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According to the website https://coin.dance/stats males make up 97% of the Bitcoin community. Why is the Bitcoin community dominated by guys?

since coin.dance doesn't explain anything about how they have gotten this stats, like saying what was their study group, what was the method, how many is the total of that group (since it is just percentages), ... i am going to say this is completely inaccurate.

it just says google analytics. which i believe means they used search terms. in other words how many male search for bitcoin keyword! that is not really a reliable stat in my opinion

by the way this is the direct link: https://coin.dance/stats/gender

Females donot trust the thing easily they will make lots of evaluation on physical things think about crypto currency which is not even legalized by most of the country . It may take bit more time for females to adopt crypto currency . But some of my femal friends already working on this.

Boy, sooooo difficult to figure out real world facts and factual empirical data.

Let's try.

Walk by an intro to C++ class at your local college sometime.  Mine had ~200 males and 3 females. (I really did count them cause you know, I was trying to find that one hot chick in class and all i saw was a massive sausage party).

And this was 200 level INTRO class.  

Wait, that's really close to the 97% we see here.  A coincidence I'm sure or more sexism cause nerds hate chicks.  haha!

Now try walking by any 300-400 levels physics/chemistry class.  Economics.  Math.  

You'll see similar ratios.  

I also went to business school - easily 50-70% women dominated courses.  Lower in the finance/accounting classes.

Sooooo...

Jack got to play with a toy car as a we lil boy and poor Jane was "forced" to play with Barbie?

Or....

Politically correct but absolutely wrong answer. 

Probably because most of the men think they have to work to make money. So they choose to work. While their women prefer to take care of the household rather than work.

Yes, cause if we simply use our eyes and brains we clearly see way more than 3% female devs and early adopters.   ::)

Political correctness has stupified an entire generation - even in the face of hard OBVIOUS facts.  

Are you in Arabia?

Your answer would be correct about 40 years ago. 

Welcome to the future, time traveler!

I do not think that these data are accurate, because bitcoin is anonymous and women can use it under a false name. Here for example, many scammers use it, but no one will know their gender.

i am not saying the 97% is 100% wrong.
i am saying the method used to come up with that number is flawed so the result is not reliable even if it is true by any chance. scientifically speaking ;)

These statistics can not be accurate because when it comes to the internet anybody can be who  they want to be male or female but i know for a fact that more males use this technology undoubtedly.

Maybe guys are more power(money) hungry than the females and investing in bitcoins could grow your bank

I some quite agree with the stats that most males are into bitcoin as what I have observed within my circle. Though it is not a scientific study, but you can look around, on news, it is dominated by big male investors etc. Hope more awareness to women to utilized this technology.

Pretty sure that the results to that are completely accurate, what would be the sample size of the survey that coin dance, I am guessing not very high, and that could possibly lead to some inaccurate results. 97 percent sounds way too much though, I think we see more than 3 in 100 people are females that are early investors.


Yeah not sure about that, you are living in the 1950s, that is a bit sexist. Right now woman are equally as dominant as men in business and every job in the world. [quote

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since coin.dance doesn't explain anything about how they have gotten this stats, like saying what was their study group, what was the method, how many is the total of that group (since it is just percentages), ... i am going to say this is completely inaccurate.

it just says google analytics. which i believe means they used search terms. in other words how many male search for bitcoin keyword! that is not really a reliable stat in my opinion

by the way this is the direct link: https://coin.dance/stats/gender
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Good example, just because men search bitcoin more, it doesn't mean they know more or dominate the industry, the stats are also very unreliable, especially google analytics.

We can always start a poll out here and check which is the percentage of girls around here !
I can't judge those results because I dont know who were interviewed or how was the statistics obtained. I can say that, as an IT engineer i was part in a class of 60, where only 5 were girls, so yeah, in the digital world, atleast from where I am, it girls are not so wlling to pursue IT courses, and maybe because of that, girls dont know and dont try to fnd out abt new thing happening in the digital world

most females dont care about blockchain technology, they only care about handbags and shoes  :P

Maybe because they love to play.  Men can live in front of the computers for like a whole day without sleeping.  Someone dies because of over use of computers actually he plays like his whole day without a sleep.  Back to the topic, well because guys are always playing.  Bitcoin was used before to buy steam and garena so basically that would be the reason for that.  

Yes.  Yes.  Men love money and power more than women.   ::)

Nothing to do with with real world choices related to logic courses.

