials Look to Bitcoin as a Safe Haven Asset as Compared to Gold - The IRS thinks a massive amount of underreporting exists for bitcoin gains - Despite cryptocurrency’s susceptibility to be used for money laundering, only 1.1% of all transactions are illegal. (Source: CoinTelegraph)21 - By that volume, less than 0.5% of Bitcoin’s yearly transactions boil down to illicit activity. (Source: CipherTrace)21 - Furthermore, crime involving cryptocurrencies dropped from $4.5 billion in 2019 to just $1.9 billion in 2020. This is attributed to the fact that more and more legitimate cryptocurrencies are emerging. (Source: CipherTrace)21 - The average value acquired by crypto criminals in 2020 was 58% lower than in 2019. (Source: CipherTrace)21 - One positive outcome from a hack is that the cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin was able to recover more than 80% of stolen funds from a $281-million-hack in 2020 Edit: Source submitted by /u/UnexperiencedIT [link] [comments]