Consumers from countries in Africa, Asia, and South America were most likely to be an owner of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in 2024. This conclusion can be reached after combining 55 different surveys from the Statista's Consumer Insights over the course of that year. Nearly one out of three respondents to Statista's survey in Nigeria, for instance, mentioned they either owned or use a digital coin, rather than six out of 100 respondents in the United States. This is a significant change from a list that looks at the Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume in 44 countries: There, the United States and Russia were said to have traded the highest amounts of this particular virtual coin. Nevertheless, African and Latin American countries are noticeable entries in that list too. Daily use, or an investment tool? The survey asked whether consumers either owned or used cryptocurrencies but does not specify their exact use or purpose. Some countries, however, are more likely to use digital currencies on a day-to-day basis. Nigeria increasingly uses mobile money operations to either pay in stores or to send money to family and friends. Polish consumers could buy several types of products with a cryptocurrency in 2019. Opposed to this is the country of Vietnam: Here, the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a payment method is forbidden. Owning some form of cryptocurrency in Vietnam as an investment is allowed, however. Which countries are more likely to invest in cryptocurrencies? Professional investors looking for a cryptocurrency-themed ETF were more often found in Europe than in the United or China, according to a survey in early 2020. Most of the largest crypto hedge fund managers with a location in Europe in 2020, were either from the United Kingdom or Switzerland - the country with the highest cryptocurrency adoption rate in Europe according to Statista's Global Consumer Survey. Whether this had changed by 2021 was not yet clear.

Authors, through Twitter API, collected this database over eight months. These data are tweets of over 50 experts regarding market analysis of 40 cryptocurrencies. These experts are known as influencers on social networks such as Twitter. The theory of Behavioral economics shows that the opinions of people, especially experts, can impact the stock market trend (here, cryptocurrencies). Existing databases often cover tweets related to one or more cryptocurrencies. Also, in these databases, no attention is paid to the user's expertise, and most of the data is extracted using hashtags. Failure to pay attention to the user's expertise causes the irrelevant volume to increase and the neutral polarity to increase considerably. This database has a main table named "Tweets1" with 11 columns and 40 tables to separate comments related to each cryptocurrency. The columns of the main table and the cryptocurrency tables are explained in the attached document. Researchers can use this dataset in various machine learning tasks, such as sentiment analysis and deep transfer learning with sentiment analysis. Also, this data can be used to check the impact of influencers' opinions on the cryptocurrency market trend. The use of this database is allowed by mentioning the source. Also, in this version, we have added the excel version of the database and Python code to extract the names of influencers and tweets. in Version(3): In the new version, three datasets related to historical prices and sentiments related to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Binance have been added as Excel files from January 1, 2023, to June 12, 2023. Also, two datasets of 52 influential tweets in cryptocurrencies have been published, along with the score and polarity of sentiments regarding more than 300 cryptocurrencies from February 2021 to June 2023. Also, two Python codes related to the sentiment analysis algorithm of tweets with Python have been published. This algorithm combines RoBERTa pre-trained deep neural network and BiGRU deep neural network with an attention layer (see code Preprocessing_and_sentiment_analysis with python).

Crypto 24h trading volume declined as 2023 progressed, with figures being one-third lower than in 2022. The decline follows after Binance and Coins - two of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world - received lawsuits in the United States. Observations are also that the crypto market was quiet after April, citing a lack of a "strong overarching narrative". This is in contrast to 2021 and 2022 when cryptocurrency dominated the news and many people sought fortune in the digital currency.

Bitcoin developments

Bitcoin's trade volume slowed in the second quarter of 2023, after hitting a noticeable growth at the beginning of the year. The coin outperformed most of the market. Some attribute this to the announcement in June 203 that BlackRock filed for a Bitcoin ETF. This iShares Bitcoin Trust was to use Coinbase Custody as its custodian. Regulators in the United States had not yet approved any applications for spot ETFs on Bitcoin.

Changes in Ethereum staking in 2023

Ethereum's trade volume changed in 2023 due to the rollout of the Shapella (Shanghai and Cappella) upgrade. The update allowed investors to withdraw (unstake) Ethereum deposited into the network. Staking can be somewhat compared to depositing money at a bank, where one would submit money to be held and gains interest as time goes by. Lido has the highest staking pool (a platform that allows for staking) in Ethereum, higher than major crypto exchanges Coinbase and Kraken.