Can we get all the stupids to form a line on the left?

Yes.  Yes.  So far all news and information about bitcoin/crypto has been asymmetrically dispersed to males.  Sexist media at work again.

If only women found out what males now know, surely it would change the demographics.

Stay to your left please!

Oh shit - we found a genius.  Or at the very least an honest prick!

They will get involved when you will be able to spend BTC in most commercial stores. And after men involved in Bitcoin community will earn enough with cryptos, so they can support females :D

I think Bitcoin for now is mostly technical thing and guys are usually more interested in these things. But I believe there are many women interested in Bitcoin/blochain as much as men.

I'm guessing that it has something to do with risk taking behavior. Males are much more likely to take risks than females, from running across a busy street to sky diving, and crypto trading is very risky business. So it probably appeals more to males than females. That's my theory anyway :)

The main problem is that women don't really understand Bitcoin. It was made by men for men. Women can still use it to buy things like shoes, handbags and items for washing dishes and cleaning however, so they are not left out.

Apparently there's nothing which should stop women from becoming a part of bitcoin community, it's just that they may either have not heard about it or we need to explain bitcoin to them in much more details. Besides all that I guess the percentage of women engaged in any sort of online money making activity is also less than that of men and I think if that percentage increases then the percentage of women becoming part of bitcoin community will increase too. So basically it's not just bitcoin which has more number of men involved into but it's all the other online money making activities also.

Maybe ladies not interested to hi-tech think, just my opinion..
They too busy dealing with women's stuff..IMHO :D

Computer nerdery, internet nastiness, taking insane risks. All classically male domains.

Equally I find all the articles demanding women be accommodated rather pathetic. It's all there waiting for them if they're interested enough.

I find it pretty comical the reactions self declared females get on here sometimes. I think there may be rather a lot of fellas with a few issues when it comes to the opposite sex.



Don't forget kittens. Womenz likes kittens. When I have a woman and I want to do man things like have conversations about facts and things, I give it a kitten to coo over and then find a man to talk to. The kitten usually keeps it happy for 24 hours but I have to leave it instructions not to cuddle it to death. A couple of powerful slaps usually sends the message over.

You are being funny I guess but the assumption is totally wrong. I have seen many ladies showing interest in the corporate world who are active on blockchain and Bitcoins. The statistics may vary from 75-80% which is still high for men.

In my opinion, men are more likely to know technology than women, they know more about technology and know more about it than women, so men make up 97% of the bitcoin community is not surprised.

how they can collect the data? i am not sure that the percentage is up to 97% because how did coin.dance really know which user is male or female?  beside that, when user want to used the wallet, they don't have to fill their personal identification except in the exchanges. but i think maybe male can so easy to get many info about bitcoin so bitcoin community dominated by males.

Maybe they got the data from various exchanges that require an ID card to be approved to start their trade. But, frankly speaking the males "dominate" the bitcoin community is a really normal thing seeing from how much females actually get interested to some kind of technologies, it's just the same as game community and such that have low amount of female.

girls like to spend money and not generate it, also most women are not into computers

I do not know it is the problem of this thread. Where if we see from all the things that concerned about finding the money for sufficient life, it can be ascertained that the man is doing it all. Because men are the head of the family, indeed women have the same rights to get a feel for what is done by the male in the job. But that's all it is less fun, because women's labour is very gentle.
 

The reason basically is psychological. And if you compare men to women, men are more risk takers and gamblers compared to women. Women does not concern on things that they are not sure of they prefer that which is physical, can be touched. Since males are risk takers they are prone to be attracted to invest on bitcoins and to gamble online. Women are not risk takers they prefer to search beauty products, wellness and fitness, accessories, fashion and trends online. Another thing is that men are very keen on looking at the technicals and details of the operation which is observable on cryptocurrency. Women does not really care about the technicals but how a thing looks.

This is really an interesting question, it is a fact that always exists in this forum, but it is not noticeable. In my opinion, because women are less researching and learning, they are not looking for things that are not popular in society.

Wy wife is the only female I know which is in all that bitcoin community. I think girl more sceptical about all this and they don't have a wish to become rich fast and easy, they more dream about to become beautiful (or more beautiful) fast and easy hahaha

How can they confirm this when Bitcoin's supposed to be anonymous? I mean you can't trace back to who made the transaction right? So how can this even be accurate? I NEED STATS

Wow, this information really made me feel surprised, I never thought that the difference between men and women was too big. We often do not pay attention to it, but look, they do not like to explore and learn as we do, but they always demand equality.

