Well written and appreciate the perspective.

Failure is a really big aspect of what we're trying to do here and that's to learn how to be financially self sovereign. A lot of really universal tales in that article, with one of the main points being how much a women is willing to fail in a field dominated by men.

When it comes to finances, I feel that this applies to most people regarding bitcoin too.

"Everyone else could get it except you because you can't even get yourself out of debt, this isn't for you" - one might think

Imagine the skate park example, except you couldnt see if your peers were actually nailing it or not. All you hear is their woos and wows even if they're failing. Meanwhile when it's your turn you keep falling down and give up. With finances, nobody talks about them. My church is going through this concept right now and it's been on my mind a lot. Might be a little unrelated but this reminded me a lot about that.

I think failure is also ramped up to 1000 because well its money so there's an obvious opportunity cost staring right at you in the face, and with bitcoin future op costs if you fuck up and lose your sats, which I have and its painful

It's also an immediate and harsh lesson with bitcoin and the fact that there's no customer support/safety net just makes people think fuckit, I am not even going to attempt to do it

I never thought about the gender gap in bitcoin (and many things) as a gap of failure tolerance.

Testosterone might be a culprit here - it quite literally makes risk/effort/failure rewarding for men. IMO failure tolerance is not wholly biologically determined though. I've failed so much it's only through a mix of rationalizations that I've kept going.

Well done Ninja Grandma!

Wholesome.

The chained elephant metaphor hit me hard!

Fantastic read, thanks.

Can agree with this as well. But failure does suck and men probably do have a higher tolerance for it but women do as well. I think women fail because of apathy. Most just don’t care. On the surface bitcoin isn’t super complicated but if you dive into sure. But for a Bitcoin to bring value to a woman’s life doesn’t mean she needs to master all things Bitcoin. In my experience I told some women they took it on and started stacking others didn’t care.

I enjoyed this!

Good article. Its what I try to tell girls when they say they're bad at math, of course from a different aspect. They don't need a better teacher, they need someone to show them there's nothing about them that makes math harder. The same applies to sports and programming. Sure you can't be the best at everything, but nobody ever is. Even Einstein couldn't find the grand unification equation, and you don't need to be Einstein to be good at what you want to do.

Failure is only ever the lack of will to try. Nothing worth achieving comes easily, though often fate gives you an early win that juices you up enough to keep striving to make that capability everyday.

There may be few women in Bitcoin, but the ones that are in it are the best kind, the ones who like to fly. It is good to see one homing in on this important element - the sharing of knowledge and the encouragement to keep trying, and become a member of that elite group who failed a thousand times and then overcame it and made their friends proud. You ladies are very important to the project as a whole, since ultimately, you're often going to be the ones buying the groceries and keeping track of bills, women are really good at that stuff, and making cool tech is one thing but until the rubber hits the road and it makes a difference to the every day life it is empty.

Keep it up!

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And many more are killing the bitcoin game. delete your article 🤙🏽