Today in Data: Hackers Don’t Scare Crypto Investors

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Today in data, a rash of recent hacks on cryptocurrency projects has not kept investors from wanting to continue to back them.

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    Data

    76M: Amount of money in dollars decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Beanstalk hopes to raise from investors following its hack

    59.6M: Number of people in the U.S. who owned crypto in the past year

    20: Percentage of retirement savings that Fidelity will let 401(k) participants invest in bitcoin

    11: Percentage of people in the Central African Republic — which legalized bitcoin as a currency this week — who have internet access

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    7: Number of members of Congress who own crypto while serving on committees that oversee crypto regulators