Ever since I discovered Slimcoin, I followed closely the main developer behind the project, a well known name in the crypto space, Graham Higgins. I thoroughly enjoyed his reports, filled with humor, wittiness and a lot of food for thought. With a background in epistemology and a strong theoretical programming background, Graham is probably the main reason I'm sticking very close to Slimcoin (the second one being Proof of Burn, or the ability to mine even with a Raspberry Pi).

Graham recently remastered one of his articles, using it as a basis for a more profound change he tries to implement in the Slicmoin blockchain (namely the serverless web, or the web2web publishing approach). I'm not going into details, as many of them are still obscure to me, but it uses the famous OP_RETURN field in the Bitcoin base blockchain transaction structure (Slimcoin is based on a PeerCoin fork, which is in turned forked from the Bitcoin base).

What's interesting about this article is that it posits a very interesting theorem: every collective intelligence (and a community around a blockchain tends to act as a collective intelligence, at times) needs a proper gender balance. 

In the crypto universe, there are very few projects (if any) where women are represented more than 10-20%. 

From the article:

| | %female|  %male|
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Facebook	|51|	49
Twitter|	51|	49
Pinterest	|62|	38
Instagram	|50|	50
Google Plus	|30|	70
LinkedIn|	21|	79

I don't know the exact numbers about Steemit, but it seems to me that we are better represented at this chapter than other projects. This might actually be our _secret sauce_. There are quite a few successful Steemian women here (@stemsssj, for instance) and that gives me hope.

If you're in for a moderately complex, be warned, but delicious read, have a look at Graham's article [here](https://minkiz.co/library/a-different-perspective-on-cryptocurrency.html). Spoiler: it really deals with a lot more stuff than I just pointed out, but I leave the pleasure of discovering this to you.
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_If you're new to Steemit, you may find these articles relevant (that's also part of my witness activity to support new members of the platform)_:
* [Rewards: Were Does The Money Come From?](https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/steemit-newbie-faq-rewards-were-does-the-money-come-from)
* [Netiquette: How To Avoid Being A Steem Douche?](https://steemit.com/steem/@dragosroua/steemit-newbie-faq-netiquette-how-to-avoid-being-a-steem-douche)
* [Witnesses: What Are They And Why Should You Care?](https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/steemit-newbie-faq-witnesses-what-are-they-and-why-should-you-care)
* [How Can I Mine Steem And What CPU / GPU Power Do I Need For That?](https://steemit.com/steemit/@dragosroua/steemit-newbie-faq-how-can-i-mine-steem-and-what-cpu-gpu-power-do-i-need-for-that)