Insane amount of hatred against white males in the comments.

I subscribe to both this subreddit and /r/Bitcoin and seeing this here was hilarious.

I stopped reading after the second or third line.

The survey has not yet reached a representative sample.

Hampster to English translation: I don't have actual/factual support for my claim, but I'm going to make it anyway.

lol these cunts think there was a sign that said "no women allowed" on bitcoins site. its fucking money for fucks sake.

Every time someone uses "investment" in place of "speculation," I experience an "urge to kill rising" moment.

Housing, currency, art, beanie babies, gold, commodities . . . all are considered speculation by the people who actually developed the terminology.

Investment is high grade government bonds and stocks in leading companies.

If you are smart, you can make a shitload more money very quickly with speculation than you can with investment, which is why it is so popular with the public. Investment allows for lesser risk over time, with more certainty of return, but you won't double or octuple your money in days unless you luck into future large-cap pioneer (it is the leader of its industry, which is an emerging industry, which is arguably, still, a speculation) when it is in stealth mode.

What was bitcoin, exactly? A virtual currency and banking system with a built-in deflationary bias. It went up on legitimate fears of fiat currency hyperinflation, banking corruption, hipness, and hype. If you got in at the early stages, you are still ahead of the game. Like, way ahead of the game. If you bought when it was being hyped by the news, you are underwater.

What does the future hold for bitcoin? Hard to say, as government reaction appears to be mixed. The biggest risk with bitcoin was not being able to understand the technology, and getting robbed by people with a better understanding. That's why it will probably never catch on, unless some big institution with a lot of resources steps in to protect it. Right now, it appears to be under attack by shadowy groups, many with probable ties to government alphabet agencies.

What the fuck kinda of ridiculous feminist bullshit nonsense is this? By the same logic the author of this piece is using, swingsets are sexist if there isn't currently a girl parking her fat ass on a swing. I mean, if no women are currently choosing to swing, it follows logically that the swings are therefore sexist, right?

And while we're on the topic, how come it's the dream of every kid to go Around-the-World on a swingset? Going 360 degrees around a swing sets a standard for swinging that the average girl just can't match. There should be boy swings and girl swings, one swing for those little shitlords in training to do their stupid 360-degrees Around-the-World bullshit, and a cuter pink swing for our sweet little princesses to do 3 or 4-degrees Around-the-Mall.

Can you push meeeeeeeee?

Not that any of this matters anyway, we all know Dogecoin is the future.

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Females didn't lose any money on BTC because they didn't invest which prob means BTC is bad
Women are under-represented in the BTC comuunity.

Fucking pick one please.

I don't want to sound too tinfoil, but it's in the interests of femcunts and other associated leftist shitheads to undermine bitcoin.

Think of how much easier BTC could make it for men to hide assets from greedy ex-spouses and from a government whose wealth redistribution tends to go in a single direction, from men to women.

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Bitcoin is a rich white male disaster? Tell that to the Chinese. Huobi is the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world with more than 50% of the trading volume, and it's all CNY. And it's one of at least ten exchanges in China.

Here's more proof that women make better investors than men: It's quite likely that almost no women lost any Bitcoins in the great Mt. Gox meltdown of 2014.

Tell that to this guy: Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k

The results suggest that Bitcoin has alienated women just as much as the two worlds it inhabits, finance and technology.

This is a strange claim, since I've heard that feminists are really embracing Bitcoin. And it's not like Bitcoin is actively discouraging women from getting involved. The Bitcoin source code is out there for all to read, and Coinbase/Bitstamp/Huobi will take your money whether you're male or female. I personally would welcome more women to get involved with Bitcoin.

"The sum total of these things — advanced knowledge of computer science, wealth — are also markings of the young, white male."

Sounds like the markings of a STEM major to me. Ah, I forgot - these majors are also "hostile to women".

Even the rare woman Bitcoin enthusiast Arianna Simpson...described being physically groped, hit on and gawked at like "a unicorn" at a recent Bitcoin meetup where she was one of only two women in a sea of dudes.

TBH the way she described being treated was terrible and didn't reflect well on the community, and she posted about this on the /r/bitcoin subreddit. OTOH, I read a reply in that thread from another attendee (it might have been the host of the meeting) that suggested she exaggerated her situation.

"If women fail to take an active interest in Bitcoin now, when it is still in its infancy and its potential is largely untapped, we will have yet another sector in which the gender is underrepresented and trailing," Simpson wrote.

She is certainly right about this.

maybe getting more women involved in Bitcoin is what Bitcoin needs to get its act together.

Getting more people involved will certainly help, whether it is men or women - but to imply that women will save the day is complete arrogance.

Also, reading the HuffPo comments, I got the distinct feeling that these aren't the leading innovators in the world:

Absolutely no interest. Every time it's mentioned I think of a made up currency from a made up world such as the Pokemon Dollar.

I have some monopoly money, isn't that the same value as the Bitcoins?

Not to be crass but monopoly money can be put to at least one practical use - so it's worth more than bitcoin.

The ignorance is horrifying.

Clearly we needed more women in Bitcoin before the Mt.Gox crash in order to destroy gender inequity in the catastrophic loss category.

Bitcoin is anti-woman because there are no women in Bitcoin. Women should stay away from Bitcoin, because Bitcoin is anti-women. Bitcoin is anti-woman because because there are no women in Bitcoin.

Reset logic circle. Repeat.

Unfortunately, it's true. Bitcoin is a male chauvinist who hates women. He detects the female skin when it touches the keyboard and won't let them buy bitcoins.

Bitcoin has an agenda, gentlemen. And a penis, maybe.

I've been involved with cryptocurrencies since their inception. While I had made some nice cash on it, once thing is for sure, it's definitely risky (Please don't bring up Gox -- it's too fresh). I don't know a single female that uses bitcoin. I wouldn't say it's because it's sexist, but because it's fucking complicated. I've been around for ages and I still don't understand it 100%. Bitcoin is for VERY early adopters, which is a space overwhelmingly filled with males. Early adoption is always a high risk high reward space, something us disposable males are attracted to.

Women only get in after things are "well established" and there's room for accommodating their sensibilities. You'll see very few women in start-ups but they'll star pouring once the uncertainty diminishes and getting involved is a low risk investment.

It also depends on how society views it - if it's embraced, women will take the same stance - herd mentality at its finest, if not - they'll shun it out of fear of not being socially accepted by others because of it (see video games - "until 2000 - for pizza faced nerd losers, 2008 - now Omg I'm a gamer-girl")

Muffington Post is a clickbait postmodernist shithole that celebrates mediocrity and exploits the left leaning progressives naive world views.

It should not be linked, take a screencap or something.

If Bitcoin is evil or a disaster because it was created by rich white males... then where are all the crypto-currencies (or any other groundbreaking technological development for that matter) that are created by poor non-white females that are spectacular successes?

Huffpo so I will not click, but I am not surprised.

It's worthless and shitty, but only for the evil rich whites. Great analysis.

We've seen this before. Women won't take the risk with the emerging fields, such as cryptocurrency trading, but, when one is fully backed and ready to make some serious not so risky cash, we can be assured that women will be lining up to take jobs in it.

I like how the author claims women are better investors than men (don't care either way) but follow it up with this quote.

If women fail to take an active interest in Bitcoin now, when it is still in its infancy and its potential is largely untapped, we will have yet another sector in which the gender is underrepresented and trailing

That's exactly what being a good investor is all about.