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Something I rarely see discussed is the gender breakdown of bitcoin ownership. I'd be surprised if it wasn't something like 90%+ men mining, trading, and ownin
by eqmvii 9y ago
Something I rarely see discussed is the gender breakdown of bitcoin ownership.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't something like 90%+ men mining, trading, and owning bitcoin. If bitcoin really takes over the world, it's going to look like a bunch of dudes printed themselves a fortune and then convinced the rest of the world to buy it from them.
- firstplacelast 9y agoIf you're that concerned you should vote to increase taxe the wealthy. Hell, vote to tax wealth itself. Then you won't need to worry about things like this as much.
- MadSudaca 9y ago> it's going to look like a bunch of dudes printed themselves a fortune and then convinced the rest of the world to buy it from them. Just like fiat money.
- paulgb 9y agoYou can dislike how much fiat the government prints (I do too!), but at least when the government prints money the profit goes towards things that benefit the public (bridges, defense, schools, etc.), some corruption notwithstanding.
- MadSudaca 9y agoI don’t necessarily dislike fiat, I’m just saying that probably the same gender demographics applied to the invention and dissemination of paper money. One example that comes to mind is the Mississippi Bubble. When I read about it most people involved at the beginning were men, but eventually everyone wanted a piece of the action.
- influx 9y agoWhat do you see as the barriers for women to participate in bitcoin?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 9y agoNot that this will explain the large gap entirely, but aren't women generally more risk adverse?
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- joejerryronnie 9y agoWomen are smarter than men.
- to_bpr 9y ago>What do you see as the barriers for women to participate in bitcoin? Why do you want to have a discussion involving logic when all I want to do is signal my virtues?
- dang 9y agoIt's against HN's rules to use this site primarily for political or ideological battle. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop doing that. Flamebait, like the comment you posted here, is particularly against the rules. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- aw3c2 9y agoSanity and intelligence, mostly.
- paulgb 9y agoThe huge transfer of wealth into China (where mining has shifted) is also an interesting economic outcome that doesn't get discussed a lot.
- fiatjaf 9y agoYou can say the same replacing "gender" with "profession" and "men" with "computer people". You can say the same replacing "gender" with "age" and "men" with "young people". You can probably do the same with multiple other grouping criteria.
- emodendroket 9y ago> If bitcoin really takes over the world, it's going to look like a bunch of dudes printed themselves a fortune and then convinced the rest of the world to buy it from them. Well, yeah, that's exactly their fantasy too.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoMaybe this is a result of theory that males have a slight bias to tend to like things while females like people relatively more. Or maybe cause of the theory that males tend to be greater risk takers. (Not saying one sex is better than another, as in different situations, different traits will succeeded. And not saying that all people of a particular sex must take on these traits, but rather only these are tendencies observed in scientific studies.)
- ufo 9y agoI think the simplest explanation is that Bitcoin got popular in internet communities that didn't have many women to start with.