Thoughts on "value," the denigration of the feminine within capitalism, & cryptocurrency 💗
As the popular (and often unethical) cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is set to go public, perhaps as early as next month, I was reflecting on a story I was told about Coinbase's earliest days.
Years ago I dated a guy who was also a startup founder (his has since failed, which is a whole other story). His co-founder had gone through Y-Combinator, thought to be the "premiere" startup accelerator program, as the co-founder of a different startup back in 2012. Coinbase went through YC at the same time.
At the end of YC, every startup in the program pitches a room full of investors. Because YC is so highly regarded, almost all raise hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
But back at this YC Demo Day in 2012, Coinbase raised $0. People were like "what-is-Bitcoin-this-weird-magic-invisible-money-why-would-anyone-buy-that" etc.
This means that a room full of people credited with being the savviest tech investors in Silicon Valley slept on Coinbase, because they were sleeping on BTC. They didn't believe that Bitcoin had value.
"Value" as defined in our contemporary society is strange, and largely subjective. A lot about how we perceive value has to do with what's been ingrained in us by the capitalistic system. I believe this creates a big problem for many reasons, and one is because that system is grounded in lack.
As such, much of "value" is about perception, and all too often, specifically the perception of scarcity. Fear is a frequent byproduct of this, so we see people engaging in FOMO when an asset goes up, and selling out of fear because they think an asset is heading down.
Case in point: the recent enormous institutional purchasing of Bitcoin has everything to do with the fact that only 21 million BTC will be made. From the vantage point of the current establishment, scarcity is believed to be perhaps the biggest driver of "value" of all.
But many things have an inherent value, and Bitcoin is also one of those things. By design, it allows anyone with an internet connection and some of the coin to send money anywhere in the world, often relatively cheaply and within minutes, without reliance on a "trusted third party" like a bank.
Bitcoin is generated in a decentralized fashion, rather than by a centralized government, as fiat currency is. Unlike fiat, it's also hardcoded to prevent manipulation by those with ill intentions.
In our course, Cryptocurrency & How to Trade It, we explore the concept of value and its origins, inviting consideration of how much of that is a fear-based construct.
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At this very moment, I believe we're moving through a period on Earth that some spiritual people call Ascension. A lot about what this transition entails is a shift from scarcity-driven paradigms, to those of abundance.
Seeds has evolved to be an ecosystem of abundance, toward the end of helping humanity through this transition. We reward giving with SEEDS cryptocurrency, so that the most generous among us can also become those of wealth if and when SEEDS go up in market value themselves. We believe that helping already-generous people become rich will make the world better.
The intention behind Seeds has to do with another heartbreaking side effect of the value construct within our capitalistic system: the way it denigrates the energy of the feminine residing in humans of all genders. In all of us.
We see this play out systemically in insidious ways. Work that is of greater feminine energy - nurturing, childcare, artistry, giving - is often denigrated and dismissed. Because we're taught that the feminine is of less value, until we wake up to this, we perpetuate this energy in thought and action ourselves (and even *at* ourselves).
I've personally experienced more blatant manifestations of this when I was a stock market trader, and as I was raising funds from startup investors for Seeds.
It didn't matter that the data showed that I was a more profitable trader than my masculine counterparts, or that Seeds had better metrics than that of the masculine startup founder standing next to me.
Those around me often couldn't see my value, and by extension the value of what I had to offer. But I could.
And so Seeds is here to help more of us receive the support we need with greater ease, so that it doesn't matter if the gatekeepers can't see our worth.
Through a more caring economic paradigm, we will shift into abundance anyway.
If you'd like to learn more and haven't already watched, our webcast is here.
We also have another cryptocurrency course upcoming, with registration opening in April. Tuition is $1999, including $1999 in SEEDS at market value at the moment of your purchase. Whatever the value is of my instruction, you receive that effectively for free.
Please always remember that you have incomparable value! 💗
Warmly,
Rachel