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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @06:34PM (3 children)
Looks like this snowflake can't handle reality and must quibble over nuanced semantics so he doesn't have to realize he IS what he hates.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 04 2018, @08:31PM (2 children)
Look who you're talking to... Quibbling over semantics is almost as fun to me sending a regressive leftist into a frothing rage with unarguable facts.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 04 2018, @09:44PM (1 child)
It is amusing how you always imagine yourself as the winner of arguments, generally you get facts pointed out to you and you devolve into cliches one-liners. Hell, right now you're denying what you just did! How your brain maintains the connection between both hemispheres is a mystery, a neuro-scientist could probably get a Nobel Prize for finding out. Even by your own definition you're one of the biggest snowflakes around here.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 04 2018, @11:18PM
I reserve the one-liners for when people say blatantly moronic things that aren't worth arguing with.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.