Hello everyone! My name is Nathan, I live in Washington, USA. I was introduced to bitcoin in early 2017 and never looked back. I have owned a construction business for over 20 years but am now looking to switch careers into the blockchain industry. I love to travel and love to spend time with my family. I have finished both ethereum and bitcoin 101 courses. My interest lies now in learning to program on ethereum. I have zero programming experience. What should my next step be? Thanks!
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Hi Neil. I look forward to getting back to normal too. I am trying to learn programming for the first time.
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Hi Wesley! I am a dad of two girls 6 and 9. I live in the states. I am looking to change careers into the crypto industry.
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Nice Nathan ! I wish you all the luck ! 
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Hi! I’m Jonathan, 32, living in a small wooden hut in an ecological village in Scandinavia. I have been in crypto since 2015 mostly due to idological causes. I believe in freedom and I believe the blockchain over time can set humanity free. That’s why I’m here - Never succeeded in trading, no I want to go deeper. I want to find out what’s hiding at the bottom of the rabbit hole. That’s why I’m here. I want to be able to code = To make the world more free.
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Hi Jonathan! Man that sounds pretty cool living where you do. Have you started any courses on coding yet?
Hi! tudo bem? Nice to see other Brazilians here!
Oi! tudo bem? Nice to see other Brazilians here!
Hey everyone,
i´m from Thüringen / Germany. I´ve done business in producing furniture and shop interior for the last 12 years. Some thinks in my live changed a lot in the last year - nice things! now i have bunch of extra time to spend 
The hole crypto space is fascinating me for a while already and i was thinking about going full time a view times. But i didn’t want to be a full time trader to earn money. That´s where the academy came in.
And finally … here i am. very exited. with a minimum for programming skills, but tons of interest. glad to find you guys here. I hope to get to know some of you a bit more in the next weeks and month.
greetings
David
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Hi Ivan and team,
My name is Audra but I go by Ariel O’ryan my singer/songwriter name. I’m an exhausted holistic veterinarian living in Los Angeles, CA. I was very interested in computer programming as a child and actually did DOS programming in competitions. I stopped in high school and went to college at 16 for pre-med then medical school. I have worked very hard for the past 22 years as a veterinarian and have sacrificed so much time away from my children and really want to find a way to spend more time with them before it’s too late. My oldest son is a super computer guy and I know he would love this stuff and be amazing at it! I started listening to Ivan on tech and fell in love with the idea of cryptocurrency. I am now working from “0” up to try and get my computer groove back on. It’s been a long time so I am scared I will not understand fast enough, or at all, yet I’m doing the JavaScript beginner course and I’m loving it. It makes my brain happy. I love love love to learn just about anything so I am so excited and grateful to be here. I know I will need guidance so please be patient with me. Giovani inspired me as well so …here I go! Thank you!
Ariel O’Ryan
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Hey folks! My name is Matt and I’m really quite new to crypto and blockchain. If you’ve read “Snowden”, his description of his early days parallel mine to a scary degree! Loved everything about early PCs and what made them tick - and then fell far from keeping up with the tech. Well, I’m back! Super excited to throw myself into this. Currently a self-employed truck driver in USA, but wanting to mash the pedal down hard on learning this material. Gonna be a rough but fun 2021. Cheers!
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Hello everyone,
I am a crypto enthusiast since two years, living in Munich (Germany), currently working for a fintech as an expert for business intelligence, having a background of more than twenty years in software engineering and full stack web development. I like hiking, swimming, kitesurfing and of course the daily dose of Ivan on Tech on Youtube
I would be happy to brush up my programming skills and finally start to BUIDL rather than just to HODL. So I am looking foreward to the promising courses of the academy and to be part of your community. I hope the we all can learn from each other!
Greetings fellow Ivanites!
I have been a software developer for the last 14 years, mostly web applications. Heard about Bitcoin in 2014 so got myself a little sprinkling! It just sat there until 2017 and like a lot of other people I blew the lot! 
Ever since then I have been following the crypto-verse. Been telling myself since that I should look into work opportunities in blockchain but its not until now that I finally decided to take the plunge and make a proper go of it! So here is hoping I meet a lot of interesting people and uncover some exciting opportunities 
I like running, mountain biking, hiking, kitesurfing, body weight training.
And no bs but @ivan seems like one of the most genuine people in the crypto space 
Looking forward to my journey!
Brian
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Hey Jonathan, nice to see other ecovillage people here. And also a good reason to be here - freedom for humanity!!
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Hi You also live in an eco-community? But yes, it’s super cool, the road to a better and freer world 
Hi Nathan, yes I have implemented Bitcoin 101, Eth 101, and now I am working on “Javascript Programming for Blockchain Developers”
Have made quite a few websites before, but it’s great to refresh A pleasure to meet you.
Hi Brian, welcome to the community! Happy to see you are into web development, hiking and kiteboarding as well.
Hello everyone!
My name is Jonathan, I live in Seattle, WA. I am a full time single parent. Tech enthusiast. IT worker.
I first heard about Bitcoin in the silk road days but only saw it as a means to interact with silk road and did not learn much about it.
I started getting more into Bitcoin in 2016 as an investment and swing traded the bull run. As I understood the technology more, I got my first Ledger in 2017 and starting HODLing crypto. It was often hard to watch during the bear markets but it gave me the opportunity to learn about Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Bitcoin more than I had in the past.
The more I understood, the more I recognized the similarities to the growth of a new and innovative technology such as the internet. I used to connect to pre-internet BBS systems as a kid with a 14 Kb modem and look where we are now in such a short period of time. I believe that Blockchain in just pushing past the Prodigy / AOL days of the internet’s timeline.
For several years I have been learning about and then preaching to my son, family, and friends about the significance of Bitcoin and Blockchain. I have wanted to pursue a career and projects in crypto, just have not taken official steps forward. The past year especially has brought so many innovations, advancements, growth, and legitimacy to crypto, it sometimes feels like we are late to the party…but then I step back and realize just how early we still are.
I think Ivan is a great teacher and so passionate. I have watched all of the dedicated people in the space grow and now I am happy to have taken this step forward and know that I will gain a lot of value from the academy.
I am looking forward to this journey. Let’s go, go, go, go, go!
Thank you,
Jonathan
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Hi Jonathan, I am from the Seattle area as well. We will have to stay in touch for sure. I am going to try and learn how to program with no past experience with it . I have been obsessed with crypto since early 2017. A friend and I created the seattlecrypto.com website, which is just mostly news and current pricing, etc… I would love to meet up sometime and talk crypto.
Nathan
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Hi Guys,
My name is Fred, I am from Belgium and I am new in Crypto ecosystem
I want to learn and share informations, tips with the forum.
My passion is sport, particularly Crossfit and Trading, but I have zero experience in Block Chain .
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