The Netherlands ranked as the most crypto-curious European country
Judging by the number of crypto-related internet searches, the Netherlands came in as the most crypto-curious country among all 46 European nations, according to Dua Crypto’s European Crypto Index.
Slovenia and Switzerland followed the Netherlands as second and third, while the UK was ranked 11th, according to Dua Crypto’s data. The study also indicated that Bitcoin (BTC) was the most preferred cryptocurrency in 35 countries out of 46. Dogecoin (DOGE) was the second most preferred crypto, while Ethereum (ETH) was fourth.
The study assessed over 40 million Google searches created from 46 European countries. The queries were filtered by 191 top crypto-related keywords to calculate the crypto-curiosity of each nation.
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With over 2 million searches, the Netherlands ranked first with 0.13 searches per inhabitant. Slovenia followed close behind with 0.12.
Although it took third place, Switzerland’s searches per capita stood at 0.08, marking a significant gap from Slovenia. The UK ranked just below the Czech Republic in 11th place with 0.0621.
Belarus, Moldova and Russia occupied the last three places on the list with 0.008, 0.0069 and 0.005 searches per capita respectively. No data was found for Kosovo, Monaco and the Vatican, placing them 44th, 45th and 46th on the list.
Dogecoin: second most preferred crypto
The study also demonstrated BTC’s dominance over the region as it emerged as the most preferred crypto in 35 countries out of 46 included in the study. It was also the most preferred crypto choice of the region’s top three most crypto-curious nations.
According to the study, Ireland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Greece, Romania and Moldova preferred DOGE to BTC, while Andorra favored PancakeSwap (CAKE).
Overall, DOGE became Europe’s second most preferred crypto, with Shiba Inu (SHIB) a close third. On the other hand, ETH was ranked as the fourth choice in the region.
Cardano (ADA), Terra Classic (LUNC), Axie Infinity (AXIE) and Stellar(XLM) also appeared in the ranking as the third favorite crypto choice of the Netherlands, Iceland, Andorra and San Marino respectively.
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