Crypto

I caught the crypto "bug" at a Halloween party in 2017. By January of 2018, I had built my first Ethereum mining rig which heated our tiny apartment through the winter.

In 2019-2020, I kept mining (mostly Ethereum), experimented with liquidity pools and learned as much as possible. Desiring to use my talents in this budding industry, I started making videos for Hatch Crypto, a crypto engineering incubator to place fresh blockchain programmers into partner crypto company jobs.

This was our group, infiltrating various SXSW 2018 meetups and parties, spreading our message of pipelining developers to fill the engineering bottleneck many crypto companies were facing at the time.

In 2021, I sold my rig, which had grown to a meager, yet proud, 10 RX570s. I experimented with various new projects and even minted my first NFT, Neon Carnival.

Since then, I've been mostly HODLing and learning. The mining rig is long gone, but the habit it gave me stuck: when a new technology shows up, I'd rather build something with it than read about it. These days that curiosity mostly goes into AI (see the AI Notebook).