Topic: Do we need more influencial women in crypto to help the gender embrace it? - page 4. (Read 726 times)

IMO the reason for less number of women in crypto might be women may be more risk-averse and less likely to invest in or pursue careers in such fields.  Plus factor of this lack of confidence may deter women from participating in male-dominated spaces like involving in crypto.
That's why, most of those influencers are men, not women but hopefully, in the future, there will be great women influencers.

But sometimes I think that we shouldn't need influencers and gender doesn't matter since we're all here in this space wanted to be anonymous for privacy matters.

First thing first, I always support women to get to the top of whatever they are doing. And in this modern era other than physical strength and willingness, there is really nothing that prevent women from achieving what man can achieve, especially in the developed nation where the opportunity and role for women and men is equal. So if there is lack of women showing up as a crypto influencer I think it is a matter of choice because strength doesn't matter in this field.

And I don't think we need more influencer not man nor women, there is already enough influencer in crypto Industry, and let's be honest most of us doesn't even actually listen to those influencers, we know it's just for the show. And if we look at the crypto project's team, there is already many women working in the engineering or marketing department, so I think those women are choosing to work in the thing that actually matter in the crypto Industry, rather than just become an influencer.

I think cryptocurrency does not differentiate between gender and age in its adoption and development, how many women there are is not an obstacle for crypto to move forward,
Even though in reality there are many women who have entered crypto themselves, they hide themselves from their gender

The debate on gender arises where there is no equality and women are treated down. This means that for the same work done, women will be paid less and men will get higher pay. These kinds of activities can be seen in some places. In such a situation, there is a need for stronger women who are capable of fighting for their rights. Here, no such issues were recorded, as the majority of the activities take place in an anonymous manner. Compared to the past, the involvement of women in the cryptospace has increased. This is quite good and appreciable.

You're right in what you said, all of us who hold or buy Bitcoin can do what we want to do, honestly. If you want to do it, you can do it for experience. so it's just that in these situations, which is the time of accumulation of Bitcoin in most of the crypto field, we will first put aside the use of Bitcoin as payment in any business that accepts it as payment.

It is even better for now to accumulate it until the time when we need to sell it because we know that we can make a profit from it. It's that simple to do as holders.

There are many women in cryptocurrency whose identity we don't know. There may also be many large holders in Bitcoin that we don't know. Several individuals has also said that gender discrimination should not bring in this purpose either. Since this platform values one's privacy it is foolish to share personal information which no one would want to do. You mentioned some of the top names in cryptocurrency but there are many women who are anonymously contributing to the space as well. Looking at Bitcoin wallets can't tell anything but it can be inferred that women aren't far behind in the crypto space either.

If they will come OP, they're welcome but it doesn't mean this would help and promote crypto adoption and I know investors don't focus on knowing who is investing in Bitcoin. People will embrace crypto if they gain trust and interest in this because even hearing those influential names if they live in doubts, that can't be possible to step in, they will still move away.

It is not the gender that brings people confidence in embracing/adapting crypto but it is their understanding as we can't bring people in if they never know something about Bitcoin and crypto in general. Maybe that will encourage them but not the assurance that it gets much attention from the community.

Doesnt really matter actually which gender is really that dominating here on crypto space and with those known personalities or figures here on crypto on which if it turns out that those big names are mostly males
then it doesnt mean that women in population wont really be that having those kind of impressions on getting interested with cryptocurrencies? I dont actually see the relevance because when it comes to poking up
someones interest then it wont matter whether you have seen it on a man or a woman into those words which are correlated to crypto.

Well, it doesnt matter much though since we've seen that recognition and adoption rate is never been that stopping and it gets better or higher year by year.
Sooner or later we've been able to see that majority of the population do already know Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies existence and just like on what i have
said that this is something which is inevitable.

What's the need to balance the numbers between men and women in this industry? Investment chooses no gender or race, except one's will and initiative to invest as well as knowledge to do so, nothing more and nothing less. There are just people who tend to compaare; if you notice that male investors are way larger with number of female also doing the same thing, that is only because of difference with preference as an individual. Crypto in the first place still has its issue concerning market price volatility and widescale adoption as an alternative mode of payment. It doesn't matter if you are a girl or not, as long as you know to yourself what you are engaging yourself with. Rather than focusing with the differences, it would be better to look for things we do all have in common;  drive to earn profit and being patient of profit.

