My journey into going all in on crypto began 25 years ago in Australia.

My buddy Brian in Sydney sold me his clunker IBM PC he wasn’t using for $50. He used to play primitive MS DOS games on it and it had a 8” floppy disk and a 2.5” disc drive. The games on the PC didn’t interest me at all. They were uh, very basic.

As I’d never used a PC I began investing all my spare time and energy into learning how to use one. First I upgraded the primitive DOS operating system into Windows 3.1. Then the day I got it to send a fax I was beside myself. It felt like I had landed a man on the moon.

Next I connected it to bulletin boards, a precursor to the Internet. You would dial up a bulletin board with the PC modem screeching like buggery and see a text based site on your screen. There you could navigate up or down or sideways to download pictures or documents. A few years later the internet brutally rendered bulletin boards obsolete overnight.

Once I’d sent that fax and connected to the bulletin boards with my PC there was no stopping me. Computers were my new passion.

I talked my way into a job with an American software company selling six figure client/server enterprise software to airlines and banks. But I had jumped in too deep. I couldn’t get my head around what client/server meant. It sounded like digital S&M to me. I lasted 6 months.

Meanwhile in our spare time Ross and I had set up the Australian branch of a Japanese business media monitoring service. Needing a website I taught myself HTML web design and made us a basic website. Unfortunately the media monitoring service was ahead of its time. But I went all in on web design and it only increased my appetite for computing.

Then I was hired by another US software company as a business development manager. Within a few months I sourced the first new clients the company had in years.

So after I met someone while on vacation in New York City, and requested to transfer to their US office in 2000, they reluctantly agreed.

Brian claims I still owe him 10% on every dollar I earned from the day he sold me that PC. It’s true, that PC did launch my software career. And it did change the trajectory of my life. Maybe I do owe him 10%?

Then when Bitcoin first appeared I was all in again. I recall buying some but then lost track of where I had it and how I bought it. Then I read about the UK guy who lost $70 million worth of Bitcoin in a dump.

Had I also misplaced a Bitcoin fortune? Was I like the UK guy?

This then is my segue into the Drip network. I’m determined to find a replacement fortune for the Bitcoin fortune I may (or may not) have lost.

And when I do, pay Brian his 10%.

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