There is no average Bitcoiner, but neither is Bitcoin a perfect reflection of wider society. That said, discussion of imbalances within the community should not be overstated, and should account for where the project stems from (finance, technology, politics) and what the project is a reaction to (crisis, uncertainty, alienation, and rapid social change). Furthermore, …
CLICK HERE TO TAKE THE SURVEY Update: Here are some preliminary results, based on the first 120 responses. The community seems to have gotten slightly younger over the last year, and in this initial sample we have twin peaks in the mid-twenties and early thirties. The proportion of people who have mined BTC has dropped from last …
Our use of money is infused with profound cultural and political meaning, and the interplay of rival currencies can offer insights into cultural tensions. This was as true of post-Soviet Russia as it is of Bitcoin today. The anarchic virtual currency is part of a wider cultural movement that embraces technology, and replaces institutions with …
The digitization of our economy will bring with it a new generation of radical economic ideologies, of which Bitcoin is arguably the first. For those with assets, technological savvy, and a sense of adventure, the state is the enemy and a cryptographic currency is the solution. But for those more focused on the decline of …
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In the early hours of 11 May, a volunteer somewhere wrote the millionth substantive page on the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. Crossing the 1,000,000-page mark is mainly a symbolic one, an aesthetically and cognitively pleasing number for us ten-fingered mammals, but it seems as good a time as any to take stock of the importance …
WHY WIKIPEDIA’S MILLIONTH RUSSIAN PAGE IS WORTH CELEBRATING Selengkapnya »
This question was included in my survey of 1,000 Bitcoin users (most of whom responded before the recent price surge), and remains one of the areas poorly examined in media coverage. I don’t buy into the drugs and pizza myth, of a currency first adopted as a means of skirting the law, then primarily used as a …
I created this survey on 12 February 2013 using Google Docs. I posted the link on Bitcointalk.org, Reddit, Twitter, and Google+. From there, the survey was reposted on various Bitcoin related sites. I posted preliminary findings to my blog after 102 responses and 533 responses. In both cases, the results sparked more interest and helped …
OVERVIEW OF BITCOIN COMMUNITY SURVEY FEB-MAR 2013 Selengkapnya »
The first version of a new Internet technology is rarely the one that wins mass adoption. Early versions of the browser, search engine, email provider, and social network were exciting, but ultimately overtaken by later rivals. Behind all the hype and speculation about Bitcoin over the last month, now gradually dying down, there is a …
BITCOIN, HYPE, AND THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL CURRENCIES Selengkapnya »
These findings are based on the first 1,000 valid responses to an online survey posted in February 2013, as part of my study of the Bitcoin community. For more on this survey see the overview page. Some highlights… The average user is a 32.1 year old libertarian male. Top motivators for new users are curiosity, profit, and …
This is based on a non-scientific sample of 1,572 players of Ingress, Google’s augmented reality game. The survey was posted to Reddit, Google Plus, Twitter, and IRC. From there it passed through informal networks, so hopefully respondents were dispersed enough to make the results meaningful. The game is dominated by liberal Anglophone men.The average …
