lol at not including coldcard

Generally "starting pay" is equivalent to total comp rather than salary.

a lot of people don't know what high level software devs make at those big tech companies. https://www.levels.fyi/companies/block/salaries/software-engineer

he's a legend and working on his own vpn. https://obscura.net/

Seems like the vision is too big. Each one of those things takes an incredible amount of time and energy to do well. Just my initial thoughts though, go crush it!

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