- Find role where I can most help Bitcoin become reserve currency of world
- Meet partners for next wave of ventures 10 years out, when Bitcoin has become boring and mainstream
- Become financially independent (not there yet)
- I'm currently trying to create a Bitcoin programming bootcamp to help experienced devs get Bitcoin jobs. My goal is to start first cohort on November 1. It would be free for students, and would monetize with recruiter fees from job placements.
- Interdisciplinary. I like to think about sales and I like to think about code.
- First employee at Karmic Labs.
- One of our products was an expense management system for corporations that issued debit cards to all employees and apps for spending authorization in place of reimbursements. I built the mobile app.
- Our other product was an API for issuing debit cards, like the recently released Stripe Issuing product. Venmo and Square cash first prototpyed their wildly successful debit card offerings on our platform. 3 of us built this service.
- Cofounders eventually went to war, company fell apart :(
- Have a math degree, which does frequently come in useful!
- I have taught a Bitcoin programming class for the last month. We're trying to implement initial block download in Python without relying on any bitcoin-related dependencies. Here's GitHub's rendering of the first lesson's notebook.
- Started a YouTube show for hands-on BUILDLING called Bits & Bolts. Only posted one episode so far, but episodes with Pierre Rochard on BitcoinACKS.com and Stadicus3000's guides are coming soon.
- I've been contributing to this Arduino hardware wallet. Have started building a Micropython hardware wallet. Building a hardware wallet will be part of the bootcamp I'm putting together.
- I run the Austin Bitcoin Developer meetup