Ever since I discovered Slimcoin, I followed closely the main developer behind the project, a well known name in the crypto space, Graham Higgins. I thoroughly enjoyed his reports, filled with humor, wittiness and a lot of food for thought. With a background in epistemology and a strong theoretical programming background, Graham is probably the main reason I'm sticking very close to Slimcoin (the second one being Proof of Burn, or the ability to mine even with a Raspberry Pi).
Graham recently remastered one of his articles, using it as a basis for a more profound change he tries to implement in the Slicmoin blockchain (namely the serverless web, or the web2web publishing approach). I'm not going into details, as many of them are still obscure to me, but it uses the famous OP_RETURN field in the Bitcoin base blockchain transaction structure (Slimcoin is based on a PeerCoin fork, which is in turned forked from the Bitcoin base).
What's interesting about this article is that it posits a very interesting theorem: every collective intelligence (and a community around a blockchain tends to act as a collective intelligence, at times) needs a proper gender balance.
In the crypto universe, there are very few projects (if any) where women are represented more than 10-20%.
From the article:
| %female | %male | |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | 49 | |
| 51 | 49 | |
| 62 | 38 | |
| 50 | 50 | |
| Google Plus | 30 | 70 |
| 21 | 79 |
I don't know the exact numbers about Steemit, but it seems to me that we are better represented at this chapter than other projects. This might actually be our secret sauce. There are quite a few successful Steemian women here (@stemsssj, for instance) and that gives me hope.
If you're in for a moderately complex, be warned, but delicious read, have a look at Graham's article here. Spoiler: it really deals with a lot more stuff than I just pointed out, but I leave the pleasure of discovering this to you.
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If you're new to Steemit, you may find these articles relevant (that's also part of my witness activity to support new members of the platform):
After yesterday's discussion searching for slimcoin information was the new objective of the week. Thanks for the input and for sharing it (seems like it had a trading growth in the last 24 hours, @mikimike, are you responsible for this?:)) )
Neah, I don't think so, @mikimike is usually bearish, Slimcoin is definitely bullish at this point. Glad I gave you something to ponder :)
Interesting. I suppose there are alot of people using Steemit for the first time who don't know about other areas in the crypto space. Good point!
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It's a valid point. But it's also a bit lacking. The 50/50 gender distribution might just be a result of the success of a platform, not its main driver.
Steemit could be successfull with only males or only females, as long as there is enough interesting posts to read for the userbase, it should not be a deciding factor. Just like you have businesses that are successfull when focusing on one gender in specific. Read; Gaming industry and fashion industry, where one gender is hugely overrepresented.
It would be interesting to see a gender distribution on reddit, which is quite successfull and the closest comparison to steem as of now.
i wonder what the stats of reddit looks like.. would be interesting to see because steemit is similar to reddit in more ways than one
It does seem (subjectively) that there are more females here than other crypto-related sites/forums etc. I found this from Apr 2017
From https://busy.org/steemit/@stylo/steemit-analysis-traffic-engagement-social-networks-etc-analysis-april-2017
Also this (May, June 16)
From https://steemit.com/steemit/@gavvet/steemit-age-demographic-and-gender-evolution-and-the-north-america-vs-europe-comparison
I have no idea how the data was compiled :/
It certainly feels the other way around...
Makes sense... a primary function of social netwroks (IRL like groups of friends, school dances, etc.) in general is to meet a mate. And the only exception on your list as far as gender ratio goes is LinkedIn, which is a career focused networking site.
There are more females on Steemit, compare to any other crypto-currency. So, Steemit has more potential to be successful.
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Interesting collection of articles.
I think the gender balance is more even on Steemit because of the social networking function attached to the block chain. A lot of the other crypto investments seems to have a focus on trading for investing purposes which tends to be male dominated.
nice