btw, back in 2020 I interviewed with coinbase. it was the height of pandemic hysteria, I had done 50 different interviews and no job yet. I'd defaulted on all my credit cards and gone into forbearance on my mortgage while also being on unemployment.

anyway, after doing four interviews, including a grueling 3 hour final interview, they turned me down. this was despite a decade of professional programming experience and several years working in crypto.

the only paying work I would get that year would be working as a subcontractor for a contractor on something called "project maven" -- google employees rioted so they wouldn't have to work on it, and palantir overbid.

needless to say I have a lot of distrust and resentment towards coinbase, the military industrial complex, the mainstream media, and the entire social contract after that.

in 2021 I'd read the bitcoin standard. that kind of sealed the deal for me. we're flipping the script on this whole thing, fellas. let's separate money from state so if this does ever happen again, it won't be nearly as bad. bitcoin doesn't fix everything but it makes a heck of a lot of things easier to fix.