I've heard that a large percentage of the Bitcoin community is in China.
Now, it does seem like there are quite a few Chinese people associated with cryptos. For example, there is Charles Lee who created Litecoin and his brother Bobby Lee who owns BTC China. There is also Bter which is located in China. The Chinese language board is also quite active here too, although strangely there are more Russians posting in the Russian board than Chinese in the Chinese board. It also seems that a lot of mining hashrate is located in China (
link) and much of the trading that goes on in exchanges happens there too.
But looking at the list of names of people associated with Bitcoin, there doesn't seem to be many Chinese names at all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:People_associated_with_Bitcoinhttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Peoplehttps://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Developers 8btc: Chinese Bitcoin Community ReportHighlights:
~250k Chinese crypto players
5000+ QQ groups
Top 3 cities: Beijing, Guangzhou,Shenzhen
Derivative/Futures markets are expanding.
Top 3 altcoins: BTS/DOGE/YBC
30% of all players had mining experience
8k qq members remain active on a daily basis.
30k active traders
10% renewal of the whole community
Some players have returned to the crypto market after 6 month absence.
Full report:
http://www.8btc.com/community-report (in Chinese)