The Four Types of Bitcoin Users
There are many assumptions about bitcoin users – that they are oddballs, fantasists, nerds, criminals, idealists and so on. But what are they actually like? Some of the assumptions listed above are technically true in some cases, but the reality is never as simple as that. Of course, one of the simplest, but nonetheless effective, means of ascertaining who uses bitcoin is to analyze Google Trends, as we find in Yelowitz and Wilson (2015). Although an imperfect method, since "search query need not imply active participation", Yelowitz and Wilson identify four types of....
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