I picked up a new Macbook Pro last week and tried to get the previous version of this site running. It was a massive headache. It was running on multiple versions out-of-date edition of Jekyll, which uses Ruby – a language I have almost no experience with. After fighting with it for a few hours, I realized that this was a sign it was time to move on to something new!

I’ve been an avid disc golf player for most of my adult life. Last year in 2021, I played 105 rounds — almost once every 3 days!

Yes, yes, it’s now March. Almost the end of March at that! The last month and a half have been very hectic — I moved, went to Spain for MWC, and then got sick! I created Ski API at the start of February before I moved, but this blog post got stuck on the back burner. So I’m choosing to go with a loophole. Even if the blog post wasn’t done in February, the project was!

I started and ended my crypto career very early. It started back in 2011, during the early days of Bitcoin. I was running a startup that offered Minecraft Server Hosting, called Tree Puncher. This was back when BTC was worth around $1 USD each. I accepted BTC for fun and kept it all in a “hot wallet”, an amateur move even in 2011. This foray into crypto didn’t last long, in 2012 my hot wallet was part of a theft from a virtual server provider. I try not to think about the fact that there were hundreds of BTC in that wallet. Today it would be worth millions of dollars. I imagine I would be a crypto hype man today if I hadn’t lost that hot wallet!

It’s hard to believe that I wrote my 2020 post over a year ago. It’s been quite the year, with changes good and bad, large and small.