(Adnkronos) - “10 milioni invece si mostrano interessati”. Lo riporta Valeria Portale, direttrice Osservatori Innovative Payments e Blockchain & Web3 del Politecnico di Milano, in occasione della tavola rotonda di Binance Italy ‘Innovazione e tecnologia, blockchain e cripto-attività: stato dell’arte e traiettorie evolutive’, organizzata a Milano da Connexia, il brand di marketing e comunicazione della MarTech Company Retex.
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00:00In an investigation carried out on consumers between the ages of 18 and 75,
00:09Internet users, it emerged that we have about 3.6 million Italians in Italy
00:15who already own cryptocurrencies,
00:18so from cryptocurrencies to tokens of various natures.
00:22An interesting number,
00:24so much so that it is also somewhat connoted by the type of users.
00:27We certainly have a percentage of penetration that grows for the very young,
00:32who are increasingly interested in these topics,
00:34and another very interesting indicator is the fact that
00:37those who have a slightly higher income are approaching these tools.
00:41The interesting thing is that we do not only have 3.6 million users
00:45who already use these tools today,
00:47we also have about 10 million Italians who declare an interest,
00:52a curiosity to better understand what can be done with these tools.
00:57The issue of financial education in the field of cryptocurrencies is fundamental.
01:01Why? Because we have a number of users
01:04who are approaching these tools not being aware of what they are
01:08and what can be done.
01:10These tools, we must remember, have a very high volatility
01:13and therefore a very high risk of investment,
01:16so it is essential that they are trained,
01:18that there is education, that there are skills that users must have
01:22before investing in these tools.
01:24In order to be able to do this, the world of traditional finance
01:28will also have to get closer to know, understand,
01:31to be a vehicle for education towards the consumer,
01:35but also to understand what are the opportunities
01:39for the most traditional actors of finance
01:42that could arise from managing these tools.
01:46In reality, like Binance, they are crucial and fundamental,
01:49first of all because they are innovators,
01:51that is, they probably come from a much wider context,
01:54the global one, where these innovations have already developed
01:58even in an even more pervasive way
02:01and therefore they bring a little global competence
02:04also on the Italian market,
02:06pushing and accelerating an Italian innovation process
02:10that will be fundamental.
02:11So the first point is that they bring innovation,
02:14the second point is that they also bring regulation,
02:18in the sense that Binance has always tried to look
02:21and adapt to the current regulation,
02:24therefore trying to bring the fact that innovation can be regulated,
02:29that is, there is no need to go outside the rules
02:32and therefore innovative things can be done
02:35even in a regulated context.
02:37So this link that I think actors like Binance can bring
02:41is the fact that innovation can also be done
02:44within well-defined rules.
02:46And this, I believe, is an incentive also for the most traditional actors
02:49who will approach these tools
02:51also thanks to, let's say, the example of actors like Binance
02:55that show that innovation and regulation can coexist.