Retail investors stay the course on crypto positions, with ownership and purchasing intent showing no month-over-month change despite cryptocurrency’s ubiquity in headlines. As of mid-March, 19% of U.S. adults reported owning some form of cryptocurrency, equal to the share who said the same in January and February.
The usual gender divide in bitcoin ownership reversed slightly in March. Some 13% of adults report owning bitcoin specifically; however, there was a 4-point drop in ownership among men over the last month (21% to 17%). Conversely, bitcoin ownership among women showed a 3-point increase (7% to 10%).
Trust in cryptocurrency remains negative overall, and lower than at the beginning of the year. More consumers say they don’t trust cryptocurrency than say that they do, yielding a net trust rating of -36 percentage points, a notable decline from January’s rating of -28.