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Hey guys, I'm wondering, what are some of the ways in which we could encourage more women to adopt bitcoin or other alternative currencies? I'm setting up a web magazine for women and I want to include practical bitcoin information. Then I wondered, what are the primary motivators for women to adopt bitcoin?

So I'd really like to know, what motivated you to start using bitcoin? Are you a male/female? Any suggestions you could give me to effectively promote and provide information about bitcoin? Thanks!

Tell them they can buy shoes with it.

Haha. Make the coins pink. JK. The easiest way to get women involved is tell them about it, but don't patronise them.

www.bitcoinwomen.com has that covered.  They are more known in Europe and that side of the world but they are looking to expand more in the US.  You might want to contact them. 

I found this the other day:

http://cointelegraph.com/post/cryptomoms_strives_for_digital_currency_equality#.U1mQCKK181h

I thought bitcoin was genderless
I didn't know you needed to do something special for women to do it

Hey how about setting a magazine for blacks to adopt bitcoin?
Or jews?

Tell them that equal pay is coded into the Bitcoin core software?

Sweet link, thanks!

Kirsten Powers for President

a little sexist but funny

As a rule, men take risks and women don't.  More women will get into bitcoin once it is an established technology.  This is basic biology and would be taught in schools, if the world was a sane place.

Any altcoin except this one (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395747.0) will be fine as a less-than-men-get alternative.

Ideally the coin should be worth about 75 bits per the bitcoin. Or some such.

I have to say that the female participation in the Bitcoin sector is slowly increasing. According to some surveys in 2012, only around 1% of the Bitcoiners were female. But as per the recently released Mt Gox data, 5% of all the people who lost their coins there (i.e 1,400 out of a total of 70,000 users) were female. So we can say that there was a 500% increase in a time frame of 24 months!

Very true. And women don't mine generally. Did you see any woman digging gold lately? Same for mining bitcoins or altcoins. Minting or forging with PoS coins is already a bit simpler and it attracts savers which women are generally better at than men. And once there are useful day-to-day applications for cryptos including buying shoes without all the fees from 3rd parties, women will join in numbers.

zalando should adopt bitcoin!

I guess there's a few nerd women involved. However, most of the tech sector globally consists of men. This is only natural, and I don't see why we should try to change it.

Also, I think that any women participating in the community would be smart to pose as someone not easily recognizable as a woman. Use a neutral name to avoid all the unwanted attention. Esp. online, in uncivilized forums (like this one) and irc. That way it will be easier to discuss issues concerning bitcoin, and not being hit on by horny males.

On the other side, I never understood why women always needs to have women clubs whenever they're involved with something. Perhaps it has something to do with their social nature, that they feel they need to belong, even if it's a subset of that particular culture.

And yeah, if we really want to involve the women, we should make nice gadgets like apple does, with nice design. Women like nice looking things.

Alternatively, we should educate women that are foreign workers about how they could send money back home using bitcoin.

All in all, to have women start using bitcoin and continue using it, it must be something deeper that attracts them than just being part of some club.

this is hard im sure because mostly woman are very lazy when it comes to computer jobs or by posting if they are new to btc and then they also need to learn about how it works and what is bitcoin which is too stressing for them :D woman loves to sit and talk with their friends in some coffee shop go to salon shopping so why they are need to waste their time to sit and read in the front of computer instead use their precious time to make themself more beautiful :D

im a girl so i know what mostly woman want and what they do they will prepare to drag their husband into bitcoin to buy them stuff :D

Nice lol Yahia

Explain to them like anyone else it is user friendly and they can put their money ina place they can make profits and all the other benefits BTC brings.

This issue was raised before with a 26-page thread about it I think including some great screencaps of the qt client running in 'girl-mode':
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=261598.0

Before starting up BetMoose (a place to predict real world stuff (launching very soon)), we (our team) thought really hard about this because it really is a huge untapped market. At the end of the day, there aren't THAT many reasons why women would need or want to use bitcoin right NOW. I think we need more light-hearted, fun stuff like pinterest or etsy to accept bitcoin first, then maybe something like 9gag but with doge? Doge is cute right?

Not sure about what your females do online but maybe a nice mobile marketplace app would help as well. Plus a lot of girls have/use iPhones instead of Android, but as has been the case for the past few years, Android acceptance is growing more and more, including among women. Bitcoin is really a techy technology thing for now and when something comes along that will make it fun and useful and easy WITHOUT being bothersome to learn, then you can expect to see girls being interested in it.

There are dozens of such ideas; I think we should dedicate this thread as a brainstorming thread, instead of a 'why or why not'.

sounds like OP thinks that if women get into bitcoin, he will have something in common with women to be able to talk to them, and hopefully form a relationship by showing off his passion.... for bitcoin.

this is the many dozenth topic about trying to get women on board. i think people need to realize, women are on board. they just dont show it off because they dont want to be stalked by single guys that think a chat-up line is "do you accept bitcoin".

the only reason people like the OP doesn't think women are into bitcoin is more about the way he approaches girls to start a conversation.. and they ignore him.. thus he automatically thinks they dont know what he is talking about, rather then realizing its him they are ignoring, not the topic.

whenever you go to any geeky conventions such as Dr Who, cosplay, bitcoin, gaming competitions, you can easily spot the girls. because there are 12 guys circling them trying any and every method their juvenile minds can think up to try impressing the girls.

people need to realise that bitcoins is just money. its not gender specific and is not prejudice to anything or anyone.

