Happy International Women's day!!!

We recorded this episode in light of International Women's day during Fintech week in Japan. Although I could genuinely speak to her for hours about her career as a US federal prosecutor and chief of legal at Chainalysis (!), I wanted to talk about something related to #CryptoGirls and #WomenInCrypto.

I hope this conversation shines a light on some of the much needed work that is yet to be done in the gender equity space in fintech/crypto/blockchain industry (side note: let's bring back the word crypto).

Amanda is Principal at Incite Consulting and CEO/Founder of the Association for Women in Crypto (AWIC).

If you are a student, AWIC membership is free, and if you are a professional, you will need to pay for AWIC, however, I can testify to the quality of the network. The support and involvement that you will get from it will be worth every cent. (I am not getting paid to write this, it is a genuine pitch!)

I really hope you enjoyed this episode, and if you did, please don't forget to give us a quick review or follow us @cryptogirlshq on your fav social media platform. This really helps CryptoGirls get more quality guests on like Amanda and spread all the good info to you all ❤️

Lots of love

CGHQ xx

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About your host:

Nikita is a graduate student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics. She studies market design and has a special interest in blockchain and cryptography.

On February 6, 2024, there was a Solana blockchain outage that lasted 5 hours. Transactions completely stopped during this time. The outage was fixed with an update to the Solana Labs validator code to version 1.17.20.

There were a few things we noticed that were astray, some things that have been obviously going on for years, but things that Nikita thinks shouldn't be happening in 2024.

Show notes:

The Coindesk article mentioned:

You can check the Solana validator numbers here at solanabeach.io. At the time of recording there were over 1600 active validators and a superminority of 21.

The Two Solana validator clients:

The two teams that are working on new Solana validator clients (this is good news if you're a Solana fan):

CryptoGirls is an educational platform designed for young women to learn more about blockchain technology. We aim to provide curated and reliable information for women wanting to explore blockchain-related business applications and/or creative endeavors.

Host:

Nikita is a graduate student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics. She studies market design and has a special interest in blockchain and cryptography.

60 cents out of every dollar goes towards running the costs of a charity. What if we could make something that could radically change that and ensure that over 99% over our donation would directly help those in need?

Connect with The Wellbeing Protocol at their website: https://www.thewellbeingprotocol.org/

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CryptoGirls is an educational platform designed for young women to learn more about Web3/Blockchain technology. We aim to be a trustworthy, reliable, and practical source of information for women wanting to explore blockchain-related business applications and/or creative endeavors.

On today’s episode, Nikita welcomes Matthew Ketchum, one of Tokyo's most well-known business consultants across real estate, technology and music. We explore why and how crypto has become so useless as a payment mechanism, the crypto industry carrying over exploitative norms from the finance industry, and the crypto bro culture surrounding so much of the industry.

Welcome to Part 2 of Crypto Girls’ Janine Grainger Interview. We’ll be covering some of the more technical sides to her exchange business, including wallets, blockchain, privacy, and AML.

Janine Grainger from Easy Crypto is one of New Zealand’s biggest tech CEO and founders, running the Easy Crypto New Zealand, Australia and now South Africa. In this episode, we are thrilled to be talking to her about her business, career path and entrepreneurship tips.The CryptoGirls co-hosts are Sophie and Nikita, who specialise in Law and Market Design respectively.

Nikita and Sophie deep dive into the SEC suit against Binance (and Coinbase)... will this be the end for CZ?

The DAO attack is a piece of blockchain history that you probably want to know. 

On the 17th of June, 2016, an unknown attacker started syphoning out thousands of dollars worth of ETH every second out of "The DAO". 

The attacker managed to take 3.5 ETH (back then worth ~$50m), which eventually pressured the lead Ethereum community to hard fork the Ethereum blockchain on July 20, 2016.

Some helpful links that were mentioned in the podcast 

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Sophie and Nikita talk about the Mount Gox bankruptcy, which was the first major crypto-industry bankruptcy that really shook the world to its senses about how cryptocurrency would change the financial and legal industries.

About the hosts:

Nikita is a Master's student at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics, and Sophie is a lawyer practising at one of New Zealand's top law firm.

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CryptoGirls podcast hosts Sophie & Nikita take a deep dive into the 2022 Celsius bankruptcy - one of the many bankruptcies in 2022 that shook the crypto industry and sent token prices plummeting.