Last night, 80 women filled a room at the Mandarin Oriental in Prague. This morning, not one of them walks into BTC Prague alone.
That is the whole reason SatoShe exists.
For a few hours, women from all around the world came together for an evening of real conversation, connection and Bitcoin. The panel with Natalie Brunell, Efrat Fenigson, Dr Cristina Llamas-Rey and Nell Hunter was, in the word I heard again and again all night, inspiring. We talked about how Bitcoin has changed the way we live, the challenges we met along the way, and what it asks of us to build in this space as women.
The SatoShe Soirée held everything I had hoped for. A beautiful setting, food as thoughtful as the conversation, and an evening captured by a female photographer and a female videographer. That detail matters deeply to me, because the way women are seen and shown matters.
But here is what stays with me most. A big conference can feel anonymous. Thousands of people, quick exchanges, a sea of badges. An intimate evening changes that completely. The women who met last night now carry connections and friendships into the days ahead, and long after Prague. They leave less alone and more connected. Time and again, this is what I hear after these evenings, and it is the quiet, real power of a room built for women.
I am deeply grateful.
To Natalie, Efrat, Dr Cristina and Nell, for sharing your stories so openly.
To Zuzana Zubkova and Dagmar Malinová, who captured the evening with such care.
To our partners who made it possible, Trezor with Anusha Schindler Lewis and Eleonora Kolesnikova, Relai, and Paystand with Kaitlyn Prince.
And above all, to every woman who came, supported, and lifted up the woman next to her. You were the evening.
I get to do this work, and I do not take that for granted for a single moment. This is only the beginning 💜