Great thread!! Looking forward to meeting more of my Treech…

Great thread!! Looking forward to meeting more of my Treechat community!!

Michael here. Queer artist and parent of four. I live on Vancouver Island. A beautiful paradise on the west coast of Canada. I’ve built a career as a chef until I was injured over a year ago and have been building a new vocation as a software engineer. I’m starting school in September!!!! In my mid-fifties wish me luck.

Two things I miss deeply from my pre-injury life (and if anyone knows a lawyer specializing in labor law I want to talk about employers duty of care) that I just can’t get over yet. One is rock climbing… I haven’t done it in years but won’t be doing it anytime soon— I’ve got a friend who’s itching to get out onto the crags with me but I can’t. And the other is playing guitar. I can’t play enough to form callouses without it causing lots of pain and that makes me really really sad.

I discovered Bitcoin early on, pre-segwit, and deeply regret not figuring it out when it was at $70 a coin. I KNEW back then that it was going to be the future of the world; I just didn’t have the liquidity or time/energy to get into it. Life happens right? 🤷‍♀️

It wasn’t until 2016 that I got into crypto though… but Bitcoin was not even on my radar (ugh remember $ETN and $STEEM). That is, until 2021-ish and I started looking further into what happened with the Civil war… found Satoshi and Kurt, got introduced to Relayx and the culture there and was sold on the real Bitcoin and have been preaching that gospel to whomever would listen since. I’ve probably got about twenty different self-custodial Bitcoin wallets on all the different platforms LOL!!!

I’m the only person in my real life that is as deep into the Bitcoin rabbit hole as me, and sometimes it’s really lonely. Even the “crypto bros” I know in my community have no clue or inkling about real Bitcoin. It’s kinda lonely being a Bitcoin maxi… my partner and kids’ eyes all gloss over and they just nod politely when I start talking about it. Sigh… lonely indeed.

And it’s weird, I guess most of you are in your late twenties early thirties? My eldest son is 21. And the crypto world does not exist for him at all…. Except for that weird thing that dad does… I just figured the younger generation would be ALL OVER this stuff… considering it’s magic internet money and the internet is all around… but it looks like the people who hijacked bitcoin, to coin a Kurt term, have been very successful at keeping the magic of Bitcoin from us. It’s frustrating and very sad.

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Anyway, In all of this time I have been busy carefully curating a collection and concept that I’m getting ready to release into the world soon. It’s been a long project that has been growing with the tech I’ve seen evolving on chain. It’s a very interesting journey and I’m excited to be close to sharing it soon!!! It feels really awesome to be able to bring some passions together into a scene where I may be able to have heaps of fun creating AND earning a living. Please follow me here or @chefmyklove and @ordinalrainbows on all the usual socials if you want to keep posted about my project. There will be lots of interesting chances to win between now and launch, for those who are following along!!

Oh… I visit the Ocean almost every day. Hummingbirds are live breath to me, and I like Minecraft a lot! A LOT!….