79% of US companies plan to use digital currency Bashny.Net

commissioned by HP among commercial companies in the US carried out a survey about their attitudes to Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Результаты study were quite unexpected.

While some backward countries prohibit the use of Bitcoins, 79% of organizations in the US were made for the use of digital currency in its activities.

Moreover, 80% of 634 respondents expressed the view that in the future digital money surpass the popularity of paper!

In fairness it should be noted that most of the respondents are employees of the IT departments and information security, so that almost all of them are familiar with Bitcoin, and some have integrated Bitcoin in daily activities of their companies. If the rank and file managers interviewed, the answers would be different.

The biggest problem Bitcoin respondents consider security. The chart shows the number of respondents "strongly agree", and "agree" with each of the statements. It is seen that the most popular theses - it risks authentication and transaction security.

60% of organizations said that digital currencies are "an important part of the strategy of electronic payments in the company».

Three quarters of the companies are going to implement support for mobile payments in the near future, 59% want to run the payment cards (stored value cards), and 43% say directly that will soon begin to receive Bitcoins.

A quarter of these innovative companies are going to connect the support of Bitcoins in the next two years, while 56% named an interval of 5-10 years.

via Coindesk i>

Source: geektimes.ru/post/241444/