> The figure, reported by CNBC, comes from Credit Karma, a popular financial app through which people can view their credit score and file taxes. Of the more than 250,000 people who have filed through Credit Karma this year, a whopping 0.0004 percent have claimed to have money in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.
Could it be possible that people who file taxes with Credit Karma are not a random sampling of the population, and maybe bitcoin holders (and particularly those who report it on their taxes) have structural reasons to avoid CK? Lazy reporting to not even mention it in the article. Is it just me, or is there an increasing trend to take one statistic and stretch it out to a 5 paragraph news article?
(And that percentage is just a fancy way to say that 1 Credit Karma tax client out of 250,000 declared bitcoin.)