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New Bitcoin Movie Introduces You To The Many White Dudes Working On Bitcoin

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/24/new-bitcoin-movie-paints-rosy-picture-of-the-cryptocurrency/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/24/new-bitcoin-movie-paints-rosy-picture-of-the-cryptocurrency/)

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An extremely negative article. Kashmir Hill wants to paint Bitcoin as something which is restricted to the tech savvy white males. She complains about the lack of diversity in the Bitcoin sector.... 100% BS.

It's bullshit to say Bitcoin is dominated by white males considering that the unofficial mascot of the community is a Japanese-American man and all price movements seem to be dictated by a few Chinese bureaucrats.

Maybe she has just been dumped on by a tech-savvy white male early bitcoin adopter in a messy break-up?

White female journalists can be emotive, personally involved and prone to heavily biased reporting.

Forbes....... :D :D :D :D

Again...... :D :D :D :D

One of the possible reasons. You can't blame the guy though. Despite her average looks, from her articles, it seems that she is a die hard feminist, who supports the most craziest of all the liberals.

Women and minorities have CHOSEN not to participate in bitcoin.  There is no discrimination with regards to participation in the system and, by the same token, no one is forced to join, unlike government regulated activities such as affirmative action where companies are forced to hire women and minorities over white men.  Distributed consensus technology eliminates discrimination of any kind.  It is your responsibility to participate if you want the benefits.  Undoubtedly, women and minorities will complain in the future about how the white man has yet again garnered an unfair majority of the world's wealth and subsequent power.  Well, they had their chance. 

 ;D

That argument is factually incorrect. There are a lot of non-whites and females in the Bitcoin sector.... and their participation has witnessed a major jump in the past 2 years as well. BTW.. I am myself Asian.  ;D

This is factually correct as of October 2013, at least for women.  88% of bitcoin users are male according to this survey:  http://coinforest.com/blogs/cf/13117425-bitcoin-marketing-guide-part-1-bitcoin-demographics (http://coinforest.com/blogs/cf/13117425-bitcoin-marketing-guide-part-1-bitcoin-demographics).

Also, according to the author:  implying that the majority of users are white male. 

All sectors within the Tech industry is dominated by White males. But what I implied was that the proportion of the minorities is steadily growing. In 2012, only around 1% of the Bitcoiners were female. If by 2013, it increased to 12%, that means that a sharp change has taken place.

Enough of this rubbish talk, it is irrelevant. The internet has no borders & does not discriminate between race, sex, religion or creed. It does not care & neither do I.

China has more tech industries than most countries put together, then there's India, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong etc etc - 88% white males my arse!!  :D :D

"Diversity always means less white men." - Liberal Media

It is not her being emotional. She is brainwashed.

Just in case anyone in this thread cares to pull their head out of their ass, this makes for some enlightening reading: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki

Geek culture is ridiculously misogynist.

I don't know what to say to some of you....
The article is NOT positive for Bitcoin.  What should've been a positive PR for it, turns into a negative one.

Sad.

To those who think that minorities are losing by not jumping in...last time I checked China is not a minority. And what they hold in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is probably more than any other nation.  Almost all the mining chips are made in china or engineered by Indian IT guys.  Yes there are many white men in the industry and they are the face of it, but every time I look at a manufacturer of bitcoin mining equipment, there is a minority person part of the team.

If Indians, Asians are considered minorities and white's are a majority.

mystified what they are driving at here ... if Kashmir Hill (or yourself) has found some kind of problem with bitcoin she's free to submit a pull request to the github repo (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) ... just like everyone else.

 :D :D :D :D

+1

One more thing... there are tens of thousands of female members here in Bitcointalk. I have never seen any of them complaining about the male dominance in Bitcoin. Kashmir Hill should have talked to some of them.

I agree it's an extremely negative article. didn't expect anything else

oh no, there is Mark again  :o