Context:

This dataset is an extra updating dataset for the G-Research Crypto Forecasting competition.

Introduction

This is a daily updated dataset, automaticlly collecting market data for G-Research crypto forecasting competition. The data is of the 1-minute resolution, collected for all competition assets and both retrieval and uploading are fully automated. see discussion topic.

The Data

For every asset in the competition, the following fields from Binance's official API endpoint for historical candlestick data are collected, saved, and processed.

1. **timestamp** - A timestamp for the minute covered by the row.
2. **Asset_ID** - An ID code for the cryptoasset.
3. **Count** - The number of trades that took place this minute.
4. **Open** - The USD price at the beginning of the minute.
5. **High** - The highest USD price during the minute.
6. **Low** - The lowest USD price during the minute.
7. **Close** - The USD price at the end of the minute.
8. **Volume** - The number of cryptoasset u units traded during the minute.
9. **VWAP** - The volume-weighted average price for the minute.
10. **Target** - 15 minute residualized returns. See the 'Prediction and Evaluation section of this notebook for details of how the target is calculated.
11. **Weight** - Weight, defined by the competition hosts [here](https://www.kaggle.com/cstein06/tutorial-to-the-g-research-crypto-competition)
12. **Asset_Name** - Human readable Asset name.

Indexing

The dataframe is indexed by timestamp and sorted from oldest to newest. The first row starts at the first timestamp available on the exchange, which is July 2017 for the longest-running pairs.

Usage Example

The following is a collection of simple starter notebooks for Kaggle's Crypto Comp showing PurgedTimeSeries in use with the collected dataset. Purged TimesSeries is explained here. There are many configuration variables below to allow you to experiment. Use either GPU or TPU. You can control which years are loaded, which neural networks are used, and whether to use feature engineering. You can experiment with different data preprocessing, model architecture, loss, optimizers, and learning rate schedules. The extra datasets contain the full history of the assets in the same format as the competition, so you can input that into your model too.

Baseline Example Notebooks:

• Neural Network Starter
• LightGBM Starter
• Catboost Starter
• XGBoost Starter
• TabNet Starter
• Reinforcement Learning (PPO) Starter

These notebooks follow the ideas presented in my "Initial Thoughts" here. Some code sections have been reused from Chris' great (great) notebook series on SIIM ISIC melanoma detection competition here

Loose-ends:

This is a work in progress and will be updated constantly throughout the competition. At the moment, there are some known issues that still needed to be addressed:

• VWAP: - At the moment VWAP calculation formula is still unclear. Currently the dataset uses an approximation calculated from the Open, High, Low, Close, Volume candlesticks. [Waiting for competition hosts input]
• Target Labeling: There exist some mismatches to the original target provided by the hosts at some time intervals. On all the others - it is the same. The labeling code can be seen here. [Waiting for competition hosts] input]
• Filtering: No filtration of 0 volume data is taken place.

Example Visualisations

Opening price with an added indicator (MA50): https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F2234678%2Fb8664e6f26dc84e9a40d5a3d915c9640%2Fdownload.png?generation=1582053879538546&alt=media" alt="">

Volume and number of trades: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F2234678%2Fcd04ed586b08c1576a7b67d163ad9889%2Fdownload-1.png?generation=1582053899082078&alt=media" alt="">

License

This data is being collected automatically from the crypto exchange Binance.

Context:

This dataset is an extra updating dataset for the G-Research Crypto Forecasting competition.

Introduction

This is a daily updated dataset, automaticlly collecting market data for G-Research crypto forecasting competition. The data is of the 1-minute resolution, collected for all competition assets and both retrieval and uploading are fully automated. see discussion topic.

The Data

For every asset in the competition, the following fields from Binance's official API endpoint for historical candlestick data are collected, saved, and processed.

1. **timestamp** - A timestamp for the minute covered by the row.
2. **Asset_ID** - An ID code for the cryptoasset.
3. **Count** - The number of trades that took place this minute.
4. **Open** - The USD price at the beginning of the minute.
5. **High** - The highest USD price during the minute.
6. **Low** - The lowest USD price during the minute.
7. **Close** - The USD price at the end of the minute.
8. **Volume** - The number of cryptoasset u units traded during the minute.
9. **VWAP** - The volume-weighted average price for the minute.
10. **Target** - 15 minute residualized returns. See the 'Prediction and Evaluation section of this notebook for details of how the target is calculated.
11. **Weight** - Weight, defined by the competition hosts [here](https://www.kaggle.com/cstein06/tutorial-to-the-g-research-crypto-competition)
12. **Asset_Name** - Human readable Asset name.

