{"id":14208,"date":"2015-05-08T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T22:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14208"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:58:48","slug":"bitcoins-problem-with-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/bitcoins-problem-with-women","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin\u2019s Problem With Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/authors\/felix-salmon\" rel=\"author\">Felix Salmon<\/a> \u2014 Mother Jones<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Nathaniel Popper\u2019s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062362490\/digital-gold\"><i>Digital Gold<\/i><\/a>, is as close as you can get to being the definitive account of the history of Bitcoin. As its subtitle proclaims, the book tells the story of the \u201cmisfits\u201d (the first generation of hacker-libertarians) and \u201cmillionaires\u201d (the second generation of Silicon Valley venture capitalists) who were responsible for building Bitcoin, mining it, hyping it, and, in at least some cases, getting rich off it.<\/p>\n<p>The tale is selective, of course: Not everybody involved with Bitcoin talked to Popper, and the identity of Bitcoin\u2019s inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto, remains a mystery. But Popper did talk to most of the important people in the cryptocurrency crowd, and he tells me that he put real effort into trying \u201cto find a woman who was involved in some substantive way.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2015\/04\/bitcoin-women-problem\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Felix Salmon \u2014 Mother Jones Nathaniel Popper\u2019s new book, Digital Gold, is as close as you can get to being the definitive account of the history of Bitcoin. As its subtitle proclaims, the book tells the story of the \u201cmisfits\u201d (the first generation of hacker-libertarians) and \u201cmillionaires\u201d (the second generation of Silicon Valley venture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64736,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions\/64736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}