a week ago, CoinTelegraph published a <a target="_blank" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/women-who-kicked-ass-in-crypto-2024″>”women who kicked butt in crypto“ piece in which only one non-American, non-European woman (Maya Parbhoe) is mentioned.
Because I feel that what is happening with bitcoin in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia (regions where bitcoin is most often used as a currency and money of last resort) is much more exciting than what is happening in the United States and Europe, I'm here to tell you about some women in the bitcoin space from these regions kicking ass in 2024.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/Farida_N”>Farida Bemba Nabourema — Nabourema is a long-time activist and human rights defender originally from Togo. She is also the main organizer of the African bitcoin Conferencewhich, for the past three years, has given Africans an incredible opportunity to introduce themselves and network with Bitcoiners from around the world.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/ReynaChicas2″>Reyna Girls — Chicas is Salvadoran and was promoted to Education Director of Mi Primer bitcoin this year, and also serves on the organization's board of directors. His bitcoin journey began just two years ago when he went to Conference on bitcoin adoption in El Salvador as assistant.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/RoyaMahboob”>Roya Mahboob — Mahboob is one of Afghanistan's first female technology CEOs. She also founded the Digital Citizen Funda non-profit organization whose goal is to improve the technological literacy of Afghan women. This year, it has continued its efforts to create IT centers for girls in secondary schools across Afghanistan and also bring its educational model to schools in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/dearezkitha”>Dar Rezkith — Rezkitha is the Community Master for Southeast Asia at Fedi and co-founder of the Indonesian bitcoin Community and the Indonesia bitcoin Conference. In addition to keeping up with her duties for Fedi this year, Rezkitha toured the world speaking about her work at events such as the Oslo Freedom Forum and bitcoin 2024.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/marcelorraine”>Lorena Marcelo — Marcel, based in Kenya, is the founder of bitcoin Dada virtual bitcoin education and sisterhood platform for African women. He also received the Most Impactful African Bitcoiner Award of 2024 by the African Bitcoiners group.
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Kenyan Lorraine Marcel (<a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/marcelorraine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@marcelorraine) is our most impactful African Bitcoiner of 2024.
Through <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/btc_dada?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@btc_dada and <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/DadaDevs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@DadaDevs she empowers leaders like <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/waithiraah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@waithiraah, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/LindaKariu54810?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@LindaKariu54810, <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/noelynesumba?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@noelynesumba and many others, creating a domino effect that is changing Africa forever.
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– African Bitcoiners (@afribitcoiners) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/afribitcoiners/status/1866825454675431618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 11, 2024
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/isabellasg3″>Isabella Santos — Santos is a co-founder of the Mexican bitcoin community. btc Islandbased in Isla Mujeres and co-founder of the bitcoin media. Get base (who recently released a spectacular documentary titled “How the Federal Reserve Secretly Enslaved the World”). Beyond that, she continued touring the world this year as host of bitcoin behind the sceneswhich brings you some juicy shots from backstage at the world's biggest bitcoin conferences.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/noelynesumba”>Noelyne Sumba — Kenya-based Sumba oversees “orange picking operations” for they are drunka bitcoin Lightning wallet that can be used on feature phones. Plus, in 2024, Saifedean's classic Ammous The bitcoin Standard It was published in Swahili and Abdi thanks to Sumba's help in translating the text.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/MasiehH”>The gift of Christ — Masieh lives in London but was born to Mauritian and Ugandan parents. She is the founder of the surge projectan organization that works to foster peace and empathy among diverse communities. This year he gave a talk at the “Oslo Freedom Forum” titled “How bitcoin can finance the fight against terrorism”in which she highlighted how she taught Somali women how to use bitcoin to raise political funds to help support female candidates in the country.
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/nduku_jay”>Janet Maingi
<a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/mary_imasuen”>Mary Imasuen — Imasuen, of Nigerian and Filipino descent and based in Nigeria, is Fedi's global marketing director and a self-described “exclusive bitcoin player” who often speaks out in support of THNDR Games. While Imasuen wasn't touring the world talking about her work in 2024, she could be heard as a guest on a podcast or on a game stream.
Honorable mentions: <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/lobaestrangeira”>Renata Rodrigues (Head of Marketing and Community at Fedi, originally from Brazil), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/lorebitcoin”>Lorena Ortiz (Latin America Community Master at Fedi, based in Mexico), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/mpumwiredith”>Edith Mpuwire (Ugandan community manager for bitcoin Dada and supporter of <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/BitcoinKampala/status/1874386669819883576″>bitcoin Kampala), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/waithiraah”>Sabina Gitau (co-founder of Tando, based in Kenya), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/efenigson”>Euphrates Fenigson (host of “You are the voice” podcast, based in Israel)
And I'm going to briefly congratulate some badass women who made it big this year from Europe, the United States or anywhere else: <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/CaitlinLong_”>Caitlin Long (The CEO of US-based Custodia Bank started a lawsuit against the Federal Reserve in 2024), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/DecentraSuze”>susie violet room (UK-based bitcoin journalist and CEO of bitcoin Policy UK wrote extensively about the dangers of over-regulation of the bitcoin industry in the UK and Europe this year), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/miyaharaumi”>Umi Miyahara (the Japanese-American business development leader at Breez, who helped facilitate many new partnerships for Breez in 2024), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/djvalerieblove”>DJ Valerie B Love (the US-based creative who launched an exceptional virtual conference this year), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/niftynei”>NiftyNei (who launched the Base58 educational platform this year), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/glozow”>Gloria Zhao (a core bitcoin developer who does excellent work on distilling how bitcoin works), <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/21mmforthe21st”>Ella Hughes (who helped Cornell University launch its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/01/30/cornell-rsh-college-scholar-program-approves-bitcoin-focused-study/”>first independent study program focused on bitcoin) and <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/L0laL33tz”>L0la L33tz (The freelance journalist did an incredible job covering privacy as it relates to bitcoin and cryptocurrencies for her publication. The rage).
I know there are countless women in the bitcoin space that neither I nor CoinTelegraph admitted.
To those women, I apologize for not being able to include you in this article, but I thank you for your work and contributions to the bitcoin space.
This article is a Carry. The opinions expressed are entirely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of btc Inc or bitcoin Magazine.
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