My interest in tech really started with video games, filling plenty of hours in my childhood playing games on various Nintendo systems. It then branched into computers, beginning with an IBM clone that took floppy disks, had a bulky CRT monitor, and on which I played more games like Digdug and Centipede. Using Windows followed, then dial-up internet through AOL, then a DSL connection through Verizon, and I’d play Java applet based games like RuneScape in its early days and various Flash based games.

I enrolled in college in 2001 and within a few years heard about Ubuntu, a different kind of operating system than I’d ever known. I fell in love with Linux and free open source software in general. Then a few days later I heard about Bitcoin, a new type of digital currency. Eager to dabble, I promptly set up a mining program on my personal computer and ran it during any idle times when I wasn’t actively using it myself. I managed to mine over a dozen bitcoins, but sadly lost them with the passage of time and lack of recognizing their potential future value.

I didn’t do much with cryptocurrency even as the space evolved until 2018, when Robinhood introduced Dogecoin trading. Through careful and patient trading I multiplied a few hundred dollars of value into a few thousand dollars, which I used to help out my parents who were struggling to pay some outstanding debts.

Since then I’ve continued to trade cryptos for short term gains, as well as holding some of them for long term staking investments with higher yields than I can find with fiat banks. I’ve learned about the utility blockchains offer to society, which is allowing math driven communal consensus to govern record keeping rather than a central authority like a bank whose records could be abstracted or even falsified by those few with direct access, or through government interventions. I’ve learned about web3 and how it could transform the online landscape in which we live the digital aspects of our lives giving us validated ownership of the content we create rather than living it in the hands of centralized social media platforms.

Today I finally took a first step of registering my first ENS name (curioushuman.eth) and while I’m not yet fully leveraging it for useful functions as of the writing of this post, I aim to learn and do more as I explore more web3 applications (such as mirror.xyz on which I’m writing this post). Awhile back I found this series of informative posts which I saved to my bookmarks but delayed acting on until today.

https://www.gillesdc.com/web3/intro

Occasionally I get ideas of how some popular web2 platforms could function in a web3 equivalent, such as a decentralized version of Reddit driven instead of by gaining karma through upvotes, allowing users to easily transfer small amounts of crypto directly between each other in appreciation of valued pieces of content. Such direct rewards leaving out unnecessary intermediaries could eliminate the potential for censorship and be a stronger incentive allowing even those just starting out to benefit from day one, instead of needing to adhere to the arbitrary structures of incentive formed by a central owner relying on advertising and membership fees for their profitability and sharing a pittance of those profits with those creating the content.

But I’d need to become a lot more skilled in programming to take on the building of such visions, plus I think it’s more likely that if I searched enough I might find something similar already deployed in the dApps ecosystem.

If you’d like to support me with donations you can do so through any of the following addresses:

ETH (Ethereum)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

ATOM (Cosmos)

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INJ (Injective)

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SOL (Solana)

D6Ni3o98XKnwyrNvWUMZePYJwTBbfehBNzK7DNNxsKYV

KAVA (Kava)

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XTZ (Tezos)

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ADA (Cardano)

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MATIC (Polygon)

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BTC (Bitcoin)

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XRP (XRP)

rpQAh2Adot6bKrAX5a3VJisXBswwWtb9K9

BNB (BNB)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

TRX (Tron)

TLu4pimQCcwgRDbBCsai2wdxFPYahx9Zvq

DOGE (Dogecoin)

D8HtTRLTBxmVxuHAgY7zEgQGvSDsz6eoEE

AVAX (Avalanche)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

DOT (Polkadot)

16XyGQ4PZaU2LfXakEPF8xV12bxhtQTJdmRcjUY2gs68XYtM

LTC (Litecoin)

LX4B8Yah5BGnEum8vUDVB7iMytnncVkGT1

PEPE (Pepe)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

My interest in tech really started with video games, filling plenty of hours in my childhood playing games on various Nintendo systems. It then branched into computers, beginning with an IBM clone that took floppy disks, had a bulky CRT monitor, and on which I played more games like Digdug and Centipede. Using Windows followed, then dial-up internet through AOL, then a DSL connection through Verizon, and I’d play Java applet based games like RuneScape in its early days and various Flash based games.

