At the beginning of 2018, I wrote an article outlining a New Year’s resolution that I thought could help boost cryptocurrency adoption and awareness in 2018, as long as enough people were doing it. Last week was the sixth installment of my year of cryptocurrency challenge. With the crypto markets recovering slightly and the industry’s fair share of drama, I was able to have some pretty good conversations.
The cryptocurrency markets began recovering (though they’re still bearish) these past couple of weeks, and panic selling seemed to slow down. However, in most of the interactions I had, I tried to steer the conversation away from price and toward technology and community. Here are some of the highlights.
I’ve never really cared who Satoshi Nakamoto was. I think that their exodus from the space was the best thing for it. Instead of actually having Satoshi tell us what (s)he would do, we’ve had to speculate. That speculation isn’t really productive or fruitful, so most of us have moved on from even trying. That is a good thing, as it means we get to define the space.
That said, I listened to a podcast recently on which the host and the guest did talk briefly about who they thought Satoshi was. They referenced a Gizmodo article that they had found convincing, and I read it as well. What was wild to me about this was that Dave Kleinman (Gizmodo’s alleged Satoshi) makes a lot of sense, particularly because of the Satoshi fortune having never been sold even when Bitcoin hit $20,000; Kleinman is dead. It will always remain a mystery, I think, and nothing more than a passing thought in my mind.
This week I was actually the recipient of some coins. I’m not sure if this qualifies as satisfying my end of the challenge (though I did tip some users on /r/dogecoin), but it does for my friend who is also participating in this challenge. She tipped me some Dogecoin for helping her figure out what was going on in a Slack workspace. I helped her troubleshoot it and she was generous enough to send me 50 Doge for my efforts.
Have you been participating in the challenge as well? How’s it going? Tell us in the comments or tweet at us.
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