I Had to Sell My Bitcoin in 2013 to Pay the Bills Because Investors Wouldn’t Fund Women

Now, my company, Seeds, has made our own cryptocurrency, so that no one has to suffer from lack of resources due to discrimination ever again

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I incorporated my company, Seeds, in early 2013, and it’s been a wild ride. Seeds allows you to ask the blockchain for help — and receive it — no strings attached.

It’s sort of like a decentralized GoFundMe. Except that, instead of only asking your Facebook friends for help, you can automatically access the people across the internet who, data shows, will be most excited to contribute to you.

Here’s a low fi video demonstrating how the system works:

I did this because misogynistic investors have made things much harder for me than they have for the male startup founders I know. Because of the pain of that problem, I’ve been forced to uncover a new way out. The key is transcending the current financial system - and therefore rendering it obsolete.

Transitioning to a system of abundance.

In this way, we’re creating a new economic paradigm: one that allows everyone to access abundance

I used to be a stock trader, which mean that when I made a dollar, someone else literally lost that same dollar. This was of course the definition of zero-sum: a scarcity-based, fear-infused system. But this sense of scarcity permeating our lives today is largely manufactured. The truth is that we live in a world of abundance — it’s just that our current system makes it very difficult for most of us to access.

Seeds transcends the old, outdated way. Every member of the Seeds ecosystem gains value, creating a bigger pie for all. As such:

Our users get help when they need it. Apps and websites that use the Seeds front-end products make up to 30% more revenue — for free. Seeds makes money. Those who give to people in need are automatically entered into a lottery for tokens with every contribution, giving them a chance to ask the Seeds system for help as well.

It’s a win-win-win-win. I talked more about this when we competed in Techcrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2016, per the video below.

Seeds infuses good intention into the movement of money — which can change everything

As a society, we don’t yet understand that intention is the single most important output we make. Much of the energy of intention flowing through the economic system today is about arbitrary exclusion, selfishness, and greed.

Seeds makes it possible to do something good for yourself that is simultaneously good for others. You’re helping others as you buy something you want.

I think this is the wave of the future.

Seeds Tokens are available now

If you’d like to be a part of this, you’re more than welcome to visit www.seedstokens.com. With the code ABUNDANCE, you can receive 30% off.

If you want to give token redemption a try, you can also make a Needs Request here. We’ll do our best to grant the first 10 Needs Requests by January of 2018.

Together, we can shift to a modality that makes it easy to care for everyone, that benefits all. We can make suffering in scarcity a thing of the past.

If this resonates with you, please join us today. Thank you!

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