Poor @koob being the only one. I'll go, though it won't nearly be as long as theirs.

Hi, I'm Abe.

I'm mostly a software developer with interests in electronics, computer science, mathematics, biology and art. Though abetusk is a pseudonym, my true name is plastered all over various projects and license files, so it's not very well hidden and I don't have a high expectation of being pseudonymous .

I have a page of some projects, along with many other random projects and repos on GitHub. I'm on twitter. I think many of my projects run into "a nice solution that lacks a clear problem".

I've worked for ISP startups, companies in finance (before the term 'fintech' was coined), consultancy and bioinformatics.

It's hard to pinpoint when I became full bullish about Bitcoin. I was aware of it for many years but only recently got more into it. I'm captivated by the promise of a fully decentralized currency that enables virtual commerce and provides banking to the masses.

I'm mostly trying to get up to speed. I'm trying to get a BTC/LND (via Raspiblitz) node running but it's slow going updating the blockchain history. Right now I'm just trying to get familiarity with using the network and core functions but I would ultimately like to try and do some development, preferably at "layer-3" and above, using BTC/LND for services and applications.

I haven't felt this excited about a technology since the late 90s/early 2000s when the world wide web was starting to take off. People forget that discussions on "micro-transactions" were being talked about back then to guard against spam and make other online ventures sustainable. In my opinion, the major reason it didn't take off back then was because of the friction incurred by using credit cards or other banking services. Bitcoin, along with the lightning network, give a promise of finally implementing these ideas.

And not to sound too grandiose, but having a world currency would go a long way to help unify us globally.

I'll break the ice. Plus I'm pretty much already fully doxed.

I'm Keyan. Also, k00bideh on Twitter and huumn on Github.

I once worked at a company where I lead and built distributed systems, but one of the reasons I got really into programming was that I find it the most powerful, expressive way to make things. So powerful that if you tell your computer the right incantations, you can make something that people value so much that you can support yourself, a family, employees, other founders, even several generations and foundations financially.

Over the years I've created all kinds of side projects. In college I made a Location Based Wiki on iOS for my college town Davis, CA. Man was it trick as hell and had pretty good market saturation but I didn't recognize growth when I saw it.

Later I started a brutal failure of a startup with a friend. I’ve probably released six full stack mobile or web apps and made a handful of unreleased projects in total. Everything was bootstrapped and most outright failed. The only thing that’s “made money” to date is https://grepmed.com and while it has a lot of usage it’s still not “ramen profitable.” We’re still tinkering with GrepMed to this day and are really happy to see how much users love it.

Anyway, this all lead me to SN. I realized what a lot my past projects lacked was loving the community I was building with. I wasn’t being selective enough of our group which turns out is really important. That’s all to say I love Bitcoiners and I’m really happy to have found my way to our community.

I like long walks. I walk probably 5 miles a day round trip to my coworking space. As a teenager, I had fantasized about never having to drive and I guess I’m living up to that mostly.

I don’t really own or use sitting furniture at home. I sit and sleep on the ground at home. It’s kind of weird, but having a lot of sports injuries and having a physically static career led me to get into biomechanics which lead me to realize our bodies weren’t designed to be static, in chairs, or on plush surfaces much if at all.

I’m like 80% carnivore. I was hardcore 100% for a year and lost my way after a trip to Brazil. I do multi-day water fasts pretty regularly. I once did a 21-day water only fast. I’m kind of a nut with bio stuff.

I’m pretty socially awkward but a lot of that stems from loving people and being really afraid of disappointing them. Also childhood bullying and other stuff I haven’t outgunned with therapy.

I first heard about Bitcoin on the internet somewhere in 2012 but I didn’t really buy any until later. Even though a younger me was an ancap and had self-studied Austrian econ, I hadn’t put the political pieces together — I was too consumed by college.

Later I bought LSD with Bitcoin on the “Dark Net.” After I owned some corn, NGU made me look closer. In 2017, I came to a cursory understanding of the tech but thought I couldn’t contribute. When I moved to Austin and began meeting people in the space, I realized I was psyching myself out. Now I'm I'm on a one way trip to the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Mostly incentives changing such that we all become lower time preference. It’s hard to appreciate how distorting bad money is but once you see it you can’t unsee it. One thing I think about a lot is how much my friends obsess about investments. We’ve all had to become investors to not get squashed by monetary policy. Bitcoin fixes this.

Also, I’m very interested in destroying hierarchical, discriminatory financial and state institutions that exist either because we couldn't stop them or because the alternatives were inadequate. Bitcoin fixes this.

I am a human with a brain.

Bitcoin and Lightning facilitate capital for my consciousness in ways no other monetary medium could possibly achieve.

I hale from Mudgee, Australia.

My interest in bitcoin stemmed from trying to understand why farmland prices continue to go up in Australia, which I realised was largely to do with lower interest rates.

When questioning how/why interest rates continue to get lower I realised the whole of Keynesian economics is fundamentally flawed, and incongruent with how complex systems should work.

I first dismissed bitcoin as a bubble in 2017, but it finally all clicked early last year when central banks went nuts.

I think bitcoin has massive potential to make our food production systems and rural communities much more sustainable.

When people like @koob build novel platforms like stacker news on the lightning network, my conviction in bitcoin grows even stronger.

Hi, I'm @nout.

I remember the days when

And to share a bit on my personality, I can tell you that at one point I used to sell bubblegum dressed up as a little devil with horns and all.

I'm an shitcoiner-turned-bitcoiner earlier this year. I got into "crypto" by diving into Ethereum first in 2017, have built plenty of smart contracts, some of which are popular, and have worked with a countless number of shitcoin projects. I work in the space, though not for a Bitcoin-only company, but it's alright since the pay is very good and it allows me to buy more corn and secure my family's future.

What got me into Bitcoin was questioning why these Bitcoin-maximilists were so convicted when it comes to Bitcoin. Why? My Ethereum influencer-overlords told me over and over that Bitcoin is pet rock, doesn't do anything, no one is building on it, etc. Can't they see all the "innovation" happening on Ethereum? I like to approach things with a "What if they're right?" attitude, so I made a new nym, followed a bunch of BTC-maxis, watched their videos, read their books and articles, listened to their podcasts. The more I absorbed the more I understood why.

Now I spend pretty much all my free online-time on this handle and continue to absorb info related to Bitcoin and economics. I've started orange-pilling family (it never felt right to try to get them to buy ETH or other shitcoins, glad I never did), and working through my reading list every night.

(Intro threads are also a good reason not to give away too many sats: make an intro and people will give you sats. Make quality comments with your newly-given sats, and you'll earn more. Simple)

Just a pleb. Stacking sats. Running nodes. Shitposting on Twitter. Lurking on stacker.news Puff puff passing.

wagwan?

zion is open source

bitcoin ends enslavement of humans by other humans

here to see off babylon

studying bitcoin with btc tutors discord community. join us -> https://discord.gg/c2KKqCtW

on twitter: @ coinward

jah bless!

Hey all! I'm Gerald. I'm a physician (hospitalist) and former software engineer.

Fairly newb to this space, orange-pilled in January when I randomly I stumbled into a maximalist clubhouse room while driving. Now I can't get enough and I'm bitter that I was too busy in my career to not have sat down and delved into this sooner. Crypto was one of my favorite classes back in the day (Dan Boneh CS 255) but I just never paid "crypto" any attention as I kept thinking I should be paying off my loans first 🤦‍♂️

Now honestly feeling really burned out in medicine. Wishing I had more corn to escape the bedside grind.