Women in crypto: cryptocurrency millionaire Erica Stanford – “giving up my job wasn’t th…

Our women in crypto series continues, as we chat to Erica Stanford, who dropped everything when a cryptocurrency opportunity came her way…

Erica Stanford is a cryptocurrency investor and ICO consultant who has been involved in the industry since early last year. She is also the co-founder of Cryptocurrency Simplified, and is getting ready to launch her own blockchain-based projects.

Erica first heard about crypto through a friend who, at the start of 2017, said he thought she would be interested in the emerging technology. He knew that she would go down a research rabbit-hole and, once she saw its potential, that’s exactly what happened.

“I think he wanted to understand it, and knew that I’m the world’s biggest geek when I get my head into something,” she told Crypto News Review. “I basically dropped everything, and thought the potential of blockchain and decentralisation were really cool. I looked at some projects and realised it could have real, massive…