Bitcoin Adoption Opportunity: Teenagers
If Bitcoin is to achieve mainstream success it cannot stop at the limited crowds of Internet geeks, libertarians and privacy advocates that it is hitting now, and it must find some way to attract the mainstream public. The mainstream public seems like a difficult target: it has eluded many products ranging from desktop Linux to Esperanto, as it seems....
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The American independent investment bank and financial services company, Piper Sandler has published its latest “Taking Stock With Teens” survey which notes that 9% of U.S. teenagers have traded cryptocurrencies. 7,000 teenagers were polled and roughly 81% of those who have traded digital currencies were male. 9% of American Teens Claim to Have Traded Crypto Assets, But Cash Is Still King Among US Teenagers Piper Sandler Companies has published a new study that surveyed 7,000 American teenagers. According to the findings as far as payments are concerned “cash is (still)....
ZapGo aims to revolutionize how young South Africans spend their cash online. The new mobile money start-up by South Africans Michail Brynard and Helghardt Avenant (currently halfway through the Boost VC accelerator program in Silicon Valley), uses the Bitcoin network as the underlying mechanism to transfer value. However, this is not an entirely new business. The duo ran it as Xoin prior and offered a slightly different service of selling bitcoin redeemable vouchers as an easy way to make the crypto coin accessible to many. From Xoin, they learned that bitcoin in its raw form is too....
The quest to bring Bitcoin to the world is taking us on a journey of discovery. We have not yet found our way to mass recognition or adoption. Granted, these are new technologies and it takes time. Much of the focus now is on 'the other 6 billion': a catchphrase that refers to the potential of p2p value-transfer technologies to enrich the lives of the unbanked and underbanked. Key applications would be remittance and micro-finance. However, there is a lack of advancement here that is often lamented. Bitcoin, five years into the experiment, is still used by a relatively small group of....
Marketplace OneOf sets its sights on disrupting the NFT industry with its goal of reforming the fan experience. The platform was designed to cater to musicians and their fans, even children and teenagers, through a user-friendly experience. Crypto as a whole, not just NFTs, carries many negative connotations, including being overly complex and environmentally damaging. […]
Bitcoin represents an opportunity for financial freedom, education and inclusion for African Americans.