The Women In Bitcoin That CoinTelegraph Forgot

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A week ago, CoinTelegraph published a “women who kicked ass successful crypto” portion successful which lone 1 non-American oregon non-European pistillate (Maya Parbhoe) was mentioned.

Because I consciousness that what’s happening with Bitcoin successful Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Southeast Asia — regions wherever bitcoin is much often utilized arsenic a currency and a wealth of past edifice — is acold much breathtaking than what’s happening successful the United States and Europe, I’m present archer you astir immoderate ladies successful the Bitcoin abstraction from these regions who kicked ass successful 2024.

Farida Bemba Nabourema — Nabourema is simply a long-time activistic and quality rights defender, primitively from Togo. She’s besides the superior organizer for the African Bitcoin Conference, which, for the past 3 years, has provided Africans with an unthinkable accidental to contiguous to and web with Bitcoiners from astir the globe.

Reyna Chicas — Chicas is simply a Salvadoran was promoted to Director of Education for Mi Primer Bitcoin this year, and she besides sits connected the organization’s committee of directors. Her travel successful Bitcoin started conscionable 2 years agone erstwhile she went to the Adopting Bitcoin league successful El Salvador arsenic an attendee.

Roya Mahboob — Mahboob is 1 of Afghanistan’s archetypal pistillate tech CEOs. She besides founded the Digital Citizen Fund, a non-profit aimed astatine improving technological literacy of Afghan women. This year, she’s continued successful her efforts to make IT centers for girls successful precocious schools crossed Afghanistan and besides bring her acquisition exemplary to schools successful Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal.

Dea Rezkitha — Rezkitha is the Community Master for Southeast Asia for Fedi and co-founder of the Indonesian Bitcoin Community and the Indonesia Bitcoin Conference. Aside from keeping up with her duties for Fedi this year, Rezkitha toured the satellite speaking astir her enactment astatine events similar the Oslo Freedom Forum and Bitcoin 2024.

Lorraine Marcel — Marcel, based successful Kenya, is the laminitis of Bitcoin Dada, a virtual Bitcoin acquisition level and sisterhood for African women. She was besides awarded the Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2024 grant by the African Bitcoiners group.

Kenyan Lorraine Marcel (@marcelorraine) is our Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2024!

Through @btc_dada and @DadaDevs she empowers leaders similar @waithiraah, @LindaKariu54810, @noelynesumba and galore others, creating a ripple effect which is changing Africa forever.
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Isabella Santos — Santos is simply a co-founder of the Mexican Bitcoin assemblage BTC Isla, based successful Isla Mujeres arsenic good arsenic a co-founder of the Bitcoin media outlet Get Based (which precocious released a slayer documentary entitled “How The Federal Reserve Secretly Enslaved The World”). Beyond that, she continued to circuit the globe this twelvemonth arsenic the big of Bitcoin Backstage, bringing you immoderate juicy takes from backstage astatine the world’s biggest Bitcoin conferences.

Noelyne Sumba — Sumba, based successful Kenya, oversees “orange-pilling operations” for Machankura, a Bitcoin Lightning wallet that tin beryllium utilized connected diagnostic phones. Also, successful 2024, Saifedean Ammous’ classical The Bitcoin Standard was published successful Swahili and Abdi acknowledgment to Sumba’s assistance successful translating the text.

Hadiya Masieh — Masieh is based successful London but was calved to Mauritian and Ugandan parents. She’s the laminitis of the Groundswell Project, an enactment that works to foster bid and empathy amongst divers communities. She gave a speech astatine the “Oslo Freedom Forum” this twelvemonth entitled “How Bitcoin Can Fund Counter-Terrorism”, successful which she highlighted however she’s taught Somali women however to usage bitcoin for governmental fundraising to assistance enactment pistillate candidates successful the country.

Janet Maingi — Maingi, based successful Kenya, is simply a co-founder of Gridless Compute, a institution that not lone mined bitcoin successful Africa profitably this past twelvemonth but besides helped bring electrification to agrarian regions of Africa.

Mary Imasuen — Imasuen, who is of Nigerian and Filipino descent and based successful Nigeria, is the Global Marketing Manager for Fedi and a self-described “bitcoin-only gamer” who often speaks successful enactment of THNDR Games. While Imasuen wasn’t touring the satellite discussing her enactment successful 2024, you could perceive from her arsenic a podcast impermanent oregon connected a gaming stream

Honorable mentions: Renata Rodrigues (Head of Marketing and Community astatine Fedi, primitively from Brazil), Lorena Ortiz (Latin America Community Master astatine Fedi, based successful Mexico), Edith Mpumwire (Ugandan Community Manager for Bitcoin Dada and protagonist of Bitcoin Kampala), Sabina Gitau (co-founder of Tando, based successful Kenya), Efrat Fenigson (host of the “You’re The Voice” podcast, based successful Israel)

And I’m going to springiness a speedy outcry retired to immoderate atrocious ass ladies who crushed it this twelvemonth from Europe, the U.S. oregon elsewhere: Caitlin Long (the US-based CEO of Custodia Bank started a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve successful 2024), Susie Violet Ward (the UK-based Bitcoin writer and CEO of Bitcoin Policy UK wrote extensively astir the dangers of over-regulating the Bitcoin manufacture successful the UK and Europe this year), Umi Miyahara (the Japanese-American Business Development Lead astatine Breez, who helped facilitate galore caller partnerships for Breez successful 2024), DJ Valerie B Love (the US-based originative who launched an exceptional virtual conference this year), NiftyNei (who launched the Base58 acquisition platform this year), Gloria Zhao (a Bitcoin halfway dev who does an fantabulous occupation successful distilling however Bitcoin works), Ella Hough (who helped Cornell University motorboat its first autarkic Bitcoin-focused survey program) and L0la L33tz (the autarkic writer did an unthinkable enactment successful covering privateness arsenic it pertains to Bitcoin and crypto for her work The Rage).

I cognize determination are an innumerable fig of women successful the Bitcoin abstraction who neither I nor CoinTelegraph acknowledged.

To those women, I apologize for not being capable to acceptable you into this piece, but I convey you for your enactment and contributions to the Bitcoin space.

This nonfiction is simply a Take. Opinions expressed are wholly the author's and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.