Here is How Women Are Leveraging Sex and Crypto

As reported on Jezebel.com by: Emily Leibert|There’s a surprising number of bikinis in this particular corner of the internet. Snapshots of silk robes cinched around tiny waists are nestled between dollar signs and rocket ship emojis. You’ll find cleavage of the tasteful and brazen varieties, and mirror pics of glossed lips halfway obscured by jewel-toned iPhone cases. Hot girls on Twitter are bullish on crypto, and crypto is bullish on them.

Crypto Twitter (CT), a subculture of Twitter that discusses the trials and tribulations of digital currency, was previously overrun by mostly male adopters of the decentralized financial system. Thirteen years after its introduction, cryptocurrency is now mainstream, and so is the legend of the Bitcoin Bro. While an average CT feed was once clogged with delusional kings wishing meme coins to the moon, in the last year, women and nonbinary people have carved out their own room. Smartly, some of these Web3 hotties and conventionally attractive crypto influencers are doing so by taking advantage of their hottest commodity: sex appeal.

The sexually supercharged atmosphere within the crypto community presents an opportunity for a power grab, where women can profit directly off their bodies on their own terms by objectifying themselves before the manosphere gets the chance. And yet, many of these women are tripping over an ideological stumbling block as the industry questions whether or not this is really the most progressive way to exist within such a misogynistic space.

Seeking Power in the Inherently Horny Crypto Space

There is no shortage of powerful women in crypto fighting exhaustively to be recognized for their merits and technical skills alone, instead of their gender or desirability. Legitimate funds like Haun Ventures and feminist coalitions like Boys Club and Crypto Besties are creating much-needed opportunities for women to get in on the digital gold rush. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s most cringe-inducing girlbosses are also yassifying their way through Crypto Twitter with rhinestoned mint Trezor wallets. But the subset in question here is what we’ll call the crypto hotties.

Some of these women are employed in crypto: engineers, developers, communication officers, or investors who hope to simply challenge the idea that their sexuality has to be chained to the after-hours of 5 to 9. Others have made the pilgrimage from light sexfluencing on Instagram to light sexfluencing on CT, narrowing their target audience from “men” to “men who buy crypto” by posting photos of themselves thirsting in string bikinis with captions like “Shill your hottest #altcoins right now!” A third group lies somewhere in the middle: finfluencers, or women offering financial advice and educational content about cryptocurrencies, who happily tout their hotness while posting about projects and coins they’ve (sometimes) been paid to promote. Almost all of them are united in their search for some form of empowerment they hadn’t found within more traditional employment—financial, sexual, or otherwise.

The feminine urge to track his wallets and judge his every move 💞 pic.twitter.com/IMaByzqOGA

— rea.eth (@moon_guurl) March 4, 2022

Natalie Arabian, better known to her 30K followers on CT as Rea.eth and @moon_guurl, was once a regular college student pursuing an MD, but she dropped out to invest in crypto full-time. Since joining CT in August of 2020 to keep up with trading calls and market tips, she’s been posting DeFi tutorials on YouTube and market musings on Twitter in a tone that’s less buttoned-up financial advisor and more bestie screaming “Good 4 U” at the club. She’s also parlayed her (hot) social media influence into a few paid partnerships, though her main source of income is her investments, which are netting her better financial prospects than she thinks she’d ever have achieved as a doctor. A self-proclaimed rebel by nature and never really one to follow the rules, Arabian said the hot selfies are a statement of personal power that feel natural to her. “If I’m going to be hot, I’m going to be hot. If I’m going to be smart, I’m gonna be smart, but I never really think too much about it,” she told Jezebel. “It’s very freeing.”