More than 30% of cryptocurrency investors in China expect the price of Bitcoin (BTC) to break the $ 30,000 mark over the next 12 months, Bitcoin Magazine writes citing a BabelFinance poll.
The survey involved several hundred people. It turned out that the average Chinese crypto investor is a young educated man with an income level above the average.
When asked why they decided to invest in cryptocurrencies , the majority (84.3%) said they believe in the prospects of bitcoin and want to keep it as a long-term investment; 25.3% were attracted by high potential returns in the short term. The same share considers cryptocurrency a safe asset, and 19.3% said they also hold digital currency for collection reasons.
In the context of the distribution of investments, 31.3% said that cryptocurrency assets occupy more than half of their investment portfolios; 12% invest 41-50% of the funds; 10% – from 31 to 40%. A trader in the traditional market said that he invested 10-20% of his assets in cryptocurrency. Most Chinese people prefer to invest in real estate, so the share of cryptocurrencies in portfolios of more than 10% seems to be quite large, Bitcoin Magazine notes.
Bitcoin remains the most popular cryptocurrency among the respondents – it is held by 86.7%. It is followed by Ethereum (57.8%), USDT (50.6%) and EOS (41%).
While 30% of respondents expect that the price of bitcoin will rise above $ 30,000 over the next year, 26.9% assume that it will fluctuate between $ 15,000 and 20,000; 16.7% see bitcoin below $ 15,000, and 15.7% see between $ 20,000 and $ 25,000.
Despite positive expectations, 50% of those who do not want to invest in cryptocurrencies still consider them a scam. 53.8% of those who want to invest in cryptocurrencies, but have not done so yet, said they did not know how to buy them.
A survey conducted in 2018 showed that about 3% of the representatives of the new middle class of China included bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in their investment portfolios.
Publication date 08/25/2019
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