The finance world has been taken by storm over the past decade and this is largely due to Bitcoin and blockchain technology. Looking over at the latest cryptocurrency statistics, we can easily assume that the prices will only go up, given the huge amounts of money invested in this sector.
$1.1 trillion is Bitcoin’s total market value in 2021.
You don’t need to look far and wide to see that cryptocurrency facts all lead to one direction, and that direction is up. For the last 10 years, cryptocurrency investments have made millions of people rich, but, like with all investments, it also made some people lose their money.
325% is Ethereum’s growth in 2021. The prices have more than quadrupled in just 1 year.
Whether you’re pro or against cryptocurrency and everything related to blockchain technology, let’s go over the latest statistics and most fascinating facts together.
$63,707.34 is the ATH (all time high) price for Bitcoin.
What percentage of the population invests in Cryptocurrency?
The percentage of people investing or thinking about investments in cryptocurrencies is growing at a never-before seen pace.
Around 1.4% of the world’s population uses cryptocurrencies.
According to Crypto.com, over 106 million people are using cryptocurrency around the globe.
How Many Cryptocurrency Users in the US?
Given the fact that the US is the world’s leading economy, it comes as no surprise that it also leads in terms of people and amounts invested in cryptocurrencies.
21.2 million adults, which is approximately 14% of the total US population.
These numbers are expected to double this year according to a report provided by Yahoo! Finance.
How Many Crypto Transactions per Day?
Cryptocurrency has become a multi-trillion dollar industry and the number of daily transactions is extremely hard to assess, given the blockchain technology and its security protocols.
Over 2 million crypto transactions per day have been registered.
Bitcoin amounts to more than 400,000 daily transactions, while Ethereum reached a record high of over 1.1 million transactions in a day.
Which country uses most Cryptocurrency?
You may be surprised by these percentages, when it comes to the cryptocurrency adoption rate in some countries. Before looking at the stats below, what country would you say ranks first?
- Nigeria – 32% of people said they owned or used cryptocurrency
- Vietnam – 21%
- Philippines – 20%
- Turkey – 16%
- Peru – 16%
- Switzerland – 11%
- India – 9 %
- China – 7%
- United States – 6 %
- Germany – 5 %
- Japan – 4 %
These numbers are based on Statista’s Global Consumer Survey for the year 2020, where a number of 1,000 – 4,000 respondents per country have participated, relevant to the online population for each region.
Growth of Cryptocurrencies Stats & Figures
When it comes to cryptocurrency growth statistics, all we can do is look at the numbers and analyze them as best as we can. Since this is a very new field, no one knows exactly what numbers can some cryptocurrencies reach, or what new cryptocurrencies will appear in the future.
11.2% is the CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for the cryptocurrency market.
This is a very rapid growth rate and chances are the numbers will get even higher.
$23.3 billion is the number projected for the global blockchain market by 2023.
There’s no other investment opportunity that has seen such huge growth spikes.
Bitcoin has gained 193,639.36% in just 8 years!
These numbers are applicable for the time span between 2012 and 2020.
Bitcoin’s price has grown by 66% in February 2021.
That’s as impressive as it gets when it comes to investments.
Cryptocurrency statistics by country
When it comes to the TOP 5 countries leading the crypto ownership rankings, it comes as no surprise that the US takes the first spot.
TOP 5 countries when it comes to cryptocurrency ownership
1. United States (27 million)
2. Nigeria (13 million)
3. Vietnam (5.9 million)
4. United Kingdom (3.3 million)
5. Turkey (2.4 million)
Given the encryption around the blockchain technology, a lot of cryptocurrency ownership statistics may differ and some countries may rank higher than others, depending on who is conducting the research.
Cryptocurrency Usage in India
Currently there are some Indian officials that are working on laws to ban cryptocurrency in the country, however, nothing is certain yet.
8 million investors now hold 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) in crypto-investments.
These numbers are unofficial, as there is no official data regarding the Indian cryptocurrency market.
Up to 10 years in jail has been recommended for people who mine, generate, hold, sell, transfer, dispose of, issue, or deal in cryptocurrencies.
This an official proposal made by a government panel in 2019. However, nothing has been applied yet.
Cryptocurrency Trading in India
More and more Indians prefer investing at least some of their savings and income into cryptocurrency, in parallel to traditional investment methods.
20,000 new users in January and February have registered on Unocoin.
Unocoin is one of India’s oldest exchanges, and Indian users keep signing up despite worries of a ban.
ZebPay had the same trading volume per day in February 2021 as it did in all of February 2020.
Vikram Rangala CMO, the exchange’s chief marketing officer, offered these numbers through a statement.
Indians can invest in cryptocurrency with as little as ₹100 ($1.35).
