Why I’m Joining Cointelegraph Magazine as Managing Editor

Over 4,400 people responded to a poll created by Nathaniel Whittemore on Twitter last week, explaining what they did before becoming involved in cryptocurrency.

A guy who designed helicopter manufacturing processes. A plumber. A prison inmate. A nutritionist.

Someone described a group of surgeons who brought a fund to life; someone else pointed out that the industry was flush with professional poker players. There was a yacht captain, a racehorse trainer, a student hustler, a taxidermist, someone who ran refugee centers in Greece.

Many of these people dropped everything to immerse themselves in a field about which they knew almost nothing. But they somehow recognized its potential, and set about educating themselves.

When I discovered crypto, my reaction was to share it. If Bitcoin was a great opening track, then blockchain was the mix tape I wanted to put together for the rest of the world. 

I co-founded Crypto Briefing within a month, and spent the next two years building and editing…