Tell them they can buy lipstick with it. Or they just need to be mentioned that only men are about bitcoins and there is no female rival

an insecure or a attention whore would only do that i think because there is no competition or a rival with some other girls so basically they are much more into fame rather than bitcoin

Jodybay you are an exception, but not many women are interested in bitcoins..! maybe one day bitcoin will become popular with women when it will go mainstream..!

yeah so that they can buy all the fancy things that they wanted only go to the mall with wallet application and scan it and they already have what they want :D popular on spending bitcoins

although quite skeptical about that happening any time soon..! but hope so.. if that happens ever the bitcoin will seriously to the moon then..!

On a serious note: Not all women are shopaholic narcissists.

There are most likely a bunch of women in tech who 'get bitcoin'.

How many women work in silicone Valley as  percentage of the entire workforce? If you can get that number, you'd probably get a ballpark number for how many women have the potential to be involved.

But also imagine the opportunity in developing countries.

If a woman has access to a computer and the internet, she can learn to make a website and sell items on this website that her village produces. The items can be paid in bitcoins and shipped to the customer. The received bitcoins can be used to order stuff for the village, or also be used as a means of payment within the village. Of course, you need someone to teach the others, but the opportunities are endless.

Who cares? Why do we need to target women? They will adopt when they see it as sufficiently beneficial. Worry about providing useful services, and adoption will come.

Exactly. I don't see the need to target any particular demographic group. Once Bitcoin gets popular, its acceptability among the women and other core groups will increase and their proportion will rise.

Tell her she can investigate yours Bitcoin spendings in a blockchain :P

Either bitcoin fulfills a need for you, or it doesn't. Why should it matter whether you are female or male?

Firstly, if you aren't female then I strongly suggest that you find a woman that you can work with to do the research. There's a number of reasons for this, but foremost would be that a woman is much more likely to be able to empathise with and understand another woman's point of view without a tendency to be patronising.

Secondly, there's already tons of web sites and groups out there dedicated to providing Bitcoin information to women. There is also at least one magazine already. Are you sure that you are going to be providing something new? Would you do better working with one of these? e.g. https://www.facebook.com/womeninbitcoin

Finally, I suspect that the percentage of women in the Bitcoin community is actually a lot larger than the percentage of women in the bitcointalk.org community, so directing these questions to the above site, Reddit, others you can find by searching for "women in bitcoin" etc. may provide a lot better results. Here's the twitter accounts of some prominent women in Bitcoin:

https://twitter.com/scarrbondale
https://twitter.com/Anna_K_NonE
https://twitter.com/anjiecast
https://twitter.com/mrsbitcoin
https://twitter.com/TrueBitcoinGirl
https://twitter.com/etploshay
https://twitter.com/PerianneDC
https://twitter.com/crypt0queen
https://twitter.com/christinelu
https://twitter.com/BrittanyErstad
https://twitter.com/BitcoinBarbie

and so on…

Follow them and you will find a ton of women talking about Bitcoin. Ask them what they would be interested in.

Hello,

I am VERY much interested in getting more women involved in the crypto community.  I am working with Coinproz currently, and trying to establish a network of news sources, merchants, escrow services etc.  If you already have a site dedicated to females in the community, please contact me at Chrisbates01@gmail.com if you are interested in becoming part of the Coinproz Network, as we are trying to not make cryptos another "boys's club".  We have girlfriends, mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, and don't want them to be left out.  We also don't want to be disingenuous and be a group of males speaking for women.  As I said, please contact me if you are interested in networking so we can help women get a bigger forum in this community.


Chris Bates

This is currently the Coinproz Twitter page, as we are about 10 days from launching the site still:

https://twitter.com/coinproz

Not sure if she is really a woman...

https://twitter.com/thebitcoinwife

I wonder how many "women" on the internet are actually women and not very bored sociopathic men...

My significant other thinks most of the time it's men pretending to be women based on how much time they spend tearing down other women.  Pretty masculine thing to do in her opinion :D

edit: "masculine" was probably the wrong choice of word..."typical patriarchal male" is more like it ;)

If Nordstrom's accepted BTC and then offered discounts for BTC transactions, they would be all over it. Or Christian Louboutin. Either of those companies would open the floodgates

Thanks for the info! I really appreciate it. I am a woman, and you are right - I realized after reading some of the comments that this wasn't the most effective place to post this question. But thanks again for the links, I'll check them out.

Ah I was looking forward to GayCoin, BlackCoin, OldPeopleCoin and EskimoCoin (I seriously hope these don't exist as I haven't checked ...)

I think they will start to care when they can spend rich early investors wallets at the mall.  Until then, not likely from my experience with womenz.

I like the technology and the opportunity to see how it evolves as a free market currency: though find it interesting to see how we keep injecting it into centralized (more comfortable) systems (myself included). I mine, didn't realize woman were not actively participating (at first), can totally relate to why some woman would prefer not to participate in forums, haven't bought shoes with it... yet, would prefer to be saving more of it but am spending and look forward to the days when it's easier for everyone to use.

P.S.
I would not pan for gold, seriously...
mud, muck and outdoors with bugs?
No thanks.

Though I'm more than content to take a pile of components and cards:
spending hours cursing at them until they work.

Women are all about taking risks with money, just as long is it isn't theirs. Lol. Have you been to Vegas lately?

Simply sell more to guys and girls follow? :D

There's a mountain of posts from "pussy whipped" guys who've been forced out of bitcoin by their significant other.

Remember she's looking for two guys.

1. An alpha male to father her children.

2. A beta male to support and raise the children.

The alpha male is of-coarse "the man" whose currency is fiat money and to whom she is absolutely loyal to.

The beta male who she considers to be in a homosexual relationship with will be "pussy whipped" into submission and any rebelliousness such as using bitcoins will not be tolerated.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Eyes_Wide_Shut.jpg/220px-Eyes_Wide_Shut.jpg

Shes also looking for someone she can mold into who she thinks you should be