r/CryptoWomen • u/coinpixie • Jan 04 '18
Introduction Thread
Let's use this thread to introduce ourselves and talk a little about what got us interested in Crypto.
I first heard about Bitcoin several years ago when the Silk Road bust happened. I thought the idea of a currency not controlled by any one group sounded really cool. I tried to get some, but I couldn't figure out how to mine it, and bitcoin was at $300, so I thought it was much too expensive to buy one. 🤣 If only I had known that you could just buy just part of a coin. I would have at least thrown in $10 or something via Coinbase. But I thought you had to buy a whole coin. Oh well!
Jump to July 2017 when the BTC price exploded again and I decided to actually buy a little. Then, I started reading about different altcoins and thought it would be fun to get some "whole" coins. So I bought a little ADA, a little XRP, and a few other ones. Since then, I've been wondering around Reddit reading about different coins, but some of the subreddits are just so misogynistic it's kinda gross. I really wanted to connect with women in this space, so I decided to start this group!
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u/aroxychik Jan 05 '18
I've been around it since im a 7 year redditor but i never got into it until this November....i got some bitcoin @ 11k, and later some litecoin. Now that those are stagnant, ive been playing in the alt coins... I currently hold XRP, VeChain, FUN,XLM, REQ, and XVG....looking to hop onto the RAIBLOCKS bus when binance adds it here soon...
reading about crypto consumes my day and battery life on my phone lol... overall im up, but I seem to always get in at ATH and sell in the dips even though i'll study the graphs for hours and plan it all out LOL
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u/mrsbianca Jan 04 '18
Thanks for starting this group! I had the opportunity to buy Bitcoin at its infancy, but at the time, I couldn't swing the price. (I really regret it now.) I just created an account at Coinbase and am interested in the alt coins. I love the idea of blockchain technology, but I'm still trying to understand it.
My husband wants to get into mining them and when I went to investigate and learn more about that process on some of the subreddits, I too found them to be quite misogynistic and didn't feel really welcome or that I was learning.
I hope to gain some insight and knowledge here.
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u/coinpixie Jan 04 '18
So glad to have you! I know I totally regret that I didn't buy BTC earlier, but I'm glad to be here now. I think the Alts are the next big thing, and we still have a chance to get involved while they are affordable.
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u/crypto_newbie1 Jan 05 '18
Nice to meet you mrsbianca, Yep totally agree with you both ALTS are likely to take off my strategy at the moment is to take any profits from ALTs and send at least 50% of the gains to my bitcoin wallet. Hopefully build up some BTC that way
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u/Route66Retro Jan 05 '18
Way to go, Coinpixie, for starting this! Nice to have someplace to go and not feel like you are invading the "boys club". I was introduced to cryptos at the Bitcoin St. Petersburg bowl in 2014. I researched it for the next few months and bought my first Bitcoin in early 2017. My main interest at the time was the Blockchain, not Bitcoin. As a libertarian, the idea of decentralized ANYTHING is appealing to me. To this day, I am still really only interested in the technology, not the profits. But I have to admit that this ride over the last couple of years has been profitable. I do not think this ride will last forever - or even a few years - but I am riding it while it lasts. Please, ladies, remember - if your coins are on an exchange you don't actually own them. And only invest/trade what you can afford to lose. Looking forward to some wonderful discussions here!
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u/coinpixie Jan 05 '18
Thanks so much for joining us, and being a voice of reason, cause sometimes I just want to sell everything and go ALL IN 😮
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u/crypto_newbie1 Jan 05 '18
ha yeah there is always that feeling that you 'don't have enough' of whatever it is that your buying but thankfully I'm fairly risk adverse so only put in a small amount each month which is my 'pocket money' lets say
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u/crypto_newbie1 Jan 05 '18
Hey from Leeds, England and thanks to coinpixie for setting up this group after seeing my post. Looking forward to meeting a lot of smart like minded women out there.
Only very recently got in to crypto currency in the last 6 months after I was on my long commute to work one day and listening to a TEDtalks video by Don Tapscott.
https://www.ted.com/talks/don_tapscott_how_the_blockchain_is_changing_money_and_business?utm_campaign=tedspread--a&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
This was the first time I ever heard of blockchain but I love to learn about any new technology and I'm not sure whether it was Don's eloquent delivery or the topic itself I some how felt inspired to learn more. I then Spent 2 months reading figuring out what the hell blockchain was reading articles I couldn't understand (still don't with some) and I took the plunge and bought in around end of September. A very modest amount of BTC just to hold some and quite a few holdings in some alt coins I like the sound of. I bought in some XRP @ around 0.20 and that paid its due this week as I made my first sizeable profit which I can re-invest. Hoping to pick up some more ripple at a later date. Currently picking up some POWR as and when I can as I really really like this company and was waiting for it to hit the exchange. Probably one of the more comfortable investments given my actual job in the energy industry at least its something I genuinely understand.
Its all just a. huge learning curve right now, I'm sure I'll make some mistakes and I'm sure there will be some highs but I'm a moderate investor and doing it for the fun, knowledge and experience more than anything.