1065 sats \ 2 replies \ @Murch 15 Apr \ on: Post your Bitcoin resume bitcoin_beginners
Rediscovered Bitcoin the third or so time and actually read the Whitepaper. Realized that it might actually work.
Spring 2013 – Bought ice-cream for two with bitcoins.
Summer 2013 – Lost 0.2 bitcoin by accidentally uninstalling a wallet app when my phone’s disk was full.
June 2013 – Made account on Bitcoin Stack Exchange. I went on to ask 185 questions and write 1,722 answers which have accumulated some 5m reads since.
March 2014 – Became a moderator on Bitcoin Stack Exchange editing over 6,500 posts, deleting and closing about as many.
May 2014 – Attended Bitcoin2014 in Amsterdam meeting a bunch of the active devs and spent 0.4 BTC on a Bitcoin pin that I don’t even know where it is now.
September 2014 – Opened my first PR to Bitcoin Core to make a small coin selection improvement. It later got reverted when a senior contributor noticed that the UTXO set had started growing faster and partially attributed it to the change I made.
Summer 2016 – Wrote my Master’s thesis on Coin Selection which went on to be cited by 10 papers and is still being read occasionally.
October 2016 – Traveled to Milan to give a talk at Scaling Bitcoin.
April 2017 – Became a fulltime bitcoiner when I started working at BitGo on the backend, leading the project to implement segwit support and a bunch of other wallet features. Significantly reduced the overall blockspace footprint of BitGo customers. At times over 10% of all Bitcoin transactions were being built using my coin selection implementation.
June 2017 – Responded to Jonald Fyookball’s lightning fud piece within a couple hours.
Februar 2018 – Wrote Excited for Schnorr signatures giving an overview of my current understanding of the idea for Taproot.
Oct 2020 – Started working at Chaincode Labs to work on Bitcoin fulltime.
2021 – Started co-hosting the monthly New York Bitcoin developer meetup.
July 2022 – Started co-hosting to the Optech Recap Podcast, I’ve since recorded 80 episodes.
Other than, I have since spoken at a number of conferences and meetups, appeared on a number of other podcasts, e.g. Chaincode podcast (as guest and co-host), Stephan Livera, Noded, Honigdachs, Bitcoin im Turm, 21, and Nodesignal, written a bunch of blog posts, reviewed a bunch of pull requests in Bitcoin Core and other projects, even implemented a few pull requests myself.