The Web3 Founder Whose Wife Won’t Let Him Talk Bitcoin

7 pm Soccer night. I drive to the fields in Santa Monica. Take a picture with your Stacks water bottle and tag @nftsonbitcoin on IG. I post two quick memes of him on my story. The first compares fiat currencies to bitcoin, and the second quotes Andrew Carnegie.

Friday

7:00 am I wake up, walk the dog, and start reading Wolfden #547, daily newsletter Scott Melker, aka Wolf of All Streets. When all else fails, buy bitcoin, he begins, continuing his humble critique of the worlds number one cryptocurrency.

8 am I eat waffles, sausages and OJ for breakfast and still read the Melker newsletter. His upcoming merge of Ethereum into Ethereum 2.0 will allow the network to process 100,000 transactions per second and reduce total energy consumption by 99.95%. The Ethereum Foundation has proposed September 19th as the tentative start date for the merge. Exciting times for ETH.

10 am A friend who works in a DeFi business texted me that Citibank has closed all accounts including personal checks, savings accounts and credit cards. “I must be blacklisted,” he said. “I don’t know what I did.” Unfortunately, this is common practice for banks targeting cryptocurrency companies.

11 am Manually purchasing small amounts of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stacks as part of a dollar-cost averaging strategy with Okcoin. Send new coins to your secure Ledger wallet for cold storage. “Not your keys, not your coins,” I hear an expert voice in my head.

12 o’clock In the afternoon, I wireframe a new marketplace app I’m building for a client. I’m sending some Slack messages of her to an Argentinian developer. One of the most exciting parts of Web3 for her is meeting people from all over the world who share the same mission of building an open and free world.

7 pm I’m going out to dinner with my wife. She says I’m not allowed to talk about bits, coins, blocks, hashes, arrows, or ciphers all through dinner… I follow suit.