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…
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…
Bitcoin is more than money. 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…