Heloise Greeff (a fellow from Oxford University), who is the earliest woman Elite Pro Popular Investor at eToro (a social trading venue), states that she initially became a part of the crypto industry in 2013 (a time when she was given $20 in Bitcoin for ordering a pizza). As per a report that was published on 29th May in The Sunday Times, Greeff mentioned that a friend of hers owed her some money and took a pledge to pay that back in BTC.
She admitted that she was not completely convinced to turn into a crypto investor at first, however, she was pleased to have an opportunity and adopted the respective payment as her inner-self was pretty much aware of the rise of blockchain technology. She was able to comprehend the future potential of the respective technology which persuaded her to enter the crypto bandwagon.
The report added that to begin with, she – after having shifted to the United Kingdom to accomplish her Ph.D. degree in machine learning – stored a little amount on her flash drive. After that, she started utilizing BTC for payment purposes, taking into account splitting bills with her friend circle who were additionally the overseas students attempting to avoid recompensing currency conversion charges when they owe money to one another.
Then she was determined that the original $20 in BTC would be kept by her. The value of the respective $20 is now up to $3,000. In January this year, while appearing in an interview conducted on the behalf of “This Is Money,” Greeff – having become a part of eToro during 2016 – revealed that in advance of the pandemic, her portfolio included just healthcare and tech sectors while at the present she has diversified it to a great extent.
According to her, the method through which she utilizes cryptocurrency in the portfolio thereof is much assistive in minimizing the volatility along with being considerably uncorrelated and thus the risk-adjusted profit could be substantially beneficial. She moved on to say that they require to discuss this unique asset class, as a great amount of negative media and experience is around it due to its unregulated nature in several markets. As per her, she only utilizes stablecoins, with her biggest crypto holdings in Ethereum and Bitcoin.