{"id":13974,"date":"2024-05-31T19:48:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/canadian-researcher-profiles-the-average-bitcoin-investor\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T19:48:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:48:52","slug":"canadian-researcher-profiles-the-average-bitcoin-investor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/canadian-researcher-profiles-the-average-bitcoin-investor\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Researcher Profiles the Average Bitcoin Investor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The typical bitcoin investor values personal growth and is emotionally stable. This conclusion was reached by behavioral scientist and University of Toronto associate professor Stefano Di Domenico, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/233091\/bitcoin-investors-not-psychopaths-canadian-research-preview\">Decrypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study surveyed 500 clients of the Canadian platform Shakepay, with a questionnaire comprising over 350 questions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/yntdu\">research<\/a> explored more than a dozen hypotheses; however, it has yet to undergo peer review and publication\u2014Di Domenico has only presented some theses at the Canadian Bitcoin Conference 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My colleagues and I are looking forward to finishing up our paper and sharing a fuller, more detailed set of findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stefano Di Domenico (@stefanoddmx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stefanoddmx\/status\/1796201320421949555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the conference, the researcher posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/stefanoddmn_bitcoin-activity-7196370490662309888-ctS7\">LinkedIn<\/a>, explaining that investors in the leading cryptocurrency are &#8220;often portrayed as financially illiterate &#8216;crypto bros&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;One tabloid even published an [<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/12\/bitcoin-fans-are-psychopaths-who-dont-care-about-anyone-study-shows\/\">article<\/a>] with the headline &#8216;Bitcoin fans are psychopaths who don&#8217;t care about anyone&#8217;. Our data, based on a sample of Canadian retail investors, tells a very different story,&#8221; wrote Di Domenico.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his view, the group of investors studied is &#8220;intellectually curious and emotionally stable.&#8221; They &#8220;value personal growth, relationships, community, and health over material possessions&#8221; and are financially literate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just in: first peer reviewed study on who Bitcoiners are<\/p>\n<p>Findings: Bitcoiners<br \/>?tend to be intellectually curious and emotionally stable<br \/>?value personal growth, relationships, community over material possessions<br \/>?Scored significantly higher in financial literacy than the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g8MIHeisIV\">pic.twitter.com\/g8MIHeisIV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Batten (@DSBatten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSBatten\/status\/1795879594899251242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 29, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, the exchange KuCoin profiled the Russian crypto investor, and ForkLog compared the data with reports from Japan and Germany. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The typical bitcoin investor values personal growth and is emotionally stable. This conclusion was reached by behavioral scientist and University of Toronto associate professor Stefano Di Domenico, according to Decrypt. The study surveyed 500 clients of the Canadian platform Shakepay, with a questionnaire comprising over 350 questions. The research explored more than a dozen hypotheses; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[771,167],"class_list":["post-13974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-canada","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}