Over a third of the big German companies find the blockbuster technology equally as exciting as the Internet

According to a recent survey, over a third of large German companies consider revolutionary blockchain technology as the Internet, according to Cointelegraph auf Deutsch on 4 December.

In addition to artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain technology is one of the three current development areas with "enormous potential", reports the survey.

Conducted by the German Federal Association for Information Technologies, Telecommunications and New Media (Bitkom), the survey revealed that overall 15% of German companies believe that the blockchain "will change society and 39, economy as much as the Internet ". Larger companies, with 500 or more employees, were more than twice as likely to hold that opinion at 36%.

At the same time, about 46% of the companies surveyed classified Germany as a "latecomer" in the adoption of blockchain, lagging behind other nations. A large proportion of respondents, 40%, said they saw the country not as a leader, but somehow in the middle, in terms of blockchain development.

Bitkom has conducted numerous surveys between companies and the German public regarding cryptocurrencies, blockchain and the way they are perceived. At the end of November, a Bitkom survey revealed that about 60% of local companies are hesitant to tackle the blockchain theme, mainly due to a perceived lack of practical applications.

In February 2018, another Bitkom survey found that 64% of Germans knew about Bitcoin (BTC). According to the report, awareness had doubled since 2016. 4% of respondents actually held Bitcoin money, while 19% had an idea of ​​how to buy seminal cryptocurrency and 72% said they had no interest in digital currency.

Regarding the economic importance of cryptocurrencies and Blockchain, the managing director of Bitkom Bernhard Rohleder declared:

"Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are a good example of how the digital era is able to change the financial world: it is not so much the individual currency itself as the underlying blockchain technology, and will have an impact on the whole economy. ".