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by adventured 3095 days ago
The media is simultaneously selling both angles of course:

"Bitcoin Started With All Men. Now Crypto Is Opening to Women"

"Four out of 30 of the largest initial coin offerings this year through October had female co-founders, double the number of women leading the 30 technology companies with the largest international public offerings worldwide. Two of the female-led ICOs were among the biggest so far."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/bitcoin-s...

3 comments

It feels like they’re just writing whatever they want, as per usual. Perfect filler content for them I guess?
> "Bitcoin Started With All Men. Now Crypto Is Opening to Women"

It's so ridiculous I don't know where to start. Apart from the "crypto" debate (let's face it, when you come across the word "crypto" these days, chances of it meaning cryptography are close to 0), the basic fact is that cryptocurrencies were never "closed" to anyone! You wanted to join, you could! It's as democratic as it could be.

It always amazes me how many people write these articles telling women what they should do, how they should change, what traits they must have. Couldn't you just leave them alone and let them lives they want to live?

Different people in the media have different opinions, amazing.