thank you so much for the welcome iamchaoticcoder 
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Great attitude and spirit Joanna, wishing you well as you learn!!
Anita
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Welcome Ciaran from a fellow UK citizen, investor and life long learner…wishing you well as you learn more
Anita
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Hello everyone my name is Conner. I am a professional tennis player with a degree in Supply Chain Management. I am here to improve my knowledge on blockchain and acquire some programming skills, would love to have this competitive edge in a near future!
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Hey everyone! I’m Ryan, I am studying a B.Tech degree. I’m fairly new to programming so I’m trying to get exposure to as many different technologies as I can. I don’t know too much about blockchain, but it seems really exciting and I am ready to learn.
I missed out on the first wave of investing in bitcoin and ethereum, despite people telling me to invest so I’m learning everything I can now because I believe that blockchain will become bigger than any of us can imagine.
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Hi everyone!
I’m Andrej, a truck driver/transport manager based in the UK, looking to become a full time crypto developer. I have been following Ivan for 3 years on and off, and everyday for the last 6 months. It’s been a great motivation seeing him and his team grow. I appreciate his positive attitude and enthusiasm. It’s so contagious that I decided on a total 180 degree career turnaround.
Let’s roll!!!
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Hi everyone,
my name is Azza. I found this academy from a Youtube suggestion for ‘Good Morning Crypto’. I liked Ivans energy and what he said about this space makes sense so I am here to learn.
I know pretty much nothing about crypto and the block chain. I still find it totally confusing and literally nothing makes any sense at all with this stuff but I am hoping it will all come together and I will build something with it.
I look fwd to getting to connecting with you.
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Good morning fellow community!
I’m Marcus new techie and I live in sunny Singapore 
I’m super excited to ride this wave of crypto blockchain de-fi with all of you!
Way to go!
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Hi everyone!
I’m Ted, 22y/o from Sweden, I’m studying design and Product development at Linköping University and work as a product engineer at Scania in Södertälje. Looking forward to learn a lot from the Academy and you guys!
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Supply Chain - very good mix there with blockchain!
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Hi there. My name is Janneke. Got into bitcoin and crypto in 2017.
I’m convinced this technology will bring about social changes in many positive ways and am excited to be part of this.
I would like to find out in which way the blockchaintechnology is accessible for digital illiterates like me. And if and how it could be applicable to the social work sector.
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Hi! My name is Mirjam, I am originally from Basel Switzerland but have been living in Melbourne Australia since 2012. I have joined the academy since I am absolutely fascinated about the blockchain technology and I strongly believe that it will play a major role in the future monetary system. I want to learn everything about it and I am super excited to be part of such an amazing community.
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Hello.
My name is Bill aka Billy Bisks. I live in a small country town in Western Australia with my partner and 2 children.
I work full time, trade FX and crypto in my spare time and love learning new stuff.
I am really happy to have found this academy and look forward to putting its gems of knowledge and wisdom to good use.
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Hi!
My name is Martin. I am from Switzerland.
I work full time as a mechanical engineer.
And now I am pumped to learn more about crypto which I followed a bit in my spare time over the last three years.
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Just finished the basic blockchain 101, so time for a story (don’t miss to enjoy it):
Setup
My name is Marcelo, i am 44 years old, married with my wife, 3 kids and a dog.
Born in Uruguay (still speaking latin spanish) and since an age of 4 years i grew up in Germany (learning some basic grammer and words).
Hard Update
As i started an own eCommerce company in 2000 with a former friend (former because things didn’t work out well 16 years later, where i closed the company) the marriage was a little delayed (due to german private health insurance circumstances that become extremely costly if you get married), so it took place about 1 1/2 years ago after i got an employment and got back on track with a steady income ( a great advantage compared to the times where i didn’t knew how to pay the bills for a living, especially beeing responsible for some kids).
Soft Update
After completing 3 childs (and discovering that i can only do boys) my wife decided to balance this out with a female dog (which is as cute as the other kids running around here).
Some retrospective
I started programming at an age of 12 where i got my first Amiga Computer and this still continues to be my passion (but recently i was thinking to switch from AmigaBASIC to one of those new cutting-edge languages - maybe Kobol ?!). Anyway i was lucky to be one of the 1% to knew at the age of 16 that this is my passion and that i want to become an IT professional.
Most of my life i have been programming just with a simple text-editor (getting old i don’t even remeber which editor i used before Notepad++ was out, thinking… i remember Emacs and also this Editors build into MS Access, but no clue what i used during my perl times, anyway i switched to php later which i used for almost anything from web-development to backend-stuff with all those databases, web-apis and what else crawling around in the dirt).
IT Evolution
Anyway after all these years i can say IT is mostly filling up old wine in new bottles and giving them fancy new names, in programming the basics are the same as they were 50 years ago). What has changed is the way we use technology and the unlimited possibilities that we can’t even imagine today. To work with IT means standing on the shoulders of giants and to continue to explore all those possibilities. Its all about ideas and passion that drives us doing things we never did before. (And well the tools are better now … and … well most of the stuff is better now, and well there is all this internet stuff, cloud computing (don’t trust Amazon, there are alternatives … Alibaba ? 
) ,Robotics, AI and Generative Design )
Present
Today i am working as EDI specialist for an IT integration company.
Well i use VisualStudio now (which is a great advantage thinking of those moments where you write 1000 lines of code and you are surprised that it works from scatch).
C# has become my favorite language of choise (after becoming familiar with the stuff i hated in java), - still thinking that php is more productive. At the end the language is not relevant, just learn and use what fits best to the requirements.
Well… now how did i end up here ?
Mostly due to an accident.
First Wave
I got my first free bitcoins in 2011 (which were lying around in my wallet by now - i submitted them the 16.05.2020 to another wallet, but i was a little stringy with the fees, and : bitcoin network works like an atomic clock - well sometimes you experience some delays as you see that the transaction is now again in the mempool one weak later). You can check atomic clock delay daily at 8AM CET.
Second Wave
In 2013 i bought some bitcoins and (don’t blame me) i sold them again (some of you know this story - and good to say : i recovered from the shock after killing some of my whisky inventory stocks - crying doesn’t help, but it hearts either). I solaced myself that i did a good job and made some hundred bugs (i know: some hundred thousends worth now - don’t make me think about that).
Third Wave
Just recently i stumbled over bitcoin again and noticed that i had no clue what this blockchain stuff was all about - beside beeing an infinite growing database. I noticed that some bitcoins were left on the marketplace i used in the past (well it was not worth to sell them, just some drops left in the water-glass) but some drops that got very valuable. My first though was to sell them, but my wife and the kids insisted that i should keep them before they are not worth at least x (now here x is current value + 20% or so).
But as i dived a little deeper into crypto i thought - 10.000 per bitcoin ? - thats pretty cheap, you should buy some more of them. And even the christians argue that bitcoin is OK.
But how in gods name (sorry christians) do you fill up this empty FIAT-wallet (sorry cryptos for using the F-word) ? Which asset has the best ROI ? And as i was shaving one of these strangers, you see in the mirror during the morning rituals, i though : maybe you invest in this guy. If you bring this guy in the right shape ? maybe - risk-capital-investment.
Damn … i lost the main road. so… how did i end up here ?
Well, after Fox-News is also becoming Fake-News recently i fully switched to youtube (since i heard there is a concent that if it is on youtube it is the truth - yes you hear it: fuck math and physics, “THAT’s the truth, i saw it on youtube”).
It was one one this enthusiastic youtube guys running a six hour show about the bitcoin halving day with one of the guests i didn’t know about: Bitcoin Halving Day 2020: Ivan on Tech (Influencer)
So i started here in the academy. (Sorry… in my mind it was a more spectacular story)
Forth Wave
Be prepared … it’s coming.
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Love your fuckedup video.
You’re a great speaker.
Wish you the best !
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Hello world, literally, because the whole world is watching Ivan! My name is Walter Crypto, and I am very excited to be here!
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Hi Everyone,
I’m John, I live in the middle of the USA, (Wisconsin) near the Mississippi River. I am interested in agricultural smart contracts and this is the best format I’ve found for learning this. Thanks Ivan and Fillip.
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Hello folks, my names Scott and I live in the UK. Been watching Ivan on Tech since he appeared as a guest on some random crypto video I watched in early 2018 and I’ve been subscribed since (rarely wake up in time for the live stream though). I joined up with the academy a few months ago but haven’t really done anything with it, but here I am bored on a Sunday looking for something to do. What better time to start? I plan on scheduling in a couple nights a week to create a routine and I’ll be building DApps before you know it 
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Hi i am flo and i d like to learn about crypto usage in old dinosaur banking to help replace it
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