When investing starts to look like gambling
Thirty-eight percent of men ages 18 to 29 say they have invested in, traded, or used cryptocurrency. That’s more than twice the share of women in the same age group, as Diego Nunez and I note in a new research brief, “Young men and cryptocurrency: What the evidence shows.”
In this week’s episode, Diego and I speak with Molly White, a technology critic and the writer behind the widely read Citation Needed newsletter. We discuss:
* Why crypto disproportionately attracts young men
* How soaring prices, FOMO, and “next big thing” marketing fueled the 2021 crypto boom
* The gap between crypto’s…
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