The moms who trade bitcoin

Stay-at-home mothers are dabbling in crypto to make some extra cash — and get in on the future of investing

Mother on computer trading bitcoin while daughter sleeps in background
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In January, Tiffany Britt made an unusual callout on a private parenting Facebook group. Would any of the other moms in the group be interested in pooling funds together to invest in bitcoin, she wondered? At the time, the Los Angeles stay-at-home mother was eight months pregnant and caring for a toddler. She'd dabbled in cryptocurrency herself and had made a small but admirable profit of a little over $1,000 — not bad for a newbie. But she wanted to go bigger, so she put out the call on Facebook. The response was surprisingly positive: Roughly 30 moms sent Britt money —$20 here, $100 there — to garner varying shares of the pot's ownership. When all was said and done, she'd raised $1,400 to invest in bitcoin and bitcoin cash.

Cryptocurrency — or crypto — is unregulated digital money that's sent and tracked via a secure system called blockchain. There are dozens of different types of crypto. The most well known of the bunch is called bitcoin, and it's seen a huge boost in popularity and name recognition with the general public because it experienced meteoric rise (followed by devastating fall) in value earlier this year. One group jumping on the crypto bandwagon is stay-at-home mothers, some of whom see it as an opportunity to make some extra cash from the comfort of one's own living room, and get in on the ground floor of a burgeoning sector, often touted as the future of investing.

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Jessica Delfino

Jessica Delfino is a mom, writer, comedian, and musician based in New York City. She writes about parenting and cannabis legalization and has performed her dirty folk rock songs and jokes at SXSW, Montreal Comedy Festival, on ABC's Good Morning America, Glamour, IFC, and other nice places that appreciate twisted humor. She is a regular contributor to High Times and her writing has appeared on Adult Swim and MTV, in SELF, Huffington Post, and Mashable, among other outlets. She was photographed riding a unicorn into her wedding for New York Times Vows.