Annual percentage of first-time crypto buyers 2008-2022
The survey held by cryptocurrency retailer CryptoRefills, a company that sells vouchers and gift cards, also suggests that less than one out of three surveyed crypto holders started investing before the first cryptocurrency boom in 2017. The source does mention specifically that the survey was during the second quarter of 2022 - so figures for 2022, it states, are "incomplete". It is likely the remaining parts of 2022 would severely impact this particular graphic, as the monthly number of global cryptocurrency users increased by nearly 100 million between January and November 2022. This, however, was not as big of an increase as in 2021.
The number of crypto users accelerated since 2017, with 20 percent of all crypto consumers buying their first digital assets in 2021.