{"id":1893,"date":"2021-06-17T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/about-2-3m-britons-hold-cryptocurrencies-despite-warnings-of-risk\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T14:52:13","slug":"about-2-3m-britons-hold-cryptocurrencies-despite-warnings-of-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/about-2-3m-britons-hold-cryptocurrencies-despite-warnings-of-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"About 2.3m Britons hold cryptocurrencies despite warnings of risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FCA says the digital assets appear to have become more normalised and viewed less as a gamble<\/p>\n<p>The number of UK adults who hold cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has risen to an estimated 2.3 million, despite warnings from regulators and the head of the Bank of England that people should be prepared to lose all their money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fca.org.uk\/publications\/research\/research-note-cryptoasset-consumer-research-2021\">Research by the Financial Conduct Authority<\/a> also revealed that almost 20% of buyers said they were driven by a fear of missing out, while one in seven were going into the red to finance their cryptocurrency purchases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jun\/17\/about-23m-britons-hold-cryptocurrencies-despite-warnings-of-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9587b00c30bbc9d05cb6fcb60a3aab2e17605c2b\/0_171_5143_3086\/master\/5143.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8f69c466060ae76a5a653850c8d4f6c6\" title=\"About 2.3m Britons hold cryptocurrencies despite warnings of risk\" \/>FCA says the digital assets appear to have become more normalised and viewed less as a gamble<br \/>\nThe number of UK adults who hold cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has risen to an estimated 2.3 million, despite warnings from regulators and the head of the Bank of England that people should be prepared to lose all their money.<br \/>\nResearch by the Financial Conduct Authority also revealed that almost 20% of buyers said they were driven by a fear of missing out, while one in seven were going into the red to finance their cryptocurrency purchases. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCA says the digital assets appear to have become more normalised and viewed less as a gamble The number of UK adults who hold cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin has risen to an estimated 2.3 million, despite warnings from regulators and the head of the Bank of England that people should be prepared to lose all &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/about-2-3m-britons-hold-cryptocurrencies-despite-warnings-of-risk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About 2.3m Britons hold cryptocurrencies despite warnings of risk<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}