• Press Releases
    • Submit a press release
    • Read All
  • Advertise
  • Contact us
Crypto.com Logo Crypto.com Logo
Bitcoinist.com
No Result
View All Result
  • Bitcoin
    • News
    • Price
    • Businesses
    • Acceptance
    • Technology
    • Investment
    • Regulation
    • Reviews
    • Gambling
    • All Bitcoin News
  • Altcoins
    • News
    • Price
    • Ethereum
    • Ripple
    • Litecoin
    • EOS
    • NAGA
    • All Altcoin News
  • Tech
    • Blockchain
    • Security
    • FinTech
  • Industry
    • Industry News
    • Press Releases
  • Price
    • Bitcoin Price
    • Ethereum Price
    • Litecoin Price
    • Binance Coin Price
  • How to
    • Buy gift cards/mobile Top Ups with Cryptos
    • What Is Bitcoin?
    • Best Bitcoin Wallet
    • Bitcoin vs Ethereum
    • Why Use Blockchain Technology?
    • Bitcoin Cash ABC vs. Bitcoin Cash SV
    • How to Buy Cryptocurrency
    • Bitcoin Mining
    • Best Bitcoin Brokers
    • Best Bitcoin Forex Brokers
    • How To Earn Bitcoin
    • What is Facebook Libra?
    • Ripple and XRP: The Complete Guide
    • Bitcoin Casinos – Where, What and How to Play
  • Events
  • Play Games
  • Play Casino Games
  • Win 1 BTC
  • Play Finance
Breaking News: Billionaire VC Tim Draper Tells Businesses To Keep Payroll In Bitcoin
  • Bitcoin
    • News
    • Price
    • Businesses
    • Acceptance
    • Technology
    • Investment
    • Regulation
    • Reviews
    • Gambling
    • All Bitcoin News
  • Altcoins
    • News
    • Price
    • Ethereum
    • Ripple
    • Litecoin
    • EOS
    • NAGA
    • All Altcoin News
  • Tech
    • Blockchain
    • Security
    • FinTech
  • Industry
    • Industry News
    • Press Releases
  • Price
    • Bitcoin Price
    • Ethereum Price
    • Litecoin Price
    • Binance Coin Price
  • How to
    • Buy gift cards/mobile Top Ups with Cryptos
    • What Is Bitcoin?
    • Best Bitcoin Wallet
    • Bitcoin vs Ethereum
    • Why Use Blockchain Technology?
    • Bitcoin Cash ABC vs. Bitcoin Cash SV
    • How to Buy Cryptocurrency
    • Bitcoin Mining
    • Best Bitcoin Brokers
    • Best Bitcoin Forex Brokers
    • How To Earn Bitcoin
    • What is Facebook Libra?
    • Ripple and XRP: The Complete Guide
    • Bitcoin Casinos – Where, What and How to Play
  • Events
  • Play Games
  • Play Casino Games
  • Win 1 BTC
  • Play Finance
Bitcoinist.com
No Result
View All Result
Breaking News: Billionaire VC Tim Draper Tells Businesses To Keep Payroll In Bitcoin
Reddit mob attacks Bitcoin app developer
Advertisement

Mob Rule! Reddit Attacks Teen for Bitcoin App

Jeff Francis by Jeff Francis
5 years ago
in News, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Community, Bitcoin Technology, News teaser
0
Advertisement

A 16-year-old girl from India developed a Bitcoin app called Crypto Price Tracker, and users on Reddit viciously attacked her with abuse and death threats.


When the internet first arose, it was hailed as a technological marvel that would change the world. People would be able to virtually visit museums from all over the world and have access to knowledge that could only be found in the finest universities. However, the reality is that the internet is often a cesspool where the mob rules. Case in point is what happened to Harshita Arora, a 16-year-old girl from India who created a Bitcoin app. It was not long before users on Reddit accused her of plagiarizing the app and heaping a horrid amount of abuse upon her.

Don't wait! Jump on this Crypto Deal and get a 150% Welcome Bonus plus 100 Free Spins on your deposit today!

