My #bitcoin journey began embarrassingly a long time ago. As a very online person and somewhat advanced in years, I was a lurker on the early Bitcoin talk forum. I was at the time fairly non technical. I tried to get mining to work but as I had just figure out how to install Linux it was beyond me. I promptly ignore it for a couple more years. During this time I felt the cognitive dissonance of the idea of bitcoin and my reality the entire time. I was actively a bit upset that Bitcoin existed, it’s hard to explain but I was weirdly angry.

In about 2013 or 14 I got interested again and was a regular on the Bitcoin subreddit. The only smart thing I did during that time was to take a 0.1467 bitcoin tip I received and send it to cold storage. It was the only tip I managed to save from that period and it’s pretty insane when I think about the wealth I left on that account. Every other action I took during that period resulted in less bitcoin today.

I made countless other mistakes with trading, key management, exchange hacks, and eventually shitcoin buying. But since I still have the private keys to that Reddit tip I stashed away I’m not a complete idiot.

I have since transitioned my entire world view to a bitcoin standard. Sadly it took me far too long. I am playing catch up.

Now I DCA weekly via strike and am building my self custody stash. When I exit the fiat system entirely I hope it’s because I am spending my days pushing Bitcoin forward in a meaningful way.