If this is so true that female only represent that 3% then maybe they are more skeptical than men or they are not that technical type of human beings.
Because we all know that the human nature of men are to do more adventurous things in life more than women does, and I think women thing the Bitcoin thing is a men's work, lol.

Plus how come they came up with this percentage? do they know the real numbers of Bitcoin users?

I think women still think Bitcoin is too complicated to deal with it, and though most of them don't use it, and using fiat and cash which is simpler for them. In addition perhaps ladies fear taking the risk with the crypto currencies as the price go up and drop down.

It's <97% imo but basically any activity that involves elevated levels of risk attracts males, predominantly younger males and they also have more successful outcomes.

As a survival mechanism humans have developed risk aversion. It's shown that 'X' loss is twice as painful as 'X' gain is pleasurable.

Risk aversion is counteracted with testosterone.

Trading floors for example are predominately male and despite the high & lucrative incomes, predominantly young males, (testosterone drops rapidly from late thirties onwards) indicating testosterone trumps experience.

Studies have also shown male traders with physical markers indicating high levels of testerone in utero earn 1100% more than traders who received the lowest levels of testosterone.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-16/wanna-be-great-trader-size-matters-finger-size

So Bitcoin or any other volatile/risky instrument will attract mostly males and they will be more successful with it.

Because males are more curious about technology things, and male is more attracted on how to make more money, because it is male job to provide for family, and female are not really attracted to bitcoin

Because there are very few women in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Feminists argue that men in those fields are biased against women and don't want to accept them, opponents argue that women naturally less interested in STEM disciplines. So, if you want to understand why there are less women than men (even though the data in your link might be incorrect), you should search for "Women in STEM" in general.

World of technologies is still men's world and these few woman who are part of it often don't want to be revealed.I don't think they are less capable but they are not so interested in that field. Maybe wouldn't be bad idea to attract more women in cryptocurrencies but their men should try harder to explain to them all advantages cryptocurrencies can offer.  :)

I dont think this is the reason why male is dominating the use of bitcoin. We are already in millenium times. All the things the male can do can be done by female too. I think the reason why there are more male in bitcoin is because male has more interest in this line of job. And males are more dedicated when it comes to computer related works.

Regardless of the fact that this stats is true or not, I agree that crypto world is dominated by males, for two reasons. One you hardly find a female geek, so as geek world is dominated by males, it is kind of an obvious that crypto world is the same.
Secondly, in crypto if you don't want to invest money from the beginning, (mean you're not that rich) you have to waste a lot of time to get some coins under your belt, and women are less likely to do that. I feel they are more result oriented that their male counterparts.

Because men are more interested in technology and women are not very interested in it except the mobile phone. Men see crypto currency is like an opportunity that can give them an advantage therefore they will be active in bitcoin community.

Probably because male are typical hustlers, we take huge risks and we are looking for every means to make a huge living so as to give our family the best life. I am not sure if the statistics are right though, but 97% is a very huge value, won't be surprised though judging from the bitcoin forum.

Interesting statistics! If this were the case, it is possible that more males engage in the Bitcoin community primarily because they are more interested in earning money? There are females who interest on earning money but perhaps Bitcoin does not interest them. Bitcoin takes some time to learn and use, and this kind of business may have made females skeptical and has discouraged them in using it. Anyway, I don't think a single cryptocurrency or financial system is sexist. This could only be coincidental.

I agree that Males are more risk taker than females even in business there are plenty of males who take the risk in jumping into business than females, I am not saying females can't make it because now a days what male can do female can also do it. It's all about how much risk they are willing to take.

We live in a Patriarchal society. Men accustomed to taking responsibility for important decisions. The bitcoin is the brand new currency and so in order to become a participant of the new project it was necessary to have courage.

I agree with the date being inaccurate because how could you know the demographics of Bitcoin users if Bitcoin itself is hard to detect all its transactions? I guess that this percentage of males dominating Bitcoin is just a guess or an assumption maybe they have a survey of asking the first 100 people who are using Bitcoin and it just happened 97 of those are male. Also in real life experience I know a couple of friends that are girls who use Bitcoin.

Scant methodology on the original source of this 97%... but there seems to be some minor literature on gender disparity with Bitcoin from 2012-2015. I like Financial Times who suggested that men liked Bitcoin because of drugs, porn and gambling (but neglect to address that research disproves this as women are only a slight minority when it comes to these vices).

Even the 2017 Cambridge research into Bitcoin skipped over gender, so we'll have to wait for a more definitive source.

I am sure that the real percentage is much lower than 97%. Even during 2014, various surveys were showing that more than 15% of the Bitcoin users is female. That proportion could have increased by now. My guess is that now at least 25% of the Bitcoin user population is female.

You know man do really love on exploring new things specially when it comes on money making opportunities which Its just being a part of our human nature as a man to engage on this kind of stuffs which most womens doesn't really see any interest at all. Man do love adventures and technical stuffs and with bitcoin it can really caught up our attention but still there are women do jump in on bitcoin but on a really small ratio.

May be it is due to the interest level, as you see overall technology statistics the percentage of women in tech is too low as compared to the men percentage, this is the only reason i see that why men makes 97% of this community.

These statistics may not be accurate. People can fake sex. In my opinion, the proportion of men is still higher than that of women
I think men are more accessible to bitcoins than women. I'm not talking about intelligence, but the level of understanding, access to technology of men better than women. Women are quite passive in many things.

It is really hard to say that there are only 3% of female population in bitcoin industry. Maybe if we do talk about females population in this forum that might be pretty accurate or less

LOL

That's true, but that doesn't really explain the 97% number, seems like a far bigger gap than in other STEM fields.
I'd be very wary of the methods they used to get this result.

What's the ratio here on the forum, for example? Are there any stats?

girls are not tech savy you know right? they are emotional being, but some girls use bitcoin, those with sexy cam or other that are more with technology, there are at least two girl here that sue bitcoin very well, i see that in japan the story is different, plenty of girl using bitcoin, maybe girls are waiting for regulation? who know

It's either not very interesting for the average girl or they don't like the idea of something not physically being there. 97% is maybe a little bit extreme but yea it's logical in a sense that women are less interested in this kind of stuff. But I fail to understand how this is relevant to the contribution on this forum. It doesn't matter if one has a sausage between it's legs or not. If the contribution and constructiveness of one's post is good then why would we even bother caring wheter one is male or female?

I think it's because crypto currency is connected to computer things and most of female are not interested in computer things and most of male are known about computer. Actually i'm not surprised that bitcoin community is full of males lol. There are also many females out there who is using bitcoin, but most of them never show theirself.

When I was skydiving as a student I found out it was a good way to encounter girls. There were more guys but there were a good 25% of girls.

When I was in "community college" for networking & telecom there was one girl out of 100 guys. Advanced maths, 1 girl (just immigrated from Africa) out of 35 guys. Then I did an Economics, Sociology, Law combined course, oh boy, girls, girls everywhere !

No, the computer things are equally interested to both the genders. I just doubt the credibility of coin.dance's surveys/calculations. There will be no obvious methods are available to identify the gender of one crypto enthusiastic then how we can say 97% are male. It is an anonymous world and everyone value their privacy hence unveiling wrong gender must being consider as another layer to their protection levels.

Because there are more male nerds than women nerds! :D

Kidding aside, I don't think 97% of bitcoin users/community is male. Where did OP get this number? There is really no concrete answer to this unless there would be a census that would determine the composition of the users. Though, I don't think 97% would be the answer. Probably males dominate it but not really at those levels. Probably a 60% or 70%.

There's absolutely no way of knowing of course but it feels like an extremely believable figure to me. This is still the cutting edge of nerddom and it's also seething with hostility. Deffo willy owning territory still.

I'm not really surprised by this information, because I myself knew about it before, unlike us, women do not like to explore and learn, they are not creative, they always follow the mold, so, they do not know about bitcoin.

That is totally wrong and inaccurate. I don't know how they came up with that statistics but that is definitely not true. Maybe if they conducted a survey with a hundred people they encountered randomly they will really get that percentage. One example that I can cite is the facebook group that I've joined just recently which is composed of members using coins.ph, a btc wallet in Philippines. I've observed that most of them who are actively posting and commenting are females. That 97% is really a joke. You can say that 70% might be the safest percentage since we all know that mostly guys are the ones who are interested in this kind of stuff but there really is no way of telling the exact numbers. But this shouldn't be an issue. Everyone wants to earn and that's all that matters.