Indexing

The dataframe is indexed by timestamp and sorted from oldest to newest. The first row starts at the first timestamp available on the exchange, which is July 2017 for the longest-running pairs.

Usage Example

The following is a collection of simple starter notebooks for Kaggle's Crypto Comp showing PurgedTimeSeries in use with the collected dataset. Purged TimesSeries is explained here. There are many configuration variables below to allow you to experiment. Use either GPU or TPU. You can control which years are loaded, which neural networks are used, and whether to use feature engineering. You can experiment with different data preprocessing, model architecture, loss, optimizers, and learning rate schedules. The extra datasets contain the full history of the assets in the same format as the competition, so you can input that into your model too.

Baseline Example Notebooks:

• Neural Network Starter
• LightGBM Starter
• Catboost Starter
• XGBoost Starter
• TabNet Starter
• Reinforcement Learning (PPO) Starter

These notebooks follow the ideas presented in my "Initial Thoughts" here. Some code sections have been reused from Chris' great (great) notebook series on SIIM ISIC melanoma detection competition here

Loose-ends:

This is a work in progress and will be updated constantly throughout the competition. At the moment, there are some known issues that still needed to be addressed:

• VWAP: - At the moment VWAP calculation formula is still unclear. Currently the dataset uses an approximation calculated from the Open, High, Low, Close, Volume candlesticks. [Waiting for competition hosts input]
• Target Labeling: There exist some mismatches to the original target provided by the hosts at some time intervals. On all the others - it is the same. The labeling code can be seen here. [Waiting for competition hosts] input]
• Filtering: No filtration of 0 volume data is taken place.

Example Visualisations

Opening price with an added indicator (MA50): https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F2234678%2Fb8664e6f26dc84e9a40d5a3d915c9640%2Fdownload.png?generation=1582053879538546&alt=media" alt="">

Volume and number of trades: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/kaggle-user-content/o/inbox%2F2234678%2Fcd04ed586b08c1576a7b67d163ad9889%2Fdownload-1.png?generation=1582053899082078&alt=media" alt="">

License

This data is being collected automatically from the crypto exchange Binance.

Crypto users in the UK grew by nearly 1.5 million between the fourth quarter of 2022 and the fourth quarter of 2021. This is according to Statista estimates, compiled from various reports and research. The numbers provided are from Statista's Crypto pulse check, a quarterly report aimed at mapping out the size and characteristics of crypto markets in 50 different countries worldwide in a cross-comparable way. The anonymity behind cryptocurrencies – a key feature in their design – makes it difficult to find reliable data on a country-level. Consequently, data research on how many people worldwide use this new form of money is in its infancy. The numbers shown here should therefore be regarded as estimates.

Historically, gold and silver have played distinct roles in traditional monetary systems. While gold has primarily been revered as a superior store of value, prompting individuals to hoard it, silver has commonly been used as a medium of exchange. As the financial world evolves, the emergence of cryptocurrencies has introduced a new paradigm of value and exchange. However, the store-of-value characteristic of these digital assets remains largely uncharted. Charlie Lee, the founder of Litecoin, once likened Bitcoin to gold and Litecoin to silver. To validate this analogy, our study employs several metrics, including UTXO, STXO, WAL, CoinDaysDestroyed (CDD), and public on-chain transaction data. Furthermore, we've devised trading strategies centered around the Price-to-Utility (PU) ratio, offering a fresh perspective on crypto-asset valuation beyond traditional utilities. Our back-testing results not only display trading indicators for both Bitcoin and Litecoin but also substantiate Lee's metaphor, underscoring Bitcoin's superior store-of-value proposition relative to Litecoin. We anticipate that our findings will drive further exploration into the valuation of crypto assets. For enhanced transparency and to promote future research, we've made our datasets available on Harvard Dataverse and shared our Python code on GitHub as open source.

