McKeon: 300 million people have crypto exchange accounts globally
Stephen McKeon · Stephen McKeon – NFTs and the Consumer in Web3 (EP.255, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.02) · Jun 16, 2022 · at 16:11
Stephen McKeon discusses the scale of crypto adoption relative to total global internet users.
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“There's three hundred million users that have a crypto exchange account at this point. There's five billion internet connected humans on the planet.”
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