Abhijeet Binjve @crypt0knightee - Twitter Profile

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7 years of being confused in “Crypto” From not understanding what an ICO is to investing in meme coins launched 5 minutes back to building the project that will ensure you do not have to ensure how crypto works to a user ever again. The journey? But where did it all start? Back in 2018, in a small room or the office where I was working as a ghostwriter, writing for pennies. The director came and asked, “Will you write about blockchain?” Not even knowing what it was, I said yes. Why? Because it offered extra pay. And, I started writing, and I wrote and wrote about project after project. How they are the next Ethereum killer, about their tokenomics, about their “unique idea” which was similar to the rest. I would have written about 100+ projects, and I don’t even recall one of them. I don’t even know if they exist today. But it started the curiosity, the curiosity to learn more about it. Fast forward from being employed without sitting in a placement drive to the startup getting closed, because COVID didn’t spare anyone, not even the non-living souls. From almost joining the company I am working in today, to saying no to the very person whom I call manager and a mentor today. I joined a media house. And, I wrote and wrote again. I wrote about Elon, Trump, and the daily chaos of the crypto market. And, while I wrote, I read and learnt and heard the stories. The stories of people becoming millionaires overnight, the stories of people losing money overnight, and also of people being millionaires (now maybe billionaires) on a screen. The story of a famous $10,000 pizza. The story of Satoshi Nakamota and countless other stories. Because stories and news is what I was breathing at the time, 50s of such stories daily, 24/7. I saw the word NFT go from meaning nothing to the world to one of the biggest wealth creation machines in 2021. Turning unknown artists into famous names, turning a silly image into an internet sensation. And, everyone talking about NFTs, everyone trying to be part of the trend, including me. I believe that was the first time I heard something called DeFi. First, I thought it was a misspelt word, then I feared it because I was told it is complex, difficult, and most importantly, it is destructive. And, I have been told, be afraid of things that can destroy you. But what I felt most for this word “DeFi” was confusion. Everyone talked about it like people talked in a hushed voice. I heard that DeFi gave you control and power, but it is difficult to control that power because you are responsible for its safety, and people didn’t want that in 2021. But I remember reading Satoshi’s whitepaper and countless blogs, Twitter posts, and conversations, and everyone talked about how Bitcoin and especially blockchain are created to give control back to the people. Then, why did they still fear it? Why did they not want to embrace it? To understand this, I had to dive into this darkness myself. And, the end of the dive hit me hard, with questions, and even more confusion, and made me feel I know nothing of this world. I was, after all, not a Vitalik or any of those developers who can write a smart contract like I write my poems and essays. So, I swam even deeper and deeper until I felt I was in the middle of the ocean, and all the fishes had turned into DEXes, perpetual trading, automated market makers, self-custody, private keys, seed phrases, and 10 other new words bombarded on me. And, I spent all my energy to understand them while being fearful of them. And, why would I not be? I was told, I make a wrong move and I will end up losing all of my money, not by some scammer but by a smart contract. But I didn’t stop, and I continued to swim and swim for 3 years while doing what I do best: market this deep and dark industry into a bright and shiny future of the world. I marketed exchanges, NFT marketplaces, built a few myself, wrote whitepapers to confuse younger versions of me, added some complex terms in them because that is what everyone else was doing, and I wanted to be the cool kid, the marketer of crypto. But for how long can you sell a dream and ignore the screams of my younger self, asking for simplicity, asking for answers on why he has to learn about different chains, different protocols, and a new thing emerging daily? My younger self just wanted to purchase crypto, possibly a Bitcoin. And, then he wanted to send it to his friends, show it off, or just keep it with him. Why was he pushed to understand everything in between? Why couldn’t the experience be as simple as sending money to his friends using an app, which takes like 10 seconds? But he was not alone. There were several younger selves like him, not of his but of others, who wanted the same thing: a simpler blockchain world where I am able to do what I wanted instead of learning 10 new things to do one simple thing. They all, just like me, wanted to abstract these complexities, make the blockchain invisible, put that darkness away, take away fears of many younger selves like me, and just let them do that one thing they want to. So, now my adult self works on making this world abstracted, chain-abstracted

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