Dataset Construction This dataset captures the temporal network of Bitcoin (BTC) flow exchanged between entities at the finest time resolution in UNIX timestamp. Its construction is based on the blockchain covering the period from January, 3rd of 2009 to January the 25th of 2021. The blockchain extraction has been made using bitcoin-etl (https://github.com/blockchain-etl/bitcoin-etl) Python package. The entity-entity network is built by aggregating Bitcoin addresses using the common-input heuristic [1] as well as popular Bitcoin users' addresses provided by https://www.walletexplorer.com/ [1] M. Harrigan and C. Fretter, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Address Clustering," 2016 Intl IEEE Conferences on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People, and Smart World Congress (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld), Toulouse, France, 2016, pp. 368-373, doi: 10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld.2016.0071.keywords: {Online banking;Merging;Protocols;Upper bound;Bipartite graph;Electronic mail;Size measurement;bitcoin;cryptocurrency;blockchain}, Dataset Description Bitcoin Activity Temporal Coverage: From 03 January 2009 to 25 January 2021 Overview: This dataset provides a comprehensive representation of Bitcoin exchanges between entities over a significant temporal span, spanning from the inception of Bitcoin to recent years. It encompasses various temporal resolutions and representations to facilitate Bitcoin transaction network analysis in the context of temporal graphs. Every dates have been retrieved from bloc UNIX timestamp and GMT timezone. Contents: The dataset is distributed across three compressed archives: All data are stored in the Apache Parquet file format, a columnar storage format optimized for analytical queries. It can be used with pyspark Python package. orbitaal-stream_graph.tar.gz: The root directory is STREAM_GRAPH/ Contains a stream graph representation of Bitcoin exchanges at the finest temporal scale, corresponding to the validation time of each block (averaging approximately 10 minutes). The stream graph is divided into 13 files, one for each year Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-stream_graph-date-[YYYY]-file-id-[ID].snappy.parquet, where [YYYY] stands for the corresponding year and [ID] is an integer from 1 to N (number of files here) such as sorting in increasing [ID] ordering is similar to sort by increasing year ordering These files are in the subdirectory STREAM_GRAPH/EDGES/ orbitaal-snapshot-all.tar.gz: The root directory is SNAPSHOT/ Contains the snapshot network representing all transactions aggregated over the whole dataset period (from Jan. 2009 to Jan. 2021). Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-snapshot-all.snappy.parquet. These files are in the subdirectory SNAPSHOT/EDGES/ALL/ orbitaal-snapshot-year.tar.gz: The root directory is SNAPSHOT/ Contains the yearly resolution of snapshot networks Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-snapshot-date-[YYYY]-file-id-[ID].snappy.parquet, where [YYYY] stands for the corresponding year and [ID] is an integer from 1 to N (number of files here) such as sorting in increasing [ID] ordering is similar to sort by increasing year ordering These files are in the subdirectory SNAPSHOT/EDGES/year/ orbitaal-snapshot-month.tar.gz: The root directory is SNAPSHOT/ Contains the monthly resoluted snapshot networks Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-snapshot-date-[YYYY]-[MM]-file-id-[ID].snappy.parquet, where [YYYY] and [MM] stands for the corresponding year and month, and [ID] is an integer from 1 to N (number of files here) such as sorting in increasing [ID] ordering is similar to sort by increasing year and month ordering These files are in the subdirectory SNAPSHOT/EDGES/month/ orbitaal-snapshot-day.tar.gz: The root directory is SNAPSHOT/ Contains the daily resoluted snapshot networks Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-snapshot-date-[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]-file-id-[ID].snappy.parquet, where [YYYY], [MM], and [DD] stand for the corresponding year, month, and day, and [ID] is an integer from 1 to N (number of files here) such as sorting in increasing [ID] ordering is similar to sort by increasing year, month, and day ordering These files are in the subdirectory SNAPSHOT/EDGES/day/ orbitaal-snapshot-hour.tar.gz: The root directory is SNAPSHOT/ Contains the hourly resoluted snapshot networks Files format is parquet Name format is orbitaal-snapshot-date-[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]-[hh]-file-id-[ID].snappy.parquet, where [YYYY], [MM], [DD], and [hh] stand for the corresponding year, month, day, and hour, and [ID] is an integer from 1 to N (number of files here) such as sorting in increasing [ID] ordering is similar to sort by increasing year, month, day and hour ordering These files are in the subdirectory SNAPSHOT/EDGES/hour/ orbitaal-nodetable.tar.gz: The root directory is NODE_TABLE/ Contains two files in parquet format, the first one gives information related to nodes present in stream graphs and snapshots such as period of activity and associated global Bitcoin balance, and the other one contains the list of all associated Bitcoin addresses. Small samples in CSV format orbitaal-stream_graph-2016_07_08.csv and orbitaal-stream_graph-2016_07_09.csv These two CSV files are related to stream graph representations of an halvening happening in 2016.

