This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup

This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup | Arianna Simpson

This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup

I think my experience at the meetup is worth sharing because Bitcoin lies at the heart of both finance and tech, two industries that carry tremendous weight and which have traditionally struggled to attract women. Given the events of the other night, this is hardly surprising. I am undeterred and if anything will be even more proactive about attending these events. In my mind, it’s a little preposterous that if I want to do so, however, I have to be ok with being felt up and indirectly insulted. If women fail to take an active interest in Bitcoin now, when it is still in its infancy and its potential is largely untapped, we will have yet another sector in which the gender is underrepresented and trailing. Bitcoin as a currency has the ability to revolutionize the banking and financial system, but the implication of Bitcoin as a protocol extend much further than that. I’ll ...

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@derekd » 21 Feb '14, 5pm
RT @LeaVerou: “You actually own bitcoins? You don’t look like someone who would even know about Bitcoin!” [link] by @ariann…
@g33konaut » 16 Feb '14, 4pm
RT @RachelKnowler: This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup: [link] by @AriannaSimpson
@ashley_rocher » 08 Feb '14, 3am
@ElliottGreenxo [link]
@MKEliot » 05 Feb '14, 7pm
A woman attends a bitcoing meet-up. It goes about as well as you'd expect. [link]
@BachmannLane » 05 Feb '14, 1am
Yup. [link] #notsurprised
@ChefSamH » 04 Feb '14, 8am
'This is What it's Like to Be a #Woman at a #Bitcoin Meetup' via @AriannaSimpson def. want to learn more about it! [link]
@capotej » 03 Feb '14, 11pm
cringing through my seat [link]
@lquilter » 03 Feb '14, 2pm
[link] #bitcoin
@DeniseAshurstUK » 03 Feb '14, 2pm
RT @rachelhills: This is what it's like to be a woman at a @Bitcoin meet-up [link] via @cindygallop #everydaysexism
@sparrowlight » 01 Feb '14, 4pm
"This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup" [link] (via @pocket)
@calvaris » 01 Feb '14, 8am
RT @abandonedwig: Popular virtual currency actually stored in fedoras: [link]
@abandonedwig » 01 Feb '14, 1am
Popular virtual currency actually stored in fedoras: [link]
@elwoodicious » 31 Jan '14, 12pm
ಠ_ಠ —> “Well,” he says looking at me knowingly, “Women don’t usually think in terms of efficiency and effectiveness” [link]
@twbtwb » 31 Jan '14, 12pm
Oh dear: #Bitcoin doesn't look like a safe place for women #EverydaySexism #feminism #technology [link]
@Malcolm_Ocean » 31 Jan '14, 3am
Just read @AriannaSimpson's article "This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup". Fellows. Srsly. [link]
@mmznrksh » 31 Jan '14, 12am
RT @boringRobTweets: [link] This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
@VRHax » 30 Jan '14, 8pm
Timewarp2 1970 male dweebs. It’s a jump 2t/left. (A. Simpson: This is What it’s Like 2B a Woman @ a #Bitcoin Meetup) [link]
@JeffHoover » 30 Jan '14, 6pm
RT @nathandotz: This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup | Arianna Simpson [link]
@sophistifunk » 29 Jan '14, 11pm
I know lots of nerds and hackers in .au, and none of them, even the most socially inept would ever act like this: [link]
@mrsgalacticla » 29 Jan '14, 11pm
Wow... I'd like to say this is eye opening, but... “@galacticla What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup [link]”
@NeuroticNomad » 29 Jan '14, 9pm
What It’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup. [hint: creepers!] [link]
@wastrelette » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
How a woman was treated at a Bitcoin meet- [link] WTF?! #BarfAlert
@danielharan » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
RT @enkerli: Wondering how women put up with such outdated attitudes about gender. (h/t Gruber) [link]
@enkerli » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
Wondering how women put up with such outdated attitudes about gender. (h/t Gruber) [link]
@joffley » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
RT @ianbetteridge: Just WTF? This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup [link]
@alt_bit_coins » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
RT @jackbanh: Ugh. I cringed at this entire thing. [link]
@jackbanh » 29 Jan '14, 8pm
Ugh. I cringed at this entire thing. [link]
@mrflip » 29 Jan '14, 7pm
Fellow geeks: if you see behavior like what @arrianasimpson describes here & don't denounce it you're part of problem [link]
@Metascover » 29 Jan '14, 6pm
Facing sexism at a Bitcoin meeting. [link]
@ronobot » 29 Jan '14, 6pm
“Seriously? You mean you actually own bitcoins?” This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup: [link]
@stgwi » 29 Jan '14, 5pm
Kill all men [link]
@gcbrooks » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
RT @rogeruiz: Fuck men like this. What the fuck is wrong with people? [link]
@cbracco » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
yuck [link]
@BradOFarrell » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
Straight people are idiots. RT @kenyatta: How to mansplain bitcoin to a cryptoenthusiast (@ariannasimpson) [link]
@paultag » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
RT @rich_hall_: RT Bitcoin buttheads!! @mattgemmell RT @paultag: [link]
@kenyatta » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
How to mansplain bitcoin to a cryptoenthusiast (@ariannasimpson) [link]
@rich_hall_ » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
RT Bitcoin buttheads!! @mattgemmell RT @paultag: [link]
@sw17ch » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
RT @kerrizor: This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup [link]
@yegmotto » 29 Jan '14, 4pm
A bitcoin meetup: you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. [link]
@paultag » 29 Jan '14, 2pm
RT @Mustafa_x: RT @paultag: This is such horseshit - [link] … - I'm so ashamed fellow nerds would do this to a woman. Horse…
@jasonlotito » 29 Jan '14, 2pm
I cringe just reading these stories - This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup [link] … by @AriannaSimpson
@geekandi » 29 Jan '14, 2pm
This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup | Arianna Simpson [link] #guyssuck
@nigelbabu » 29 Jan '14, 2pm
RT @paultag: This is such horseshit - [link] - I'm so ashamed fellow nerds would do this to a woman. Horseshit.
@AudreyEwell » 29 Jan '14, 1pm
What is WRONG with men? So many so deficient. MT @maryannjohanson: What it's like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meetup [link]
@paultag » 29 Jan '14, 1pm
This is such horseshit - [link] - I'm so ashamed fellow nerds would do this to a woman. Horseshit.
@etiene_d » 29 Jan '14, 1pm
RT @wallysalami: Mais um relato da discriminação das mulheres no mundo da tecnologia. [link]
@mikap » 29 Jan '14, 1pm
Looks like men can be jerks toward women in all "geeky" fields. [link]
@onalifeglug » 29 Jan '14, 1pm
RT @mortari: This is What it’s Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup [link]
@paulmwatson » 29 Jan '14, 12pm
RT @davebarrett: “What it’s like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meet up” [link] /via @daringfireball
@davebarrett » 29 Jan '14, 12pm
“What it’s like to be a woman at a Bitcoin meet up” [link] /via @daringfireball