Discovered crypto back in 2014 by building my own rig to mine Litecoin with GPUs. Had to import a batch of riser cables from China because of the outage in France.
Developed the first GUI prototype for Monero (https://github.com/neozaru/bitmonero-qt) – pretty basic, but it earned me a community reward that grew into what is my portfolio today.
Rediscovered "web3" in 2020, just before DeFi Summer, and became a very active DeFi user (Compound, Uniswap, Curve, Yearn, Aave, ... before the food-based DEXes boom). Experimented with projects like an arbitrage bot for Uniswap and Binance and made small contributions to Brig...