sat down with the founders of CryptoChicks in 2023 (one of them is vitalik's mom)

Interviewed Natalia Ameline and Elena Sinelnikova at Blockchain Futurist Conference in 2023, been sitting on the footage way too long lol.

Natalia is actually Vitalik Buterin's mom, she got into crypto because he asked her to set up an eth wallet and she spent hours just trying to figure it out. Realized there was basically no one else like her in the room at these events, so she and Elena started CryptoChicks. Its grown into a full nonprofit now with chapters in like 9 countries.

They get into why representation actually matters in this space beyond just being a buzzword, some cool stuff that came out of their incubator program, and the hackathon culture in general. Elena has this rainbow metaphor for diversity in the space that stuck with me.

Not trying to spam the sub, just thought this community would actually appreciate it since a lot of us started out exactly as confused as she did lol