I enrolled in college in 2001 and within a few years heard about Ubuntu, a different kind of operating system than I’d ever known. I fell in love with Linux and free open source software in general. Then a few days later I heard about Bitcoin, a new type of digital currency. Eager to dabble, I promptly set up a mining program on my personal computer and ran it during any idle times when I wasn’t actively using it myself. I managed to mine over a dozen bitcoins, but sadly lost them with the passage of time and lack of recognizing their potential future value.

I didn’t do much with cryptocurrency even as the space evolved until 2018, when Robinhood introduced Dogecoin trading. Through careful and patient trading I multiplied a few hundred dollars of value into a few thousand dollars, which I used to help out my parents who were struggling to pay some outstanding debts.

Since then I’ve continued to trade cryptos for short term gains, as well as holding some of them for long term staking investments with higher yields than I can find with fiat banks. I’ve learned about the utility blockchains offer to society, which is allowing math driven communal consensus to govern record keeping rather than a central authority like a bank whose records could be abstracted or even falsified by those few with direct access, or through government interventions. I’ve learned about web3 and how it could transform the online landscape in which we live the digital aspects of our lives giving us validated ownership of the content we create rather than living it in the hands of centralized social media platforms.

Today I finally took a first step of registering my first ENS name (curioushuman.eth) and while I’m not yet fully leveraging it for useful functions as of the writing of this post, I aim to learn and do more as I explore more web3 applications (such as mirror.xyz on which I’m writing this post). Awhile back I found this series of informative posts which I saved to my bookmarks but delayed acting on until today.

https://www.gillesdc.com/web3/intro

Occasionally I get ideas of how some popular web2 platforms could function in a web3 equivalent, such as a decentralized version of Reddit driven instead of by gaining karma through upvotes, allowing users to easily transfer small amounts of crypto directly between each other in appreciation of valued pieces of content. Such direct rewards leaving out unnecessary intermediaries could eliminate the potential for censorship and be a stronger incentive allowing even those just starting out to benefit from day one, instead of needing to adhere to the arbitrary structures of incentive formed by a central owner relying on advertising and membership fees for their profitability and sharing a pittance of those profits with those creating the content.

But I’d need to become a lot more skilled in programming to take on the building of such visions, plus I think it’s more likely that if I searched enough I might find something similar already deployed in the dApps ecosystem.

If you’d like to support me with donations you can do so through any of the following addresses:

ETH (Ethereum)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

ATOM (Cosmos)

cosmos1y7hh4q7awe85ktgnqkkdsf4vm2k97feqhvtyq8

INJ (Injective)

inj16eyqxl30723vsw3lu7v2w76y43yuqfykqnlv2c

SOL (Solana)

D6Ni3o98XKnwyrNvWUMZePYJwTBbfehBNzK7DNNxsKYV

KAVA (Kava)

kava1fxa5p60qkuppzta37t4g9d5pqg74vr06h3vqf0

XTZ (Tezos)

tz1ZWmVNvMkgbL9ANxYhY2MZqS45cxiE47b6

ADA (Cardano)

addr1q84wg3ecqmuky8tvjjjh8s9mvckqswuyqnjrfsl777lj38h2u3rnsphevgwke999w0qtke3vpqacgp8yxnplaaal9z0qxdlw8a

MATIC (Polygon)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

BTC (Bitcoin)

bc1qyrrv7s9hqt06f5sd0c0rlym3a7t9cq53cfzkq7

XRP (XRP)

rpQAh2Adot6bKrAX5a3VJisXBswwWtb9K9

BNB (BNB)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

TRX (Tron)

TLu4pimQCcwgRDbBCsai2wdxFPYahx9Zvq

DOGE (Dogecoin)

D8HtTRLTBxmVxuHAgY7zEgQGvSDsz6eoEE

AVAX (Avalanche)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496

DOT (Polkadot)

16XyGQ4PZaU2LfXakEPF8xV12bxhtQTJdmRcjUY2gs68XYtM

LTC (Litecoin)

LX4B8Yah5BGnEum8vUDVB7iMytnncVkGT1

PEPE (Pepe)

0xd648037E2ff2A2C83A3fe798a77b44AC49C02496