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posted by janrinok on Thursday January 04 2018, @12:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the innovators-or-gamblers dept.

The CBC reports, http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bitcoin-s-gender-divide-could-be-a-bad-sign-experts-say

Bitcoin, and the world of cryptocurrency, is a boys' club, say some experts, and that should be cause for concern.

Google Analytics results put the divide at 96.57 per cent men to 3.43 per cent women: https://coin.dance/stats/gender.

That's a huge red flag to Duncan Stewart, research director of Deloitte Canada's technology division. "It isn't merely that the value has risen as far and as fast as it has; it's the fact that it's 97 per cent men — that is, in and of itself, a potential danger sign," he says. "There are studies out there that suggest men are predisposed towards bubbles in a way that women are not."

Stewart made his case in a recent online post about the subject: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/bitcoin-bubble-gender-split-says-probably-duncan-stewart/?trackingId=LlXWi2rCxUW0itfA92%2BhSQ%3D%3D

Stewart said he "cannot think of any security, currency or asset class in history that shows that extreme a gender divide and has been sustainable."

[...] Iliana Oris Valiente is a rarity in the cryptocurrency world. She has emerged as a female leader in this space and was recently chosen to lead consulting firm Accenture's global blockchain innovation division. Oris Valiente doesn't buy into the theory that an outsized amount of male interest in a particular asset in and of itself creates a bubble. "If we have primarily men involved in building the businesses and being the early-stage investors, they're likely to share the new tidbits and the new deals with their own established networks."

But without a major catalyst, she doesn't see the gender divide in this field narrowing anytime soon.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @04:58PM (#617784)

    I know, right? Figuring out how to get wildly disparate groups to get along and be productive without constantly excluding or offending people is a waste of time, amirite?

    If only everyone else knew that you had it figured out, everything would be so much more peaceful, just like history shows.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:22PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 04 2018, @05:22PM (#617810) Homepage Journal

    Oh hell, we figured that out long ago. Chain them up first then whip them if they do anything you dislike. It's highly effective.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @10:00PM (#617991)

    If you're constantly feeling excluded and offended, then that's your problem.

    In any case, even assuming such a problem exists and is significant, if this is the 'solution' (ranting about how random things aren't diverse enough, are sexist, are racist, etc.) then you've failed anyway. This is mcfeminism, which is propped up by shoddy social 'science' research from hell. If you want to talk about inequality, do it where there's an actual problem and not in an article about quacks complaining that Bitcoin might not be diverse enough.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Friday January 05 2018, @12:38AM

    by driverless (4770) on Friday January 05 2018, @12:38AM (#618120)

    Do you actually know what intersectional feminism is? Quoting the textbook definition:

    The view that women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity. Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated, but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of this include race, gender, class, ability, and ethnicity.

    I'll just let that speak for itself.