Hey 1Hive community, I am a crypto enthusiast that has been in the crypto space since 2017. I call myself project_uwb and geographically I am in the southern hemisphere.
My interest obliviously started with Bitcoins price action and then I went down the rabbit hole and spent a few months reading books like ‘The bitcoin Standard’ and watching a whole bunch of Andreas Antonopoulos. My first brush with Ethereum was when Andreas was comparing Bitcoin vs Ethereum in a video and was explaining how the Ethereum blockchain works and the possible uses of smart contracts. Once I got to know about smart contracts and the programmable money concept, I was hooked and I went on another journey trying to learn some basics of solidity. I read books, did some cool courses like crypto zombies so that I could actually realise and understand what the potential of Ethereum could be. Once I understood the basic concepts of Solidity, I realised what Ethereum could do and that it was going to eat up the archaic financial world alive. From there I have been trying to be get involved in the space and keep up to date on the latest in this space. It has been a real roller coaster last year with some brilliant opportunities to be involved in the DEFI summer, but as always (being a skeptic) I held back and also mostly due to the costs involved sat on the sidelines and saw the birth of projects like YFI, YAM, Pickle and Badger. There was no way I could afford the DEFI summer with the crazy gas prices combine with the ETH price action. So inevitably I started looking elsewhere when I stumbled onto 1Hive through a random chat with someone from the Pickle Finance community. This then lead to brightID and the faucet. My interest has now picked again with projects starting up to offer yield on stable coins and other interesting forks of the mainchain projects.
I hope that this community provides small timers an opportunity to experience DEFI, yield farming and the glorious mainchain DEFI summer without the associated costs and start-up capital. So here I am again wading through Discord and trying to find interesting things to be involved in. Hope the xDAI chain serves the masses before L2 comes to Ethereum and finds a niche of its own to keep everyone interested after L2 hits Ethereum eventually. Until then I shall lurk around and have a good time!
I did try to get myself involved with a swarm where I could provide any support which would help me develop my skills in either coding or testing or other technical aspects of 1Hive. But I guess being a newbie to the tech space and not being able to commit consistent time has not helped me get involved. If someone here in the community reads this and has stuff that I can do which will help me better understand this ecosystem… Please ping me on discord. My ID is: project_uwb#8628
… i heard about 1hive from a good friend and get excited
from this community and ideas it brings to light.