I'm a 57-year-old hairdresser from Birmingham who's made £210,000 from Bitcoin

It’s Christmas 2017 and hairdresser Jacqui Wilkinson is snuggled up with her husband on the sofa watching the TV news in their council house outside Birmingham, when an item about Bitcoin catches her attention. ‘It can be for people like me, people who left school at 16 with no qualifications.’ Crypto winner: Hairdresser Jacqui Wilkinson no longer needs to work after the investing £40,000 in Bitcoin over seven years Bitcoin was the world’s first cryptocurrency when it launched in 2009. ‘Where I come from financial gain is not open to people like us, who have done well to buy our council houses.’ Trump bump: Bitcoin is up over 150% in the last year alone and this week breached $106,000 – largely thanks to the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House Financial advisers tend to recommend investing in a balanced portfolio of shares and bonds for those looking to achieve a return higher than that offered by savings accounts – but without risking everything. As with driving a car I enjoy it, but I don’t need to know how it works.’ During the pandemic, Jacqui kept buying ‘£50 here, £50 there’ with a view to getting one Bitcoin. The user experience was much easier than when I first started out.’ So confident is Jacqui about Bitcoin she says she’s ‘always trying to get people I love and care about to buy Bitcoin’.