by MAX YAKUBOWSKI
Meet the speakers of Cointelegraph Talks: Christopher Wood — Executive director and co-founder at LGBTTech, Erik Lamontage — Senior Economist at UNAIDS, Christof Wittig — Hornet’s co-founder and CEO, Joe DiPasquale — CEO at BitBull Capital, Dr Jane Thomason — Chief Inspiration Officer at Fintech.TV and former CEO at Fintech Worldwide, Sean Howell — co-founder at LGBT Foundation, Chair at Tech4HIV, Susan Oh — Co-founder and CEO at Muckr
AI Max Yakubowski, Cointelegraph's Opinion Editor, will be hosting the meeting.
Yesterday, Cointelegraph hosted another episode of “CT Talks,” dedicated to Pride Month and addressing important questions on diversity, inclusion, stigmatization, acceptance, challenges and opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community in the crypto and blockchain space.
For many people — mostly heterosexuals — the terms “blockchain” and “LGBTQ+” used so close together might seem irrelevant. For those who are a part of the community, as I am, it is perfectly natural to raise this topic within the space, combining these discourses.
Emerging technologies such as crypto, blockchain, AI and big data have already made an enormous impact on people all over the world, and the LGBTQ+ community is no exception. There are myriad potential benefits that these technologies can bring to the community, and we are still only at the early stages of its implementation. I personally believe that a lot of great things will appear in the near future.
Christopher Wood, the co-founder and executive director at LGBT Tech, spoke about the LGBTQ+ community and how it can help in terms of adoption and implementation:
“The LGBTQ+ community has always been an early adopter of technology because of the fact it could create an opportunity for the community, for us, for people who were really isolated or felt that they were alone. [...] Newer technologies allow our community to put money where their month is, to go ahead and support causes they really care about.”
Susan Oh, the founder and CEO at Muckr.AI, while speaking about technology highlighted that blockchain possess a great philosophy behind it that brings value to the tech:
“The most important thing to understand about the technology is that it can only amplify the philosophy. [...] There are great opportunities to democratize value. [...] We get to look at the value by its utility, by how it serves us. And we can do it peer-to-peer. It’s a beautiful philosophy.”