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.
在奈及利亞的商業首都拉各斯，一名軟體程式員給她在倫敦的客戶開賬單，報酬是比特幣，避開了成本高昂的銀行系統和奈拉貨幣吝嗇的官方匯率。在巴西聖保羅，一名牙醫將每月的存款存入了一隻交易所交易基金(ETF)，投資於一籃子加密貨幣，這是當地交易所第二大最受歡迎的ETF。越南的個人和企業對比特幣和其他加密貨幣的投資、貿易和交易如此之多，以至於這個東南亞國家成爲世界上加密貨幣使用率最高的國家。