Darn! That's an interesting fact. Unfortunately, there's no statistics to show how many of the stimulus folks bought Bitcoin with their stimulus check. It would be an interesting fact to know and even more interesting fact would be how many of them are still holding?
It is more realistic to think that most of people received that stimulus check already spent it when a new bull run comes. They mostly are not seriously with it as a long term investment so they have no reason to hold it for a long time.
Thar FTX collapse would've shaken off plenty of plebs. My key takeaway from this thread is that Buying Bitcoin during the dips have proven to be a solid ROI opportunity. It would be interesting to see how much higher bitcoin can go as new bitconers buying at this prices hope to sell higher.
FTX fiasco is terrible and it makes capital of many people vanished within a week and severity of this fiasco can be bigger than Terra collapse because FTX is a big exchange with millions of users and it is related to many other companies too.
However I don't see connection between people who have stimulus check and FTX fiasco. The following website has more information about stimulus checks.
https://www.bitcoinstimulus.net/totalstimulusTo be honest, I don't know about the stimulus check story but years ago, there was massive airdrop with $100 in Bitcoin to MIT students. It was distributed in 2014 and most of students sold their bitcoins to enjoy.
MIT students to get $100 worth of bitcoin from Wall Street donorHow many of them hold their bitcoins till 2024?
MIT students to get $100 worth of bitcoin from Wall Street donorUndergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be given $100 (£59) worth of bitcoins when they return to study this autumn, in an attempt to jumpstart a bitcoin ecosystem.
The project is being led by Jeremy Rubin, 19, an undergraduate in his second year at the university, and Daniel Elitzer, an MBA student at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Between them, the pair have raised more than $500,000, principally from Alexander Morcos, an MIT alum who works in high-frequency trading in New York.