During my Senior in the Shan Dong University, my tutor give me research direction of University thesis, which is bitcoin transaction data analysis, so I crawled all of bitcoin transaction data from January 2009 to February 2018.I make statistical analysis and quantitative analysis,I hope this data will give you some help, data mining is interesting and helping not only in the skill of data mining but also in our life.

I crawled these data from website https://www.blockchain.com/explorer, each file contains many blocks,the scope of blocks is reflected in the file name,e.g. this file 0-68732.csv is composed of zero block which is also called genesis block until 68732 block.if a block that didn't have input is not in this file. let's see the columns and rows, there has five columns, the Height column represent block height,the Input column represent the input address of this block,the Output column represent the output address of this block,the Sum column represent bitcoin transaction amount corresponding to the Output,the Time column represent the generation time of this block.A block contains many transactions.

The page is part four of all data, others can be found here https://www.kaggle.com/shiheyingzhe/datasets

Bitcoin's blockchain size was close to reaching 5450 gigabytes in 2024, as the database saw exponential growth by nearly one gigabyte every few days. The Bitcoin blockchain contains a continuously growing and tamper-evident list of all Bitcoin transactions and records since its initial release in January 2009. Bitcoin has a set limit of 21 million coins, the last of which will be mined around 2140, according to a forecast made in 2017. Bitcoin mining: A somewhat uncharted world Despite interest in the topic, there are few accurate figures on how big Bitcoin mining is on a country-by-country basis. Bitcoin's design philosophy is at the heart of this. Created out of protest against governments and central banks, Bitcoin's blockchain effectively hides both the country of origin and the destination country within a (mining) transaction. Research involving IP addresses placed the United States as the world's most Bitcoin mining country in 2022 - but the source admits IP addresses can easily be manipulated using VPN. Note that mining figures are different from figures on Bitcoin trading: Africa and Latin America were more interested in buying and selling BTC than some of the world's developed economies. Bitcoin developments Bitcoin's trade volume slowed in the second quarter of 2023, after hitting a noticeable growth at the beginning of the year. The coin outperformed most of the market. Some attribute this to the announcement in June 203 that BlackRock filed for a Bitcoin ETF. This iShares Bitcoin Trust was to use Coinbase Custody as its custodian. Regulators in the United States had not yet approved any applications for spot ETFs on Bitcoin.

This analysis presents a rigorous exploration of financial data, incorporating a diverse range of statistical features. By providing a robust foundation, it facilitates advanced research and innovative modeling techniques within the field of finance.

Is the S&P Bitcoin Index the Future of Digital Asset Valuation?

Financial data:

• Historical daily stock prices (open, high, low, close, volume)

• Fundamental data (e.g., market capitalization, price to earnings P/E ratio, dividend yield, earnings per share EPS, price to earnings growth, debt-to-equity ratio, price-to-book ratio, current ratio, free cash flow, projected earnings growth, return on equity, dividend payout ratio, price to sales ratio, credit rating)

• Technical indicators (e.g., moving averages, RSI, MACD, average directional index, aroon oscillator, stochastic oscillator, on-balance volume, accumulation/distribution A/D line, parabolic SAR indicator, bollinger bands indicators, fibonacci, williams percent range, commodity channel index)

Machine learning features:

• Feature engineering based on financial data and technical indicators

• Sentiment analysis data from social media and news articles

• Macroeconomic data (e.g., GDP, unemployment rate, interest rates, consumer spending, building permits, consumer confidence, inflation, producer price index, money supply, home sales, retail sales, bond yields)

Potential Applications:

• Stock price prediction

• Portfolio optimization

• Algorithmic trading

• Market sentiment analysis

• Risk management

Use Cases:

