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Bitcoin users are notoriously not very diverse, which led one of the city's best known venture capitalists to get involved in helping change that fact by writing a blog about 50 '"diversity scholarships" being offered by the hosts of an upcoming New York City event.
"There's a sense that the bitcoin community is a fairly homogeneous group, mainly white and mainly male," Union Square Venture founder Fred Wilson, who was an early investor in bitcoin startup Coinbase, wrote in a blog post today. "And the MIT Media Lab and Coindesk are doing something to try to change that."
The event is the 2015 Consensus conference co-hosted by Coindesk and MIT Media Lab on September 10 at The Times Center in Times Square. Full price tickets cost $1,499, making the scholarships worth about $75,000. Ten percent of the total tickets sold have been set aside for the scholarship.