[if they want]

On second thought: why are you wasting your time reading this?

Hello.

I'm now words in your head.

May I suggest reading this in Morgan Freeman's voice, in your head?

This is my test wallet:
13P5nCEAmiUxiBndCfLeeJY1Gq92xjexGz
If anyone wants to give me a satoshi, or two, for me to test out sending coins and messages, that would be helpful.

About me:

I got into bitcoin just recently through anarcho-capitalism veins. I've only recently (this last year) more fully educated myself on economics, philosophy, and am getting into programming.

I'm a biochemist by trade and education and would like to offer my services as a biochemist in the future, online. There are interesting start-up ideas in the biotech world, but I'll probably start out doing supply and resale. I want to be an entrepreneur. I like that bitcoin has hustle. I like the idea of bitcoin for when I set up my online vending. The resale side will probably have a mark-up due to the expense of sourcing things (anything I can't make in-house from my business) and shipping. I have VWR and Sigma business accounts, and I'm going to try and be a restriction enzyme supplier.

There's a lot of legwork that I have to do still and I'm in the process of getting a business loan so that I can invest in; learning a bit of CSS and some other webpage building stuff (my brother is a computer science person, but I'm self-taught so far), hosting service, capital equipment, consumables, a bit of advertising, and, well, you don't need to see my business plan, but basically I want to sell biochemistry type services and supplies online. I'll also supplement my income with glasswork, which is kind of a hobby of mine that I picked up after taking a class on lab glass blowing and repairs (although it's generally cheaper and timely just to buy culture flasks and whatnot). I don't think I'll get into paraphernalia glasswork unless I'm really cash-strapped. Nonetheless, I can do some cool stuff with glass - biochemistry has a lot of horizontally transferable skills, material sciences is a passion of mine. Biochemistry taught me how to make moodrings, moodglass, opal, etc... isn't that weird?

I know that I'm... a bit of a renaissance man, shall I say... or, to be blunt - I'm, seemingly, all over the place.

I don't know why you're reading this.

Anyways, I'm philosophically interested in bitcoin, as well as learning (in general, but about programming, security, cryptography, finance, digital freedom, etc., as well).

And, in case you're wondering, no I'm not a transhumanist - that's not why I got into biochemistry and technology; I just had favorable experiences in highschool with biology and chemistry... and I wanted to cure cancer because I was naive and young. Now I'm more interested in industrial biochemistry like remediation, chemical supply, and mining (actual mining, not bitcoin mining).

I'm not a "bitcoin believer", and, frankly, I think that the incentive for bringing down bitcoin, or its peripherals, is too great in the long run. I have my own ideas for a currency, but I want to use bitcoin as a learning platform. A life-goal of mine is to make an energy-credit currency and possibly a mini-economy. I want to be a green industrialist and have a lot I want to do with my life. Don't worry about why I'm interested in money - I'm just here to learn. No offense to the "believers", but all of it is monopoly money - dollars, renminbi, euros, and even bitcoins... The exchange value is the real "money" (yes, I know I'm using a Marxist term, exchange value, and that I'm an anarcho-capitalist; you can learn things even from your enemies... but, being an anarchist, I think everyone should be free to try living on a commune/syndicate if they want... personally I like markets and dislike people who abridge a person's economic agency. I'm all for competing ideas/currencies). I think calling government money "fiat" doesn't draw a distinction from bitcoin; bitcoin is still money from "an arbitrary order or decree". The price mechanism is no more objective than the subjective valuations of all the market actors in aggregate. Hume would say - you cannot get an ought from an is; the same applies to what one ought to pay for something. Publilius Syrus was right, though; everything is worth exactly what its purchaser will pay for it...

What the purchaser ought to pay, though... that's subject.

I'm tired of writing, so I'll wrap it up:

I short irrational exuberance, and... long... for rational exuberance. To me bitcoin is only a means to an end and I don't care about "bringing down the man/banksters". My goal is simply to be a prosperous pacifist. Beyond that, my one charitable activity is remediation technologies - if you need some free consultation for environmental clean-ups, then let me know.

As Jeff Berwick would say, in closing; peace, love, anarchy.