22% Say They Own Cryptocurrency

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• Just 22% of voters have personally invested in cryptocurrency.
  • More men (32%) than women (14%) say they have invested in cryptocurrency.
  • Forty percent (40%) of voters ages 35 to 44 have invested in this new type of trade.
  • Even more voters living in high-density areas (44%) say they have invested in cryptocurrency.
• However, large majority (80%) of registered voters say they know what cryptocurrency is.
  • Among those who say they know what it is, 54% say that cryptocurrency is digital or virtual currency.
  • Others relate it to money in some way but use terms like “alternative currency” (8%) and “investment and trading” (8%).
  • Eight percent (8%) perceive cryptocurrency as fake.
• On a related note, 34% of voters say they know what prediction markets are, and the other 66% don’t know or are not sure.
  • For those who said they knew, 51% defined prediction markets as betting or trading on future events.
  • In a similar vein, another 26% similarly said these markets are about financial and economic forecasting.

This data is from a Napolitan News Service survey of 1,000 Registered Voters conducted online by Scott Rasmussen, March 11-12, 2026. RMG Research, Inc., conducted the field work for the survey. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1.