• Researchers investigating the effectiveness of machine learning in stock market prediction

• Analysts developing quantitative trading Buy/Sell strategies

• Individuals interested in building their own stock market prediction models

• Students learning about machine learning and financial applications

Additional Notes:

• The dataset may include different levels of granularity (e.g., daily, hourly)

• Data cleaning and preprocessing are essential before model training

• Regular updates are recommended to maintain the accuracy and relevance of the data

Interest in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in 2020 was seemingly higher in Africa and Latin America than some of the world's developed economies. This shows after analyzing Bitcoin trading volume against domestic currencies used for the transaction of the digital coin. In 2020, roughly 420 million U.S. dollars worth of Russian rubles were used to buy Bitcoin on an exchange, against 400 million U.S. dollars worth of Nigerian naira. The source assumes the currencies are mainly used by the domestic population - e.g. transactions made with British pounds are likely done by UK residents -, and makes the same assumption for the United States, despite the international appeal of the U.S. dollar on foreign exchange markets.

Africa and Latin America lead the way

Although the source does not mention all countries in Africa and Latin America, the few entries these regions do have in the list stand out. Bitcoin trading volume in Nigeria, for instance, was twice as high as that of the eurozone in 2020. Colombia's market size was twice that of Canada. Whether this interest is for actual payment use on a day-to-day basis or as a tool for investment is not really clear. Data from Statista's Global Consumer Survey on payment methods in Egypt reveals that eight percent of Egyptians either owned or used Bitcoin, but does not specify the exact use or purpose of the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin: the "Renaissance"

Believed by some to fade into obscurity after hitting the news in 2017 and price declines that followed afterwards, the world's most well-known cryptocurrency witnessed a "rebirth" at the end of 2020: Within five days in January 2021, the price of Bitcoin soared from 30,000 U.S. dollars to 40,000 U.S. dollars. Bitcoin's market cap - calculated by multiplying the total number of Bitcoins in circulation against its price - grew as well, more than doubling in early January 2021 against November 2020

The estimated time with which Kraken would confirm a deposit of certain cryptocurrencies varied from between near-instantaneous to up to several hours. Bitcoin, for instance, could take around 40 minutes - depending on the fees involved - whereas tokens like Cardano or Solana could be handled almost immediately. The transaction speed matters as it indicates which cryptocurrency is more efficient. A higher efficiency means that the blockchain underneath the coin is more capable of transferring data from one party to the other and confirm transactions. Transaction speed can be influenced by several factors, including block time, block size, transaction fees, and network traffic.

Consumers do not see crypto as an important payment method for online shopping in 2026, according to a forecast on crypto transactions. Even though the source predicts growth between 2022 and 2026, the market size of cryptocurrencies as a B2C - or P2B, as the source describes it - method will be less than 0.5 percent of global e-commerce transaction value. This relatively slow growth occurs elsewhere too: Crypto transactions within payment gateways will grow at a CAGR of nearly 17 percent between 2022 and 2029. The source adds that eight out of 10 respondents held cryptocurrencies purely for investments, as opposed to 18 percent who stated they used crypto for shopping. The most popular product to buy with crypto in 2022 was not fashion or electronics, but mobile data.

Cryptocurrency as a payment method rarely exceeded three percent of overall payments within a country between 2021 and 2023. This is according to multiple payment diary surveys held domestically across the world, at various times. Due to the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin itself, for example, was initially created as a protest against central authorities – there is no unified approach or database to track how much the digital asset is used as a payment method. Some central banks or financial watchdogs therefore included crypto payments in their payment diary surveys. The figures above indicate that cryptocurrency payments are relatively rare, and most consumers use the asset for investment purposes.

The MetaMask wallet was downloaded the most in India and the United States, although 2024 data suggests growing popularity in other countries. Originating from Brooklyn, New York, it may not be too surprising to see the crypto wallet being popular in the United States. Nevertheless, other countries from the around the world downloaded the app in 2022 - most notably Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, India, and Nigeria. MetaMask is a cryptocurrency wallet and exchange for the Ethereum blockchain, and is not a direct DeFi (Decentralized Finance) service.

In 2022, about 37 percent of blockchain companies reported demand for their technology by the government and public sectors in South Korea. The total revenue of blockchain companies in South Korea was estimated at around 434 billion South Korean won that year.