Obsessed with Bitcoin

Since Early 2013

2012 December Learned of Bitcoin from David Marcus at PayPal Q4 Architecture Forum
2013 April Read about Bitcoin's fall in value and the local Bitcoin Conference
May Heard Let's Talk Bitcoin podcast about HD wallets and became a believer
June Bought my first BTC through Coinbase and sent it to my mobile wallet
July Published Bitcoin Green Paper internally at PayPal
November Attended my first Bitcoin Meetup at Plug&Play in Sunnyvale
2014 May Attended Bitcoin job fair to find out what skills companies wanted
July Reached my 10-year anniversary at PayPal and gave notice
August Started at BitPay's new San Francisco office as software developer
December Pushed my first feature, subscriptions API and website interface, into production
2015 May Built address discovery proof-of-concept at Blockchain University
June Built multiple-output transaction proposal capability for Copay wallet and Bitcore libraries
July Wrote Carrot Protocol Whitepaper with teammate from Blockchain University
September Received layoff notice from BitPay, as did a third of its employees
2016 February Integrated SatoshiPay WordPress plug-in into my playground
March Created full node using bitcore on Azure
2018 July Used node.js crypto library to demonstrate token concepts to co-workers
2021 October Assembled LND Lightning Node following the RaspiBlitz tutorial
2022 August Began submitting pull requests to ElementsProject Lightning repository
December Migrated from LND to Core Lightning and added capacity