Scholarships Offered in Consensus 2015 Digital Currency Summit
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....
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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....
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”....
The Digital Currency Summit is just around the corner. This year's edition of the summit is set to take place in Madrid, Spain on April 23, 2015. Digital Currency Summit is a forum that brings together bankers, investors, entrepreneurs, corporates, lawyers, politicians and digital currency enthusiasts from around the world. The main objective of this forum is to understand digital currency, its benefits and impact on the world economy. The event creates a platform for debate on the implications of digital currency for stakeholders of economy, viz. governments, banks, corporates and the....
There are only 21 days to go until Consensus 2015, CoinDesk's inaugural summit on digital currencies and blockchain tech. In honour of the very special nature of the number 21 in the cryptocurrency space (there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins created), we're releasing a limited batch of 2-for-1 Consensus tickets, available for 24 hours only. We've added some great new sponsors and speakers to our lineup recently, including Gyft, Coinbase, Chain, Abra and BNY Mellon. After receiving a great response to our call for Makeathon applications - it was oversubscribed by 300% - we've closed....
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