On the eve of International Women’s Day, we interacted with Marta Belty, a leading Marta in the Blockchain Act. Marta Belty is a Cryptocurrency and Civil Liberty Attorney, who is the chairman of the Philecoin Foundation as well as a filecoin foundation for his sister non -profit, decentralized web. He is also a general lawyer and head of the policy in the protocol labs, and also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Creative Commons and the Board of Blockchain Association. She has been a leader in the Crypto policy, including the US Congress and other legislative bodies around the world.
Crypto.news: Marta, please correct me. If I am wrong, the first project under your leadership was no longer worried, an organization that helps adolescents with life-drank diseases. For me, it seems that the blockchain is completely different from the industry. However, has this experience have a permanent impact on what you are doing now?
Marta Belty: Wow, it’s a deep cut! Yes, when I was in college, I launched a national non-profit organization that helped teenagers with life-drank diseases, hosting events and programs for both and also through policy advocacy. Through working with these teenagers, I learned that many of their diseases (eg leukemia, for example) can actually cure by bone marrow transplantation. But many of them died as they did not get the bone marrow match. I also learned that the blood of the umbilical cord – after the birth of a baby that is left in the umbilical cord – these transplants can be used instead of bone marrow. But it turns out that instead of being preserved to use for transplant, cord blood is almost always thrown as medical waste. It is absolutely crazy when you think about it.
Therefore, in college, I became a lawyer for public umbilical cord blood banking, so that the blood of the umbilical cord could be preserved and used to save life instead of throwing it. Now, in addition to doing a policy without any concern, I worked for a policy for the National Marrow Donor Program (advocating funding for the National Cord Blood Bank) and worked for a assembly in California, which successfully created a bill to create a public umbilical blood banking system in California.
So this was my first place in the world of technology policy. And I think, for many people, the technology policy feels quite abstract – eg, it is difficult to imagine the effect that it will be. But I was also working directly with teenagers whose life was being saved through these transplants, so it could actually be the real impact in my brain that can be of technology policy. And after those experiences, it was an easy decision to carry forward technology law and policy as a career.
CN: How did you learn about bitcoin or blockchain? How soon did you realize that blockchain is important for you? Was you interested in technical law before or after being interested in blockchain?
MB: I started my career as a technology lawyer wishing to protect civil liberties and public interest. I was initially a technology litigator in a legal firm, and I had a privilege to represent public interest organizations such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Center for Democracy and Technology, and Project Gutenberg, as well as large companies.
My first Forest in Blockchain Space was in 2015, some early blockchain companies help to think how to protect the industry from patent trolls, based on a paper I wrote for a paper called “Hacking the Patent System”. I immediately got ready for technology as I saw its ability to protect privacy and import the benefits of civilian freedom in the online world. So I was bent and began to focus on blockchain.
I had amazing customers and mixed to work on super interesting things-like writing the first blockchain-transfable software license, defending the first patent litigation brought against a blockchain company, and writing the first amicus brief of the blockchain association. I spent a lot of time talking to policy makers about blockchain in those early years (often to explain them for the first time for the first time!)
And then I started working with the protocol labs (PL) during the early years of filecoin development, initially represented him as an external advocate, then became a general lawyer outside the PL, then left my law firm to join as a full -time general lawyer. I was very excited from the point of view of filecoin – to use blockchain techniques to create an option of Big Tech which keeps people under control of their own data. This was a wonderful opportunity to be part of the creation of this technique that I think is fundamental for the next generation of the web.
CN: You capture many roles – from the Chairman of the FileCine Foundation to the General Council of Protocol Labs to the Board Member of Creative Commons and the Chairman of the Board of Blockchain Association. I want to ask two questions about this.
First of all, how do you manage your time to work with so many organizations?
MB: I probably regret saying that I “Work-Life Balance” (who works for me, but certainly not working for everyone, is a strategy of “Work-Life Integration”, so I am not advocating for others to adopt it!) In this time, I am associated with this time to breathe, I am associated with this mission, and this time, I am associated with this mission, and I am working in this time, I am working in this way, and in this time. Am.
CN: The second question is whether an organization makes you valuable and attractive to you so that you are ready to join it? What is the normal thread for the projects you are working on?
MB: The work I am doing in these organizations is related to this broad mission of using technology to protect all civil freedom. Therefore, even though I have many hats, I think whatever I do is really just a task.
CN: You won a Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization Award for your leading role in the blockchain law. Web 3 has conflicting data on gender-based wage differences. There is a “reverse” difference in the report of Pantera Capital, which means that women are paid better than men. Others say that women are paid much less than men. More than this, we do not look at many women-deeds companies in web 3. What are your comments on gender chaos, and what are the reasons behind them? What are the challenges and benefits of being a woman in Crypto?
MB: Honestly, there are many amazing women who are currently leaders in Crypto. As just an example, women in all three major crypto industry groups were as their founding executive directors. I am surprised when people talk about crypto being male-dominated because it is not my subjective experience of being in crypto space. If you ask me to think about leaders in Crypto, then people who jump into my mind are mostly women. But I realize that it is subjective!
CN: I have seen that the FileCoin Foundation Team is mostly women. Do you think companies with a female majority are different from male-affected companies in the way they work?
MB: This is true – the leadership team of Filecoin Foundation is more than half of women, our employee is about half women, and our board is almost all women. But it was not deliberate – we used to only seek the best talent, and what we got. As I said earlier, Crypto has many amazing women!