As a woman—by any definition—the question strikes me as odd, perhaps because of my non-U.S. upbringing.

First, is there a compelling reason a project needs specific types of individuals—women, Indians, or birdwatchers—unless justified by concrete technical, research, or market-related factors? Crypto inherently does not discriminate and is, in my honest opinion, one of the least toxic and most welcoming domains. A primary reason, as highlighted by many, is the anonymity of most community members. Who's to say a significant number of us aren't women? Maybe Satoshi Nakamoto is a woman, or a collective of women—who can tell? 

Second, as m2017 said, "if there are women who want to build a career in this field, then if they have the abilities and talents, they will very quickly become famous and influential personalities." From personal experience, I can say that in real life it's already reverse discrimination on steroids. Almost every time I attended any relevant events like at MIT, people offer to join some random project because having a female team member will be beneficial to apply to, say, YCombinator just because of the shape of my organs, and I'm in the right place with that shape. This situation upsets me a lot because I do not want or need genitalia-based affirmative action; I personally consider it (reverse) discrimination.

Third, if you want more women involved in anything, you are working from the wrong direction. It's not the crypto community (or almost any in the English-speaking world) that discriminates against women; it's the huge number of women who are now being treated as slaves/property/cattle and not allowed to have education and participate in literally anything. Free these women, and you automatically increase the number of women participating in all types of projects everywhere. Girls born in the US don't know how lucky they are. The main obstacle in my life to being involved in fields I loved, that my family considered inappropriate for a girl (like computers, technical things, math), was *traditional family values*—the "be pretty not smart" mentality. When it became obvious that I had some math talent by winning local math Olympiads without any training (I was surprised when years later I found out that people train for math Olympiads the same as for sport Olympiads; I was under the impression you are just sent to it and get a free day from school), instead of embracing it, my mother told me a story about some acquaintance of hers who was a math professor but did not have a family and was, according to my mother, very unhappy (although she had no f..g idea). That's why I urgently need to compensate now for all the most productive learning time I lost before I escaped from the iron hug of my "loving family," and I need to self-educate myself very quickly to get up to speed.

Bottom line, yes, we need to end discrimination of women, but not where there is none (like in the crypto community), but where the root of the problem actually is—in terrible societies where women are property, not people. For example, in Afghanistan, the word "kidnapped" is translated differently for men and women: for men/boys, the meaning is close to "kidnapped," but for women/girls, it's "stolen" like a cow—a cow cannot be kidnapped, it can only be stolen. If all those feminists had spent an iota of their energy on fighting the disastrous women's situation where it's actually urgently needed, perhaps this question about "more women" anywhere would be even less relevant than it is now in the English-speaking world.

I apologize for the rant; I needed to say it out loud, and this forum is probably the only place where I can speak freely without self-censorship.

Firstly what does technology have to do with gender, anyone who contributes to developing a system is never recognized based on gender, what's bad if more men or more women are contributing on a platform to evolve the system? What matters is the system itself and its growth not the number of individuals based on gender.

Why do people particularly mention men & women even in this timeline I really cant get it. What could make a change wether a technology is developed by men or women that not the concern for if you are a consumer just use the technology and live good, if you are a competitor put more efforts for more efficient product.

Without discriminating against women, men dominate almost all the sectors of the world. Even the female fashion industry is dominated by men. I think men can access funds more than women so they can easily invest in any sector. Another reason might also be that men are more focused on business than women who are sometimes distracted by childraising and home keeping. I totally agree with your position that the crypto space is nondiscriminatory which means everybody is free to be part of the industry. However, speaking from the happenings in my location, it will be difficult for a large number of women to get involved in the crypto business because many of them don't have the same opportunities most men have because of religious and cultural sentiments.     

My politics tend to lean toward the right, and I find many things like ESG funding and forced diversity in media to be a horrible trend that's actually discrimination disguised as something else, and it only serves to divide rather than unite us.

