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Olayinka Odeniran founded the Black Women Blockchain Council (BWBC) in 2018 after attending the North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami that year.
There, just three of 88 speakers were women, with the rest being mostly white men. Its so-called “networking party” was held at a strip club, where several women felt uncomfortable and disappointed.
After experiencing that, “women in the space basically said that they had enough,” Odeniran tells CNBC Make It. “Instead of complaining, we decided to band together and create our own community within each other.”
Though it was incredibly exciting to build a support system of women in crypto, “I started to look around, and I was seeing only a handful of people that look like me. So, I started seeking out other Black women in this space,” she says. Odeniran has since invested in onboarding Black women to the space through the BWBC. The global benefit LLC provides Black women around the world with educational resources to understand blockchain and build wealth.
Continue reading: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/these-women-are-investing-to-fix-cryptos-diversity-problem.html
 

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