I'm agree here. I'm a girl and when I tell to my girl friends about bitcoin they just roll up their eyes hahahaha
I think girls are more about classic ways to make money as to work on the boss or to be the boss and hold the own business. There is no doubt that there is female in the area of crypto currencies, girls who really know the subject and interested in it, but the percent is actually few. I would like to see here the voting about who are you: male or female on the forum to see how many sisters there are here ;D

Nothing wrong about these stats since years women were not allowed to rise and now people are getting aware that even women get equal rights. Just see around you we still say men are the one who runs the house but by next century (If earth survives) we will see a world with equality and second biggest problem why only males because we often see girls nowadays don't even work and they feel all this stuff boring

Indeed. We don't actually know what's the real gender of the users here in the forum. We can't tell by their user name. And don't say that bitcoin is dominated by men if you don't have basis like surveys. I think men and women are all equal here, no gender stereotype just equality.

he did not say that bitcoin is dominated by men :-\  and in this forum we anonym no one knows the gender of all members here also allows using false gender. I think gender is not a big thing because as you say men and women are all equal.

Because most of female has trust issues. lol just kidding I am also female and this is the first time I have heard this data since I've got lots of female friend in bitcoin. I don't think this is accurate since there are lots of account where they did not state there gender because of some security purpose.

As what I have observed in my country, some boys or most of the boys were exposed to the computer more than girls. They played online games with pop up above ads during or before playing the game. Also based on my observation and experienced, boys are good in programming and logic. For me, boys are smarter than girls. I am one of the girls and I believe this is true based on my theory.

Nah, maybe boys are more techy thing than girls that's why many are here are men but we don't know what's the real score. Let's not make this an issue, men and women are all equal here, no gender bias and no one are taking for granted in what their gender.

We always talk about equality between men and women. But in some respects this equality does not happen. Most women today just pay attention to what is really dominant in society. BTC is very little known and so only 3% of users are women that is obvious.

I won't completely trust that number but I believe that bitcoin attracts more of the male species rather than women, as far as where I come from. I atlas have a few male friends talking about bitcoin from time to time while most of the girls I know hardly have any interest (maybe at the moment). But things might change once bitcoin goes more mainstream.

Maybe because men are more active with online system they love online games which somehow lead them to learn about bitcoin, another is that men are most active with gambling and bitcoin are known as a mode of payment. But for the record we women are now getting bigger in the society of bitcoin :)

I think this is the impact of the mentility that make the difference between person to person .
In the current time most of the females using the simple idea of making grow in Thier practical life the old people were doing , so
Instead to get in the online things more , they are getting in the offline market to make money ( not all but few of them only ) .
But here I don't think that 97% are males Because I have a WhatsApp group where about 10-20 people are females and making bulk trading and also making bulk earnings , then from according to my data , about 30%+ are females in the Bitcoin field .
May be in the future we will see the equality between every males and females in the crypto maket .

I am not sure if that statistic is really verified or not but I am sure that at least majority of Bitcoin holders can be male. I think this is also true with anything that has something to do with investments. In areas where there are risks associated, you can expect more male participation compared to the female crowd.

Though here in my country, female Bitcoin holders are also catching up and it is not actually an issue to us at all. We don't look at the sex of the person as a consideration as we believe that Bitcoin is open to all sexes regardless of orientation and preference. In fact, we have good female traders here...even better than their male counterparts as some female possesses some special hunch on the market.

When Bitcoin will finally reach the mainstream, the trend can be reversed. I am expecting for the time when Bitcoin leaders and developers are equally divided between the male and female departments.

Whoa. While I knew only a fraction of us here are from the west it's ever more obvious while discussing a subject like this. I take it many of you weren't raised by feminist school teachers like most of us. Anyways. Women are not significantly represented in IT fields, and for a plethora of reasons are not as interested in technology as men in general. Women in general are far more adverse to taking risks (that's basically a scientific fact). Cryptocurrency is risky and obviously tech in the purest sense.

How do we know what this 97% identify as? Apparently gender is not even a real thing. I'm a mongoose.

I'm female. Only rec ntly discovered crypto currencies. I'm blown away them. My nephew told me about bitcoin when it was four pounds each. I wish I had listen d more closely. But I guess better late than never. I just thought of I as a fad. That would fizzle out. You could even mine bitcoin back then.

I also love tchnology and was using computers way back in dial up times. Well over twenty years. I work as a beauty therapist. I think females are more cautious than men. But if I had listened more closely to my nephew then I would be very well off now. But I don't think it's too late as from my research it's not too late. This whole thing with bitcoin and alt coins really excites me and I've already in four weeks turned three hundred pounds into at least six hundred pounds. So I think I'm doing ok.

