It often does not happen to be left speechless by an interviewee's answer. But when Crystal Rose Pierce, the eminent technologist, entrepreneur and investor, told me that he had started writing code at the age of 11, I must admit that I was temporarily stunned in silence. Eleven!
Then he adds that he started his first activity "as a teenager at the age of 16 on websites that have evolved through digital products".
A one-woman powerhouse is also the CEO and co-founder of Sensay, a communications company that creates SENSE private messaging and decentralized blockchain applications, raising $ 21 million in capital with institutional VCs and completing the # I; ICO of success for the SENSE digital token.
With SENSE based on artificial intelligence, it allows users to "regain privacy on their data" as a result of concerns arising from other companies that use their customers' data.
She was co-founder of shEOS, a producer of female blocks on the EOS network and the shEOS Foundation, which offers IT scholarships to young women.
Philanthropic
He says he is "passionate about elevating humans through innovation and empowering entrepreneurs". As an influential influential ICO nominated by LimeICO, he is on the board of the ICO Governance Foundation and has founded Restart Week to further his philanthropic work.
In early 2011, she was initially involved in Bitcoin when the developers first pulled it out and she said, "I found my financial instrument."
Recently, he told the audience at their CryptoMondays meeting: "If we finish this year and Bitcoin has not changed or is changing slightly, it means we've spent a whole year at the same price." This really is a huge sign to stability. that the market is stable and this is positive. "
To encourage women to become blockchain, he says that the younger ones are "more open to it at a young age".
As a programmer, she soon "learned to fail", she says, "As in coding you fail much more often than you do." You will soon learn resilience and failure that is great quality for anyone in business, as if one could endure in cryptography that one can endure great success. "
Gender imbalance
As part of his work, he has allocated funds to correct gender imbalance in the classroom with the goal of increasing the low number of women involved in engineering classes with the ambition to be more like 50/50.
"The philanthropic part of me really respects the blockchain philosophy of open source and decentralization," he says. "And for what the anarchists define as opposed to the government and institutions, the goal is more to have equal access and more evenly distributed.
"It is a greater goal to create equality in human beings and transparency, access to the truth, which can not hide anything with the authenticity that takes away the perverse power and profit".
influencer
Being described as an influential, she says, "It's one of those words you could never call yourself – it's about being a thought leader and I'm really flattered to be described this way.
"It's a recognition of the work I'm doing in space to inspire and encourage more women, professionals and entrepreneurs to venture into the new technology, I'm really happy to hear it."
He believes that blockchain is "the new Internet and will continue to be part of the core layers of the protocol and will continue to be used and to be synonymous with databases and this is a better accounting system and is a control and balance".
You mention the Nasdaq that adopts the technology with Bitcoin Futures and the great actors like American Express involved in the evidence of the growing adoption and meaning of the blockchain.
In 2019, he states that it will be interesting to "observe the change in the speculative market" and she describes it as "a good time to build real products and invest in them".
"We are still intrinsically linking cryptocurrency and blockchain," he adds. "Blockchain can be used to improve identification and can be used in law and notary in areas requiring evidence – such as home ownerships".
A more just way
It is also used as a fairer way to pay actors and musicians who have received only a small percentage of commissions, but with blockchain this could be avoided as they cut intermediaries and get a fairer share.
"I am very optimistic about its use in the broader consumer market," he adds. He admits that "many different things" happened on the journey to where he is now. "In the early days, I lost and many different things happened with the technology."
It is a supporter of the global collaboration network that is created "by breaking down the barriers of geography in the global economy through the blockchain that can create closer ties at the global level".