5 Revelations about Bitcoin from the ING 2015 Mobile Banking Survey

5 Revelations about Bitcoin from the ING 2015 Mobile Banking Survey

ING Bank hired global research firm, Ipsos, to survey 14,829 Internet users from 13 European countries, the United States and Australia. ING asked participants about mobile banking, payments and digital currency, such as bitcoin. The report has some sobering insights into how Bitcoin adoption is going in the West, including what consumers see as the....


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