Infact most accounts here don't show gender and hides them on there profile. A thing that no one cares on what gender you have here. No big deal. That is true, let us not make it a big issue. Since no one care. The important thing here as well as on bitcoin is you know the rules.

Actually, Noone can say the real percentage on the gender specification especially on internet since most of it is a lie. But as far as I've observed most Male are more interested on exploring the internet and are programmers. So all I can agree is that there are more Male that are into bitcoin rather that the specified graph where 97% are Male and 3% female.
Anyway, I'm a Pug.

Good to see females around the forum and in the crypto currency platform,i am sure there are many females in this platform and if you really were an early investor you could have made a fortune by now,even now you could make some smart investments and make some good money if you are careful about your investments.

Wee, it is always the tech guy that is being called or whom we will be expecting when we call a technician. Not the tech lady.
I did attend a class before with 40 students and only 2 were girls.
That is what you expect with a computer technician or computer engineer course.
Bitcoin is the same. It needs more information that is too deep for others to understand it very well.
We could explain a shallow meaning but still that will not be enough.

Men of nowadays has reach the level wey be say anyhow anyhow I must make am purely. Therefore over that matter, whom do you expect to make up 97%? Guys on a good day get enough time to get valuable things and pls, make we park well, you see my guy, if you no get a LION'S heart you cannot have a LION'S share!!!! :D ;D ;D

Thank you yes I probably would have made a fortune. As I'm quite an obsessive person. Once I get my teeth into something that interests me I keep learning and get a real thirst for it. If I only I had listened more closely to my nephew back then. X

I don't really think that it is true ,
how could it happen that bitcoin is being used world wide and only 3% of its user is a woman or a girl,
And also the bitcoin was made to hide the information of its user or to send it anonymously how could they know the gender of the user's,
They couldn't really calculate it since there are plenty of bitcoin wallets out there.

I quite agree with that study because even in my immediate environment, the ones who knows about bitcoin mostly guys and I have only met a lady who knows little about it compared to the amount of guys I have met. Aside that again, when it comes to bitcoin community large percentage is coming from gambling in which the majority of the people there, are equally guys simply because ladies by default are reserved compared to guys.

Same reason so many nerdy beta types have a hard time getting women while the alphas will bed hundreds.  Genetics.

My guess is that men are usually the ones to fend for the family and would also explore new ways to do this .. in other words men take alot of risk to earn a living. Most women go for well known means of earning a living.. only few will explore.

But I doubt that percentage is accurate. It could be much higher (like 15 to 30%).

Becouse girls doesn't like tech Gilrs like watch some series of "friends" and don't give a shit to finace.
Gilrs look at cash when they need spend and shopping. Is hard to find woman who saves money.
Girs don't like take risk so they don't buy BTC all time.
Only man can stand 80% of value and go forward with it.

That my opinion don't take anything personal if you are that 3% girl - sorry.

It is just the way things are, more gamers are men too, that is just because that is something we find interesting, there is nothing mysterious about it, there are many other activities where women are the majority and that does not bring the attention of anyone for the simple reason that those activities do not pique the interest of most men.

A matter of interests. Men usually are into with technology but I'm not talking about the usage but rather the interests discover something in that technology since most women interests themselves more on social media while guys interest themselves in games, some stuffs here and there including this blockchain technology which we devote our time to understand how it works while on the other hand women are busy with other stuffs.

At some point you are correct but that was generations ago. The generation now of women are the working wives. I know lots of women working for their family so that the burden that the husband is carrying will be lesser. I know at least 21 women who are into the world of cryptocurrencies and most of them are wives.

Woman - nurturer, seeks security.
Man - hunter, provider.

Just look at this designated cuckold and why you shouldn't listen to women when engaging in man shit.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-i-love-bitcoin-andrew-mather (CTRL + F "wife" and "dear")

There was also this story about some guy who wanted to put his life savings into Bitcoin when it sold for a few $ but he listened to his wife instead. I wonder how many betas out there missed out because of listening to their women.

Actually it's not even her fault. I bet they blame their wives too, and their wives /gfs end up resenting them because 1. their men have no balls to do what they want and 2. put the blame on her.

