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I am a retired U.S. lawyer. I bought my first bitcoin in early 2018, but didn't fall down the rabbit hole until 2020. I run a bitcoin and lightning node.

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I also post this content on nostr.

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35 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 24 May 2022

I am also pretty old by bitcoin standards (63) and I was heavily invested both financially and intellectually in the traditional financial system.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 2 Sep

Just tried to subscribe, but now quickly unsubscribed lol. Information overload.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 2 Sep

Wise move

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @iguano 24 May 2022

why it took 2 years for you to fell to the rabbit hole?

128 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 24 May 2022

Well, it really took me even longer. I was an active libertarian and first became exposed to pgp email encryption in the 1990's. I heard of bitcoin fairly early on through libertarian friends (maybe 2012 or 2013), but thought of it as a scam. I regret that, but you know the old saying: "You buy bitcoin at the price you deserve."

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 24 May 2022

Wow, nice story, thanks for sharing.

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @EnormousPony 24 May 2022

It's not a rare thing, it take a lot of will power and curiosity to start digging into deep topics like when you dig into bitcoin. It took me a while since my first bitcoin purchase to actually go down the rabbit hole and ask me "why bitcoin"

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @iguano 24 May 2022

Yes, for sure, is a mind shift, but for some reason after understanding how bitcoin works it clicked right away for me. I heard about bitcoin before but never looked into it, but when I did, that was all.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Ge 24 May 2022

Nice to meet ya got into all this in early 2018 and went down the rabbit hole its been a wild ride and cool you have found this space your limited tech abilities far outreach alot of peoples knowledge right now in the space !

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 25 May 2022

I am interested in improving my tech abilities. I tried to teach myself a little python a few months back to help run my lightning node from the command line, but it's a slow go.

310 sats \ 1 reply \ @dieselbaby 22 Sep

I realize this is about 16 months late at this point, but I was poking around on SN reading random stuff and saw this comment, thought I would suggest that perhaps something useful for your journey in attempting to learn python or get better acquainted with programming in general is to try using something like chatGPT or google's bard or "claude" (claude.ai), these are all free to use and are remarkably helpful for assisting you while you are trying to learn to code. Personally I would suggest getting your feet wet trying to learn something that is simple (but can be quite powerful) like bash scripting...if you're already comfortable using the command line to set up your lightning node, then you're likely already using bash anyway to a certain extent. If you're on Windows, you can install WSL (window subsystem for linux) super easily and have yourself an entire native Linux environment within the Windows OS, all you have to do is download something like Ubuntu or Debian from the Microsoft Store and run it...highly recommended.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 22 Sep

Thanks very much for this advice. As you said, it's been a while since I wrote that. More recently I wrote this post: https://stacker.news/items/126179/

It really has been an enjoyable journey. I can't say I'm proficient re Python. Not even close. I don't even try much anymore. I have discovered that it really isn't my thing anyway. The benefit is I can usually follow conversations here that get technical so I at least get the basic idea of what's being talked about. Regarding Linux, I'm now completely hooked. I don't use windows at all anymore. I still use the old Ubuntu laptop, but my desktop has Nix OS which took me a while to grasp but I now find pretty easy and convenient.