Cryptocurrency investors are more likely to self-report 'Dark Tetrad' personality traits, study shows

[DBoon]

In layman's terms, they are evil:

Owning cryptocurrency may be associated with certain personality and demographic characteristics as well as a reliance on alternative or fringe social media sources, according to a study published July 3, 2024 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Shane Littrell from the University of Toronto, Canada, along with colleagues from the University of Miami, U.S..

Anonymous trading and unregulated markets hallmark cryptocurrency's unique subculture. While some consider the digital currency to be financially unreliable, hundreds of millions of global investors think otherwise.

This study identified various political, psychological, and social characteristics differentiating crypto investors from those who abstain. Existing studies (which generally include smaller sample sizes) profile crypto owners as psychologically non-normative and politically non-mainstream.
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The correlational analyses showed that crypto ownership is associated with belief in conspiracy theories, support of political extremism, identification with non-left-right political orientations (e.g., Christian nationalism), and the "Dark Tetrad" of personality traits (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism).

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-cryptocurrency-investors-dark-tetrad-personality.html

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. We have too many

Dark tetrads in this country
A few hijacked the fascist lite Republican Party and now they threaten us with project 2025. They wanna teach us a lesson they want to beat the kindness and all the things they fear and don’t like about us out of us. They are domestic abuser types and they want to beat America until it’s just them.

The talking heads were right

The fascists want a world without love because a transactional world will never tell them no.

[Calculating]

3. Fascism represents a world where you can buy whatever you want

It represents "society back to the way it should be" to them.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. Transactional government is

A paradise for rich narcissists.

[stopdiggin]

2. yikes!

Always knew Uncle Eddie was a little 'off' ... Now I really got to keep an eye peeled!