CRYPTOCURRENCY

Will Women Join Hoge Army?

The new cryptocurrency has gathered lots of attention, but can it sway women into becoming crypto investors?

Jesse J Rogers
Compounding Interest Podcast
6 min readMar 30, 2021

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Author’s modification of photo by Joel Muniz on Unsplash

One of the most beautiful things about decentralized finance (DeFi) is that it works no matter who you are. Instead of human decision-makers who have the potential to judge us unfairly because of their biases, there are instead smart contracts that execute automatically for anonymous buyers and sellers. These contracts obediently perform vital operations such as lending and borrowing in a censorship-proof way. They do so completely unaffected by the issues that so tragically divide our society today, such as political affiliation, race, religion, and gender.

Even so, an egalitarian utopia remains a distant hope because so far the adoption of these tools has been demographically limited (source 1, source 2, source 3).

Hoge hopes to change that. This is an inclusive and supportive community as well as a cryptocurrency. Its greatest value proposition comes not from addressing a technical problem, but in using its resources to focus on a variety of social problems.

First and foremost, through artwork and meme culture, Hoge will be a bridge between the tech community and the wider public. It will…

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