So you probably know what my answer to this is going to be: if women want to get into bitcoin and become so involved in it that they actually become influential, they're free to do so.  I've never heard any stories of women being discriminated against when it comes to the crypto space, so the paucity of women in general and influential ones in particular tells me that the majority of bitcoin/crypto enthusiasts are male. 

It's been that way from the start based on the few books I've read about bitcoin's history.  We don't need more women necessarily, as I don't think there's any benefit to anyone if they suddenly started adopting it.  They can if they want to; nothing's stopping them.

Next we'll be asking for racial and ethnic representation to help, I don't know, native Americans embrace crypto? Or ethnic tribal Asian groups?
That's not how it works.

This gender thing goes beyond crypto -- even when a few years back they were really trying to bring women numbers up in blockchain companies, you'd notice they were largely grouped into content/marketing/admin/hr -- just like in any other industry. Sweeping generalisation, of course, as the names you've mentioned are technical career women (and not also dismissing the content/media etc. categories).

It's an age-old issue in tech and engineering. You just don't get enough interest or support. That's grassroots education, not something a specific industry can really change.

My region learnt long ago you don't just fill up universities with women in the areas you feel they're underrepresented (I remember in the 90s 9:1 ratio of women to men in unis in a lot of technical faculties, and yet majority of women graduates ended up not choosing a career in the field). Change, if they truly feel is needed, also has to come from within, no?

Gender isn't a big deal I'm this space. Whether male or female, it doesn't matter, what really matter is that the space is moving forward.
Crypto is not a gender based agenda. Any gender willing to embrace it should do so.

Gender aside, I think crypto currency awareness or popularity should or is not based on which gender group is much more knowledgeable about bitcoin or crypto currency. Yes, if we will compare, there are more men than women who do crypto currencies, and we don't know the exact reason for that, but maybe because men are more on the internet and like to explore as their hobbies are gaming or what, while women are more focused on other stuff like aesthetics or something like that. Also, as we know, crypto currency is just for strong will and a strong mind, so women tend to be more fragile than men, so they can't take the stress and anxiety crypto currency may bring. But we aren't gatekeeping or limiting women from accessing or doing crypto currency; it is just that in reality, more men are emerging into complex things such as crypto currency.

I can guess one of the main features of the crypto space is privacy and I believe lots of person would prefer to keep their identity unknown and am sure that is basically one of the major thoughts on the minds of one of the greatest creators @satoshi nakamoto as he aslo kept him anonymous so if you really come to think of it who knows if Satoshi is even a lady? but who cares we all know that a certain proportion of both genders are involved in the activity around the Crypto space and this adds no impact so let's focus more on what's ahead.

Many women are engaged in cryptocurrencies and quite successfully, I personally know a few. My opinion is that the names of men are well known, because men have always been behind the greatest discoveries, inventions and innovations in any field, that's how this world works. I don't want to offend women in any way, but there are statistics.

The narrative that women aren't interested in crypto has slowly diminished over time. Just because they don't get all the headlines like CZ or Justin Sun doesn't mean there aren't many women in the industry. The names you mentioned are a few of the most prominent examples. A decade ago it would've been difficult to name more than 1 or 2 off the top of my head. If people think there isn't enough women in crypto they should pay more attention and follow a more diverse set of people on social media. It is clearly a thriving demographic.

OP, just like the first comment said, and based on what I read early last year regarding the millions of Bitcoin wallets that have been created, there is no evidence that can help you segregate between the wallet that belongs to a woman investor and the one that belongs to a man investor. I don't know why people feel that there are fewer women who are into crypto. Personally, for me, I don't feel that way; I believe that there are so many women in the crypto space too. Even in my country, I know that there are so many young ladies who are very interested in Bitcoin and crypto, as long as it is something that they feel is safe to put in their money, they are ready to invest.

I believe that men have the heart to risk a lot, while women cannot risk a lot because they want to protect their money with whatever they have so that the money they have managed to save doesn't slip from them, but that doesn't mean that there are fewer women in the space. Women also have brains like men to be able to know what Bitcoin is and blockchain technology, so they don't need a woman influencer in the crypto space before they can key into the space. They are already doing so, without your notice.