How Will Nigerians Spend $451 Million Bitcoin Cryptocurrency in 2021? By Wayan Vota on December 23, 2020
Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, reports that Nigeria is now has the world’s second largest Bitcoin trading volume. Nigerians have traded 60,215 Bitcoins in the last five years, or more than $566 million USD.
Bitcoin trading volume was already growing at 20% per year. Then 2020 happened and created a 30% trading spike, with over 20,500 coins traded, or $451 million USD in this year alone. Obviously, COVID-19 pandemic response fulled interest in cryptocurrencies. Yet that isn’t the full reason that Paxful reported a 137% increase in new registrations in Nigeria this year.