Why do males make up 97% of the Bitcoin community?

[hatshepsut93]

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

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.

[bitbunnny]

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. 

[Wesimon]

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.

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.

[shamzblueworld]

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

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.

[bajing]

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.

[haroldtee]

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.

[orions.belt19]

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.

[aldrian09]

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

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.

[Basmic]

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.

[Theb]

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.

[buwaytress]

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.

[Netnox]

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.

[dunfida]

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

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.

[malikusama]

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.

[livinglightning]

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.

[darklus123]

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

[xskl0]

LOL

[eternalgloom]

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

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.

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?

[Ayers]

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

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

[xFiber]

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?