{"id":562128,"date":"2020-06-18T15:47:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/?p=562128"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T13:47:03","slug":"59-of-bitcoin-btc-crypto-investors-get-their-news-via-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/59-of-bitcoin-btc-crypto-investors-get-their-news-via-telegram\/","title":{"rendered":"59% of Bitcoin (BTC) &amp; Crypto Investors Get their News Via Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Crypto traders and investors have seen Telegram Messenger as a logical home for their news and discussions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A report by the team at Amun estimates that <\/strong><strong>59% of Bitcoin and Crypto investors get their Bitcoin and crypto news via Telegram messenger.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/category\/news\/latest-bitcoin-btc-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bitcoin<\/a> and Crypto investors have long used Telegram as the defacto platform for all their investing and trading discussions. Telegram Messenger has long been seen as a logical home for members of the crypto-verse primarily due to the end-to-end encryption of messages on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Telegram has a bunch of features that suit the Bitcoin and Crypto investor&#8217;s needs. <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.org\/faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">They include<\/a> and are not limited to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groups that can have up to 200,000 members.<\/li>\n<li>Access to messages from several devices at once such as tablets, phones and PCs.<\/li>\n<li>Sharing an unlimited number of photos, videos, gifs and more.<\/li>\n<li>Telegram is fast and free.<\/li>\n<li>Ease of integrating other services via bots\/APIs.<\/li>\n<li>Easy subscription to crypto news via Telegram channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>59% of Bitcoin (BTC) &amp; Crypto Investors Get their News Via Telegram<\/h2>\n<p>It is with this brief background of the Telegram application that the team at Amun has explored the usage of the application in their <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.amun.com\/amun-2020-derivatives-and-tokens-benchmarking-survey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2020 Derivatives and Tokens Benchmarking Survey<\/a>. In the report, the team at Amun concludes that 58.89% of Bitcoin and crypto investors get their news via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/zilliqas-new-tipping-bot-avails-zil-to-400m-telegram-users\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegram<\/a> Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>Other social media platforms used by the crypto community include Twitter, Youtube, Blogs, Reddit and Newsletters. The chart below from Amun provides a better visual representation of the usage of each platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse.jpeg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-562131\" src=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-770x513.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-317x211.jpeg 317w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-717x478.jpeg 717w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-1102x734.jpeg 1102w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse-240x160.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/you-get-your-crypto-asse.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Possible Areas of Improvement in the Survey<\/h2>\n<p>The methodology used by Amun involved surveying 629 participants from a closed network that were paid between $1 &#8211; $10 for their efforts. Additionally, participants from the US, Switzerland and Seychelles were excluded from the survey. However, the team at Amun acknowledged the possible incompleteness of the data and promised to improve with time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As such, we are aware that the results of this study do not represent the entire community. This survey is the first of a much wider effort to understand our industry better and, whilst not perfect, we hope that the results and our findings are useful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In brief: Crypto traders and investors have seen Telegram Messenger as a logical home for their news and discussions. A report by the team at Amun estimates that 59% of Bitcoin and Crypto investors get their Bitcoin and crypto news via Telegram messenger.\u00a0 Bitcoin and Crypto investors have long used Telegram as the defacto platform for all their investing and trading discussions. Telegram Messenger has long been seen as a logical home for members of the crypto-verse primarily due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":562130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[947,800],"tags":[1233,83,1322,618],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}