One of the cryptocurrency exchange platforms that allows this is CoinSwitch Kuber.
Cryptocurrency adoption statistics
As we’ve all noticed, cryptocurrency adoption is growing by the day, at a worldwide scale.
97% of people say they have confidence in cryptocurrencies.
Data shows the numbers available for the cryptocurrency user index in 2021.
With 20%, Turkey is the country with the highest rate of cryptocurrency adoption.
Turkey has a total population of 82 million people, meaning that approximately 16.2 million of them have adopted a form of cryptocurrency.
28,866 social media Bitcoin posts are posted online every day.
That amounts to 1,203 posts per hour, which is around 20 posts per minute.
18,000 businesses are already accepting cryptocurrency payments.
And more and more employees accept being paid in cryptocurrency.
Crypto Industry Market Size
The crypto industry is constantly expanding and looking at these cryptocurrency users statistics we can easily get an idea about what people prefer to buy, sell and invest in.
$754 million was the total cryptocurrency market size in 2019.
By 2027, the cryptocurrency market is expected to reach $1.758 million.
The top 10 cryptocurrencies with the highest market cap amount to approximately 88% of the total cryptocurrency market value.
The 10 most bought and sold cryptocurrencies can be seen in the rankings we’ve posted below.
18.6 million Bitcoins are currently in existence, as of January 2021.
With Bitcoin mining, the numbers will continue to get higher and higher.
Approximately 900 new coins appear on a daily basis.
Starting from 2021, a little under 1000 new cryptocurrencies are being launched every day.
Cryptocurrency Exchange Statistics
People use various platforms for cryptocurrency exchange, but before you start adding funds into a platform, be sure that everything is legit and the offer they have is vast, covering as many cryptocurrencies as possible.
There are +300 cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide, as of 2020.
These platforms serve as a place where people can buy, sell and exchange different types of cryptocurrencies.
Be sure to do your due diligence before signing up for any cryptocurrency exchange platform.
TOP 10 cryptocurrency exchange platforms
Binance
Exchange Score: 9.7
Volume (24 hours): $75,522,236,461
Average Liquidity: 666
Weekly Visits: 34,690,815
Markets: 1214
Coins: 358
73.07% of this cryptocurrency exchange platform’s traffic is direct.
While 3.45% comes from Referrals, 15.79% from Searches and 4.27% from Social Media.
Coinbase Pro
Exchange Score: 8.8
Volume (24 hours): $9,258,481,426
Average Liquidity: 507
Weekly Visits: 5,263,535
Markets: 192
Coins: 59
7 minutes and 4 seconds is the average visit duration on Coinbase Pro.
The average Pages per Visit is 6.58, while the Bounce Rate is at 35.62%.
Kraken
Exchange Score: 8.6
Volume (24 hours): $4,513,157,549
Average Liquidity: 529
Weekly Visits: 5,372,402
Markets: 285
Coins: 62
Kraken’s website ranks as the 2,171 website in the world.
It also ranks at 1,659 in the United States.
Huobi Global
Exchange Score: 8.4
Volume (24 hours): $23,007,254,609
Average Liquidity: 634
Weekly Visits: 1,883,132
Markets: 961
Coins: 324
Most visitors to the platform come from China.
Huobi Global is a Seychelles-based company.
KuCoin
Exchange Score: 8.2
Volume (24 hours): $3,307,806,959
Average Liquidity: 465
Weekly Visits: 1,268,622
Markets: 735
Coins: 318
62.20% of KuCoin’s website traffic is direct
13.67% comes from Referrals, 14.67% from Search Engines, 5.75% from Social Media, while only 3.37% of visitors come via Mail.
Bitfinex
Exchange Score: 8.1
Volume (24 hours): $2,315,374,638
Average Liquidity: 442
Weekly Visits: 1,080,043
Markets: 303
Coins: 132
77.78% of the platform’s total traffic comes from direct accessing
These numbers are very impressive considering the direct traffic for other cryptocurrency trading platforms.
Bithumb
Exchange Score: 8.0
Volume (24 hours): $2,894,178,933
Average Liquidity: 251
Weekly Visits: 1,596,806
Markets: 216
Coins: 174
Almost 100% of Bithumb’s registered users are from South Korea.
This is largely explainable due to South Korea being the country of origin for Bithumb.
Gate.io
Exchange Score: 7.9
Volume (24 hours): $2,459,648,797
Average Liquidity: 373
Weekly Visits: 832,673
Markets: 1191
Coins: 620
40.30% is the Bounce Rate for Gate.io.
This means that 4 out of every 10 users enter the platform and immediately close it.
Bitstamp
Exchange Score: 7.9
Volume (24 hours): $1,628,337,535
Average Liquidity: 281
Weekly Visits: 1,043,580
Markets: 65
Coins: 22
4:39 is the average daily time spent on the platform by visitors.
