1 year ago
Name: Wendy O
Anonymous: No
Twitter followers: 330,000
Known for: crypto commentary, shitposting, trading investigation and assemblage initiatives
Who is Crypto Wendy anyway?
Wendy is simply a erstwhile healthcare nonrecreational turned crypto trader and contented creator, oregon what she describes arsenic a “YouTube daze jock.”
While the power from wellness to crypto came astir owed to a fig of reasons, 1 large origin was that the agelong commutes and moving hours were taking her distant from spending much clip with her fig 1 asset: her daughter.
“For 7 years, I worked successful infectious disease, HIV/AIDS, and I had a three-hour circular travel commute 4 times a week. I was acold from my daughter, and I conscionable wanted to beryllium adjacent to her,” she says, adding:
So past I bought immoderate Bitcoin. And I was like, Oh, God, this is cool. Like, I didn’t truly know, I conscionable saw a fig spell up. And I was like, awesome. This is cool. This stands for liberty.”
Diving into crypto, firstly via Bitcoin successful 2017, Wendy taught herself however to commercialized and discovered that being capable to bash truthful circular the clock, 24/7, worked perfectly with having a one-year-old daughter, arsenic she could acceptable everything astir her child’s schedule.
It is raining successful LA for the NFT lawsuit but our Lady B is looking precise bully supra ~$27,000
Maybe not a bully clip to scalp but conscionable beryllium backmost successful a longer-term position, bask her and play with alts arsenic they look to beryllium amusive xo pic.twitter.com/2MxMZfBEWG
How did she get fashionable connected Twitter?
Wendy puts each of her assemblage maturation down to being authentic online, advocating for what she believes successful and lasting up for the underdog.
“I conscionable was myself, and I was authentic online. I hosted meetups, I defended people, I went aft jerks [online]. I trashed the SEC and benignant of stood up for the radical and powered people, and I conscionable grew my assemblage organically,” she says.
“I conscionable was doing it due to the fact that I wanted to truly assistance the underdogs and assistance radical who grew up poor, similar I did, and radical that came from truly fucked up backgrounds to cognize that they tin articulation immoderate manufacture they privation and thrive.”
The SEC onslaught against @Ripple wasn’t to support retail it was to harm retail and instrumentality you into reasoning you request extortion
The fundamentally fudded your $XRP bags and harmed holders financially for their benefit
In the aboriginal days of her online career, a notable information of her maturation came from hosting escaped crypto-focused meetups. Wendy said that due to the fact that the big-name events were excessively costly for herself and galore others, she started hosting her ain gatherings to plug that gap.
“I noticed a request for meetups and events that were affordable due to the fact that each the crypto events backmost then, you had to wage similar $1,000 to spell and I grew up ace poor. I didn’t person $1,000 [to spare]. I hosted implicit 4 twelve escaped meetups successful L.A. County, and you know, crossed the United States, 1 successful Canada, and past I conscionable created the YouTube transmission to livestream those events,” she said.
What tin you expect from her connected Twitter?
Wendy spends a batch of her clip slamming the hawkish behaviour of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and different villains successful the crypto space.
Apart from that, she’s astir apt supporting different radical and initiatives successful the industry, offering trading investigation oregon partaking successful immoderate bully old-fashioned shitposting (a recurring theme among galore fashionable crypto influencers.)
“I’m precise blessed and grateful to person a ample audience. And each societal media platforms. I deliberation we’re astatine 815,000 globally connected Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram,” she says.
“It’s truly awesome due to the fact that I get to usage my level to enactment initiatives similar the Digital Currency Traders Alliance; we’ve raised implicit $50,000 for a nonprofit called the Self Care laboratory […] So I’ve been capable to beryllium a truly large advocator for things that are important to me, and it’s conscionable truly awesome.”
The Self Care Lab is simply a boxing gym located successful Pomona, California, that caters to underprivileged and at-risk youth.
Being a longtime lawsuit of the gym and a beardown proponent of utilizing carnal fittingness to uplift the youth, Wendy tapped into her web successful precocious 2021 to rise the funds to not lone determination locations but upgrade assorted worn-down pieces of equipment.
Twitter Beefs
Unlike different figures successful the Twitter Hall of Flame, Wendy isn’t keen to sermon oregon bring attraction to her bid of spats with different radical successful the industry. She puts the accent connected reconciliation alternatively than recriminations.
“Probably immoderate of my favourite beefs are radical that person trashed maine connected the internet who person past met maine successful idiosyncratic and person said, you know, ‘I’m atrocious for being a dick.’ I’ll conscionable permission it astatine that, arsenic I consciousness similar that’s nice.”
But she’s not without a spot of edge:
Twitter likes & dislikes
“I emotion Twitter due to the fact that I’m capable to link with truthful galore astonishing radical connected a planetary standard and from each implicit the United States. And that’s dope.
I similar to speech to radical who came from wherever I came from, and who person a passionateness and are passionate astir things that I am. So that portion is amazing.”
On the different hand: “A batch of radical aren’t precise bully connected the internet. Sometimes everybody’s got a dependable and an sentiment and erstwhile you enactment successful a male-dominated industry, determination is that world of getting talked to not precise nicely; radical sexualizing you, radical saying shitty things to you, radical calling you dumb due to the fact that I don’t travel from money. I don’t travel from accepted finance, I don’t travel from a tech background,” she says.
Looking ahead
“I privation to support increasing and I privation to beryllium capable to see arsenic galore underdogs arsenic I can, and fto everybody cognize nary substance what inheritance oregon however antithetic you are from idiosyncratic else, that you matter, your dependable matters and support advocating for retail, and fto them cognize that I’ll beryllium their dependable erstwhile needed,” she says.
Let maine get this consecutive …
The nationalist servants were truthful frightened of crypto that they purposely unopen down banks for doing their occupation and giving banking services to crypto companies truthful they tin legally wage their taxes and past unopen them down and made US taxpayers bailout the banks?
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Brian Quarmby
Brian Quarmby discovered crypto successful 2013 and instantly fell successful emotion with the thought of decentralization. Brian has since lived and worked Asia and returned to Melbourne successful precocious 2019. Brian is simply a person of athletics and creation and is bullish connected the imaginable for NFTs to alteration artists lives successful the adjacent future.
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