'More than a place to hang out online, McIntyre says the group has a mission to launch an accelerator for Black-led blockchain startups.'
, which was one of the first blogs targeting Black people, and Sinclair Skinner that I noticed being interviewed or randomly discussing crypto. It didn’t seem like everyone was connected.: Along with Bob Ponce, who I knew from New York and the dot.com world, and two others, we decided we would launch the group on Facebook. Facebook was where Black people were at since there was no more BlackPlanet.
These people work by saying, “You don’t need to know how this works.” That’s your tip to just run. We try to impress on people to learn as much as you can from everyone you can. Be loyal to no one brand and question everything. And then, after you’ve done that, if someone can defend what they’re doing like a dissertation, then make your decision on whether you want to enter that route or another route.
We just searched everything from Twitter to LinkedIn and looked at links that people provided, whether personal websites or organizations. We put the list together because it was the second year at the Black in Blockchain Summit and yet, going into the second year, a lot of the conference wasn’t talking about Black people in this space.
Moguldom: I saw in the group, someone mentioned only wanting to use one exchange. You seemed to feel otherwise. For those starting out, how do they choose an exchange to purchase their cryptocurrency and how can they go about choosing a wallet to store it?: Search engines are still an excellent tool. My process has always been to look at multi-coin wallet reviews. You will come up with many bloggers and other independent people doing YouTube videos. Start watching them and see what people say.
I think you do run into sexism in every industry. You just kind of deal with the person on a person-to-person basis. In terms of racism, I just stick with the content. I know in this crypto space there are racist libertarians, but I’m not necessarily looking at the racists, I’m looking at what they’re saying, the value of the product they’re pitching and judge for myself on whether it has a value to our community or not.
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