I'm just excited about being here. Why are we celebrating and talking about cryptocurrency

in the Black and Brown community?

Last week there was a small rally on Capitol Hill to raise awareness among the Black and Latino

community about the power of cryptocurrency.

It is time out for the same thing we've been doing the last 157 years.

We have got to do something different or we're going to get and continue to get what

we've always gotten.

Speakers at the Rally talked about the potential this new technology could have on the communities

that have long been kept out of traditional banking, investing and wealth accumulation.

And the reason I am so passionate about this is because if we don't do it nobody is coming

to save us and we've got to understand that it is time to get self-sauvering.

It is time for us to take our finances into our own hands.

These activists represent a sizeable part of the crypto community.

The data show that Black and Latino Americans have invested in these digital currencies at

higher rates than other groups.

Almost a quarter of all Black adults say they already own some cryptocurrency compared

to just 11% of White Americans according to a Harris poll that surveyed 2,000 people

last year.

At its most basic level, cryptocurrency is a digital currency.

It's money that lives completely online, but crypto lacks much of the regulation and control

from banks or governments.

Institutions that we normally associate with our money.

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