 Live from Toronto, Canada, it's theCUBE. Covering Blockchain Futurist Conference 2018. Brought to you by theCUBE. Hey, welcome back everyone. We're live here in Toronto for the Blockchain Futurist Conference put on by Untraceable. Tracing our team to a fantastic job. Just shout out to the team at Untraceable for another great event. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. My coach Dave Vellante. We're here with CUBE friend, CUBE alumni from the Crypto Chicks, Natalia Hearn, director. Good to see you. Great to have you back. Thank you. Good to see you. We're laughing because we had some great funny stories we've been telling since Polycomp. But really some great things going on. So give us the update. You had a hackathon recently. You got new things happening, your organization. Take a quick minute to explain what it is. The folks that don't know what you guys do. All right. And what's going on. Good, well Crypto Chicks is an organization focused on educating women in blockchain and crypto space. We started because at meetups there would be one or two women out of hundreds of men who would be afraid to ask stupid questions. So we said, okay, there's no stupid questions. Come and join us and we'll show you how to open a wallet, what blockchain is all about. So we've been doing that. We've actually grew quite a bit. We now have chapters in all over the world in Pakistan, in Bahamas, in Moscow. We just teamed up with SheCodes in Israel which is 50,000 women. So we're doing really well. Congratulations. It's a great mission. We totally support it. And I'm proud to say that I love my shirt that says Satoshi is female. Thanks to Nyla Rogers gave it to me at Constance's and Blockchain Week in New York. But this is really beyond women in tech. It's beyond that. It's a really, you're doing some innovative things around onboarding new talent and education. This is really important because the internet is bounded on discovery, learning. Absolutely. What's the new thing? Well, you know what you hear? We go to this blockchain conference and events and we hear again and again about the chasm. How do we bridge the chasm, right? This is the big word that you hear like every third presentation because the blockchain community needs it. But I think globally, blockchain represents something that's quite unique. And it's an opportunity not just to make money and speculate or to develop new technology. It's a technology that can liberate. But how do we get that message across? And I think we have to start with kids. Kids are a future, but they're also the ones who spend most of their time on social media. So that's a good thing. But if you ask the parents, that's not such a good thing necessarily. So how do we convert them some of their time from social media to learning? So we're putting together this program that focuses on children to earn, to learn. Earn to learn, like they earn coins or money? That's right. Basically they can earn swag. So basically we're creating the marketplace that rewards children for learning. All kids, right? All kids. We're focusing on girls. Not on girls. We're going to high school, so immediate generation. So girls, boys, everybody's welcome. Absolutely, yep. Awesome. Next generation, and they're the next generation. That's to solve the problems that we, and opportunities can be captured that's coming right to their front door. Absolutely, we have a lot of question marks in the blockchain community. You know, which blockchain? How do we do it? It's going to be multi-chain tokens. We're talking about next generation is the one who's going to provide solutions for us. So we got to open their minds and to show that blockchain is a tool like potentially calculus is a tool, right? To create something that hasn't been there before. You know, I have a lot of conversations in Silicon Valley and Natalia recently at the Google Cloud event. Google's been very much a great change agent, especially with women in tech and underrepresented minorities. But a partner, Cygna, who's one of the senior people there, dual degrees from Stanford, she's got a PhD. She said we're losing the girls early. And what came out of it was the conversation that when you have these new market movements like blockchain, AI, these are new skills that you can level up. So the ability to come from behind and level up is an opportunity for people who have traditionally been behind, whether it's women or women right now, to level up. So it's a huge opportunity now to put the naysayers down to rest and saying, screw you, we're going to level up and learn. Absolutely, and it's global. It's nothing stopping anyone from learning. Absolutely, and trust and the borderless system that blockchain potentially can provide is a global advantage. You can be, as long as you have a cell phone and you can be in a village, remote village, like at our last hackathon, we actually were streaming women hackers from Zimbabwe. So there you go, it's doable. So how are you scaling your message globally? So we're starting, one thing is that education today is basically the bill is being paid either by the government or by parents. I would like, the reason I would call it a marketplace, I would like companies to be involved. And it could be local companies or could be global. What about creating AR, VR classrooms? And providing the information to kids, they are completely new way that they would actually move away from swiping or just looking at some random YouTube videos to something that they can get a phone, some shoes, mascara, focusing on girls, right? I mean, you know, and to understand what that borderless economy really means by experiencing. What does it mean to have tokens that you can trade globally? You know, you're used to your parents giving you