Bitcoin Has Empowered Over 50,000 Women and Counting
At the end of 2013, after reading an article about Bernanke's perspective on Bitcoin and Marc Andreessen’s position on Bitcoin, Francesco Rulli immediately thought of it as being solution to his dilemma of how to distribute money to nearly half a million users scattered across the world that are registered on his platform. That inspiration led to the formation of BitLanders - a platform enabling users to build engaging content (videos, blogs, photos, advertisements), which a patent pending measurement and reward algorithm, BUZZ SCORE, judges in terms of quality as well as interactions to....
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Sunday wasInternational Women's Day, when the Bitcoin community is joined with others around the world to promote awareness of women's issues by launching its firstBitcoin Women's Day. Like International Women's Day, "Bitcoin Women's Day is not just for women," says Sarah Boone Martin of the Digital Currency Council. The issues that women are concerned about - equal access to healthcare, to financial systems, to the world economy, to employment, to education; a sustainable environment, personal safety, security and autonomy - these are all issues that are important to the Bitcoin community....
Crypto isn’t gender-biased but it seems that more women in the United States are now into it. According to a recent Gemini survey, around 53% of those who expressed their interest in investing in crypto are women. However, the survey coming from the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange revealed the opposite as only 26% of women actually […]
The latest survey from BlockFi shows that women are more interested in cryptocurrencies than ever, with one-third planning on buying digital assets this year. Furthermore, 60% of these women say they will be doing so within the next few months. The current survey depicts double women’s interest compared to the exact nature of the study […]
This is a guest post by Digital Currency Councilmember Amor Sexton. Western Union released a reporton the role of women in global remittances. According to the report, women currently move 50 percent of the estimated $582 billion global remittances, and they send a greater percentage of their wages than men. Women also are the largest group of recipients, receiving over two-thirds of remittances. The flow of money to these women can be a matter of life and death if they have no alternative means of earning a living. The United Nations reports that despite women working two-thirds of the....
For all the ladies out there, Sunday, March 8th is going to be a very special day. For over 100 years, the world has celebrated International Women's Day, and now the Bitcoin community will celebrate the first annual Bitcoin Women's Day. This will shine a light on the integration and accomplishments of women within the Bitcoin community, and also to spurn the growth for women to begin using Bitcoin more. A recent poll done by 99bitcoins.com shows that less than 8% of Bitcoin users are female, so there is plenty of room for growth and improvement with the largest demographic in the world.....