“The mining of privacy coins in Western regions also differs from the global average: 28% and 19% of European and North American hashers report mining zcash, and as many North American hashers also engaged in monero mining.”
Interesting article about the state of the crypto world and where it might be going from here. This is a pretty technical report but it's worth looking over anyway even if you are not into this type of thing. I think that Western regions are more interested in the privacy coins because the people can see the writing on the wall, that their governments are getting more and more addicted to the taxes, they see the people as something to be mined, lol. I hope I am wrong and everything is going to ok, but I'm preparing for the worst....
Read the full story here....
https://news.bitcoin.com/cambridge-universitys-third-crypto-study-records-101-million-cryptocurrency-users-worldwide/