“Sex and Blockchain: Are We Safe?” VR Event Slated for Thursday 4/23

A small group of sex tech luminaries will engage in a virtual panel discussion called “Sex and Blockchain: Are We Safe?”, on AltspaceVR this Thursday, April 23, the event’s organizers announced on Eventbrite UK.

Noting that blockchains are “bits of data secured across a decentralized network of digital devices” and the technology is currently revolutionizing many aspects of human existence,” the event’s description poses the question “what about sex industry?”

“It can certainly impact the ways sex workers get paid, record consent between partners, document and report sexual harassment, but what happens when it comes to the actual cybersex intercourse?”, the description continues. “By design, blockchain is ‘an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way’. How anonymous is our sex history on blockchain? Are we protected as we think we are? Or maybe it doesn’t matter that much, as the less we hide, the less we fear? This panel is set to answer these and many other questions related to sex, privacy, and cyber-security.”

The panelists for Sex and Blockchain will include Alison Falk, the founder of Sextechspace and president of Women of Sex Tech; psychologist and sex and intimacy coach Lori Beth Bisbey; Batuhan Bintas, the founder of Cyber Rabbit Imagination studio and the Promethean Fire community for tech enthusiasts and SX Noir, host of the Thot Leader Pod podcast.

Sex and Blockchain opens on AltspaceVR at 18:30 GMT+1, which translates to 1:30pm Eastern time. Following a brief introduction to the topic, the panelists will hold a discussion in two parts. The first part, “Crypto-technologies: a gateway to a better sex life”, will run for an hour. After a 20-minute break, the second part of the panel discussion, “Smart contacts, consent & privacy”, will run for 40 minutes.

A 20-minute Q&A will follow the close of the panel discussion, then the event will conclude with an hour-long networking session for event attendees.

Tickets to the event are available on the Eventbrite UK page, as are instructions for participating. AltspaceVR supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Go, and Quest, Samsung GearVR, Windows Mixed Reality and 2D Mode on PC. Users who are Mac-only will not be able to participate (“blame Apple, not us” the event’s organizers posted).

The organizers of the Sex and Blockchain event also said that it “it takes about 15-20 min to learn how to navigate inside the app before you can join the event,” so they strongly advise users to sign on early to allow for time to grow accustomed to the app prior to the beginning of the event.

For more information, visit the event page on Eventbrite UK.