Bank of England Twitter poll results: People prefer crypto for holiday gift money

The Bank of England (BoE) published a poll on Twitter, asking its followers how they prefer to receive monetary gifts at Christmas. The poll reads: If you receive money as a gift this Christmas, what’s your favorite way to get it?



There were a number of options that users could choose from in the poll including Cash, Bank transfer, Gift voucher, Digital currency. At press time, digital currency is leading the poll with 70%. The tweet may be a clandestine way through which the BoE is looking to measure public interest in cryptocurrencies.