I tend to think about forum statistics, but often I'm baffled as to how to find certain numbers--like the one here, which I made mention of in a recent post but couldn't cite an exact figure (and the number of active members is a
lot smaller than I thought):
Active Profiles: 81,437 (2.35%)
So while ImThour here is seen as regurgitating facts from BPIP, I appreciate him doing so. I have the site bookmarked but rarely visit it, and I forgot how much info it has on it.
That been said, the following stats has been a puzzle.
1. Male to female ratio = 1:27702
N/B: we all believe there are more males than females involved in cryptocurrency/forum at large and this stats seems to say, there are 2 females to every one male on the forum. Am I getting this wrong?
Is that second number 27,702? That actually sounds like a more realistic one than what you're interpreting it as. The bitcoin community has always been dominated by males, and I'm pretty sure it still is. There aren't any sexist reasons for that; bitcoin is free for anyone to use. My personal opinion is that men are far more likely to jump head first into something new and extremely risky than women are--and even if I'm wrong, it's still true that bitcoin came about from a few guys communicating via e-mails and then a forum. I read two books on bitcoin and I don't recall a single female who was an important figure in the first 5 years or so after bitcoin got started.