Topic: 2012-08-28 huffingtonpost.com - Chomping At The Bitcoin - The Ups And Downs Of C - page 2. (Read 5766 times)

you'd end up fucking her... not the worst of options available.

yeah, lol. well, true... but!!! she's in the spirit!

I prefer ladybytes.

Regarding Bitcoin's gender skew, some good news.

I just noticed this woman has made two videos...and both of them are about Bitcoin!

https://www.youtube.com/user/gwendolynbell

Not sure how influential she is or can be, but perhaps she will eventually become a female spokesperson for Bitcoin, which could help make the idea & technology less intimidating in certain contexts.

+1.

Bitcoin, come fly with us.

I'm still intrigued by the idea of demurrage and would love to see a big experiment on it but it would not work with a store of money and only with a governmental money that can be printed at will. Anyway, there is discussion about this here in the forum already and I turned sort of into a skeptic of combining demurrage with a bitcoin-based currency. Most likely it is impossible. (20% new money every year would have that effect but with anonymous users and a proof of work that would mean 20% of the world economy would go into mining. With "proof of identity mining" it could work with a massive incentive to trick the system and also I want bitcoin for it being cash online.)

I don't like/understand your comment on the "dumb blond". She is not into bitcoin for 2 years posting hundreds of questions. Also she asked the questions from a standpoint prior to her own research and did not at all make the impression of a deliberately dumb person.

I studied maths and consider myself predestined for understanding bitcoin. Still barely a day goes by that I don't feel like having more insight today than yesterday. I see it as our job to answer all questions of interested people in a profound and easy way so that they can answer questions with confidence knowing whom to point to for more detailed questions so that the 3rd line can know people that know people that really know bitcoin and trust it. You will never get 7 billion people to understand bitcoin. Most likely not even 7 million.
It would actually be a dramatic waste of time to force feed the bitcoin white paper to everybody in the world yet that would be only the bare minimum to understanding bitcoin.
I hope for a world where people know that they can still use bitcoin tomorrow because experts checked it just like people know they are able to fly cause experts built planes (or wing suits ) for them.

Did you put on weight or something? 

you can explain to her,i think she is here 
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1137784

Yep, I'd have spent a whole evening explaining her the laws of mathematix and stuff, Not on-line though

I don't think she understands.

Very nice video, too bad it was so short and we didn't really see a discussion .

The problem is that you need to understand several different areas fairly well in order to get the complete picture:

- P2P networks
- Code and Open Source
- Cyrptography
- Economics
- Law
- Markets

And I'm probably missing a few.

+1

That is a very good point. In my experience people definitely trust Bitcoin more when they understand it better.

just managed to watch it to the end... that blonde really cracks me up:



I really do think fundamentally understanding how bitcoin works is necessary to be able to trust it.

yeah, I'd like to have seen demurrage discussed more deeply (not because I think it's a good idea, but because I think it can't work), but maybe these forums are a better place than a mainstream tv format with a (deliberately) dumb blonde.

Still true: nice round and good to see more mainstream coverage. It could've at least been longer, though.

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I thought it was a very good round table! Even the anti stuff was quickly squashed.

hilarious: that host doesn't know how to say "financier" and thinks conventional money is backed by gold and silver.

Largest company members: Bitcoin Magazine, no contest.

Does anyone know how to download the video and put it on youtube?

Brian of coinbase.com made this funny photo from the video: