Oddbean

By the end of this year, I will have attended 12 or so bitcoin events for 2024. These have been great experiences but they have also shown me that at conferences, bitcoin appears as tho it is mostly for straight white men. Yet, we know that this isn’t true when we look at the global demographics of bitcoin users. What I would love to see is a conference that invited bitcoin speakers like sex workers, activists, domestic abuse survivors, psychedelic-based healers, LGBTQ identifying bitcoiners, black bitcoiners who can educate us on the history of racist banking practices in the US and who are using bitcoin for financial empowerment, critics of bitcoin, and so on. Even if 75% of attendees were conference speakers, the event would be a success because it would be a great opportunity for these overlooked groups to be together under the same roof. Bitcoin is for anyone who needs it. I’d like to hear from those who need it most.

They are invited, they just choose to play victims instead.🤷🏻‍♂️ Though, if I’m being honest, it’s probably better off this way so people can focus on bitcoin instead of the alphabet people or the Africans.

I am sure there are many bitcoiners/nostr users (not really in mood to say Nostriches but is cute) white male or not who do support this and listen to and respect whoever…but often I’m not so sure how much, or for what reasons