Stephanie Hughes

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Getting a bead on how people are feeling about crypto.

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Here at Marketplace, we often report on a monthly economic indicator from the University of Michigan called the Consumer Sentiment Index.

It basically looks at how people are feeling about the economy.

Now, a team of academics at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School have used that index as a model to create something similar, though much more niche.

It measures how people are feeling about cryptocurrency.

It's called the Consumer Cryptocurrency Confidence Index, which is a monthly survey now in its third year.

I asked Wharton marketing professor Dave Rebstine, one of the creators of the index, what he hopes to accomplish with it.

How much does the price of Bitcoin affect how consumers feel about cryptocurrency?

What does your survey tell you about what types of people tend to be more confident in investing in cryptocurrency?

We'll be right back.

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I'm Stephanie Hughes.

We're back with Dave Rebstein, Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

Were there any other trends you saw in the data?