Thinking for myself:  If I were a Croatian girl, and I wanted to chat about Bitcoin without getting hit on by thirsty crypto-nerds, I would know how to use the Croatian language to make myself appear to be male.  Also, I would set my profile page to “Male”.  LaudaM’s original profile page said “Male”, as I have known for years.

I think that Lauda was female, because her behaviour was consistently too feminine for a man.  Men who pretend to be women don’t act that feminine—not in a thousand subtle ways, not consistently over a long period of time.  On the flipside, women who pretend to be men can’t consistently hide that subtly feminine behaviour in the long term.  They can talk sort of like men; they can get along with the guys; but their femininity ultimately shows through.


People probably noticed that Lauda acted like a woman, and then she just let it be ambiguous.  For privacy, she liked for her whole identity to be mysterious; and anyway, the question is unimportant when discussing Bitcoin.  Don’t forget that Lauda understood Bitcoin on a very deep level, much moreso than almost everyone who is not a Development & Technology regular.

IRL, I have known highly intelligent, motivated women who almost perfectly matched Lauda’s personality.  Aristocratic, mother-of-Napoleon types who crushed weaklings without quite noticing their existence, and functioned perfectly well in a man’s world because they are tougher and smarter than most men.  (Wherefore they are oftentimes lonely, because it is difficult for them to find a man whom they don’t despise—but I digress.)  So...

You will not convince me that Lauda was a man.  I probably will not convince you that Lauda was a woman.  Her identity will remain an enigmatic crypto-puzzle, delivered with the wry grin of the disappearing Cheshire cat in Alice’s crypto-wonderland.  😼