partly trend, partly future.
What will kill this is when the US gov’t makes it illegal. And why would they gov’t do that? Because they can’t track certain types of crypto currencies (like Monero). And they don’t want competition with the USD.
However, I expect the gov’t to eventually go with blockchain for the dollar. Because then they can trace everything you do and it prevents counterfeiting.
Blockchain Bros?
They might mean Blockchain Bras.
I’m gonna guess it’s for the same reasons that women aren’t the powerhouses in any aspect of finance and money and cutting edge technology. And as nesters, they have low risk tolerance.
Same reason they didn’t settle the west and send out for mail order husbands.
I think I saw a similar headline in 1997 or so:
“Women in Toy Market of Artificial Scarcity Push Back Against ‘Beanie Baby Bros’”
Feminists have finally figured out that there was a speculative boom, it’s already going bust and here they are recommending that women get into it because the percentages don’t look pretty to them. Of course they’re darkly hinting at sexism as always. Well, no...
Like Joe Kennedy’s shoeshine boy recommending stocks, I think the bloom is really, truly, officially off the cryptocurrency rose now.
Sex sells, and trying to legislate or shame people over it is NEVER going to work.
Modern day Puritanism is stupid. How about, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it.
Or, maybe, start your own and see how it works out for you!
I do own bitcoin and several other crypto coins, along with several stocks into blockchain and I didn’t get into any of them from the advertising ...
I love these folks that think information can only come from someone their same sex or lifestyle choice.
Give me a break!
So don’t go to the strip club. When I was married, I did’t. Haven’t gone after the divorce either. Big whoop!
I never realized how stunted my education was by having adult women teachers for my first eight years.
People that fixate on this stuff are clowns.
“But women who have been trying to participate in the gold rush are finding a lopsided gender divide.” - They need to recruit more women, not attack aggressive risk-taking men. Like the job market in general, they’ll find many women very risk-averse; easier to be a school teacher than a scientist.
“Some studies estimate that women account for only 4 percent to 6 percent of blockchain investors.” - The ultimate “fake news” red flag: “Some...”
“Women, consider crypto,” Alexia Bonatsos, a venture capitalist, wrote on Twitter. “Otherwise the men are going to get all the wealth, again.” - Oprah agrees.
1. The tech industry may be dominated by young men, but that does not mean it is oppressive to women any more than medicine being dominated by women is oppressive to men.
2. Women with the credentials and expertise are in demand in these startups as is anyone else ... just fewer women choose IT and even fewer the risk of crytpocurrencies OR startups that may not pay you anything.
3. Spoken as a woman in IT, and the fact I have to say that to have any weight with liberals in the discussion is proof of the problem with identity politics.