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The research by scientists at Queensland University of Technology was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.
To conduct the evaluation, the experts asked 566 people who completed personality surveys.
The study also showed that these types of people find it difficult to empathize with others and are cunning and manipulative.
The trend of cryptocurrencies has taken over the whole world, where millionaire investments are currently registered with the digital currency Bitcoin. A new scientific study has revealed that the average Bitcoin investor and fan is a calculating psychopath with an inflated ego.
According to data from Statista, as of December 31, 2021, the bitcoin cryptocurrency registered an approximate price of 47,129 US dollars, which represented a considerable decrease compared to the price registered the previous month.
Likewise, the statistics platform details that the quarterly evolution of the number of users of the blockchain wallet in the world has greatly facilitatede bitcoin transactions and allows the user to make a record of operations that are distributed and synchronized among many computers and that cannot be altered without consensus.
Its simplicity and high levels of security have contributed to its great success, as evidenced by the upward trend in the number of users experienced throughout the period and its almost 71 million registered users as of the second quarter of 2021.
The Queensland University of Technology study
A team of experts recently surveyed over 500 people to discover the most common personality traits among cryptocurrency fans, where they identified that many investors show signs of the “dark tetrad”which is a group of four unpleasant traits made up of narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism.
Research by scientists at Queensland University of Technology was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences earlier this month, detail that in plain language, that means dark tetrads have an inflated sense of their own importance and derive pleasure from the pain of others.
The study also showed that these types of people find it difficult to empathize. with others and are cunning and manipulative.
To carry out the evaluation, the experts asked 566 people who completed surveys of personality and answered questions about their attitudes towards cryptocurrencies.
Giving the result, among the participants, one in four reported owning cryptocurrencies and two-thirds showed interest in investing in cryptocurrencies.
The study’s lead author, Dr. Di Wang, wrote that “dark tetrad traits are ‘dark’ due to their ‘evil’ qualities: extreme selfishness and taking advantage of others without empathy”.
“The dark tetrad is also often linked to risk behaviors,” he added.
Other results
In that same order, the experts also added that all four dark tetrad traits correlated with an affinity for investing, each for their own reasons.
As well as the link between traits and affinity for bitcoin is also due to the fact that the currency It has no central authority, which means it is separate from banks and governments.
“Machiavellians, who are good at deception and take a calculated approach to achieving goals, like cryptocurrencies mainly because they distrust politicians and government agencies,” Dr. Wang said.
“Many supporters of cryptocurrencies believe that governments are corrupt and cryptocurrencies prevent government corruption,” he says in the study.
The researchers found that narcissists like crypto because of their strong faith in the future and confidence that their own lives will improve.
“We studied only a subset of people interested in crypto who have these traits,” he pointed out.
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