This retiree built a $14K crypto portfolio — after losing $18K in scams. Her advice for the crypto-curious
Jo Ann Switzer seems like a perfectly average 66-year-old enjoying a quiet retirement.
She ran a hair salon for 45 years, and lives alone in Hanover, Ontario, a town of fewer than 8,000 people.
But in at least one respect, Switzer is anything but the typical retiree: She’s an avid cryptocurrency investor.
This isn’t somebody who has just put a few hundred dollars into Bitcoin and hoped for the best. Switzer is obsessed with crypto, in a manner one usually associates with young men in their 20s and 30s who work in finance or tech and follow Elon Musk on X.
She knows about paying “gas fees” and has an account on Discord. In May, she made the three-hour trip to Toronto to attend an international crypto conference….
