I believe the data is manipulated.
That was my first impression too. I had always thought of Hansen as a reputable Bitcoin and crypto researcher and was therefore quite surprised by his post. Nevertheless, I would like to get some feedback, since different stats providers give different results.
So we have Europe with ~23% while USA have 30%
Nodes: Europe has the highest number of Bitcoin nodes False
Where did you get that data from? Would be awesome, if you could link it.
Bitnodes posts 61% n/a and US with 9.71% and Germany with 8.07%. See here:
https://bitnodes.io/The majority of these jobs are remote jobs working for companies outside Europe. And that's normal, since the company's aim is to target the European population.
Two thirds, I doubt when you see how it's going on linkedin.com, cryptojoblist.com, and others.
Europe doesn't create jobs but foreign companies do it
Valid argument, true. However, any stats on this?
That was a joke righ? the most killing regulation, worse than ...
Yea, MiCa.. I am not a fan either. Hansen posted this on MiCa some weeks ago:
"One regulation to rule them all"... WTF, lol.
Source: https://twitter.com/paddi_hansen/status/1649070968579452933/photo/1These figures should have been compared with other types of investment in their country. The way it's shown could lead you to believe that these are rates created specifically for crypto, when that's not the case.
True, however in Germany the tax regime is indeed very intersting for holders. After one year your coins will be tax free if you don't trade them, while stocks will always trigger a 25% + church tax + soli tax. No matter how long you will hold them. Properties will trigger the regular income tax for 10 years. Accordingly, compared to other asset classes, cryptocurrencies are quite favourably taxed in Europe's largest economy, Germany. But that's only a part of Europe ofc.
Even quoting 4 countries where the rate is low, you have to look at the other countries as well and make an average. Look at countries ranging from 30 to 40%. How it's favorable? I'm crying each year
True, the tax average in all member states would be a useful measure. However, one would also have to weight according to crypto users in the individual states, which would then again greatly limit the significance of the statistics.