Crypto Queens

A thousand years ago, if you dreamed of impacting an entire nation, you needed to be an empress or a queen. Today, any one of us can.

That is a Peter Diamandis idea, and I am really into it. He explains that because of exponential technologies, we all have the ability to reach and impact a billion people or more. Something that was once reserved for royalty. As a bonus, we also have air conditioning, electricity, clean water and regular fresh food, more than Cleopatra herself ever had.

For me, understanding just how powerful technology can be is a key piece of the freedom puzzle. We all want to be more free. We just are not really aware of all the ways in which we are not free, until we see someone who actually is. And then we ask ourselves, how is she doing it?

It all starts with one simple question I consistently ask myself: how can I use technology to build more freedom into my life? The answer is repeatedly, in so many ways. Here are the three that have most changed how free the past month has felt for me.

The first is automating my business so I have more free time to play with my eleven month old. Yes, posting blogs while I am out on the grass giggling.

The second is using the internet to tap into other people’s genius. Access to an American in France who runs a cooking school in Julia Child’s summer home, and coaches entrepreneurs like me.

The third is being part of a global shift that is possible only because of brand new technology: actively participating in creating an entirely new financial system.

That last one sounds dramatic. It is. And it has me really fired up.

That is what this is about. You can be part of the biggest shift in the financial system since the beginning of time, and you can exercise the power of a queen, with the riches to match. I am talking about cryptocurrency and blockchain. Do not be scared. It is not as difficult or as dangerous as you may have heard.

The idea took hold of me when I came across an unbelievable statistic: only four percent of all crypto is held by women. That means that of a two hundred and seventeen billion dollar industry, women are cashing in on a tiny single-percent slice of the pie.

And if we are experiencing the biggest shift in wealth in the history of our financial system, and I believe we are, then women are being left out of that wealth. Again.

I am not okay with that.

The questions worth sitting with are these. Whether digital currency is for you. Whether you want to build more freedom into your life. And, most importantly, whether you want to help free billions of other people by backing a financial system that gives everyone access to currency, not just the people who already have money.

Written by

Tamryn Sherriffs

Founder and editor of DIFFERENTLY. She writes about the systems that shape how we live, learn and work, many of which she has spent two decades experimenting with.

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