Maria Jones @Maria_Jones1 Maria Jones @Maria_Jones1 ★ I love the worlds of Innovations, Startups and Cryptocurrencies.Traveler, Bitcoin Enthusiast, General Manager at CT ★ New York, NY 19 Photos and videos Photos and videos Tweets & replies Media You blocked @Maria_Jones1 Are you sure you want to view these Tweets?Viewing Tweets won't unblock @Maria_Jones1 Loading seems to be taking a while.Most people probably wouldn’t think of a young, attractive woman as a typical Bitcoin user, let alone a Bitcoin entrepreneur.A 2015 survey conducted by BitcoinsInIreland has collected demograhic data revealing women still form a minor part of the Bitcoin community.Out of all participants, the average user was in their late twenties to early forties, 89% of the Bitcoin users were male and only 11% female.The issue is not a new one to the Bitcoin world. editor Daniel Roberts for example says that ‘whatever the case, women are very much a minority in the business of bitcoin’.

Fortunately, there is a growing number of women who have a real hands-on mentality and are not afraid to step into the male-dominated branch.This new squad of female entrepreneurs has great ideas and is willing to take responsibilty and leadership.We thought that’s a perfect reaon for you to get to know some of these ladies and their individual projects.The list is not intended to be exhaustive as there are of course many more Bitcoin ladies out there!Catheryne Nicholson, CEO, BlockCypher Catheryne Nicholson is an engineer and used to be a U.S.This tough lady is co-founder and CEO of BlockCypher, a cloud-optimized block chain platform powering crypto-currency applications reliably and at-scale.Connie Galippi, founder and executive director of BitGive Connie Gallippi founded BitGive in 2013.Her goal is to “leverage the power of the Bitcoin community to improve public health and the environment worldwide”.Galippi also is spokesperson for the social value of Bitcoin and elevating female leaders in the community.

Before that, she worked with environmental organizations in California for over a decade, specializing in consulting & strategy development topics.Elizabeth Ploshay, account manager at BitPay Elizabeth Ploshay has a PR background.She became a contributor at Bitcoin Magazine before joining payment provider BitPay .She now joins the board of the Bitcoin Foundation.Elizabeth Stark, entrepreneur-in-residence, StartX Elizabeth Stark is being described as a thought leader on the future of technology. which is a group of entrepreneurs building the future of digital money and decentralized technology.Emily Spaven, managing editor at CoinDesk, former Google employee Emily Spaven is managing editor at CoinDesk, the leading information site for news and prices regarding Bitcoin.Before joining CoinDesk, she worked at Google and then took on the role of editor at two start-up companies.Emily’s articles have appeared on a number of renommated sites such as Forbes, Yahoo Finance or MSN Money.

Fereshteh Forough, Director, Code To Inspire Forough has had a key role bringing awareness about Bitcoin to Afghanistan where she co-created the Women’s Annex.She was a 2013 TED speaker in New York and now runs Code to Inspire that teaches young women in Afghanistan how to code.Jinyoung Lee Englund, VP of Strategy at Digital Currency Council Jinyoung Lee Englund has become Vice President of Strategy at the Digital Currency Council in June.bitcoin kreditBefore that, she directed Marketing and Communications at Bitcoin Foundation.bitcoin faucet auto collectorEnglund has dealt with the impact of women in Bitcoin business in this post herself.ethereum announcement may 22Maria Jones, general manager at CoinTelegraph Maria Jones manages the independant publication CoinTelegraph which covers cryptocurrency, the blockchain, decentralized applications, the internet of finance and the next gen web.bitcoin how to regulate a virtual currency

She also gives insight to her personal Bitcoin story on Twitter.Pamela Morgan, CEO, Third Key Solutions Pamela Morgan is an attorney.With her knowledge, she created Empowered Law, a “crypto-friendly law practice,” and also runs Third Key, which works with bitcoin startups on multi-signature security measures.Perianne Boring, Founder & President, Chamber Digital, CEO at BoringBitcoin Perianne Boring was founder of the first DC-based advocacy organization for the digital currency and digital asset community.sell litecoin to euroBefore forming the Chamber, she worked as a financial services TV host and Forbes contributor.ethereum april 28Her career began as a legislative analyst in the US House of Representatives.Toni Lane Casserly, CEO of CoinTelegraph Toni Lane Casserly has been CEO at CoinTelegraph since October 2014.She also advises several companies at the intersection of the internet of finance and next gen web, namely ChangeTip, and organizes Eikon, a’ Bitcoin Music Festival.

Victoria Van Eyk, VP of community development at ChangeTip Victoria Van Eyk is a partner at Bitcoin Strategy Group and calls herself “obsessed with all things Bitcoin” which most likely helped her become VP of Community Development at ChangeTip.We are amazed by the creative and hard work of these women.They proof that age, race or gender actually don’t matter when it comes to using and making Business with Bitcoin.Did we forget your favorite Bitcoin lady?Let us know who to add to our list in your comments below!See more people named Maria JonesSee more people named Maria Jones at New York UniversitySee more people named Maria Jones from Munich, GermanyIn Bitcoin-related stories, we almost exclusively quote men.However, hopefully one day the situation will change.CoinTelegraph would like to congratulate all the women in the Bitcoin community during this year’s International Women’s Day!It is often said that there are few women in the Bitcoin community, and they never get a lot of coverage.

