Women of Bitcoin, Yes there's women

[Dafar]

They first claim it's hard to find any women at the inside bitcoins conference in Vegas (~500 to 1,000 people)

but they proceed to find an astonishing 10 women! haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHbXSnNkXU

pay special attention @ 4:57: "It all started on the bitcointalk forum"

I wasn't one of the ten.

I would have gone if BitChicksHusband wanted to though.

Vegas is not really my favorite town.  The objectifying of women is a bit rampant there.  I know some of you enjoy that sort of thing.  You are not a woman though!  

Women in vegas do that to themselves. Some women there make a killing by 'objectifying' themselves, and they love it, and can care less about what feminists like you think about it. Not that you are a feminist

[Rampion]

They first claim it's hard to find any women at the inside bitcoins conference in Vegas (~500 to 1,000 people)

but they proceed to find an astonishing 10 women! haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHbXSnNkXU

pay special attention @ 4:57: "It all started on the bitcointalk forum"

I wasn't one of the ten.

I would have gone if BitChicksHusband wanted to though.

Vegas is not really my favorite town.  The objectifying of women is a bit rampant there.  I know some of you enjoy that sort of thing.  You are not a woman though!  

I thought Vegas was like the perfect place for female Christian rock singers

[Mousepotato]

I'm not sure why it even matters whether someone is a guy or a girl when it comes to Bitcoin.

[Cryddit]

I'm not sure why it even matters whether someone is a guy or a girl when it comes to Bitcoin.

Ding!  We have a winner!

[QuestionAuthority]

I'm not sure why it even matters whether someone is a guy or a girl when it comes to Bitcoin.

It only matters to men because they're inherently Neanderthal. Men, regardless of age, are sexist pigs that think only with the little head. Even though they will say other wise most men probably believe women won't "get" Bitcoin. I bet it's not even presented to most women they know by the current users. I myself could be a scientist standing and talking to a fellow scientist who happens to be a female and do you know where my eyes would be looking? At her tits, of course.

[Doublelucky]

Side bet that Stacy Herbert is the largest female holder of BTC?

[wachtwoord]

Could you people please, FOR ONCE, stop proving everybody right in their assumptions that tech people are fucking socially clueless, sexist and disgusting?

Like just this once would be really cool because I actually care about BitCoins.

Thank you and merry Jesus Day!

You can clearly tell most of this is sarcasm and just in good fun. If you take this thread seriously please go outside for 10mins.

Indeed.

[Doublelucky]

Could you people please, FOR ONCE, stop proving everybody right in their assumptions that tech people are fucking socially clueless, sexist and disgusting?

Like just this once would be really cool because I actually care about BitCoins.

Thank you and merry Jesus Day!

You can clearly tell most of this is sarcasm and just in good fun. If you take this thread seriously please go outside for 10mins.

Lol I know right? Don't people understand 21st century comedy these days? It's all about irony, sarcasm, and dry+deadpan humor.  The outright "sexist" and "ignorant" posts are obviously jokes

[Trongersoll]

As soon as I saw the blonde girl I was like 100% booth babe. If she had 0.00000001 BTC I would be surprised.
I wish the Indian girl talked ;(

You'd think they could get better booth babes though.

yeah I also wasn't very "wow'ed" by that blonde

It is hard to get smart tech savvy guys or even men in the "industry" to say something intelligent about BTC. I would not be too hard on her.

She (1) doesn't know her function (or she hadn't heard the word PR before )),  (2) tries to reapeat after someone and fails .... twice and (3) doesn't know whether she's with the company whose name is on her shirt and whose stand is right behind her.

Yeah I'm passing, but have fun anyway

TL;DR ok, am i the only one that suspects that the Blonde wasn't a booth babe, but rather the daughter of the guy who was prompting her? She was much too shy and kept looking to him for support to be anything else.

[Cryddit]

I'm in a post-ironic phase these days.

[Doublelucky]

Could you people please, FOR ONCE, stop proving everybody right in their assumptions that tech people are fucking socially clueless, sexist and disgusting?

Like just this once would be really cool because I actually care about BitCoins.

Thank you and merry Jesus Day!

You can clearly tell most of this is sarcasm and just in good fun. If you take this thread seriously please go outside for 10mins.

Lol I know right? Don't people understand 21st century comedy these days? It's all about irony, sarcasm, and dry+deadpan humor.  The outright "sexist" and "ignorant" posts are obviously jokes

You're all idiots. Everybody can tell from a mile away that your watered-down and overused jokes are jokes. It's the fact that you're making them at all that's the problem.

