I too have friends at various countries, working in fintechs or traditional sector. However none of them has shown to me that they could ever be interested in Bitcoin and co. I think that adoption of crypto is happening everywhere but nobody wanna open his cards right now due to regulatory concerns. Recently many Chinese people have taken route to Hong Kong for investing in crypto. China even allows a forex exchange upto $10000 as far as I know. Most Chinese people are using that quota to purchase crypto offshore.