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

[shine1123]

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

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.

[aesma]

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

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 !

[rickadone]

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

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.

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.

[LuanX3]

Because there are more male nerds than women nerds!

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%.

[gentlemand]

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.

[naughty1]

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

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.

[jc89]

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.

[Taki]

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'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

[phr0stbyt3]

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

[chocolah29]

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.

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.

[ufaiz50]

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.

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.

[Lenzie]

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.

[ilovefeetsmell]

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

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.

[(altair)]

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

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.

[JimmieA]

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.

[Schuyler]

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.

[sofi@]

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

[noictib]

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

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 .

[iamTom123]

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.

[Tolrem]

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.