The cryptocurrency is gaining its popularity and many people are interested in it, making plans for the future related to it, investing, paying for purchases. Since in our country the crypto currency has appeared relatively recently, we see that Russians are not sufficiently aware of this phenomenon. This article is only a part of a large-scale crypto currency study, conceived by the authors, in which the views on the crypto-currency of different population strata will be revealed. According to our opinion, young people have always been the most progressive part of society and according to our hypothesis the students of the technical university, the Caspian Sea and River Transport Institute (KIMRT), have the clearest ideas about what is connected with computer technologies, and therefore, with crypto currency. Such knowledge could be useful for specialists of the transport industry, since the specificity of their specialty often involves work in different countries. It is known that in many countries the crypto currency is the official means of payment and it is possible that one of them will be offered to get salary in the crypto currency. It was this hypothesis that motivated the conduct of the study among the KIMRT cadets. The authors analyzed the literature on this topic, questioned the students and conducted an included observation. To compare the data obtained, a questionnaire was also conducted with a similar instrumentation among the Astrakhan state university students.
