Barrack Thanks. Definitely useful. *Ali Hussein* *Principal* *AHK & Associates* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> 13th Floor , Delta Towers, Oracle Wing, Chiromo Road, Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya. Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:22 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

Listers,

Might be of interest to some.

Regards ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Filip Vukovinski <filip.vukovinski@net.hr> Date: Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 8:27 PM Subject: [Internet Policy] Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study To: ISOC Internet Policy List <internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org>

Cambridge Judge Business School published a global cryptocurrencies study by Hileman and Rauchs.

https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/faculty-research/centres/alternati ve-finance/publications/global-cryptocurrency/#.W13zkvaxXcv

"This is the first study to systematically investigate key cryptocurrency industry sectors by collecting empirical, non-public data. The study gathered survey data from nearly 150 cryptocurrency companies and individuals, and it covers 38 countries from five world regions. The study details the key industry sectors that have emerged and the different entities that inhabit them."

Some of the key findings include the following:

- The current number of unique active users of cryptocurrency wallets is estimated to be between 2.9 million and 5.8 million. - The lines between the different cryptocurrency industry sectors are increasingly blurred: 31 per cent of cryptocurrency companies surveyed are operating across two cryptocurrency industry sectors or more, giving rise to an increasing number of universal cryptocurrency companies. - At least 1,876 people are working full- time in the cryptocurrency industry, and the actual total figure is likely well above two thousand when large mining organisations and other organisations that did not provide headcount figures are added. - Average security headcount and costs for payment companies and exchanges as a percentage of total headcount/operating expenses are similar, but significantly higher for wallets.

Filip

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