My app Crypto Price Tracker, a beautiful and simple crypto price tracker, alerts, and portfolio management app, is released on the App Store! Download it here https://t.co/okHR4WTYKo

Just launched on @ProductHunt! Would love to get some feedback! https://t.co/5ibFuQyb9V pic.twitter.com/764XlyG1WJ

— Harshita Arora (@aroraharshita33) January 28, 2018

A Driven Young Lady

Harshita Arora comes from a small town outside of New Delhi in India. She looked to the tech industry as a way to make enough money to escape the confines of her life. She initially studied computer science in school and learned Adobe design software on her own in the evenings. Eventually, she dropped out of school to continue learning on her own.

Her work paid off. Salesforce in Bangalore offered her an internship a few months later, and she was then accepted into an MIT summer program. She made her way to Silicon Valley after the summer program ended, where she made quite a few contacts in the industry. However, she was unable to obtain a VISA and returned home to her parents.

BitStarz Player Lands $2,459,124 Record Win! Could you be next big winner?
570% up to 12 BTC + 300 Free Spins for new players & 1 BTC in bonuses every day, only at Wild.io. Play Now!

New Delhi, India

Creating Crypto Price Tracker and the Reaction

Harshita Arora decided that her best path was to create her own products. To that end, she taught herself the Swift programming language and spent countless hours on Quora talking with other young techs and learning about coding and product development.

She eventually released her Bitcoin app called Crypto Price Tracker for the iPhone on January 20th, and the response was pretty standard. Some people gave her feedback, while others told her how much they enjoyed her app. Then the wheels came off.

Users on Reddit began to claim that she did not create the app herself. One female critic wrote a lengthy blog post making quite a few accusations, which were eventually proven false. Arora’s crime? She hired an outside developer to help with the backend code and that she had some help from mentors.

These facts were not hidden at all, and Arora originally tried to reason with the growing Reddit mob. Such development details were not a secret and are pretty commonplace. Arora says that her programming was not to snuff for some of the backend coding, so she hired someone who could do it.

However, the Reddit mob was in full fury. Their consensus belief was that a young woman was incapable of creating a useful and sleek Bitcoin app. It had to have been developed by an older programmer with a great deal of experience. Oh, and the programmer was likely a man.

Bitcoin

The abuse then began to flood in. She received lots of messages calling her a liar and a fraud. Some critics threatened her with rape, and there were even death threats. That’s a whole lot of sick garbage to dump onto a 16-year-old girl.

A relatively mild criticism reads:

I doubt the girl herself came up with the idea and hired the contractor(s) herself. She’s a 16 year old girl, she doesn’t have the wherewithal or funds to do it herself (hiring the contractor, or coding the app). She’s trying to look pretty for boys in her class, worrying about what the bitch Jessie said to Brittany about Cloe who likes Brian even though he so likes Ciara, and sitting in her room listening to 21 pilots or whoever. That’s my take anyway.

Fighting Back

After trying to reason with the Reddit mob failed to work, Harshita Arora reached out to her industry friends for help. They suggested that she begin to use social media, and direct contact, to talk with the employers or anyone with authority over her harassers.

Arora and her friends followed this plan of action, and it worked. Apparently, businesses and universities think it looks really bad for a 35-year-old male employee of theirs to openly harass a teenager online. Some of her trolls actually apologized to her, and the woman who kind of started the whole thing off with her blog post took it down.

I’m glad to have friends who’ve supported me in the last 2-3 days of getting targetted online harassment and threats from people who apparently have opinions about me and my project based on false accusations and inconclusive evidence.

— Harshita Arora (@aroraharshita33) February 6, 2018

Arora does feel some sense of justice, but the entire ordeal has left her shaken. Who would have thought developing a Bitcoin app would lead to rape and death threats? While she didn’t write all of the code, she was the designer, and she did what every developer has ever done: hire someone to handle an aspect of the project that they’re unable to do.

As for her work on Crypto Price Tracker, Arora says:

People, programmers especially, think of design as just bring able to generate color, text and use software. They underestimate how much work it takes and how much you need to think about UX and UI. It took me longer to design app from scratch than programming.

Lastly, she says that she never sold herself as a genius who created an awesome app. She offers:

I don’t want to be called a prodigy. It’s not what I am. It sounds like I’m trying to tell people I’m smarter than them. It sounds I’m trying to be superior, when I don’t want to be. I reply to everyone who asks me question or asks for resources, I am trying to learn things myself.

