Most full-time employees of the cryptocurrency industry are employed by companies based in Asia-Pacific, followed closely by North America – specifically the US – says a new Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance that was distributed in Chinese by 8btc.com.
Credit: Garrick Hileman JBS, Cambridge
Credit: Garrick Hileman JBS, Cambridge
The study is the inaugural research focused on alternative payment systems and digital assets and the first of its kind to holistically examine the burgeoning global cryptocurrency industry and its key constituents, which include exchanges, wallets, payments and mining.
The academic research which is supported by Visa notes that 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 organizations that did not provide headcount figures are added. It records that Asia have 720 of the total number of employees while North America has 676 while Europe has 346.
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