American Singer Mariah Carey Offers Free $20 In Bitcoin To Promote Adoption
October 25 2021 - 12:00PM
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Mariah Carey has now solidified her stance in the bitcoin industry.
The five-time Grammy winner had teamed up with the Winklevoss
twins’ crypto exchange Gemini to launch a campaign that was aimed
at empowering women around the world using crypto. The singer
announced the partnership with Gemini via Instagram. In the
informative Instagram post, Mariah Carey encourages people to sign
up on Gemini and learn about crypto. Carey boasts a following of
over 10 million on the platform and is using her influence to
encourage more women to get invested in the space. Although the
post was tagged as a paid partnership, its value to the crypto
space cannot be overemphasized. With more women in positions of
power and influence getting in crypto, everyday women are inspired
to explore the space and see what opportunities it could hold for
them Free $20 Bitcoin On Signup Carey’s partnership with Gemini
also comes with an upside for her fans. The singer announced in the
post that if they used her link to sign up on Gemini’s exchange
platform, then they will get $20 worth of free bitcoin on sign up.
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Straight Ahead? In the video, Carey also talked about investing in
bitcoin. She addressed one of the most common misconceptions when
it comes to investing in BTC, which is that an individual will have
to purchase a whole bitcoin to get started. Mariah Carey explained
to her 10.2 million followers that they did not need to buy a whole
BTC to get started. Instead, they could buy small portions of a
bitcoin to get started. Bitcoin price retests $63,000 | Source:
BTCUSD on TradingView.com The singer said in the video that
Gemini’s free educational materials helped her learn about space.
As of today, the video already has over 500,000 views and has been
making the rounds on social media. Helping Women In STEM It is no
secret that the ratio of men to women in STEM fields is highly
disproportionate. This has been due to the field being historically
viewed as a field for men only. The ratio of women of color in the
field is even more disproportionate and this has spilled into other
fields like the crypto industry. Related Reading | Analyst
Puts Bitcoin Bottom At $50,000, Here’s Why Black Girls Code is a
not-for-profit organization that was founded in 2011 to combat this
glaring issue. It provides support and pathways for women of color
to get into the field of tech, and Mariah, in conjunction with
Gemini, is supporting the cause. A portion of the trades made by
users who sign up using the singer’s code will go to the
not-for-profit. So in addition to giving users $20 in bitcoin on
signup, an organization dedicated to the growth of women of color
in the STEM field will profit off the partnership too. Featured
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