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April 11, 2013, 12:22:41 AM |
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I'm a woman, and someone who is quite interested in Bitcoin. I'm as interested in the currency itself as I am in the culture that surrounds it, in the slow dance it creates in a new user's mind. I was an early adopter, bought a few the day I learned about the concept, then watched the tango evolve.
I found out about Bitcoin through my oldest son, now 18, who mines coin and is a junior at a public university where he is studying physics. It took a young and aware and smart person to explain the concept to me, but I jumped into it with both feet.
Because I have a high school-aged son still at home and have to sling lattes six days a week to meet my bills as a single mom, my Bitcoin pile is in the one-handed digits. But it exists! And I have used the currency to purchase a few things along the way, and will continue to do so.
Most new technologies have male early adopters. When I was a school girl, I was not encouraged to study math and science, even though I have a natural aptitude. Teachers suggested that I considered a career as a teacher, or maybe a nurse. I didn't feel challenged, dropped out of school, had a life full of all kinds of things, but had to find the math and science in my heart and self-educate myself along the way. Last fall I went back to school, thirty years after my high school graduation, and am studying astronomy and calculus and all of the wondrous subjects I thought were beyond my capabilities.
Girls today have more support and encouragement to go into the sciences, but it is still not an equal playing field.
Why not take this disparity between the genders and teach a woman you know about Bitcoin? I've been teaching my female friends, and some have continued to educate themselves.
The world is changing, so quickly, in ways we couldn't have imagined even ten years ago. If others aren't aware of the advantages of Bitcoin, we can only blame ourselves. Get out there and speak.
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