This data is provided by Alexa.com
Binance.US
Exchange Score: 7.8
Volume (24 hours): $2,402,056,366
Average Liquidity: 317
Weekly Visits: 1,718,394
Markets: 109
Coins: 54
12.26% of the platform’s visitors come from Turkey, which sends the most users.
The United Kingdom comes in second with 4.63% of the website’s total traffic, while Russia ranks third with 4.51%.
The top 10 cryptocurrency exchange platforms rankings are based on the data provided by Coin Market Cap.
Cryptocurrency Mining Statistics
Given the constantly growing size of the cryptocurrency industry, more and more people have picked up mining, which is the procedure that generates new coins.
65% is the total market share of the mining segment.
The percentage applies to the cryptocurrency mining segment for 2019.
$1.4 billion has been generated by the cryptocurrency mining industry in February 2021 alone.
Cryptocurrency ownership statistics show that people gain coins through mining and via transactions, these being the two most popular forms. Other forms may include payments and donations.
Cryptocurrency power consumption statistics
Bitcoin generating ecosystems consumes less than 10% of the energy required for the traditional banking system.
This means that mining and transitioning cryptocurrencies could be more environmental-friendly than the classic banking systems.
Bitcoin miners consume approximately 130 Terawatt-hours of energy (TWh), according to the University of Cambridge.
To put things in perspective and to make a cryptocurrency demographics analogy, that means that Bitcoin’s economy is producing the same amounts of carbon dioxide emissions as small countries like Sri Lanka or Jordan.
73% of bitcoin miners use at least some renewable energy.
This is in addition to their main power supply.
Cryptocurrency Theft Statistics
When something becomes popular or valuable, or both, it will easily attract thieves and new methods of stealing these assets.
$1.9 billion in cryptocurrency stolen by hackers in 2020.
The numbers have gone down since 2019 when a total of $4.5 billion worth in cryptocurrency have been stolen.
667 million new crypto-malware were recorded by March 2020.
And the numbers just keep on growing.
Trends of Cryptocurrencies
Being such a new and rapidly growing sector, the cryptocurrency world can always surprise its investors with ups and downs.
World’s most expensive NFT sells for $69 million at auction
NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens are unique objects, registered on the blockchain which bear a certain unique value, based on the object. This is one of the latest cryptocurrency trends, to create NFT (nifties) based on blockchain.
Let’s go over the TOP 20 cryptocurrencies in 2021 (so far):
Bitcoin (BTC)
Price: $55,445.16
Market Cap: $1,040,754,299,368
Volume (24 hours): $61,032,122,765
Circulating Supply: 18,699,268 BTC
$100,000 is the estimated price for Bitcoin by 2030.
However, given the industry’s volatility, nothing is certain when it comes to Bitcoin prices.
Ethereum (ETH)
Price: $3,499.45
Market Cap: $405,009,416,372
Volume (24 hours): $60,262,800,147
Circulating Supply: 115,735,023 ETH
$36.92 is the average Ethereum mining profit per day.
Based on specific metrics and calculations provided by Coinwarz.com
Binance Coin (BNB)
Price: $642.40
Market Cap: $98,062,685,816
Volume (24 hours): $5,631,517,327
Circulating Supply: 153,432,897 BNB
$1,000 is this cryptocurrency’s projected price before 2030.
Binance Coin is constantly used to trade on the Binance platform, which gives it more and more notoriety and popularity.
Dogecoin (DOGE)
Price: $0.5823
Market Cap: $75,749,691,937
Volume (24 hours): $27,721,111,122
Circulating Supply: 129,461,434,269 DOGE
Dogecoin had a 6,000% rise over the last six months, due to Elon Musk’s jokes on Twitter.
TESLA CEO joked about Dogecoin being his “favorite coin” which led to a huge price increase.
Ripple (XRP)
Price: $1.45
Market Cap: $65,951,207,930
Volume (24 hours): $10,465,106,408
Circulating Supply: 45,404,028,640 XRP
All 100 billion XRP that will ever be created already exist.
However, Ripple (XRP) cannot be mined.
Tether (USDT)
Price: $1
Market Cap: $52,177,900,238
Volume (24 hours): $155,404,346,712
Circulating Supply: 52,168,189,851 USDT
$1 will always be the approximate price for Tether.
This is due to the fact that Tether (USDT) is created to be on parity to the US Dollar.
Cardano (ADA)
Price: $1.32
Market Cap: $42,221,064,617
Volume (24 hours): $3,041,670,777
Circulating Supply: 31,948,309,441 ADA
Cardano and Ethereum share the same Co-Founder.
Both cryptocurrencies are open source and rank among the TOP 10.
