My name is Carsen Klock, I am a 27 year old developer, designer, and technology professional. This is a short story about my journey through cryptocurrency since 2009.
It was 2009. I was a Junior in High School. A smart eccentric friend of mine at the time showed me this witty website where you would essentially gamble with “Bitcoin Eggs”. The biggest prize on the site was 500 BTC. Bitcoin was not worth much at the time and I would play the game occasionally to usually receive only a few BTC. I had already created a fully custom PHP script at the time called oReserve, which was a classy clone of the future defunct LibertyReserve at the time. With e-Gold going under as well, this new digital currency was highly interesting to me.
Time went by and in 2013, when LibertyReserve went under, I decided to go out publicly on bitcointalk.org and create altcoins (alternative cryptocurrencies based off the original Bitcoin code). I proceeded to create a lot of random altcoins and PoW (Proof of Work) mining algorithms, which I in turn got a lot of flak from some and praise from others. During my younger years during development, I was able to learn how this new cryptocurrency industry worked inside and out, including psychologically and technically what would happen when different coins were launched.