New Scholarships Aim to Boost Diversity in Blockchain Space
Consensus 2015 is working with MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative to boost diversity in the cryptocurrency space by offering 50 Consensus Scholarships to young women and people of colour. A recent CoinDesk study of bitcoin users highlighted the lack of diversity in the digital currency space, with fewer than one in 10 bitcoin owners (8.2%) stating they were female, and over 72% describing their ethnicity as "white". The Media Lab's DCI will work with local groups like Girls Who Code, the Microsoft-sponsored TEALS programme, CODE2040 and the National Center for Women and....
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Consensus 2015 is a digital currency summit to be held on September 10 in New York City. This event was made possible by CoinDesk in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab's Digital Currency Initiative and is planning on providing 50 diversity and inclusion scholarships. These scholarships are being offered to women and people of color between 18 to 25 years of age, as the group aims to increase the diversity in the digital currency community. Based on a recent study conducted by CoinDesk, fewer than one in 10 bitcoin owners (8.2%) are female, while over 72% describe their ethnicity as....
The MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI) has announced more than $100,000 in scholarships and support for underrepresented minorities and women to attend Consensus 2016: Making Blockchain Real. In collaboration with CoinDesk, the DCI will be selecting 50 Consensus Scholars to attend the event from 2nd to 4th May in New York City. This will be our second year collaborating on a scholarship effort for the conference – we are excited to continue to foster a more diverse community of attendees at Consensus. A study conducted on “Consumer Attitudes on Bitcoin and Other Virtual Currencies”....
Yield Guild Games has had a very strong start to 2022 despite crypto markets falling steadily throughout the first three months of the year. Yield Guild Games (YGG) has released its Community Update for Q1 2022, revealing that total scholarships rose 39% overall as the guild continues to farm copious amounts of the Axie breeding Smooth Love Potion (SLP) token.The Community Report shows that the month-on-month growth of scholarships in YGG has been strong despite a downturn in the market. January saw 50.13% growth, February saw a 28.8% increase, while March had 41.93% growth fueled by new....
Last week, over 500 attendees and speakers gathered inside New York's TimesCenter for CoinDesk's inaugural conference, Consensus 2015. It was a jam-packed day which bought together industry figures from the banking world, law enforcement, Silicon Valley and beyond to discuss the future use cases of blockchain technology. Away from the stage, the event saw numerous events, including the diversity scholarships, knowledge bars and book signing sessions. Toggle using the arrows below for our highlights, or search using the hashtag #Consensus2015 on Twitter. CoinDesk EventsConsensus 2015Galleries
Boost VC, the first incubator to focus on accelerating bitcoin companies in Silicon Valley, has announced an ambitious plan to help grow the bitcoin industry. Adam Draper, founder and CEO of Boost VC, told CoinDesk: "We are actually, over the next three years, going to be accelerating 200 companies. And 100 of those are going to be bitcoin companies. That's our big stake in the ground." So far, Boost has accelerated 10 bitcoin startups: seven companies in last year's summer session and three in its latest class. "We're just excited about the space," said Draper. "We're going to launch 10....