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by icameron 360 days ago
I’d like to hear the story on how you went from sleeping in your car to riding jet skis in Dubai by presumably playing the drug game, if you’re at liberty to blog about
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I read it as he went to jail for drugs and then probably bought some Bitcoin at the right time and now has a lot more money than he did before.
Yeah jail for dealing but I was never a trader I’m p bad at it honestly. I used mastering ethereum to learn solidity and the EVM which was wildly outdated by the time I got out and nothing compiled so I learned Go at first and started contributing and getting onto the core team for certain projects. The money from contributions and eventually the job was too much for a person who’d never had to do a lot of illegal things to see the same so it was a little wild to me
I’m the writer not OP but I was homeless on the streets from around 16-19 then after I left prison with my book knowledge on how to code I started contributing to a open source crypto project and kinda got mad lucky. Many trips to Dubai Water skiing and skydiving then had another episode with my bipolar and ended up literally giving away my bags. More stable now but was both a metaphor for the insane highs and lows mentally but the crazy things a guy fresh out of jail with a new will to do something productive did before I got stable