“Impulsive psychopaths like crypto”: “dark” personality traits increase Bitcoin enthusiasm | Salon.com

Since the invention of Bitcoin in 2009 the global cryptocurrency market has grown from nothing to a value of around US$2 trillion.

In psychology, the “dark tetrad” refers to a group of four personality traits.

We asked 566 people to complete online personality surveys as well as answer questions about their attitudes to crypto and whether or not they planned to invest in it.

Psychopathy is a callous, impulsive antisocial personality trait.

To them, perhaps both the pleasure from seeing another’s pain and the fear of missing out are related to selfishness.

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