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Progress Through Innovation: 2024

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

Location

Howard University D.C.

Date

Sep, 2024

Organizers

BillMari, BitHub Africa

Black Blockchain Summit 2024 (7th Annual)

The seventh annual summit solidified the Black Blockchain Summit as a groundbreaking event at the intersection of technology and social change, now seven years running. Key activities this year emphasized hands-on innovation and inclusive participation. A two-day Bitcoin & Lightning Network workshop engaged developers and enthusiasts in building practical blockchain solutions, culminating in a hackathon and pitch competition with cash prizes for the top teams. In addition, the summit introduced an essay contest to involve students and community members, with winners recognized for their insights on blockchain empowerment. Through expert-led masterclasses and applied science workshops, attendees explored advanced topics like smart contracts, decentralized finance, and Web3 opportunities. The 7th Annual Summit continued to advance the conversation on how emerging blockchain technologies can be harnessed to foster economic empowerment, closing the event with actionable takeaways and a strengthened network of Black blockchain pioneers.

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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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