63% of the Northern Ireland Public has heard of Cryptocurrencies
After a previous article I did on Queens University Belfast Students Researching Bitcoin, one of the students was kind enough to give me access to all the statistics and responses from the general public in Northern Ireland in regards to their year of research. I have found it a great source of insight into the strengths and weaknesses that needs to be addressed here, in order to help bring digital currencies into mainstream usage across the North of Ireland. I don’t believe anything like this has ever been done by anyone else before, and although it is only a very small scale study, the....
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