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In another thread, someone mentioned that he knew of a 17-year-old who started buying bitcoin at 14 cents... That made me wonder how old people are on here? Mostly young people? I'm 33...

I'd say that the mix is about 70% young people (17-30) and 30% older people, as I feel that Bitcoin has a tendency to attract younger people with a more open mind and attitude. Conventionally, older people have trouble adapting to new paradigms hence why I'm leaning on a younger average bitcoin population.

Where's that put you? Older? Younger?

I'm guessing this forum's probably skewing older than something like Reddit, too.

22 years old here.

I'm 29.  People here are so damn smart, and such good writers, that I always imagine them to be 30's 40's and 50's.  But I'm sure a good percentage is 30 and under.

I'm 25.  Wish I had bought a ton back when they were 50 (when I first considered buying).  Only reasons I didn't buy was because they were so hard to get (no real place was selling them, and most online places felt like scams).

26

Looks like I'm the senior citizen so far at 33!

>40 here...pushin up daisies

I'm in the 25-29 age range. First bought BTCs 10 months ago. Should have done that long ago.  ???

you should create a poll with age ranges. i'd be interested in learning more about the BTC demographics.. we had another thread with a poll of male to female ratio and it was 9:1, as in every 10 people there are 9 males here.. sample size was over 100 people.

my guess is that it's male, and disproportionate number of people under 30..

always believed our generation would be a part of something big... something that made a world a better place... honest money would be a great legacy to leave the world!  26 and still bright eyed...  ;D

25, millionaire by 30

and the serial barbershop masturbator strokes yet again!

23, out of university with my MA; I was heading into a JD program, but I'm taking another year off to see what I can do with the virtual currency industry. 2014 is going to be a hell of a year.

whoa, so you totally sidetracked your professional career just for the prospect of the btc industry?

33, retired. 

Beer, video games, and now bitcoin is how I spend these Winter months.   ;D

I want your life

44 Unemployed ;D :'(

I'm infinite in age and wisdom.  ;D

Hah, well, after 18-19 years of straight schooling, I honestly wanted time off before the high-stress environment of law school. Writing my thesis was bad enough; it's a relief to have an 'excuse' to justify, at least to myself, taking the time off, while I consider the explosion of the virtual currency industry to be a complete windfall. All of us are ahead of the curve right now, and if we can leverage it right, it has the prospect of paying off in spades. We're probably in late BBS-era Internet right now.

21. Started at 19.

Pretty much similar case this side. 21, graduate and now full time into BTC. Doing everything to secure a future with this cryptocoin.

Mid 30s.

18 years old now, youngest in the post lol, I started around 15 years old :)
Plus I produce bitcoin videos and starting a podcast :)

Age 56

I was a gold & silver nut till just a few months ago. I have a background in computer programming, economics, and mathematics. Self-educated, when I was a kid, I read almost every book in the non-fiction section of the city library. After I read a serious article about bitcoin, I realized that it was going to change the world. Other people my age just can't seem to grasp this new idea though.

After thousands of years, automobiles made horses obsolete for transportation.

Now, after thousands of years, Bitcoin is making precious metals obsolete as a store of value.

I love science & technology. Glad to be alive at this time in history.

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32

40

i will be 16 in 3 months’s time! ^_^

23 years of age

Early 50's.

Like the Internet, at first use tended to be the twenty somethings, computer savvy, and then suddenly quickly adopted by the larger community.

I am thinking the average age may be rising, not so many young people have a thousand dollars to buy with.  Bitcoin certainly has captured the imaginations of a wider variety of people from all walks of life this past year or so.

23

22, though I've been told I'm "old-at-heart." (in older age, this seems to've replace the more euphemistic "mature for my age.")

I'd guess the final euphemism, "old-at-heart," will be replaced by "bitter old bastard" once/if I hit 40. At 60, I'd guess the only question left would be "why aren't you dead, yet, you emotionally-crippled piece of shit?"