In the end, the internet can be incredible for helping people learn and connect. But it can also allow people to become the worst aspect of themselves as they’re not facing the target of their abuse and feel as powerful as an 800 pound gorilla from behind the anonymity and safety of their monitor.

What do you think about Harshita Arora’s ordeal caused by Reddit trolls? Have you tried her Bitcoin app? Let us know in the comments below.


Images courtesy of Flickr/@Hans Splinter, Twitter/@aroraharshita33, and Bitcoinist archives.

ShareTweetShareShare

Sign Up for Our Newsletter!

For updates and exclusive offers enter your email.

I consent to my submitted data being collected and stored.

Jeff Francis

Jeff Francis

Related Posts

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 400 EH/s As Miners Profit From Bull Market

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 400 EH/s As Miners Profit From Bull Market

10 hours ago
bitcoin Tim draper

Billionaire VC Tim Draper Tells Businesses To Keep Payroll In Bitcoin

14 hours ago
Nasdaq

Nasdaq Targets Mid-2023 For Crypto Custody Launch

21 hours ago
Bitcoin

Bitcoin, Other Cryptos See $360 Million Sold Off In Single Day – Here’s Why

2 days ago
Shuttered Crypto Bitzlato Exchange Allow Users To Get 50% Of BTC Funds

Shuttered Crypto Exchange Bitzlato Opens Withdrawals For Users

2 days ago
Crypto and Bitcoin

Crypto Liquidations Hit $291 Million As Bitcoin Shows Volatility

3 days ago
Please login to join discussion

Premium Partners

Premium Casino Partners

Play Finance

Top Casinos

BitStarz
BitStarz
Punt Casino
Punt Casino
mBit
mBit
1xBit
1xBit
UU.Game
UU.Game
K8
K8

Press Releases

  • Tokens To Watch In Q2 2023: Aptos (APT), Optimism (OP) And...

    15 hours ago
  • Market Experts Predict Big: TMS Network (TMSN) Will Beat...

    16 hours ago
  • XRP Price Breaks Out Of Multi-Year Wedge: XRP Price...

    18 hours ago
  • Is it the right time to ditch Solana (SOL), Shiba Inu...

    19 hours ago
  • Top 6 DeFi Tokens to Buy for Big Profits in 2023

    1 day ago

Bitcoin news portal providing breaking news, guides, price analysis about decentralized digital money & blockchain technology.

Bitcoin

  • News
  • Price
  • Businesses
  • Acceptance
  • Technology
  • Investment
  • Regulation
  • Reviews

Altcoins

  • News
  • Price
  • Ethereum
  • Ripple
  • Litecoin
  • EOS
  • NAGA

Categories

  • Blockchain
  • Security
  • FinTech
  • Technology
  • Trending
  • Breaking News
  • Press Releases
  • How to

Pages

  • Contact us
  • Editorial Policy
  • Advertise
  • Crypto Prices from Nomics
© 2023 Bitcoinist.com. All Rights Reserved.
  • Bitcoin
    • News
    • Price
    • Businesses
    • Acceptance
    • Technology
    • Investment
    • Regulation
    • Reviews
    • Gambling
    • All Bitcoin News
  • Altcoins
    • News
    • Price
    • Ethereum
    • Ripple
    • Litecoin
    • EOS
    • NAGA
    • All Altcoin News
  • Tech
    • Blockchain
    • Security
    • FinTech
  • Industry
    • Industry News
    • Press Releases
  • Price
    • Bitcoin Price
    • Ethereum Price
    • Litecoin Price
    • Binance Coin Price
  • How to
    • Buy gift cards/mobile Top Ups with Cryptos
    • What Is Bitcoin?
    • Best Bitcoin Wallet
    • Bitcoin vs Ethereum
    • Why Use Blockchain Technology?
    • Bitcoin Cash ABC vs. Bitcoin Cash SV
    • How to Buy Cryptocurrency
    • Bitcoin Mining
    • Best Bitcoin Brokers
    • Best Bitcoin Forex Brokers
    • How To Earn Bitcoin
    • What is Facebook Libra?
    • Ripple and XRP: The Complete Guide
    • Bitcoin Casinos – Where, What and How to Play
  • Events
  • Play Games
  • Play Casino Games
  • Win 1 BTC
  • Play Finance

© 2022 Bitcoinist. All Rights Reserved.

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy Center or Cookie Policy.