Kim Grauer, director of research at Chainalysis, joins the show to talk about their 2023 Geography of Crypto Adoption report. In this episode: 

• The difficulty of ascertaining reliable illicit finance data for crypto
• Why Chainalysis started publishing the Geography of Crypto report
• Why emerging markets dominate in terms of crypto adoption
• How Chainalysis devised their methodology
• What the variables in their index mean
• Potential sources of error or noise in the data
• How Chainalysis overlays internet traffic data with blockchain data to determine usage on a country by country basis
• Top countries on the index and changes from prior years
• Evidence for cryptodollarization
• What variables correlate with crypto adoption globally
• Countries with positive year/year growth in crypto adoption

Content mentioned in this episode:

• Chainalysis, The 2023 Global Crypto Adoption Index