Estimate of the monthly number of cryptocurrency users worldwide 2016-2024

The global user base of cryptocurrencies increased by nearly 190 percent between 2018 and 2020, only to accelerate further in 2022. This is according to calculations from various sources, based on information from trading platforms and on-chain wallets. Increasing demographics might initially be attributed to a rise in the number of accounts and improvements in identification. In 2021, however, crypto adoption continued as companies like Tesla and Mastercard announced their interest in cryptocurrency. Consumers in Africa, Asia, and South America were most likely to be an owner of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, in 2022.How many of these users have Bitcoin?User figures for individual cryptocurrencies are unavailable. Bitcoin, for instance, was created not to be tracked by banks and governments. What comes closest is the trading volume of Bitcoin against domestic fiat currencies. The source assumed, however, that UK residents were the most likely to make Bitcoin transactions with British pounds. This assumption might not be accurate for popular fiat currencies worldwide. On top of that, coins such as Tether or Binance Coin - referred to as "stablecoins" - are often used to buy and sell Bitcoin. Those coins were not included in that particular statistic.Wallet usage declinedTotal crypto wallet downloads were significantly lower in 2022 than in 2021. The number of downloads of Coinbase, Blockchain.com, and MetaMask, among others, declined as the market hit a "crypto winter" over the year. The crypto market also suffered bad press when FTX - one of the largest crypto exchanges based on market share - collapsed in November 2022. Binance, on the other hand, regained some of the market share it had lost between September and October 2022, growing by 0.8 percentage points in November.

全球加密货币的用户基础在2018年至2020年期间增长了近190%，而到了2022年，这一增长趋势进一步加速。这一数据来源于多个渠道的计算，基于交易平台和链上钱包的信息。用户基础的扩大可能最初可归因于账户数量的增加以及身份验证的改进。然而，在2021年，加密货币的采用率持续增长，这得益于特斯拉和万事达卡等公司宣布对加密货币的兴趣。非洲、亚洲和南美洲的消费者在2022年最有可能持有比特币等加密货币。然而，这些用户的数量究竟有多少？对于个别加密货币的用户数据无法获取。例如，比特币的创建初衷便是为了避开银行和政府的追踪。与之最接近的指标是比特币与各国法定货币的成交量。然而，该数据源假设英国居民最有可能使用英镑进行比特币交易。这一假设可能并不适用于全球范围内流行的法定货币。此外， tether或binance coin等被称为“稳定币”的代币常被用于购买和出售比特币，而这些代币并未包含在该特定统计数据中。钱包使用率下降：2022年加密货币钱包的下载量显著低于2021年。Coinbase、Blockchain.com和MetaMask等应用程序的下载量均有所下降，因为在全年市场遭遇“加密货币寒冬”之际。2022年11月，FTX——按市场份额计算的最大的加密货币交易所之一——的倒闭也给加密货币市场带来了负面报道。另一方面，Binance在2022年9月至10月间失去的部分市场份额在11月得到了一定程度的恢复，增长了0.8个百分点。