It’s 2021, and Egge is a person like many others. He is following a predictable path: he went to school, studied marketing at university, and now works a normal day job in advertising, running around at the fast pace of one of Germany's highly productive cities.

Fast-forward to today, Egge is one of the leading developers in the Cashu ecosystem, producing code used by multiple applications in the Bitcoin space. What happened during this time?

I am a freedom-loving open-source developer, a Bitcoiner, a husband, and most importantly, a father to an amazing little girl.

Egge grew up around technical people. His dad, an electrician and a real do-it-yourselfer, introduced him to gaming from a young age. As a PC gamer, Egge picked up many technical skills along the way, though he never touched code, save for a brief parenthesis during high school.

His journey into development started when Egge wanted to modify the Einundzwanzig community Telegram bot to add useful features. He didn’t wait for someone else to do it. Instead, he rolled up his sleeves, bought an Udemy course on Python, and started exploring the world of coding. He hasn’t stopped learning and building since.

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