When *Rihannon’s husband began dabbling in crypto trading a few years ago, she thought it was a harmless interest, spurred on by the podcasts and YouTube content he’d been consuming.

“I used to tease him about becoming a ‘crypto bro'”, she laughs, “but it didn’t bother me. He was transferring a small amount each week into an online crypto wallet, and he’d often come and show me how much it was growing, or how much some specific coin had jumped or fallen.”

Over the following months, crypto began to form a bigger part of the couple’s investment strategy.

“We’re not rich by any measure, but the financial strains of young kids have started to let up,” she explains. 

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