Have been a software developer for almost 15 years, starting with Web development, enterprise systems, payment gateways, complex billing systems...

Always have been intrigued by technology and this is how the web3 development story starts.

Started in 2016 with Fintech projects. Fintech was a great branch (still is), that tries to find a way how it can utilize new tech in the financial industry.

2016 is when Fintech started experimenting with blockchain technology (don't mix blockchain with crypto, crypto is just one implementation of blockchain tech).

Projects started to use and integrate with blockchain tech, Hyperledger, private ethereum enterprise chains were born and it was interesting to work with that tech.

Then the next wave of tech came: cryptos, tokens,  DAO. Decentralized Finance DeFi around 2018-2019.

As a tech enthusiast who want to learn sth, you are interested in how this works in the background and want to try the tech, not much from trading, but from tech perspective (smart contracts, cryptography).

This is how started following the birth of Uniswap, Yearn, Balancer,  Compound, MakerDAO, Aave... now established protocols in the industry.

Then came the Layer2 protocols, optimistic rollups, plasma chains, zksnark.. interesting technology that as a tech person, you want to have a one eye look on.

At that time it was just a hobby, spending time during the night time, instead of reading books, reading codes on Github, mostly smart contracts.

Then, after all this reading code, you start coding something on your own, trying to implement some interesting contract that does something usefully,  getting in touch with nerd people that also want to try something intrigued by the tech.

And this is how an idea was born, out of nowhere, open source smart contract written, deployed and released. No major expectations, rather than let's try it, experiment and see.

Well, the idea got some traction, not much, but people started to ask questions, got interested, wanted to contribute to the idea and evolve it.

Sure, why not, it is an open idea and open code,  deployed on decentralized blockchain in owner-less way. Anyone can be welcomed to adopt, join and evolve an idea. that's the power of the blockchain and decentralization.

However, not all people understands this new tech unfortunately and even worst they don't know how to use it.

Those people often blames others for their own mistakes. You can't blame metamask wallet if someone hacks your wallet and get access to your seed phase. Tools are built to be used by people, but not all people use them right.

Those evil people are the reason for writing this story. Those evil people think that the idea creators owns all crypto, all tokens, everything, probably because of their lack of knowledge of how decentralization works.

They don't know that crypto tokens can be designed in such a way that it can be as decentralized as possible, with no single person owning it.

Unfortunately, those evil people are exactly reason to quit the crypto tech for me soon, specially when they storm public office, using physical force, looking for tokens, liquidity,  thinking idea creators own everything, without understanding the permission-less and decentralization nature of blockchain.

Fortunately, they were not able to do any harm to the idea, however people affected are shaked, emotionally, their families are affected, worried as well. Those evil people are now problem for the law enforcement institutions.

Now we understand why privacy in Crypto matters. Because of those evil people.

Idea is born, given, and evolves over time around community that want to adopt it. Many people will join and leave. The idea will live as long as the community still believe and actively participate in it..

IN order to protect the privacy of the people and parties involved, no names have been mentioned. Please respect their privacy as well.