I'll break the ice. Plus I'm pretty much already fully doxed.

I'm Keyan. Also, k00bideh on Twitter and huumn on Github.

I once worked at a company where I lead and built distributed systems, but one of the reasons I got really into programming was that I find it the most powerful, expressive way to make things. So powerful that if you tell your computer the right incantations, you can make something that people value so much that you can support yourself, a family, employees, other founders, even several generations and foundations financially.

Over the years I've created all kinds of side projects. In college I made a Location Based Wiki on iOS for my college town Davis, CA. Man was it trick as hell and had pretty good market saturation but I didn't recognize growth when I saw it.

Later I started a brutal failure of a startup with a friend. I’ve probably released six full stack mobile or web apps and made a handful of unreleased projects in total. Everything was bootstrapped and most outright failed. The only thing that’s “made money” to date is https://grepmed.com and while it has a lot of usage it’s still not “ramen profitable.” We’re still tinkering with GrepMed to this day and are really happy to see how much users love it.

Anyway, this all lead me to SN. I realized what a lot my past projects lacked was loving the community I was building with. I wasn’t being selective enough of our group which turns out is really important. That’s all to say I love Bitcoiners and I’m really happy to have found my way to our community.

I like long walks. I walk probably 5 miles a day round trip to my coworking space. As a teenager, I had fantasized about never having to drive and I guess I’m living up to that mostly.

I don’t really own or use sitting furniture at home. I sit and sleep on the ground at home. It’s kind of weird, but having a lot of sports injuries and having a physically static career led me to get into biomechanics which lead me to realize our bodies weren’t designed to be static, in chairs, or on plush surfaces much if at all.

I’m like 80% carnivore. I was hardcore 100% for a year and lost my way after a trip to Brazil. I do multi-day water fasts pretty regularly. I once did a 21-day water only fast. I’m kind of a nut with bio stuff.

I’m pretty socially awkward but a lot of that stems from loving people and being really afraid of disappointing them. Also childhood bullying and other stuff I haven’t outgunned with therapy.

I first heard about Bitcoin on the internet somewhere in 2012 but I didn’t really buy any until later. Even though a younger me was an ancap and had self-studied Austrian econ, I hadn’t put the political pieces together — I was too consumed by college.

Later I bought LSD with Bitcoin on the “Dark Net.” After I owned some corn, NGU made me look closer. In 2017, I came to a cursory understanding of the tech but thought I couldn’t contribute. When I moved to Austin and began meeting people in the space, I realized I was psyching myself out. Now I'm I'm on a one way trip to the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Mostly incentives changing such that we all become lower time preference. It’s hard to appreciate how distorting bad money is but once you see it you can’t unsee it. One thing I think about a lot is how much my friends obsess about investments. We’ve all had to become investors to not get squashed by monetary policy. Bitcoin fixes this.

Also, I’m very interested in destroying hierarchical, discriminatory financial and state institutions that exist either because we couldn't stop them or because the alternatives were inadequate. Bitcoin fixes this.