Around one-in-five voters have invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency, according to a new poll.
The survey from Emerson College Polling, released Tuesday, found that 19 percent of respondents have traded, invested or used crypto like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Around 81 percent have not.
Among the contingent of respondents who have used crypto, 39 percent used it to make purchases while the other 61 percent have not, according to the survey.
Approximately 32 percent of those ages 18-29 and 30-39 said that they have used, traded or invested in the digital currency, more than other age groups, the data shows.
“Crypto users are younger and have a larger minority base, highlighting crypto as a growing, diverse constituency for political support: 57 percent of crypto users have a favorable view of Donald Trump,” Spencer Kimball, the executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a statement.
Twice as many men, 26 percent, use crypto compared to women who do, 13 percent, per the poll.
The survey’s findings are similar to those in 2022, when an NBC News poll showed similar statistics, that one in five adults have invested in, traded or used cryptocurrency.
In late September, a Morning Consult poll found that crypto owners are evenly split between those who supported Vice President Harris, 47 percent, and those who backed President-elect Trump, 47 percent.
Polling from earlier in the year also found that 67 percent of crypto owners in several of the battleground states — Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — said they were “enthusiastic” to vote for crypto-friendly contenders.
The Emerson College survey was conducted from Dec 11-13 among 1,000 registered voters. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
