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   "text": "The market for private investment funds that invest in and utilize blockchain technology is close to equally divided between the United States and the European Union, with Russia and China playing significant roles.",
   "abstract": "The data analysis in this article suggests that the market for private investment funds who invest in- and utilize blockchain technology appears to be near equally divided between the US and the EU with Russia and China playing a significant role.",
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   "text": "The size distribution of blockchain using funds differs sharply across regions: in the United States most such funds hold between one and fifty million dollars in AUM, while in Europe funds with more than two hundred million dollars in AUM are the majority.",
   "abstract": "majority of the private funds have AUM varying in a range comprised between $1 to #50 million AUM with only 2 funds whose AUM are between $101-150 AUM and above to $ 200 million AUM, in Europe the situation is rather different: private funds with an AUM higher than $200 million are the majority",
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   "text": "Raw country level counts overstate American leadership: normalizing by population shows roughly 7.5 million people per blockchain fund in the United States against roughly 2.8 million in the United Kingdom, so the distribution across countries is more even than the map suggests.",
   "abstract": "Although the map suggests that the United States is heavily invested in blockchain, in comparison with other countries we see a more even distribution between countries than the map would suggest.",
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   "text": "The absence of Luxembourg funds from the dataset is most likely an artifact of unavailable public information rather than evidence that Luxembourg funds do not invest in blockchain.",
   "abstract": "This is likely due to the unavailability of public information connected to Luxembourgian funds investing in blockchain rather than to a lack of Luxembourgian funds, in principle to be excluded.",
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   "text": "The dataset is incomplete by construction: the 120 fund advisers sampled did not answer all questions and the authors were often unable to obtain information on all questions.",
   "abstract": "The 120 fund advisers in our sample did not answer all questions and often we were unable to obtain available information on all questions.",
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