Sometimes the "overused and watered down" part is a function of the joke and what makes it a "joke". You clearly understand nothing about humor and the definition of a "joke". You're like one of those hecklers or people who get all angry and upset and write into a network because he was offended by some random comment made on a tv show.

You must be hella fun at parties

[wachtwoord]

As soon as I saw the blonde girl I was like 100% booth babe. If she had 0.00000001 BTC I would be surprised.
I wish the Indian girl talked ;(

You'd think they could get better booth babes though.

yeah I also wasn't very "wow'ed" by that blonde

It is hard to get smart tech savvy guys or even men in the "industry" to say something intelligent about BTC. I would not be too hard on her.

She (1) doesn't know her function (or she hadn't heard the word PR before )),  (2) tries to reapeat after someone and fails .... twice and (3) doesn't know whether she's with the company whose name is on her shirt and whose stand is right behind her.

Yeah I'm passing, but have fun anyway

TL;DR ok, am i the only one that suspects that the Blonde wasn't a booth babe, but rather the daughter of the guy who was prompting her? She was much too shy and kept looking to him for support to be anything else.

Daughter? I was thinking more like "friend". But I might have a sick mind (but really that guy did not seem that old to me at a quick glance)

Indeed, I also though the beneficial friend kind of thing.

[str4wm4n]

I want a bitcoin girl to fall in love with ^_^

[freethink2013]

Loved the bit about africa. Africa went from almost no telephony to straight to everyone having a mobile (cell) phone. Africa also relies on remittances. Both those facts could help africa to break out and adopt btc much more widely than the rest of the world. It'd be great to see them throw off the shackles that the rest of the world has been imposing on them forever.

[mistress_magpie]

freethink, I agree completely - hawalla, micropayments and cell-phone based Internet in Africa indicate a prime target for Bitcoin adoption!

[freethink2013]

freethink, I agree completely - hawalla, micropayments and cell-phone based Internet in Africa indicate a prime target for Bitcoin adoption!

yep I'm hoping for great things out of africa.

[Rampion]

freethink, I agree completely - hawalla, micropayments and cell-phone based Internet in Africa indicate a prime target for Bitcoin adoption!

yep I'm hoping for great things out of africa.

Lot of white and Asian (mostly Chinese) males in BTC. As soon as that changes the true cryptocurrency revolution will start.

[QuestionAuthority]

Could you people please, FOR ONCE, stop proving everybody right in their assumptions that tech people are fucking socially clueless, sexist and disgusting?

Like just this once would be really cool because I actually care about BitCoins.

Thank you and merry Jesus Day!

You can clearly tell most of this is sarcasm and just in good fun. If you take this thread seriously please go outside for 10mins.

I guess they don't broadcast the Big Bang Theory in fittan's country (a sitcom where a couple of cute girls deal with horny nerds). This forum always reads like a script of the "Revenge Of The Nerds" movie series. Men do have a weird preoccupation with the opposite sex. I suppose you can blame testosterone for that. Porn is the largest business on the web because of men not women.

[freethink2013]

freethink, I agree completely - hawalla, micropayments and cell-phone based Internet in Africa indicate a prime target for Bitcoin adoption!

yep I'm hoping for great things out of africa.

Lot of white and Asian (mostly Chinese) males in BTC. As soon as that changes the true cryptocurrency revolution will start.

the thing is we all think bitcoin is cool and we want it to be a success but I think africa actual needs it. It solves a lot of real problems there (and in a lot of poorer countries.)

Remittance is the obvious one. Western Union costs a lot to transfer money in comparison. There's a lot of talk of btc replacing the dollar but in africa that's a realistic outcome. I can honestly see africa leading.

[Kluge]

Loved the bit about africa. Africa went from almost no telephony to straight to everyone having a mobile (cell) phone. Africa also relies on remittances. Both those facts could help africa to break out and adopt btc much more widely than the rest of the world. It'd be great to see them throw off the shackles that the rest of the world has been imposing on them forever.

Just an aside: wireless is practically made for Africa. They have relatively few hills and it's >1/3 desert, so you generally can use much shorter towers and less powerful equipment (or at least get the same-powered signal much farther). African savanna is also a relatively good place for wireless infrastructure due to generally having far fewer obstructions per distance than, for example, North American forests. If their governments are lenient toward wireless bandwidth frequencies, there's no reason they should be suffering low Internet bandwidth (it'll get better relatively fast), and the quick propagation of mobile technology is no surprise. It's also just about the best place on Earth (at least geographically) to break away from the Internet and get competing, decentralized solutions going.

There are a lot of cool things which could happen there and opportunities to really get a leg up.

On topic because there are women in Africa.