{"id":747636,"date":"2013-04-22T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=632864"},"modified":"2013-04-22T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T15:52:02","slug":"who-uses-bitcoins-its-not-exactly-the-hedge-fund-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/747636","title":{"rendered":"Who uses Bitcoins? It\u2019s not exactly the hedge-fund set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather than speculate on the future of the Bitcoin<\/a>, the online-audience-describing people over at Quantcast got a novel idea: trying to figure out who actually uses the international digital currency. <\/p>

In case you were wondering, it’s not just the super-rich who appear to engage in Bitcoin. While 26 percent of Bitcoiners rake in $150,000 or more in annual income, the biggest group, 52 percent, makes less than $50,000, according to findings visualized Friday on the Quantcast’s I.Q. blog<\/a>.<\/p>

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Income of Bitcoin users, via Quantcast I.Q. blog<\/p><\/div>

\"Age<\/a>

Age and income of Bitcoin users, via Quantcast I.Q. blog<\/p><\/div>

Bitcoin users are overwhelmingly male — 88 percent. The biggest age group is 25-34. It’s possible they attended engineering-heavy schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Tech terms such as “Raspberry Pi,” “open source” and “command line” are popular with Bitcoiners.<\/p>

But that’s now. Perhaps the core Bitcoin audience will shift if the currency’s volatility ever levels out.<\/p>
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