I think this the understanding that we can gain in our community .
Mostly females like to have the company of the females and males remains in the company of the males . So the company plays a big role for the contribution in any things .
But still here in my community there are few girls who are using Bitcoin and cryptocurrency to make earnings .Beside these facts there is a big factor that girls needed only to educate himself to became a house wife ( in the most of the cases ) , so they don't want divert herself toward any new thing or any new ways where they can make earnings .
Since factors are more to discuss , but overall that is the understanding and need only that forces the people to make earnings .
And here in my opinion the % of the female bitcoiners is more then what the site gave .

Perhaps this data is accurate. While in fact, I tried to investigate how many women know Bitcoin and the answer is no woman knows it. Is not Bitcoin really popular or is it because women are not interested in virtual currency?

A man later was required to be the head of the household.
Men should be able to provide for their wives and children and even other family members.
But it's not just that a man has to work hard.
Men are not only required to work hard when they are married. They will find ways to make money. Men also tend to like electronic tools such as laptob and so forth. They may know other people who happen to know bitcoin so choose to work online with bitcoin. While women only take care of the house and their children

How many women did you interviewed? May I know? Well here in my country more men are into bitcoin than women like 2 out of 10.
Maybe men are more into the technology like there were are more expose in the internet like for a whole day and women are preferred to do something that can interest them.

Patriarchy tells women they belong in the kitchen.

It might be because women doesn't have any interest in bitcoin at all.
And they don't believe on a job [money making] such as bitcoin.

But it's not 100% right?
Nowadays there's lots of career women, and they may be knows about bitcoin.
But they didn't know how bitcoin works.

well! That’s really sad to hear that the women community is very less in bitcoin users and its not good for bitcoin as well because women is now working in each and every field and she can do everything that a man does so I think women should also contribute in bitcoin popularity.

Technology, women always are behind it. In future situation will be changed. But for now, it is "programmer" thing for them.

I bet the stats come Google Analytics. So in this case you can say it is totaly unreliable. I don't know about Bitcoin but I can tell you in the Blockchain there are lot of females. Sometimes I g to meet up and there are 50/50 male female.

Power to females

Not this meme again
You can see with basically all events through history, women are typically following men that they trust or they are being pioneers in a field after it is somewhat established, as Bitcoin is right now, or you get the 1% where you have a woman, such as Marrie Currie, participate more actively in the actual development of something new and interesting. The Bitcoin community being composed of 97%, even 85%, males is no surprise.

I don't think the data that the site collected are accurate enough to confirmed that the bitcoin community consist of 97% males users, bitcoin users doesn't need to provide any identity verification for setting up a bitcoin wallet, so it is really hard to gauge how much percentage of users are males or females in the whole bitcoin community.

Yes, i also think that female are actively involve in bitcoin community but they do not disclose themselves. Thats one of the reason i think, people think bitcoin is a male dormant community while the fact is many females do not disclose them. I do not say that  female male ratio is  50 50 but it can be 60 to 40 ratio between men and women.

I don't think that this date is actually correct, couse btc provides anonymity, so we can't say for sure.

The first news I have about this, and I would not know to really explain it, is a subject of study

There are many factors why that could be the case, that the women in bitcoin society are only represented in 3%.

1. First of all. The reason to use bitcoin is mainly political. Women does not like to talk about politics as it is most of the time agressive and lead to argues.

2. Bitcoin is not a socialy acceptable. Women are more social creature than men, and most of them would not be interested in things that majority of population is not interested in.

3. Investing in bitcoin could lead to danger, and women are more prone to avoid the danger.

I agree.I must admit males are more dominant than females here in the bitcoin community but i don't think that data is precise.I guess lot of females also are actively participated here so i don't think that's only 3% for female users.

What country you are from  :D this is 2017 and we are talking about women belonging in the kitchen,it all depends upon how much interest you have to a particular thing,may the most of the women does not find the bitcoin community fascinating but i am sure there are more women in the bitcoin platform.

Yeah there are huge amount of guy's who are using it but we can't really say that it is only 3% of who are currently using it is a lady,
Like what I have said earlier we can't really count the percent of it since there are plenty of bitcoin wallet or if you are going to use the number of bitcoin gamblers there are also lot's of website that they could play.
And we can't really tell what's the gender of the other gamblers are because we could only see their IGN or in game name.

I don't think it's 50/50 as some of guys said, but I think the percent of ladies here is something close to you say. I was reading some previous comments in this thread and noticed only few girls, so, among all this comments it is exactly like 2%, simple calculation which is telling us that the author is right.

