Researchers on the Cambridge Centre for Various Finance just lately revealed that 100 million individuals world wide presently maintain Bitcoin (BTC) and different blockchain-based property.

In 2018, the 2nd World Cryptoasset Benchmarking Research estimated the variety of identity-verified crypto customers at about 35 million globally. As of Q3 2020, there are as much as 191 million accounts opened at crypto exchanges — a determine which doesn’t embrace self-hosted wallets.

The researchers defined the numerous improve:

“This 189% improve in customers could also be defined by each an increase within the variety of accounts (which elevated by 37%), in addition to a better share of accounts being systematically linked to a person’s identification, permitting us to extend our estimate of minimal person numbers related to accounts on every service supplier.”

The research additionally highlights the geolocation of customers, as crypto corporations working from North America and Europe “report increased person exercise, with the median agency indicating that 40% of whole customers are thought of energetic.” In keeping with the researchers, this determine was a lot decrease for APAC and Latin America-based corporations, which reported a fee of 16% and 10% respectively.

The Centre’s methodology combined public knowledge and surveys, utilizing a mixture of verified person knowledge and the typical share of ID-verified accounts surveyed for the research.

Regardless of researchers’ declare that there are limitations to the methodology used within the research, they consider that the printed numbers supply “a dependable, approximate determine of the full variety of crypto asset holders globally.”