Women's interest in crypto grows, but education gap persists: Study

Even though pistillate investors are progressively funny successful cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, determination is inactive a important cognition spread erstwhile it comes to these topics, a caller survey reveals.

BlockFi noted that a third-party survey sheet conducted the survey connected Jan. 28, 2022, and included 1,031 female-identifying Americans betwixt the ages of 18 and 65.

According to a caller survey by BlockFi focused connected the shifting attitudes toward cryptocurrency, 92% of the women surveyed person heard astir crypto, with astir 1 successful 4 (24%) already owning some. In contrast, 80% inactive find it hard to understand, and 72% judge investing is excessively risky.

Per the study, implicit one-third of women mean to acquisition cryptocurrency successful 2022, with 60% of respondents saying they would bargain crypto successful the adjacent 3 months.

The survey points retired that portion wider cryptocurrency adoption is inactive low, the bulk of pistillate crypto owners are purchasing and HODLing. In 2022, the crypto marketplace has already seen a batch of volatility. Still, women's assurance successful semipermanent crypto concern is unwavering, with astir women purchasing BTC (71%), DOGE (42%), and Ether (18%), the survey notes.

24% of participants ain cryptocurrencies, according to the survey. Of those who person it, 70% are HODLers, having acquired the plus but ne'er selling it, compared to 55 percent for the marketplace arsenic a whole. Per the survey, astir 45% of women said they knew however to bargain cryptocurrency, up from astir 23% six months ago.

During an interrogation with Cointelegraph, Casper Labs CTO Medha Parlikar said that she hopes regulators "moving forward" volition proceed to let for much women successful blockchain entrepreneurship. She noted that: 

"With respect to women successful tech, I deliberation it mightiness beryllium a longer process than conscionable instantly women emerging successful technology. I spot that there's a beardown inclination towards supporting girls who codification right."

Last year, a survey revealed that sex equality successful the crypto and blockchain manufacture is inactive a agelong mode away. According to the April 2021 Global Gender Gap Report by WEF, it volition instrumentality astir 135.6 years to adjacent the sex spread arsenic a effect of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, this hasn't deterred these women, who utilized blockchain exertion and crypto to tackle assorted societal problems. As reported by Cointelegraph, a survey published successful Dec. 2021 recovered retired the fig of Australian women who invested successful crypto doubled implicit the erstwhile year.

Related: 10 women who utilized crypto to marque a quality successful 2021

A caller survey by KuCoin indicated a much adjacent organisation betwixt antheral and pistillate crypto users successful Turkey. KuCoin recovered retired that pistillate investors successful Turkey relationship for 47% of investors and 63% of crypto-curious.