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How Long Do Investors Plan to Hold Onto Bitcoin?

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How Long Do Investor Plan to Hold Onto Bitcoin?

How Long Do Investors Plan to Hold Onto Bitcoin?

Did investors buy bitcoin because it was trendy, or are they committed to cryptocurrency for the long haul?

As in any new and rapidly-growing market, this kind of investor intent and the overall feeling of market sentiment matters a lot. That’s because there are no historical averages or ratios to apply as baselines for value, and if things head south there is always the possibility of a mass exodus.

Buy, Hodl, and Prosper?

Today’s infographic comes to us from Raconteur, and it helps map out the future price expectations of crypto investors, along with how long they plan to hold onto their digital assets.

But before we get to that, let’s look at why investors bought into the market in the first place:

Reasons for buying Bitcoin:Share
I believe Bitcoin is a world-changing technology41%
A long-term store of value like gold or silver22%
A friend, family member, or trusted source convinced me15%
The price is low and will go higher14%
For transactions or purchases and less of an investment8%

When did people get into the market?

More than 60% of investors got involved in cryptocurrency in 2017, and 56% of investors that hold crypto plan to buy more in the next 12 months.

Future Expectations

What do people expect crypto prices to do in the future, and how long are investors willing to hold?

According to a survey of 1,800 crypto investors around the world at the end of March 2018, a whopping 77.9% see the crypto market gaining more than 30% in value over the next three years.

Meanwhile, another poll from November 2017 asked investors how long they will hold onto their assets:

How long will investors hold onto Bitcoin?Share
>10 years12%
7-10 years10%
4-6 years22%
1-3 years40%
<1 year16%

Only 16% of respondents planned to sell within the next year, and 44% of respondents said they’d hold onto Bitcoin for four or more years.

Concerns About Exchanges

Exchanges are the lifeblood for buying or selling cryptocurrency – so what are the major concerns held by investors about them?

Concerns about crypto exchangesShare
Security40%
High trading fees37%
Lack of liquidity36%
Response time from support team33%
Lack of crypto pairs22%
User friendliness and poor platform interface21%
High withdrawal fees18%
None9%

Security continues to be a topical issue for traders, which is not surprising since it’s estimated that $1.2 billion of crypto has been stolen since 2017. Other issues like high trading fees and the lack of liquidity and lack of currency pairs also poll high.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

We visualized the results of an analysis by the World Economic Forum, which uncovered the jobs most impacted by AI.

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Charted: The Jobs Most Impacted by AI

This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources.

Large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI tools haven’t been around for very long, but they’re expected to have far-reaching impacts on the way people do their jobs. With this in mind, researchers have already begun studying the potential impacts of this transformative technology.

In this graphic, we’ve visualized the results of a World Economic Forum report, which estimated how different job departments will be exposed to AI disruption.

Data and Methodology

To identify the job departments most impacted by AI, researchers assessed over 19,000 occupational tasks (e.g. reading documents) to determine if they relied on language. If a task was deemed language-based, it was then determined how much human involvement was needed to complete that task.

With this analysis, researchers were then able to estimate how AI would impact different occupational groups.

DepartmentLarge impact (%)Small impact (%)No impact (%)
IT73261
Finance70219
Customer Sales671617
Operations651817
HR57412
Marketing56413
Legal46504
Supply Chain431839

In our graphic, large impact refers to tasks that will be fully automated or significantly altered by AI technologies. Small impact refers to tasks that have a lesser potential for disruption.

Where AI will make the biggest impact

Jobs in information technology (IT) and finance have the highest share of tasks expected to be largely impacted by AI.

Within IT, tasks that are expected to be automated include software quality assurance and customer support. On the finance side, researchers believe that AI could be significantly useful for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing.

Still interested in AI? Check out this graphic which ranked the most commonly used AI tools in 2023.

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