Polkadot (DOT)
Price: $37.24
Market Cap: $34,785,795,901
Volume (24 hours): $2,273,527,650
Circulating Supply: 934,854,827 DOT
Polkadot is expected to be worth $113.39 in 2025, rising to around $160 by 2028.
According to Digital Coin Price analysis and predictions.
Uniswap (UNI)
Price: $42.96
Market Cap: $22,859,362,377
Volume (24 hours): $1,452,741,828
Circulating Supply: 523,384,244 UNI
Uniswap was created on November 2, 2018. It’s one of the newest coins present in the TOP 10.
Its creator, Hayden Adams, is a former mechanical engineer at Siemens.
Litecoin (LTC)
Price: $322.13
Market Cap: $21,147,968,983
Volume (24 hours): $9,338,106,442
Circulating Supply: 66,752,415 LTC
$371 was the All-Time High price of Litecoin.
The coin reached that price on 19 December 2017
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
Price: $1,029.75
Market Cap: $19,257,377,684
Volume (24 hours): $5,031,892,430
Circulating Supply: 18,726,794 BCH
Bitcoin Cash is 2.90% more profitable to mine on the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain.
As opposed to regular Bitcoin (BTC).
Chainlink (LINK)
Price: $43.85
Market Cap: $18,202,976,275
Volume (24 hours): $2,939,537,095
Circulating Supply: 419,009,556 LINK
Chainlink is predicted to reach $100 at the end of 2025.
However, when it comes to cryptocurrency price predictions, you can never be 100% of the outcome.
USD Coin (USDC)
Price: $1
Market Cap: $14,382,096,188
Volume (24 hours): $3,085,117,424
Circulating Supply: 14,380,157,844 USDC
USD Coin is similar to Tether and will always represent $1.
You can consider USD Coin (USDC) as a placeholder for FIAT money, worth $1 per coin.
VeChain (VET)
Price: $0.1913
Market Cap: $12,494,585,823
Volume (24 hours): $2,281,784,515
Circulating Supply: 64,315,576,989 VET
$0.28099 is the highest price ever reached by VeChain.
VeChain reached its ATH (all-time high) on Apr 19, 2021.
Solana (SOL)
Price: $45.96
Market Cap: $12,526,815,018
Volume (24 hours): $734,826,711
Circulating Supply: 272,637,428 SOL
Solana can handle 30,000 price updates per second and settle on a price every 400ms.
Solana (SOL) is a very fast decentralized exchange.
Stellar (XLM)
Price: $0.5227
Market Cap: $12,121,987,697
Volume (24 hours): $1,527,719,798
Circulating Supply: 23,005,670,664 XLM
$500 is the price projected for 1 XLM by the year 2025.
Take it with a grain of salt, as some predictions also had STellar (XLM) at $100 in 2020, and the numbers didn’t even come close.
THETA (THETA)
Price: $10.64
Market Cap: $10,810,458,769
Volume (24 hours): $505,214,242
Circulating Supply: 1,000,000,000 THETA
THETA’s total 1,000,000,000. Supply is already in circulation.
This means that if THETA proves itself viable, the prices will only go up as no more coins or tokens can be created.
Filecoin (FIL)
Price: $151.14
Market Cap: $10,594,511,767
Volume (24 hours): $1,311,942,083
Circulating Supply: 69,320,583 FIL
By 2025, between $826 and $4,878 is the estimated price for 1 Filecoin (FIL).
That’s a meteoric predicted rise in just 4 years.
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC)
Price: $55,427.99
Market Cap: $9,472,400,007
Volume (24 hours): $485,653,252
Circulating Supply: 169,367 WBTC
Wrapped Bitcoin is faster than regular Bitcoin for transactions.
This is still Bitcoin however, not a completely separate coin.
TRON (TRX)
Price: $0.1241
Market Cap: $9,020,676,831
Volume (24 hours): $2,907,844,411
Circulating Supply: 71,659,657,369 TRX
TRON is expected to go up to $0.55 per token in 5 years.
That’s almost 500% by 2026.
These numbers are provided by Coin Market Cap, for May 4th, 2021. However, when it comes to cryptocurrency, their value can rise and fall at any given minute, hour, or day.
Conclusion
The future of cryptocurrency looks extremely bright, given the constant growth of people who are starting to invest in this newly-found asset.
Judging by all the latest cryptocurrency statistics, this form of investment will continue to gain a higher market share, as opposed to more traditional financial instruments.
If we were to analyze the most updated cryptocurrency facts, we would definitely look into the latest trends and what are the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies at the moment.
Whenever you’re thinking about investing your money into a product, service, stocks, or any other form of investment, be sure to make all the necessary research and consult with investment specialists for optimum results.