So we want to address this injustice by talking about the “women in Bitcoin”, the awesome ladies who decided to work in the cryptocurrency industry.Interviewed by CoinTelegraph, these women shared their stories and told us how they got into crypto.Janina Lowisz works at Bitnation, providing the same services traditional governments provide, from dispute resolution and insurance, to security and much more, using the blockchain.Recently, she acted in a trailer shoot by Bitfilm Production for the GTEC Blockchain Contest.“I first learnt about Bitcoin in January 2013 at an event about the Euro crisis,” says Janina, “I started working for Bitcoin- and later blockchain-related startups 2 years ago.Over time, hundreds of contacts have been built up, and now I am connecting everyone, organising events and helping a few startups.My longest involvement is in Bitnation, which uses the blockchain for governance services”.She continued, “When looking at people’s backgrounds, we have the problem already there, women simply are less likely to be interested in finance, IT or politics.

So there is no surprise, but it’s fine, I mean, you can’t tell people they should start to be interested in something if they’re not interested.I think in the future, when everyone knows blockchain products and uses them daily, and when there are more jobs in blockchain-related industries, then everyone, and therefore more women, will be interested”.Molly Spiers is the Marketing Manager at CoinCorner, a British Bitcoin exchange serving the UK and Europe.This is how she told us about her involvement in the Bitcoin industry: “I first heard about Bitcoin around this time last year, when I applied for my role at CoinCorner.I'd never heard of digital currency before, but after reading up on it, I found it fascinating and knew it was something that I wanted to be involved in.” Molly suggested this explanation for the lack of women in the Bitcoin field: “[I think this] is simply because women are not as interested in the fundamentals of the technology (the blockchain) as men are.

Of course, they like technology (a smartphone is a girl's best friend!)but generally speaking, women are not interested in how things work, all they want to know is that they do work.” In honour of International Women's Day, the CoinCorner logo will be changed to pink for the day, and £5 will be offered in complimentary Bitcoin to women who sign up for a CoinCorner account and deposit £100.The ‘£5 free Bitcoin for women’ offer is available from Tuesday 8th March to Friday 11th March 2016, says Molly Spiers.Masha McConaghy is the co-founder of the Berlin-based startup, Ascribe.“I first heard about Bitcoin from Trent McConaghy, my husband, when one day in 2011 he came back from one of his meetings with his developer friends,” says Masha McConaghy, “He came in and said: "Masha, I just bought some Bitcoin, it is so cool.” She followed on by saying: “[My job in this industry] started with a conversation in 2013 after a gallery visit.Trent was gushing about Bitcoin and the blockchain when I wondered out loud, not for the first time, why it wasn't possible to buy digital art and truly own it.

In that moment we wondered if the combination could help pull art ownership into the 21st century and ascribe was born.I do not consider myself working in the Bitcoin industry per se, but more in the Intellectual Property sector.At ascribe, we are leveraging the Bitcoin blockchain technology in order to address a very specific problem of ownership of digital content in the digital age.The questions we wanted to address when we started ascribe were: How do you "own" something when bits can be easily copied and spread in seconds on the Internet?Questions about how artists make a living in this new world or get proper attribution of their creations.I am actually very happy that within my IP sector of the blockchain world, there is a healthy balance.I deal a lot with extremely smart women in the art world with whom I have quite visionary conversations about how technology can and will change our industry and our lives.On the strictly tech side, unfortunately I do not meet a lot of women but I hope that that will change soon.

Studies have shown that there are more women studying IT and computer science than ever before.Even if it's gradual, I do see a change coming”.Laura is a freelance journalist, and a writer for Forbes, covering Bitcoin, fintech, and personal finance.This is how she shared her story with us: “I wouldn't say I work in the Bitcoin industry, but I communicate regularly with people who do.I started hearing more about Bitcoin and wrote a few articles here and there about it.There is an economist at Stanford whom I admire (Susan Athey), and so I interviewed her about Bitcoin and digital currencies for Forbes, and that conversation taught me much more about the subject.Then last year, Forbes asked me to manage its Fintech 50 list along with another reporter, and we divided the list into categories.I took digital currencies, and through reporting on that sector, I began to realize there was a bigger story, and that is how I came to write a big magazine feature about blockchain coming to Wall Street, with Chain and Nasdaq as the main protagonists.

That came out in September.” Laura continued, “I think it's just an extreme example of the larger effects of socialization in our society.We vetted more than 300 companies for the fintech list, and maybe five of them were headed up by women.The dearth of women was so severe I began to have visions in my head of babies being born and placed on conveyor belts to different industries and careers based on their gender and race.Women tend to be socialized away from both technology and finance, which explains why so few women are in fintech.(I think this is changing for younger generations but it will be a long time until we see that have any effect on the industry.)I think Bitcoin, due to the cryptography, math and programming aspects, is an even more extreme type of fintech.It's certainly a frustrating situation, one that I would like to see change mostly so I'm not quoting only men in my stories!”That said, we want to thank all the women involved in the Bitcoin industry, and of course all the beautiful women who work at CoinTelegraph: Victoria Vaughan, Irina Furman, Nina Lyon and Maria Jones.