Australians emerge as world’s most crypto-curious investors, data reveals

The Australian crypto user base is expected to grow to 11.16 million by next year, with nearly 41% of Australians participating in crypto.

Australians show the world’s highest per-capita interest in cryptocurrency, according to new web-traffic data, with most activity focused on trading and speculation.

Data compiled by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto division calculated the percentage of web traffic from each country across the top 30 tokens on CoinGecko, filtering out Bitcoin and stablecoins. 

Australians had the highest per capita percentage of token-related web traffic at 74.63% per 1 billion people, while South Koreans were a close second with 73.48% of token-related web traffic, and users from the United Kingdom were third with 62.15% per 1 billion people. 

Read more