Dear Colleagues, Apologize for any duplication as I have written some but wanted to announce a new blog series and site I am doing, Blockchain and Society: Political Economy of Crypto. I just published the second blog essay it is "Few Women on the Block: Legacy Codes and Gendered Coins" <https://blockchainandsociety.com/> It examines gender disparity and bias in cryptocurrency (much more pronounced, lower participation by women, than in IT for what many see as Web 3.0 or a blockchain decentralized Web of the future). It places current and extreme gender imbalance and biases in a longer historical trajectory of gender in computing/software, gender in computer security, cypherpunks and gender in crypto... It highlights Judith Milhon, or St. Jude, programmer, hacker, journalist, who coined "Cypherpunk" and was the lone woman of the "Crypto Rebels" who became the "Cypherpunks," from which cryptocurrency originated. I also present three rare women founders of crypto. Some colleagues have written to me about the glossary and the timeline on my site (doing it independent of CBI) being useful to their students, terminology and jargon is so extensive in both crypto and in finance, and thus especially so in cryptocurrency, hence creating further barriers and a less inviting culture. VCs being over 90% male extend inequality in the space further. And with the blog it is a longer form essay style, so I try to offer a bit of depth. Please check it out. And please consider subscribing, sharing on social media, and linking. *Blockchain and Society - Home* <https://blockchainandsociety.com/> Many thanks!!! Best, Jeff The blog focuses on power, imbalances, algorithmic biases, IT social justice opportunities with blockchain and limitations, etc. *"Injustice wears the same harsh face wherever it shows itself."*-Ralph Ellison Jeffrey R. Yost, Ph.D. Director, Charles Babbage Institute Research Professor, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Co-Editor (w/ Gerardo Con Diaz) *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins University Press* *Committee Member, **National Academies, NAE Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society * Founder and Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick), *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture* *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press 2017)* <https://www.amazon.com/Making-Work-Computer-Services-Computing/dp/026203672X> 222 21st Avenue South University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 612 624 5050 Phone 612 625 8054 Fax