Half of the World's Population to Have Internet Access by 2018
According to eMarketer, good news is on the horizon for anyone pulling for mainstream digital currency use. Everyone who knows bitcoin also knows that Internet access is a pure necessity for the technology to thrive and in just three years' time, half of the world's population will be online and connected. eMarketer revealed that by 2018, 3.6 billion people will be connected to the internet. In 2013, the earth's population was over 7.1 billion people. Monica Peart, the senior forecasting analyst at eMarketer, outlined a few forces driving the rise of Internet access. "Inexpensive mobile....
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