Crypto Lawyers Share Advice for Women Entering the Industry

Crypto lawyers Katherine Kirkpatrick Bos, Jessi Brooks, and Vy Le share career advice for people entering crypto. They debate whether lawyers need to be on X. They also discuss why getting into crypto now means learning perps, tokens, and prediction markets at once. Katherine says women in male-dominated rooms have to be the adult in the room. Jessi warns against losing yourself, and Vy says crypto cannot be your whole identity. Vy describes breaking down in a Senate office days after FTX collapsed. She says the experience taught her to separate the technology from the people who abuse it. Jessi recalls begging the FBI around 2016 to take cases involving terrorists using Bitcoin. She presents that as a measure of how far the industry has traveled since institutions laughed it off. The group also discusses how they keep marching through crypto's roughest stretches. They recall strange crypto moments involving Versailles, a Florida offsite, and North Korea. They credit women and allies for paving the way.