One in 10 U.S. adults said they bought or held cryptocurrency as an investment in 2025, according to a Federal Reserve study of the economic well-being of U.S. households. That’s up 25% over the 8% that bought or held crypto in 2024. It’s still down from the 12% that bought or held crypto in 2021, before the FTX-induced crypto winter. Just 2% of adults said they used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment. That held relatively steady over the past five years. Using cryptocurrency for remittances by sending money to friends or family has held steady at 1% of the adult population. Of those who used cryptocurrency to…
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