For people (often men) that make educational material regarding Bitcoin, are they understandably making those materials for people like themselves, and therefore perhaps missing some ways of sharing the information that might be more conducive to women or other people that are not necessarily like themselves? Like somehow this is not "for them" even though they're not in any way prohibited. Some women feel kind of out of place in male-dominated spaces, just like how some men feel kind of out of place in female-dominated spaces. But still, we can ask why it's the case that men seem to find this technology more relevant than women do, and observe that most content producers are male. So, I'm aware of that starting point when it comes to Bitcoin. It's not necessarily a negative or surprising thing interest in sound money economics and computer science are both areas that have skewed male for a while, statistically. Therefore, it's natural to want to include people who are under-represented in Bitcoin spaces.Īt the very least, if for example, a Bitcoin meetup is 80% male or more, it's worth asking the questions of why that is. I view bitcoin as a very useful form of global money, and money is for everyone. In your opinion, why is it important to close the gender gap in Bitcoin interest and adoption? That's usually an ideological problem, or an ego problem, or a misunderstanding about it related to energy and the associated moral panic that the media has often fanned the flames of. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is people who very much dislike it and yet are not knowledgeable about it. Many of them are focused on important things that I am dismissive about instead. To many of them, it seems like a solution in search of a problem. It's easy to dismiss, especially for people in developed markets with reasonably well-functioning banking systems. As an analyst of macroeconomics and monetary systems and someone who also has an engineering background, Bitcoin falls well within my scope of research and focus, but for many people it does not. There are probably a lot of things I am dismissive about that I shouldn't be, but I can't be hyper-focused on everything at once. How do you typically respond to those who are dismissive of Bitcoin? And by doing so, I also attracted a readership of people who have been into Bitcoin longer than me, who might be interested in my articles about other subjects. Most people can't spend a thousand hours looking into something like Bitcoin, and so instead, I can do that as part of my profession, and write about it so that the knowledge-sharing scales a bit better. Other parts of the audience were happy about it and learned a lot from it. Some of my audience was (and still is) skeptical about it or outright dislikes the fact that I've been writing about it so much for years, and they would prefer that I not do so. However, I have a large audience for my public writings, and so I used that platform to share what I've researched about bitcoin, among every other topic that I write about. One of my friends became interested in it partly due to me, but most people I know are relatively uninterested in it. I don't make a general habit of talking about it too much. What have been your colleagues' reactions to your belief in Bitcoin? And how have you seen this change over time? However, this time I didn't repeat my prior mistake - I kept researching it during the bear market, and ultimately bought it, and then kept learning and buying more. This ended up being a good idea, since bitcoin crashed and then chopped along sideways for the next two and a half years. My article discussed the merits of the technology, but displayed skepticism regarding the price after the euphoric price surge of the year, and I passed on it as an investment. Once again, I planned to look more into it but due to the complexities of life, I put it on the back burner.ĭuring the 2017 bitcoin bull run, I was running an investment research firm and so I finally took the time to dig deeper into it, and wrote a public article about it in November of that year. Then, a few years later, I came across it again, and while it still seemed neat, the exchanges looked rather sketchy. It seemed neat to me at the time and I planned to look into it more, but life was hectic and I never got around to it. I first heard about it back in 2010 or so, when someone I knew was mining it on her gaming computer. How did you first learn about Bitcoin and what specifically drew you to it?
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