some dollars, you go to a corner store. What about if you learn something, you go to bakery in Kenya and for the work that you've done, you get a bun, right? So this democratizing access, it's bringing education to the masses. And it's also uniting the blockchain community because we would be building this governance platform on blockchain, we would tokenize it and there will be many elements of it, reward programs, smart contracts that reward content, some level of AI in terms of analysis of what we're doing. So I think, you know, this is why I was looking at multi-chain tokens. Maybe that would be a solution to kind of, to deal with this. Explain that, what does that mean? Well, we've got different chains right now, right? You've got Hyperledge, you've got Ethereum and all that. How do you bridge all this, right? Instead of having to choose one, I can work in all of them because each one potentially can offer something unique, right? So you have to choose one. We don't know, you know, only time will tell as this is such a young industry and this is why it's so exciting. Well, Michele, look at it. No, I was just saying, and you're giving the kids examples, right? So a lot of times kids ask me, well, what's the difference between crypto and Venmo? Yeah. I'm like, okay, let's talk about the different things you can do with crypto that you can't do, but they're closer than the older generations are to transferring money at least. And so now you're applying different use cases and expanding their minds in ways that perhaps... Actually, and I into blockchain early before Ethereum was launched and partly I was in a public market and then I kind of stopped because that project ended or I stopped and I actually re-entered it because of my 15-year-old who started mining. But he started mining because I was in that field already. So there you go, it's kind of, you know what comes around, you know? Yeah. Good job. I hope he gets all his Bitcoin. Yeah, he did. So I want you to tell a story of what you've seen that's been high impact from your work you've done. You had, again, the whole Pakistan thing going on. You had all these hackathons. What is this good story you could share? You know, the good story we can share, I think the part that we were able to do, the hackathons that we're doing are local, but they're also global. There's a sense of empowerment and you know what I think, the best story, this is the best story. The best story was at the hackathon that we ran, it was women, over 100 women that participated. But all our mentors were young, geeky, programming guys, sorry guys, but they really knew their stuff. So there was technology transfer and we had a 40-yard hackathon. These guys stayed 48 hours, they didn't go to sleep, they didn't have to, as mentors. And there was this amazing technology transfer that happened and I think some relationships were. Yeah, some serious bonding went on. Yeah, absolutely. That's actually a good thing and you're including people. It's not just certain thing, you're these inclusion. Absolutely, it actually, all it is is about inclusion. All it is is we are giving a platform for women not to be afraid. I mean, I'm an engineer, so I've been working with metal in my life. For me to ask difficult questions or stupid questions, it's like natural now, because it's been what with my life. But for many, it isn't. So we just wanted to kind of cross that divide, it's not a chasm, it's just a little divide that we're bridged. So when you say stupid question, you mean like, why do you do it that way? Why don't you do it this way? Oh, what's a wallet? What's a private key, what's a public key? And asking that not once, but 20 times until you got it. That's okay too. That's called learning. Okay, I got to ask you the most important question is, how do someone get a crypto chicks shirt? I think you can order it in our website. Size isn't a problem. I know we've discussed this, so we need to- Extra large. Well, crypto chicks is not for profit organization. So we'll have to order this in bunches, so I'll figure this out. But what I wanted to say is that we have another hackathon that's coming up. And the hackathon is in New York. October 5th to 8th. And we have three streams. So if you're a developer, and this is for women, so if you're a developer, we have a stream. If you're not a developer, or you've never coded in your life, but you have a business mind, and you think you have a really good idea that you can put on blockchain, you're welcome to join as well. And now with all the news and regulations, we also have a regulatory stream. And it's- For entrepreneurs and for business minded people that want to get involved that they can come to. Absolutely. Okay, and the website is cryptochicks.ca. That's where you can get access to the information. That's great. October 5th to 8th, you said, right? And anybody can go? Anybody can register. Where in New York? It's going to be at University of New York and the Deerea School of Law. Great. Blockchain educational fun hub. That's what it says on the website, lovely website, looking forward to getting some shirts and putting them out there and promoting your mission. Great job. Good to see you again. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. This is crypto for good. A lot of education and this opportunity and our role is to share that as a community. And I think this is a great example of the kind of community that crypto is. Education, people can level up and move fast through and get proficiency and change their lives. This is what it's all about. Glad to bring it to you. It's CUBE Coverage Lives. Stay with us. Day one continues. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back from Toronto. Toronto Blockchain Future Summit. Thank you.