Hello, I am Dan from the US. I am interested in Blockchain development as a student and looking forward to learning more about smart contract programming
Hi everyone, I’m Nejc from Slovenia. I currently work full-time in video games distribution, but I’m very eager to learn about this amazing technology and hopefully become a full-time developer.
Hi everyone!
I’m, currently, a full-time software developer from Denmark who is eager to become wiser about blockchain technology - the internet of the future!
I’m very happy to be here! 
Hi there! My name is Aaron from the Washington DC area … greetings from the USA!! I’m new to crypto having entered the community when BTC was at USD 18500 in mid-Nov 2020. I bought $1000 worth and it’s now worth more than 3x that! I’m recently retired (ex-Sales/Marketing Director) and have been immersing myself in crypto for the past 3 months … so much more to learn. I’ve been driving my wife crazy with my laser focus (her eyes glaze over when I start talking about Bitcoin) but she sees that the value of our rather meager portfolio has significantly increased, so she’s supportive. My primary interest is safe investment strategies, but who knows: maybe I’ll learn to program smart contracts!
I’ve really enjoyed your videos as you exude knowledge & competence, and your video production values are great! I love the Dima videos too!
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Hello I’m Craig from Ohio. I’ve been learning programming for the last year, basics of JavaScript, React, Ruby, Rails. I’m interested in learning block chain. I found Ivan on YouTube and enrolled in the Academy yesterday.
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My name is Chloe, I am from New Zealand. I have been working in Digital Marketing space and have invested some of my savings in Crypto. I would love to change career to Crypto Industry so that I can have more time to get updated with Crypto movement. I will try my best to learn as much as I can in the next few months to make it happen. All the best for our community. Cheers, Chloe.
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I have just enrolled today Craig.
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Hi everyone,
My name is Vaja, I am a college student at Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. Originally I come from the small country of Georgia is Eastern Europe. I study economics and computer science and have a strong passion for fintech and cryptocurrencies. I am excited to be a part of this academy and embark on the learning journey!
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Hey my name is Kalen i’m excited to learn more about crypto. For a while i’ve been on the investing side of things but i have so many ideas but i didn’t understand enough about the technology to actually be able to implement the ideas and innovations in my head. Once i learn more here i’m excited to see these ideas become reality!
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Welcome Vasilis. I like your profile picture! I am about one month into my academy journey, and I am learning so much that it is like drinking from a waterfall. I hope that you enjoy it as much as I am.
Hello Everyone, my name is Ricardo, I’m from Mexico but I live in Canada. The first time I heard about crypto was around 2017 I think, I remember I bought like $2000 pesos in bitcoin and ether, and was about to buy Onecoin and Electroneum too but I didn’t… I’m glad I didn’t fell in Onecoin’s hands 
I’m starting the Academy and I’m so enthusiastic about everything! The info is so good that I want to watch all the courses… My first goal for now is learn how to do trading, staking, yield farming and the LP’s to try to earn enough income to quit my job, and I’m looking to learn programming after that, I would like to design Dapps but… That’s a future goal. I hope I can start to learn enough to help you guys and I hope you can help me too during my school days here 
Have a great week everyone!
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Hi, I’m Hakim, I live in the Boston area and I’m a data Engineer in the payments industry. I am originally from Algeria and graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Economics from Boston University. Excited to start in the academy, my goal is to go full time crypto either by finding a full time job or starting my own company.
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Hey guys, I am Ryan from Brisbane, Australia. I have been running ecommerce stores for 6 years and helping clients with lead generation and marketing.
Looking for a bit of a change of direction in life and have thus fallen down the crypto rabbit hole and been smitten!
Would love to see if any of my marketing knowledge can be used on future crypto projects but also want to really learn the technical side of blockchain so I know WTF I am talking about lol…
Anyone from the brissy area whos keen to meetup and chat feel free to message me!
Great to meet you all 
Hi! My name is Marcus and I work as a freelance technical consultant. I’ve been involved in the blockchain scene since 2017 and have a particular interest in blockchain architecture, consensus mechanisms, and governance.
I’ll be working through the business and development courses here in order to shift my career into either Web3 consulting or smart contract development.
When I’m not reading about web3 you’ll find me in my woodshop or out hitting the trails.
Hey guys my name is Alex McCarl. In my day job I’m currently an independent digital marketer and Kindergarten teacher at an IB school in Guangzhou, China. I enjoy being a teacher and have taught in Vietnam, Japan, and China over the last ten years.
In my free time art, music, and event organization are my primary passions. I love organizing and taking part in music festivals, DJing, producing, recording and talking about music all day, every day.
My first ambition is to create a decentralized education project that allows kids that have no money to network together using a pool of shared academic resources in order to learn how to teach themselves anything they’re interested in.
Secondly I’d like to create a decentralized platform that allows independent musicians all over the world to connect with each other and the venues they perform at it, easily and directly.
I’m excited to be here. I value creative collaboration, and people unapologetic in their strangeness!
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Hi Everybody
Afters years of feeling cynical about technology, I am excited about blockchain and decentralisation.I just wanna learn more and hopefully use it to better my life, and maybe even others.
But who knows?
Woop
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Hello Ivan and everyone,
My name is Moutasem im 39 and live in Sweden Uppsala, I started reading about blockchain a while ago and I got interested in learning about it, My wife one of your follower she always watches your channel and she introduce me to you, So here I am hoping to learn from the best and its nice to meet all of you.
thank you
You seen Audius already?
Cool idea about the education as well, hope i hear more from you one day!
Hello Everyone
My name is Alessandro. I come from Italy (Sicily), and I’ve been a professional chef most of my adult life. I have worked in the majority of sectors within my trade, I traveled the World a few times, and I am still employed by Disney Cruise Line as the Italian Chef on board. I love my job, but recent events have put it all under threat, changing the core values that made me falling in love with it in the first place.
Other passions of mine are exercise, jogging, philosophy, video games, nature. I exercise daily, as it enables me to keep my mind sharp.
In my last contract I met a dear friend that showed me the wonderful world of Bitcoin and the Blockchain, and I connected with it in a deep way. I invested immediately and I never looked back.
I met another brilliant guy through you tube, Ivan the Great, that’s why I am here now. I want to embrace this new way of life and learn as much as possible.
I picked Ivan because he’s straight, honest, knowledgeable, no-nonsense kind of guy. But most of all he instills love and passion for crypto, that is infectious.
Thank you so much for the hard work.
I am happy to have joined.
Ciao a tutti!
Hi, my name is Andrei Poenaru. At the moment I live in the UK, I’m a Romanian citizen.
I heard about Bitcoin and Blockchain a while ago, I was following the news and keep an eye on it for about 4-5 years but since spring started and I see that Bitcoin price fall sharp but rise in the same way I started to allocate more of my free time into crypto news. I decided to follow this academy after I see a lot of good review on Trust Pilot, hope is the best choice I make.
At the moment I work as a dispatcher for Amazon and have kinda a lot of free time, hopefully, I will assimilate as much knowledge as possible and change my career this year and go full-time crypto.