Past Event

Momentum & Milestones: 2023

The 6th Annual Black Blockchain Summit blended innovation, culture, and community with tech-driven panels, pitch competitions, and a powerful celebration of Black excellence.

Location

Howard University D.C.

Date

Sep, 2023

Organizers

BillMari, BitHub Africa

Black Blockchain Summit 2023 (6th Annual)

The sixth annual summit continued to build momentum, featuring an array of high-profile and community-driven events. AfriBlocks again served as co-host, helping unite a diverse community at Howard University. The summit opened with the Dr. Gary L. Harris Memorial Reception on Capitol Hill, setting an optimistic tone for leveraging technology in service of community. A prominent roundtable discussion focused on peaceful tech solutions to address violence in Black communities, exploring the use of big data, machine learning, and blockchain for social impact. The event also included an exciting startup pitch competition in collaboration with MaC Venture Capital, spotlighting innovative Black founders and awarding top ventures. In a memorable finale, the summit concluded with a cultural celebration — a live performance by the legendary hip-hop group Dead Prez, honoring hip-hop’s 50th anniversary and underscoring the movement’s unity of technology and Black culture. This multi-faceted program exemplified the Summit’s commitment to empowerment, innovation, and community uplift.

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Relevant Event

Progress Through Innovation: 2024

Howard University D.C.

The 7th Annual Black Blockchain Summit showcased innovation and empowerment through blockchain-focused workshops and community engagement.

Sep, 2024

It’s the sixth annual Black Blockchain Summit, and organizers are quietly removing a couple rows of chairs from the room. The Howard University auditorium we’re in looks a third empty. There are at most 100 people in the crowd today—a far cry from the 1,500 who attended the summit over three days last year, when Sam Bankman-Fried was still hailed as crypto’s boy wonder. Now, in late September, he’s weeks away from being convicted for an $8 billion fraud scheme.

It is a space for discussing the relationship between money and man, the powers that be and what they have done with power. Online and in person, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., an estimated 1,500 mostly Black people have gathered to talk about crypto—decentralized digital money backed not by governments but by blockchain technology, a secure means of recording transactions—as a way to make money while disrupting centuries-long patterns of oppression.

Inside the World of Black Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency started out as mostly a hobby for tech-savvy, financial wizards who had money to play with — cultivating an image of its users as young, White “Bitcoin bros.” But today, a growing number of Americans of color are participating in the $2 trillion global industry as a way to build wealth outside the traditional banking system, which many say has historically excluded and discriminated against their communities.

It’s the sixth annual Black Blockchain Summit, and organizers are quietly removing a couple rows of chairs from the room. The Howard University auditorium we’re in looks a third empty. There are at most 100 people in the crowd today—a far cry from the 1,500 who attended the summit over three days last year, when Sam Bankman-Fried was still hailed as crypto’s boy wonder. Now, in late September, he’s weeks away from being convicted for an $8 billion fraud scheme.

It is a space for discussing the relationship between money and man, the powers that be and what they have done with power. Online and in person, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., an estimated 1,500 mostly Black people have gathered to talk about crypto—decentralized digital money backed not by governments but by blockchain technology, a secure means of recording transactions—as a way to make money while disrupting centuries-long patterns of oppression.

Inside the World of Black Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency started out as mostly a hobby for tech-savvy, financial wizards who had money to play with — cultivating an image of its users as young, White “Bitcoin bros.” But today, a growing number of Americans of color are participating in the $2 trillion global industry as a way to build wealth outside the traditional banking system, which many say has historically excluded and discriminated against their communities.

It’s the sixth annual Black Blockchain Summit, and organizers are quietly removing a couple rows of chairs from the room. The Howard University auditorium we’re in looks a third empty. There are at most 100 people in the crowd today—a far cry from the 1,500 who attended the summit over three days last year, when Sam Bankman-Fried was still hailed as crypto’s boy wonder. Now, in late September, he’s weeks away from being convicted for an $8 billion fraud scheme.

It is a space for discussing the relationship between money and man, the powers that be and what they have done with power. Online and in person, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., an estimated 1,500 mostly Black people have gathered to talk about crypto—decentralized digital money backed not by governments but by blockchain technology, a secure means of recording transactions—as a way to make money while disrupting centuries-long patterns of oppression.

Inside the World of Black Bitcoin. Cryptocurrency started out as mostly a hobby for tech-savvy, financial wizards who had money to play with — cultivating an image of its users as young, White “Bitcoin bros.” But today, a growing number of Americans of color are participating in the $2 trillion global industry as a way to build wealth outside the traditional banking system, which many say has historically excluded and discriminated against their communities.

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