The crypto-future is female: bitcoin innovators push for inclusion

At the world's largest blockchain conference, female leaders in the industry sought to shake off bitcoin's boyish image

"Satoshi is female" was one of the more pervasive slogans at Consensus 2018, the world's largest blockchain conference that saw thousands of crypto-believers descend on midtown New York for a packed, three-day meet-and-greet last week.

Satoshi refers to Satoshi Nakamoto, the still mysterious creator of Bitcoin who has never been identified but who, nonetheless, is credited as the founding father of cryptocurrency, or a digital form of money, and blockchain, a public and uneditable system for recording transactions. Both developments are hailed by their evangelists as potentially revolutionary technological tools.