In Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, a software coder bills her client in London and is paid in bitcoin, sidestepping a costly banking system and the naira currency’s miserly official exchange rate. In São Paulo, Brazil, a dentist puts his monthly savings into an exchange traded fund investing in a basket of cryptocurrencies that is the second most popular ETF on the local bourse. Individuals and businesses in Vietnam invest, trade and transact so much in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that the south-east Asian nation has the world’s highest rate of crypto adoption.
在尼日利亚的商业首都拉各斯,一名软件程序员给她在伦敦的客户开账单,报酬是比特币,避开了成本高昂的银行系统和奈拉货币吝啬的官方汇率。在巴西圣保罗,一名牙医将每月的存款存入了一只交易所交易基金(ETF),投资于一篮子加密货币,这是当地交易所第二大最受欢迎的ETF。越南的个人和企业对比特币和其他加密货币的投资、贸易和交易如此之多,以至于这个东南亚国家成为世界上加密货币使用率最高的国家。