Thread by @josephdelong

I want to tell my story so there is clarity around why I hate banks and am long on personal freedom movements.

The year is 2002, my first working year produced $10k in W2 income for a two person household. My rent is $650/mo and drive 1 hour every to work.

My job is land surveying where I stand all day in Houston humidity being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

I’m losing weight because I can’t afford to eat, my pants are getting loose and I can’t afford a belt. So I keep my pants up by tying a plastic walmart bag between two belt loops.

My work ethic is shit and I am essentially starving to death. My bank account is alway “over-drafted” I cant afford anything, if I do I deal mostly in cash because it can’t be stolen by the bank cartel.

I am essentially fired from every job until 2004 when I join the military. I convinced myself it was because I was for patriotic reasons. But in hindsight it is the able bodied male version of turning tricks.

Every poor able bodied male joins the military at some point.

I dropped bombs for a living for 4 years on innocent men, women, and children in Iraq and Afghanistan in exchange in-state tuition paid for and at a division 3 college.

During my time in the military I start to follow real libertarian movements, campaign for Ron Paul, learn about the gold standard. I leave the military with no marketable skills at the peak of the housing crisis.

I make slave wages, delivering Pizza in a manual 99 Honda Civic with mismatched body panels and no air conditioning in Abilene, TX.

I actually loved this job because it was about self motivation and character.

I am getting a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science at @mcmuniv.

While I am doing that I learn about Bitcoin around 2012 and start mining it on my university library computers (sorry guys).

After graduation I go to work for USAA (a bank). But they’re really active in blockchain, I start pouring time into Dogecoin, and bam I meet @hudsonjameson. He tells me about Ethereum and I brush it off (historical context is important here).

I start working in the USAA Blockchain Lab. I learn a lot of uncomfortable secrets about banking.

Meet my epic bromance @JonnyRhea. We build a web3 prototype for decentralized computation. Show it to @ethereumJoseph he hates it, but likes us. He hires us to build the Eth2 client

We build it, launch the beacon chain. I did lots of stuff in between and the @0xMaki asked me if I wanted a role at Sushi. I accept and the rest is history.

🖕 Fuck. Your. Money. I’m. Here. For. The. Revolution. 🖕