The political, psychological, and social correlates of cryptocurrency ownership.

ABSTRACT: Cryptocurrency is a digital asset secured by cryptography that has become a popular medium of exchange and investment known for its anonymous transactions, unregulated markets, and volatile prices. Given the popular subculture of traders it has created, and its implications for financial markets and monetary policy, scholars have recently begun to examine the political, psychological, and social characteristics of cryptocurrency investors. A review of the existing literature suggests that cryptocurrency owners may possess higher-than-average levels of nonnormative psychological traits and exhibit a range of non-mainstream political identities. However, this extant literature typically employs small nonrepresentative samples of respondents and examines only a small number of independent var

SUBMITTER: Littrell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11221751 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature