HI All, JonH here and I started playing crypto along the rise in '17 and I am a HODLer. Youtube is on nightly surfing JSNIP, Cliff High, BIX, BTCBEN, YOU, MARIUS and others. Really excited about this technology, a new revolution and now have taken the plunge to buckle down and learn it to help progress into…new challenges, a career, business opportunity, options are open!! Finance is my field but have worked a long time in oil refining. Pretty excited about this and I hope for a great outcome for all of us. Thanks, Jon
Hello everybody,
I’m Manjit, and work as a QA engineer, I have been watching Ivan on tech for some time now, I love the idea of crypto looking forward to learning more and becoming a part of the community.
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Hello Ivan, I’ve been watching for a year and invested over 2 years ago. Finally took the plunge to delve into crypto on another level. Thank you for the encouragement.
Brenda
Hello everyone,
Checking in from Canada. I want to say that I appreciate the addition of the Ivan on Tech podcast! It is easier to catch up each morning on the commute/gym if it isn’t just on YouTube.
Looking forward to the courses!
Evan
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Hello all,
This is J.R. I’ve been following Ivan’s podcast for a while and have finally decided to take the leap and spend the next few years expanding my basic coding knowledge to focus primarily on DeFi. I see no reason to only be hodling when you can spend that time building as well! Thanks Ivan for putting such a detailed course together, very much appreciated.
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Hello all, Patricio here. I live in the states - Seattle to be exact. Been involved in the crypto space since 2015, but not in a technical manner. I do not have a dev background, so my crypto perspective comes from an economics/utility/game theory perspective. My goal here it to learn on the technical side, meet new people, and enjoy this journey wherever it may take me.
Cheers everyone!
Patricio
Hi everyone,
My name is Michael and I live in Chicago. I am a power engineer and I typically work at Data centers, hospitals, water processing plants, steel mills fomm 480V systems to 32000 volt systems. I watch Ivan on Tech every morning and I want to be a builder using the technology of the future. Toshi Times is where it’s at and I hope to meet some of the great people who are embracing this technology.
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Hi there!
First of all, I want to thank Ivan for giving me this opportunity. I have already learned much from him.
Ivan is a very intelligent person and I am glad I can now learn even more from him by following his courses.
I am the one and only Crypt0Maniak in the crypto space and actively trading crypto since somewhere in 2017. I’ve been almost rekt sometimes but was able to profit afterwards 
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My interests are mostly in crypto, philosophy, website building, building businesses and GPU mining.
I love coffee with milk and sugar.
After being in the crypto space for a while, I feel like I’m finally beginning to make a difference by building .
My motto is: Without mistakes, there is no learning.
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welcome Crypt0Maniak! 
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Hello everyone,
My name is Yasha niazov 26 years old from Israel. i been watching good morning crypto for couple of months now and i love all the education and news that Ivan give us on his channel.
i would like to learn more about programming in 2020 and try to find a great job in blockchain development.
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Well hello.
Im Jonas, im a trained Chef from Stockholm. I play to much video games - when im not in the kitchen - and i’ve lost touch with my programming skills i learned in school. My goal is to rectify that in a timely manner.
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Hi there,
My name is Marco, I’m a 38 years old Dutch guy and I purchased my first BTC around 7 years ago.
I never really took the time to understand the technology behind cryptocurrency and the Blockchain on itself and felt like changing that so that’s why I’m here.
I’m looking forward to meeting you all get smarter together:)
Cheers!
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I am eve. I live in Washinton,DC. I am an artist, dancer, mystic, Skype Abs & arms coach, Muay Thai fanatic and blockchain fanatic. Oh yeah, I wrote some books and have a health channel. I’m really too busy to learn blockchain and really have no programming experience. ~ but here we are!! I have a lot of creative ideas every day & lots of general knowledge, so I’m thinking, perhaps, I would have something to contribute.
I love Bitcoin and blockchain and have percieved and intuitively understood it since I learned about it in 2017. I love the blockchain community. It is innovative, positive, exciting people with a vision for the future.
I won the 3 months on the youtube channel. I am Waskily1 on YT
hablo español Y francasie (so-so)
Thanks Ivan…ur the best!
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Hello Ivan and everyone in the Academy.
My name. Is Shaun and I am from Melbourne, Australia.
I’m excited to be part of the Academy. I first started investing n Bitcoin n January 2019. It may have been just dumb luck but Bitcoin blew my mind and quickly realised it is a much needed revolution in money and banking. Something that is well overdue in this world.
I have been studying money over the past few years and quickly learnt that we are living in one giant, corrupt, Ponzi scheme that only benefits the few.
As a property investor for most of my adult life my focus has now shifted and I focus on a future of freedom, decentralisation and peoples ability to be financially responsible for their own sovereign wealth.
Bitcoin is my life and think cryptocurrency is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime. For once in my life I’m early to the party and want to take advantage by learning everything I can about Blockchain and the exciting breakthroughs that will free the world from financial oppression from banks
and government around the world.
We are all very lucky to be here in the space.
Thanks Ivan, you’re a star!
My new motto - Buy Bitcoin, Bye Banks!
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7 years. That’s awesome!
Shaun
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Snowcrash here. I bought my first BTC in 2013 at MTGOX. It’s been an exciting seven years. I live in northern Nevada and I’m looking forward to Ivan on Tech Academy.
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hi my name is dawn. love learning about blockchain!!! excited to dive into the course
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Hi everyone, my name is Dave. I’ve been interested in crypto for a couple of years. I enrolled in one of Ivan’s previous courses on blockchain and loved it (although I didn’t complete all of it!). But now I want to get my hands dirty and start writing some smart contracts to see where it leads me. By day, I’m a C# developer and am looking to learn new tricks.
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Hey guys,
Im Christian and come from Dusseldorf Germany. In April I will start to study computer science. Im here because my brother recommended Ivans channel and introduced me into blockchain. I got very interested and am exited to learn more about it 
cheers
Welcome Christian, you came to the right place 
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