Crypto hype: Three quarters of Germans plan higher investments!

Crypto hype: Three quarters of Germans plan higher investments!

Deutschland - The finances are not still! The constant course increases in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have sparked a real crypto boom. According to an investigation by the business consultancy Strategy & under 2500 private investors from the USA, Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey, over 87 percent of respondents plan to continue investing their money in digital currencies in the next twelve months. In Germany, however, 75 percent of crypto investors are more reluctant: they also want to invest more money, but almost half of the respondents have invested between 1,000 and 10,000 euros in Bitcoin, while a good fifth even invested less than 1,000 euros. This survey took place in January and February 2025 when the Bitcoin course climbed to over 92,000 euros and was already on the way to exceeding the psychological brand of $ 100,000, as the krone reported.

digital means of payment on the advance

The openness to digital means of payment is also strongly pronounced, especially for the digital euro. A survey commissioned by the Deutsche Bundesbank of the Polling Research Company Forsa under 2012 showed that 50 percent of the respondents are open to the use of a digital euro as an additional payment option. Although only 41 percent have heard of this new means of payment, the survey shows a positive basic attitude. Protecting privacy is mentioned as the most important argument: Over 75 percent of those surveyed consider data protection to be extremely relevant when using the digital euro. The planned offline model in particular, which is supposed to offer similar privacy advantages as cash, enjoys great approval, such as The Deutsche Bundesbank reported.

Nevertheless, there are clear gaps in knowledge: 59 percent of those surveyed had never heard of the digital euro, and many misunderstand that he should not replace the cash. Only 17 percent knew correctly that the digital euro was additional money from central banks. Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel emphasized that the digital euro can better protect privacy than existing commercial payment methods and that the introduction could take place in 2028 at the earliest as soon as the legal framework is created by the EU.