I am interested in crypto, however two of the things that’s a barrier is first, the jargon, acronyms and complexity. Not that as a woman I’m not able to navigate complexity ( I love it actually), but nothing about crypto feels accessible or welcoming to me as a woman and it keeps changing daily. There are hundreds of different platforms, everyone with their own lingo, offerings and frankly it’s so confusing that I chose not to spend years trying to keep up. As inequitable as our current system is, understanding cash and credit is pretty simple. Make crypto more straightforward and more people will participate.

Second, crypto has been a world for primarily 20-something techie men, who mostly seem interested in re-creating the myth of the self-made millionaire (hello centralized capitalism) which doesn’t resonate with me as 50-year old woman.

To state that women are simply holding ourselves back from participating, instead of stating that the culture of crypto, for all its talk about democratizing, has been a man’s world, is shaming the ones who are not benefitting from it. Which is what generally happens to women, we’re told it’s our fault.