Hi guys, Ben here from Singapore. I am looking to learn smart contract programming to prepare myself for the future. I am from the Nanyang Technological University Satellite Research Centre and am hoping to use blockchain for my work as well.
Looking forward to connect with you guys!
Hey guys I am based in Singapore. I got my first degree in engineering, and have been working in the financial industry (investment management) for about 12 years. Got interested in bitcoin when bitcoin futures was listed on CME last December and trading at 20% premium to the underlying bitcoin - huge arbitrage opportunities in the first couple of days. Gradually learn more about blockchain and also starting some work in the space. I found that Ivan’s Youtube channel is one of the most informative out there. He is also very logical in his analysis. I learn a whole lot from him.
Hey BenL I received my degree from NTU as well. Perhaps we can do a catch up some time!
Sure thing, we in fact have a club here in NTU and am looking forward to connect to our alumni. Do let me know!
Hello all, and Hello Ivan!
Ivan - I am loving the course, I want to thank you for creating it and making it available to all of us.
My name is Matt - I am a developer who is very interested in transitioning into crypto and blockchain development. I’ve been in IT since '96 (ugh, I’m old). I am a gamer, and miner, and am absorbing as much as I can about everything in the space.
Hi everyone, I am here just for the fun of learning and to contribute, if and when I can. I am delighted to be able to participate in Ivan On Tech Academy. I have a fascination for disruptive technologies of this nature, such as Blockchain. A big hello to Ivan and also to everyone participating in the forum.
Hey everyone, my name is Ravv.
I came across cryptocurrencies and blockchain around a year ago and my life changed since then. I want to gain as much knowledge as possible in this space and I believe learning how to program and code will help me better understand!
Hello
7unrider here. Looking forward to taking the class and working with everyone
Welcome James! I’m currently working at Adobe now. Wow you’ve been on since Sept 17, looks like I’m late to the party haha!
Hey everyone,
I’m Doug and like many of you, I caught the crypto bug. I trade, hodl, and pretty much live on crypto and blockchain related reddits, forums and youtube channels. When I’m not binge-ing on this stuff, I like to travel and eat…pretty much with anyone… but especially with people who love dogs and freedom loving people that like to diss the Fed.
I’m looking forward to meeting some cool people, especially the dog lovers and Fed-up people. 
If there’s anyone in San Francisco bay area that’d like to meet up and chop it up, hit me up.
Props to Ivan for putting this together! Thank you, hope to meet you one day at an event!
Doug
Hey IOT forum, I’m Tony from Sydney, Australia. Keen to learn about Programming and blockchain. Been using computers since the PC came out Did a couple of Uni degrees (Civil Engineering and Information Technology). Did a lot of programming around 30 years ago, so looking forward to see what we can make on the blockchain. Thanks to Ivan and his team for putting this together. Cheers.
Hi Ivan/ everyone,
Werner here, Capetonian with a keen interest in blockchain tech.
I’m a beginner but learning a bit every day thanks mostly due to Ivan’s Youtube channel.
Just started the course and looking forward to connecting with ya’ll.
Cheers
Werner
Hello Ivan and everyone else! I am on mobile and replying to a comment is the only I can see to post an introduce myself. My name is Mike. My friends call me Mike N Sane… because there are a lot of Mike’s ;). I learned Basic in high school. I have taken machine language and Pascal courses in technical school. I am very excited to be part of this revolution. I might make a coin or token. I might help others to do make coins or tokens. But learning smart contracts and making dApps is my focus. As well as just having a deep understanding of these platform technologies so that I can help others to enter the crypto space.
Hey i’m Robb, i’m from Melbourne, Australia and i’ve been fascinated by blockchain technology for the last 5 years. I’m coming in as a freshy, as i have not much coding experience or experience within the industry rather just being a avid follower, learning by trading and finding my own information. I’m not to sure what i want out of this, i just have a good feeling about it, i’m also a music teacher, i know straight away when someones a good teacher, they show a truly authentic passion for what their doing and Ivan is just that. This technology interests me within the music industry, i’ve worked at labels, i’m a songwriter/producer and i’ve been getting screwed over since i was 16 years old with licensing and royalties. I would love to live the rest of my life being able to be doing music and art full time and not be a slave in the system lol.
Hi, I am Keith. An older dude who embraces tech and wants to learn more. A novice programmer with some deep experience with embedded on PIC micro controllers, latterly a play in Arduino and some competence in VB .NET in the past. I’m rusty and all I learned seems like a distant memory. It is time to get current. I see this movement as the future. I wish to be part of it. I have possible ideas that could be developed on this technology. I have always wanted to be a competent programmer. Even if others are better than me, I want to at least understand.
Hi Ivan and all you guys,
I am Michal from Slovakia. I studied informatics long time ago and being 58 years old I did some project programming too. My main job is running infrastructure of the computer center with more than 500 servers which also involves writing scripts for monitoring and maintaining Unix OS systems, storages, SAN, central scheduled backups, OS and/or application clusters etc. Being in crypto from summer 2017 I am very much excited about this future techology.
And of course I am watching Ivan’s youtube channel almost every day.
Hi my name is Guy. I am a semi-retired senior. I am looking to work from my home to make a little extra money. I started in crypto in Nov 2017. So far I have increased my cryptos worth from $6,000 to $12,000. I have worked as an Electronic Tech for the past 30years and have learned some programing on my own. Basic knowledge in python and Basic(not used anymore). Would like to learn from the programing class a skill so I can get some contract business from home.
Hello all,
I am Claudiu. I am very exciting to be enrolled in this course. My first meeting with blockchain was last yesr, in September. Since then, I am in loved. . Blockchain is awesome.
@ Ivan: If you didn’t exist, you should be invented .
Keep the good job
Cheers
Hi i’m Joey. I am 38 years old and i live in the Netherlands. I started interesting in crypto end of last year. I like the video’s of Ivan and i’m really excited for the programming course.
I learned a little bit of programming 15 years ago so i have to catch up a lot.
Hi people, My name is Paulo, from Brazil. I am a software developer and currently I have been working on Telecom market and studying very carefully the blockchain use cases. I am a technology enthusiast and I have been following Ivan for quite some time on his YouTube channel. I am here in Blockchain programming course to learn and share with you guys! I am very happy to be here!
Hey glad you’re here too.
I’m at KL / PJ also