MIT Study: Bitcoin Not Popular with Students

A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that, contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is not the payment of choice for students.
In 2014, two MIT students, Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, raised $500,000 and started the MIT Bitcoin Project. For every undergraduate student that signed up to the project they wereprovided with $100 worth of bitcoin.
The goal of the project was to establish an ‘ecosystem for digital currencies at MIT.’
When the project started bitcoin was one of the most popular topics, attracting a positive number of students to take part.
Throughout the project, over 3,100 students were part of it. However, within the first month, 40 percent of the students involved had traded their bitcoins in for money. After two years, that number had dropped significantly with only 14 percent of students still utilizing the digital currency to shop, trade, and send overseas.

This post was published at Crypto Coins News on 23/09/2016.