[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

Might be of interest to some.

Regards
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From: Filip Vukovinski <filip.vukovinski at net.hr>
Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:27 PM
Subject: [Internet Policy] Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study
To: ISOC Internet Policy List <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>


Cambridge Judge Business School published a global cryptocurrencies study
by Hileman and Rauchs.


https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternative-finance/
publications/global-cryptocurrency/#.W13zkvaxXcv



"This is the first study to systematically investigate key cryptocurrency
industry sectors by collecting empirical, non-public data. The study
gathered survey data from nearly 150 cryptocurrency companies and
individuals, and it covers 38 countries from five world regions. The study
details the key industry sectors that have emerged and the different
entities that inhabit them."


Some of the key findings include the following:

   - The current number of unique active users of cryptocurrency wallets is
   estimated to be between 2.9 million and 5.8 million.
   - The lines between the different cryptocurrency industry sectors are
   increasingly blurred: 31 per cent of cryptocurrency companies surveyed are
   operating across two cryptocurrency industry sectors or more, giving rise
   to an increasing number of universal cryptocurrency companies.
   - At least 1,876 people are working full- time in the cryptocurrency
   industry, and the actual total figure is likely well above two thousand
   when large mining organisations and other organisations that did not
   provide headcount figures are added.
   - Average security headcount and costs for payment companies and
   exchanges as a percentage of total headcount/operating expenses are
   similar, but significantly higher for wallets.



Filip

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