Most women are risk-averse and like what they perceive to be "sure things."

I couldn't agree , I think the men are risk takers naturally and given the volatile nature of Bitcoin it makes sense that just a few women will risk investing in it but the men are generally going for it whether or not it's a good investment.

That 97% completes the study that males are required to fulfill fathers duty or task which informs us that male is the one who's responsible to work and earn moneys. I do believe that males satisfy all the campaigns requirements being a risker and fulfills ones duty.

This may be true to an extent only. Other important thing that this is more of a technical as understanding about its working and functionalities and might be many female would not be into technical due to which there is a huge difference between both the %.

That’s the main reason for huge difference between ratio of male and female users. Females usually lack interest in digital things and latest technologies. They prefer simple things though. Males are very much attracted to all this and have sound knowledge of latest technologies which help them perform better than females in these fields. Same is the case with bitcoins usage.

The tendency of men in search of a new thing, that's what causes why it happens.
Sometimes men are more active in searching for something easy and profitable

Usually men/boy/male are the ones who were really that adventurous and taking every task as a challenge by not thinking of the risk associated with it. In bitcoin, you need trust to make it possible for you to come up with an investment proper. But before you can gain the trust, you must try it first by taking its risk since you do not know it yet. That maybe the reason why males are dominant in bitcoin industry.

Maybe the reason behind that is because males are the risky type of people compared to females in terms of new discoveries. Even though bitcoin is just a new established cryptocurrency, males have already take its risk and not mindful of the consequences he might get in it. Also men needs that capability to earn using bitcoin to sustain his financial, leisure and fun needs. That maybe the reason why males are building up to 97% of bitcoin community.

It is exactly true in my country which bitcoin there is illegal. Only 1% people(less than 1 million) know about bitcoin and 99% them are male.

Because it requires technical knowledge, women don't want to reveal that they are Bitcoiners, meetsups are techy dudes but the real reason lack of sufficient women entrepreneurs taking Bitcoin as a payment method for consumer goods. Avon and those other MLM's for women stuff Mary Kay cosmetics etc get a few to take the coins and people will come maybe not in droves at first but as they get more knowledgeable the skewed demographic will eventually change.

I don't know how they did those surveys and came up with that percentage of male bitcoin users but I think that's not accurate at all. There may be lots of male in bitcoin community but the 97% is quite too much. Well anyway, I think there are more male than female in this community because most men are geeks. There are more males interested in technologies and stuffs than female. I think more women are much interested in social interaction, cooking, beauty and health stuffs.

I hate to break it to you guys, but I think we may be nerds.

In all seriousness though, I guess it's merely a reflection of how few women are in tech, amplified by cryptocurrencies being on the fringe of the fringe. The question of why so few women are in tech to begin with would probably be worth a debate on its own.

I wonder why people are so in disagreement with the 97% number? Seems fairly accurate to me. There were 4 who claimed they were women in this thread out of 131 posts above mine. That's about lol, 3% exactly. Also taking a binomial distribution with results closer to the end of a spectrum converges faster. In other words, the sample size doesn't need to be nearly as big if the number was closer to 50%.

The combination of Men being more risk takers and more into technology stuff makes 97% a very believable number.

Go to a poker table and you'll see most of them are guys. Stock trader people on the news are also mostly guys.

Sure 97% could be off, but I think it is probably very accurate. If I was to forecast the future. I believe this number will converge to 50% when the whole world is using Bitcoin. :D

Based on the country where i reside most of the mens doing the trading like equity and commodity even real time business also . the same we can find it in crypto world 97% and 3 % .

It is not really surprising, most men are into finances, you will see that in occupations like that, men make the majority simply because that is something we have natural inclinations, that does not mean that women cannot be interested on finances, but it is one of those domains dominated by men.

my guess is old school, just it might be that guys are the ones expected to go out and earn the money / put food on the table,

so things like this are possibly as a "venture" like male working / earning.

I know the stereotype is that women are better at savings / personal finance tips, this is riskier, so the overall male presence at least fits those archaic stereotypes.

Not to sound prejudiced though! Anything is possible for anyone

Males dominate the whole coding nerdy sector so it makes sense. More women are using bitcoins now though because it's becoming more mainstream. Also women  as a whole are less risky than men and bitcoins are very risky. Source? How much do you pay for car insurance? How much do women your age pay? Nuff said.