In the early days of Bitcoin, I heard about it from some random tech blog and was intrigued by this novel new form of currency. I dove straight into mining and with just a desktop PC ended up accumulating around a dozen BTC - only to later lose interest due to impatience and lose track of the drive on which those bitcoins were stored by the time they were each worth thousands of dollars. I’ve heard crazy stories of people going on quests of desperation to track down their stored bitcoins including digging through landfills. I was never that desperate but learned a good lesson: sometimes the potential of something new takes time to be more apparent and widely embraced.

Fast forwarding some years later, cryptocoins were actually beginning to bleed into the mainstream to the point they were being made available to trade on online stock brokerages in arbitrage between coins and fiat currency (USD). Some of the best gains in my WeBull portfolio ended up being in selling on spikes in the value of SHIB and DOGE. The only problem was that when held in a typical brokerage, one gets no actualized gains from simply holding coins, and I was trying to build a robust dividend stocks portfolio. So I slowly sold off the coins I was holding in WeBull, waiting for pockets of profitability.

This brings me to today. Lately I’ve been reading, listening to, and watching a lot of stuff about Web3 and the potential for coins to be used not only for long term value storage or speculative arbitrage but also as a decentralized means of person-to-person exchange which could eventually revolutionize how finance and business work around the world, and provide viable alternatives well before that point. I’m now comparing wallets, dabbling in dapps, and looking into ways to earn coins in the world of decentralized finance.

That’s going to be a major theme in this blog. I have thoughts to share, knowledge to offer, and the ability to express myself in ways which people online have often complimented. My hope, or at least a point of curiosity, is that this value will be recognized by others who want to give back something, whether that be coins or new perspectives and ideas from those similarly minded. I look forward to seeing what we collectively build in this brave new world.