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Natalia Ameline on the TechTO stage

Natalia Ameline

Co-founder, CryptoChicks

BlockchainOn TechTO stages since 2017

Natalia Ameline co-founded CryptoChicks in Toronto in 2017 with Elena Sinelnikova, turning a women's blockchain meetup into a non-profit that now runs workshops, hackathons and an academy in dozens of countries. She is a decentralization coordinator at the Metis Foundation, and leads Genesi DAC, a fund within the Metis ecosystem programme.

On the TechTO stage ×1

TECHTO FINTECHTO8:16

CryptoChicks present Blockchain Knowledge Distribution

FintechTO · November 2017
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Natalia ↗

In their words

A blockchain is just a decentralized accounting ledger, nothing more.

TechTO FintechTO, Nov 2017 · watch at 03:42 ↗

Crypto-economics is what holds the blockchain together and keeps it going.

TechTO FintechTO, Nov 2017 · watch at 04:58 ↗

If a miner decides to cook the books and change the history, the participants of the network will quickly realize that, and as a result they will miss out on the reward — in the meantime still paying for electricity, for hardware.

TechTO FintechTO, Nov 2017 · watch at 06:14 ↗
A few quotes can’t cover everything Natalia said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Natalia ↗

Around the web ×1

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Quick answers

Who is Natalia Ameline?

A co-founder of CryptoChicks, the Toronto-founded non-profit teaching blockchain and AI to women and youth, and a decentralization coordinator at the Metis Foundation.

What did she present at TechTO?

The mechanics of blockchain at the November 2017 FintechTO — what a ledger contains, how blocks are mined, and how economic rewards and penalties keep the record honest.

How did CryptoChicks start?

As a Toronto meetup in 2017 that Ameline and Elena Sinelnikova organised for women wanting to learn blockchain; more than fifty people turned up to the first session.

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