The meme-based crypto asset dogecoin has seen a phenomenal year, capturing a whopping 19,723% against the U.S. dollar during the last 12 months. Dogecoin’s price gains have pushed interest toward the cryptocurrency, quickly making it a recognizable name. A recently published survey from the web portal gamblerspick.com suggests one out of every four Americans “believe dogecoin is the future.”
Dogecoin Survey Shows Meme-Coin Has Been Getting Attention in the US
In mid-April, gamblerspick.com conducted a study with 1,001 American respondents that are “familiar” with cryptocurrencies. The survey team leveraged the Amazon Mechanical Turk survey platform in order to present a series of questions.
59.3% of survey participants identified as men, while 40.7% identified as women. Gamblerspick researchers also detailed that the respondents were Gen Zers (5.9%), millennials (60.8%), Gen Xers (22.6%), and baby boomers (10.7%).
According to the poll statistics, social media is where people are hearing about dogecoin (DOGE) the most, with 33.7% saying they heard about the coin via social media platforms. 21.7% of the survey participants said they heard about DOGE via word of mouth and “friends and family.”
45% of respondents had heard of Dogecoin, and roughly 27.6% had invested in it. Another standout statistic shows that 30% of the surveyed individuals “believe that dogecoin was the new bitcoin.”
Not all survey participants who invested in dogecoin are pleased with their choices. 40% regretted investing in dogecoin. 48.8% regretted investing in “Reddit-hyped stocks”, like the recent Wallstreetbets’ GME stock hype. 15.2% disapprove dogecoin, while 41.1% are indifferent and 43.6% approve of DOGE.
When it came to considering Elon Musk’s part in the dogecoin hype, most respondents liked what he had to say about DOGE
