(2/) The following post is part 2 of a super long story about how I came around to crypto. Part 1 can be found here. Part 3 can be found here. The first time the concepts in crypto really hit me, they REALLY hit me. I was in Virginia City, Nevada, with a really old friend…this dude that I spent a couple of years getting to know through my local church when I was ~18 years old…we lost touch but reconnected after 12 years under a strange set of circumstances. We had both been following emerging tech, and it turned out that he was one of the only people that I could talk with about it because he was the only person I actually *knew* in real life that understood it and found it interesting enough to talk about. We sat in his shithole apartment talking about Facebook’s plan for world domination and we sat on my parents’ balcony talking about the possibilities of this tech while also trying our hand at Tor. Taking notes and shit.
sawdust, what a fitting! metaphor