According to the study, Türkiye is the country with the largest Bitcoin enthusiasm worldwide
Many people say that Istanbul is the most exciting city in Europe. Photo by Moyan burned via Flickr.com. License: Creative Commons
A study by the Dutch Großbank Ing for mobile banking examines how people from 15 countries think about mobile banking and Bitcoin. To put it understated, the results are surprising.
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The Netherlands is actually considered a Bitcoin hotspot, while you don’t hear too much from Turkey. The results of the study by InG now suggest that this impression is walking on a rather rotten wooden path. The large Dutch bank has asked 1,000 people from 15 countries, especially in Europe. The survey took place via mobile devices, which is why it can be assumed that the results are not entirely representative.
Most of the examination is dedicated to mobile banking / payment. The Netherlands is at the top, where 58 percent of those surveyed have stated that they use mobile banking. This is followed by the USA (50), Great Britain (49), Spain (45), Australia (44), Poland (43), Germany (42), in exactly this order. The final lights form Romania, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Belgium and Italy.
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But what this is about is the results of the Bitcoin. And they provide a strange negative correlation for the results for mobile banking. Ing has submitted the respondent to the statement that digital currencies such as Bitcoin are the future of online numbers. The respondents could then answer with “yes”, “no” or “no idea”. The rather weird result is that the sentence in the Netherlands, of all things, is the slightest in 9 percent, and in Turkey with a whopping 45 percent the highest consent. After Turkey, Italy (43), Spain (33), Poland (31) and Romania (26) follow. Germany lands in the fourth last place before Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Ing also asked whether the participants have already used bitcoins. There were four answers: “Yes”, “No”, “I don’t know what bitcoins are,” and “no opinion”. These results also fit into the picture: in the Netherlands, with 55 percent most respondents have “no”, in Turkey with 9 percent most of them answered “yes”. The USA (7), Italy (7), Poland (6) and Spain (5) are followed by Turkey.
So what does that tell us now? That the real Bitcoin trend does not take place in the Netherlands or Germany, but in Turkey, in Italy, Spain and Poland? That in the countries where people are already used to mobile banking, the Bitcoin is not being used, with the exception of Spain? And where does this strange but significantly recognizable correlation come from, which one would have expected the other way around? Because the Bitcoin is a kind of “gap filler” if the national banks do not yet offer mature mobile banking? Or is the study simply not representative enough because of the comparatively small number of ANS numbers of respondents to deliver valid results? You can only puzzle, but you should keep an eye on the hotspots raised by ING.
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