On The Brink with Castle Island Kim Grauer (Chainalysis) on the Geography of Crypto Adoption (EP. 481)
Dec 6, 2023
51:12
Kim Grauer, director of research at Chainalysis, joins the show to talk about their 2023 Geography of Crypto Adoption report. In this episode:
- The difficulty of ascertaining reliable illicit finance data for crypto
- Why Chainalysis started publishing the Geography of Crypto report
- Why emerging markets dominate in terms of crypto adoption
- How Chainalysis devised their methodology
- What the variables in their index mean
- Potential sources of error or noise in the data
- How Chainalysis overlays internet traffic data with blockchain data to determine usage on a country by country basis
- Top countries on the index and changes from prior years
- Evidence for cryptodollarization
- What variables correlate with crypto adoption globally
- Countries with positive year/year growth in crypto adoption
Content mentioned in this episode:
- Chainalysis, The 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index