What generation are you?
379 sats \ 35 comments \ @shyfire 3 Jan 2023 bitcoin
Recently talking with a gen z'er and they made the point that none of the main BTC "influencers" are generating material that is digestible for gen z. I'm curious what the age distribution is of people on SN as a starting point to dig into this.
Boomer4.8%
Gen X25.4%
Millenial55.6%
Gen Z7.9%
Other0.0%
I don't know6.3%
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361 sats \ 4 replies \ @RdioActiv 3 Jan 2023
I'm a millennial by definition, but not what boomers think a millennial is.
I grew up with MSDOS and VHS tapes FFS!!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jem 4 Jan 2023
"geriatric millennial"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chungkingexpress 4 Jan 2023
Wait, that is pretty normal.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zordon 3 Jan 2023
Iliza Shlesinger did a pretty good job of describing us as Elder Millennials.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 3 Jan 2023
Haha same boat over here...
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51 sats \ 0 replies \ @gandlaf21 3 Jan 2023
i thought we are talking about halvings
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 4 Jan 2023
I have come to similar conclusions in polls on Telegram. Millenial and Gen X lead the way. I wonder if the FUD has got to younger people more? The first time I heard about Bitcoin it did not have the same degree of FUD as it does today.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
Interesting. Yeah it does also seem like Bitcoin could be guilty by association with NFT/crypto scams, of which gen Z are very aware.
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @lunanto 3 Jan 2023
Millenial will win here
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 3 Jan 2023
Hope the poll gets some visibility :) Relatedly, this is the only gen Z bitcoiner I know of who is active on social media https://twitter.com/jackfsweeney/status/1558833525008334848
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 3 Jan 2023
If the trend continues, looks like you called it :)
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @fred 3 Jan 2023
Another millennial here
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kaffi 4 Jan 2023
I think it's mostly millennial because we got screwed over the most by the 2008 crisis.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
gen z should care too. They are definitely being screwed over by the current crisis.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @antic 5 Sep 2023
I'm an Xennial-- 1979, the lucky ones. We know how to live without technology and absorb the rapid changes to it's introduction and evolution (having lived without maps, GPS, internet and grown up with everything from Atari to Nintendo 64), and we can do it with the anger of a Boomer and the blaze aloofness of a Gen X.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kaffi 4 Jan 2023
millenial
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @nout 3 Jan 2023
This is very US centric.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
So you mean the stacker news audience responding to this poll is very US centric?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nout 4 Jan 2023
No, I mean the splits by like "boomer" are not really applicable in other countries, since those industrialized in quite different timelines. E.g. most didn't have "baby boom" to get "boomers" :)
Other countries have notably different demographies, but at this point most are in a situation of losing millions of workers from the market every year to feed additional millions of retirees.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
Oh right, yeah I'm more interested in the age groups than the qualitative associations with the names.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 3 Jan 2023
Kind of a tangent, but we've been calling the current gen of bitcoiners the "Satoshi Generation" because they stack sats rather than whole bitcoins.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
Haha right.... And satssers definitely doesn't work.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 4 Jan 2023
Or just stackers?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @southside263 3 Jan 2023
if Gen Z = born after 1997…
Then NFT and Crypto will lead them to bitcoin over time 🤙🏽
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire OP 4 Jan 2023
Yeah, or Bitcoin could just be guilty by association.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lumor 3 Jan 2023
Millenials have the main responsibility to steward Bitcoin through this decade+.
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kaffi 4 Jan 2023
we have to teach the GENZ the errors of their ways with their monkey pictures and unregulated securities.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @plebpoet 3 Jan 2023
the gen z'er you spoke to makes a good point...what is digestible for gen z? my jerk reaction is that it has to be short and flashy. but also some documentaries I've seen on YouTube seem like they would fit.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @shyfire OP 3 Jan 2023
One of the things they mentioned was that most of the content already assumes medium to advanced financial literacy, and many of the graphs are downright confusing without that background.
He did mention this type of content was in the right vein: https://twitter.com/jackfsweeney/status/1558833525008334848
Short and flashy but also explaining things from first principles.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @plebpoet 4 Jan 2023
that's good, nice
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 3 Jan 2023
Sat generation here, home mine edition
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Derpitor 3 Jan 2023
I am GEN BTC ;)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @timechain 3 Jan 2023
I was ready to be Gen Y. But then they renamed us millennials a couple years in. But for a short period of time, I was Gen Y, and it was glorious. But then Gen Z came out and I don't really want to be the same naming schematic as them. It's funny when they call Gen Z Zoomers to compare them to Baby Boomers.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Trey 3 Jan 2023
Just the Ideal post, wish we could automatically stack up SATs as each poll is ticked....
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @01xCc 3 Jan 2023
Y 2009-2032
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