I've been following bitcoin since 2009, always wanted to get involved but life had other plans as well as it seemed too technically advanced for me.

Got really interested in the price/trading aspect of $BTC around 2014/2015, bought my first (fractional) bitcoins in 2016. 2017 was exciting! 2018, not as much. Thats when I really started to learn about the fundamentals and the progress it's made re: tech and especially the lightning network.

A couple weeks ago I've decided to get more involved on the tech side, and over the past couple days have been setting up a raspberry pi to run a lightning node. It's been really exciting and I've already learned SO MUCH about PGP, sha256 encryption, and using the command line.

I was actually laid off last year and I have no intention of entering the world of traditional advertising ever again. I have an idea that might fix the problems with restaurant reviews and I think I can incorporate lightning nodes with NFC readers to allow REAL people to leave REAL reviews and get some satoshis in the process. What forum would be good for me to discuss that in?

I'm excited to finally post here! I remember first learning of bitcoin through the old Something Awful forums like 10 years ago! I can't believe that crazy experiment I tried to convince my partner at the time was the future actually made it this far. Now, if only I bought BTC in 2009 instead of going on that trip to Europe... oh well!

Cheers to the next 100 years my dudes!