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>Leonardo Ermann from the National Commission for Atomic Energy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and colleagues from the University of Toulouse, France, have examined the structure of the Bitcoin-owner community by looking at the transactions of this cryptocurrency between 2009 and 2013.

The study is 5 years old?

Guessing back then it was libertarians and drug dealers.

Also isnt this true of any early adoptor? The first smartphones were a small group too.

The bigger question is- Why is this news?

This seems to be agenda driven rather than a discovery. Who benefits from pushing anti-bitcoin ideas? These are not accidents, these studies are expensive to run. Why was this study completed?




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