Anyway, I feel I should follow the "haha, I'm serious" joke with a lighter one.

Q: Why do old people claim young people think they're immortal but then go on to say "'whatever-age-you-implied-was-old' isn't old"?
A: Because everyone's full of shit. We're all already dead and just waiting to realize it.
:D

13 here. Wait.. im not in the range  :o

33 years old, I honestly don't know how this happened.

22

32

um lets see now...

2721

female male 1:9?
You wish!!!!!!!!!

It might be closer at 1:99.

Dammit I was sure I was oldest - I'm 49.  And like you, I'm loving this - its like being present when iron first appeared at the end of the Bronze Age.  We know things will change dramatically but we don't know what :)

30

34

Quite a few 30-somethings! And a handful of 40-somethings and 50-somethings. I'm impressed!

You should 've made a poll. I don't think anyone will go through all those pages to take an idea about the age groups or something  :P

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12, I turn 13 in December.

Start young, be rich when old.  ;D

I feel so young now xD. I am 19 years old, but then belonging in the category of 15 - 19 really makes my feel like a teenager again.

Skelephtna

Now I'm jealous.

Mid 30..

Interesting stas have read here last winter..
See the link in the begining of the article.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-10/demographics-bitcoin (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-10/demographics-bitcoin)

It’s not too rewarding; I can’t get BTC in ways that take a long time or require shipping, etc. because of school, and my parents have associated bitcoin with crime, since they heard it on CNN with the Silk Road shutdown. And those rates -_- less BTC for the same amount of money... :'(

18. Unfortunately used the wrong bank account to do my trading. Suntrust closed my account which since it was still a joint with my mom and my brother messed up theirs too. Should have switched over to my individual account quicker. At least I can pay them back/justify the trouble of switching banks with that 1000% return.

52, and only two months into this wild new ride.

33 just knew Bitcoin at the end July

wish i knew it sooner  :-[

62 and still rockin'n rollin'!

;)

early 30's.

52 - and female

Started mining April this year

Lol, I was with the whole family today a lot of older people said it's a big bubble and the younger people said we want to play with coins ^^
(consider myself as a young one too  ::))

Just turned 20. Started playing with BTC when i was 17

20 and bit over.

33

22 years old  8)

It was better to have a poll here, rather than people posting in their age. Now it is quite tedious to calculate the average age.

I strongly believe that the VAST majority of Bitcoiners are GenY (21-35)

It's the generation who suffered the most by the endless economic crisis & cost of living pressures in the past decade, many their youth years entirely wasted under the currency economic system. Naturally GenY had to look elsewhere.

23 myself, about the same age as other persons I know that know about cryptocurrencies.

How about start young and get rich while still young?

Sounds like more fun!

My $.02.

;)

I'm 30. Started... uhm... not sure actually.

I started when the 5970 was like the UBERGOD of mining. BFL was already taking orders for ASICs and people were already annoyed and angry about the delays.

Wait until females discover they can buy shopping things using bitcoins.  When you see shoe and handbag stores using bitcoin the female user population will explode.

This thread needs to stop being bumped, and instead the Poll should be bumped.

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Shit.

My $.02.

:(

Wow didn't expect so many bitcoiners being so "old". I'm 19 myself.

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44 years old/young  ;D

Old enough to know better :D

Or wait until they find a Bitcoin sugardaddy. Make sure  to keep your BTC balances to yourself, peeps haha.

27, gainfully employed
 :)

19, IT student.

wonder why there's not many women involved? it's mostly because of douchy posts like this.

i'm female and i have more BTC than any other developers in my office (which I've been trying to convince them to buy/mine for ages. sucks for them)

30 btw, javascript/RoR dev

LOL

48 here

Someone should make this a poll.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=352728.0

It's surprising how many people are older than you'd expect on this forum. Considering the old adage, "you can't teach an old dog new tricks," it's pretty encouraging to see all ages learning about bitcoins.