{"id":32779,"date":"2025-01-02T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=32779"},"modified":"2025-01-02T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T16:05:44","slug":"the-women-in-bitcoin-that-cointelegraph-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=32779","title":{"rendered":"The Women In Bitcoin That CoinTelegraph Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow Frank on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A week ago, CoinTelegraph<\/em> published a \u201cwomen who kicked ass in crypto\u201d<\/a> piece in which only one non-American or non-European woman (Maya Parbhoe<\/a>) was mentioned.<\/p>\n

Because I feel that what\u2019s happening with Bitcoin in Africa, Latin America, The Middle East and Southeast Asia \u2014 regions where bitcoin is more often used as a currency and a money of last resort \u2014 is far more exciting than what\u2019s happening in the United States and Europe, I\u2019m here tell you about some ladies in the Bitcoin space from these regions who kicked ass in 2024.<\/p>\n

Farida Bemba Nabourema<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Nabourema is a long-time activist and human rights defender, originally from Togo. She\u2019s also the primary organizer for the African Bitcoin Conference<\/a>, which, for the last three years, has provided Africans with an incredible opportunity to present to and network with Bitcoiners from around the globe.<\/p>\n

Reyna Chicas<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Chicas is a Salvadoran was promoted to Director of Education for Mi Primer Bitcoin this year<\/a>, and she also sits on the organization\u2019s board of directors. Her journey in Bitcoin started just two years ago when she went to the Adopting Bitcoin conference in El Salvador<\/a> as an attendee.<\/p>\n

Roya Mahboob<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Mahboob is one of Afghanistan\u2019s first female tech CEOs. She also founded the Digital Citizen Fund<\/a>, a non-profit aimed at improving technological literacy of Afghan women. This year, she\u2019s continued in her efforts to create IT centers for girls in high schools across Afghanistan and also bring her education model to schools in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal.<\/p>\n

Dea Rezkitha<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Rezkitha is the Community Master for Southeast Asia for Fedi<\/a> and co-founder of the Indonesian Bitcoin Community and the Indonesia Bitcoin Conference<\/a>. Aside from keeping up with her duties for Fedi this year, Rezkitha toured the world speaking about her work at events like the Oslo Freedom Forum<\/a> and Bitcoin 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lorraine Marcel<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Marcel, based in Kenya, is the founder of Bitcoin Dada<\/a>, a virtual Bitcoin education platform and sisterhood for African women. She was also awarded the Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2024 award by the African Bitcoiners group.<\/p>\n

Kenyan Lorraine Marcel (@marcelorraine<\/a>) is our Most Impactful African Bitcoiner of 2024!<\/p>\n

Through @btc_dada<\/a> and @DadaDevs<\/a> she empowers leaders like @waithiraah<\/a>, @LindaKariu54810<\/a>, @noelynesumba<\/a> and many others, creating a ripple effect which is changing Africa forever.
More\ud83d\udc47 pic.twitter.com\/W84gicWVs1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 African Bitcoiners \u26a1 (@afribitcoiners) December 11, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Isabella Santos<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Santos is a co-founder of the Mexican Bitcoin community BTC Isla<\/a>, based in Isla Mujeres as well as a co-founder of the Bitcoin media outlet Get Based<\/a> (which recently released a killer documentary entitled \u201cHow The Federal Reserve Secretly Enslaved The World\u201d<\/a>). Beyond that, she continued to tour the globe this year as the host of Bitcoin Backstage<\/a>, bringing you some juicy takes from backstage at the world\u2019s biggest Bitcoin conferences.<\/p>\n

Noelyne Sumba<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Sumba, based in Kenya, oversees \u201corange-pilling operations\u201d for Machankura<\/a>, a Bitcoin Lightning wallet that can be used on feature phones. Also, in 2024, Saifedean Ammous\u2019 classic The Bitcoin Standard<\/em> was published in Swahili and Abdi thanks to Sumba\u2019s help in translating the text.<\/p>\n

Hadiya Masieh<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Masieh is based in London but was born to Mauritian and Ugandan parents. She\u2019s the founder of the Groundswell Project<\/a>, an organization that works to foster peace and empathy amongst diverse communities. She gave a talk at the \u201cOslo Freedom Forum\u201d this year entitled \u201cHow Bitcoin Can Fund Counter-Terrorism\u201d<\/a>, in which she highlighted how she\u2019s taught Somali women how to use bitcoin for political fundraising to help support female candidates in the country.<\/p>\n

Janet Maingi<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 Maingi, based in Kenya, is a co-founder of Gridless Compute<\/a>, a company that not only mined bitcoin in Africa profitably this past year but also helped bring electrification to rural regions of Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mary Imasuen<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 Imasuen, who is of Nigerian and Filipino descent and based in Nigeria, is the Global Marketing Manager for Fedi and a self-described \u201cbitcoin-only gamer\u201d who often speaks in support of THNDR Games<\/a>. While Imasuen wasn\u2019t touring the world discussing her work in 2024, you could hear from her as a podcast guest or on a gaming stream<\/p>\n

Honorable mentions<\/strong>: Renata Rodrigues<\/a> (Head of Marketing and Community at Fedi, originally from Brazil), Lorena Ortiz<\/a> (Latin America Community Master at Fedi, based in Mexico), Edith Mpumwire<\/a> (Ugandan Community Manager for Bitcoin Dada and supporter of Bitcoin Kampala<\/a>), Sabina Gitau<\/a> (co-founder of Tando<\/a>, based in Kenya), Efrat Fenigson<\/a> (host of the \u201cYou\u2019re The Voice\u201d<\/a> podcast, based in Israel)<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m going to give a quick shout out to some bad ass ladies who crushed it this year from Europe, the U.S. or elsewhere: Caitlin Long<\/a> (the US-based CEO of Custodia Bank started a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve<\/a> in 2024), Susie Violet Ward<\/a> (the UK-based Bitcoin journalist and CEO of Bitcoin Policy UK wrote extensively about the dangers of over-regulating the Bitcoin industry in the UK and Europe this year), Umi Miyahara<\/a> (the Japanese-American Business Development Lead at Breez<\/a>,\u00a0who helped facilitate many new partnerships for Breez in 2024),\u00a0DJ Valerie B Love<\/a> (the US-based creative who launched an exceptional virtual conference this year),\u00a0NiftyNei<\/a>\u00a0(who launched the Base58 education platform<\/a> this year), Gloria Zhao<\/a> (Bitcoin core dev who does an excellent job in distilling how Bitcoin works<\/a>)\u00a0and L0la L33tz<\/a> (the independent journalist did an incredible job of covering privacy as it pertains to Bitcoin and crypto for her publication The Rage<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I know there are an innumerable number of women in the Bitcoin space who neither I nor CoinTelegraph<\/em> acknowledged.<\/p>\n

To those women, I apologize for not being able to fit you into this piece, but I thank you for your work and contributions to the Bitcoin space.<\/p>\n

This article is a <\/em>Take<\/em><\/a>. Opinions expressed are entirely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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