Selling My Soul To Steemit

Despite my disinclination, I am giving this platform a whirl.

I haven't written in my own blog in months, writer's block or something... lots of bullshit going on with personal life so distracted too I guess. I do want to get back to writing so this post is my excuse.

I need to distract myself from today's major Bitfinex hack, where more than 120,000 bitcoins were stolen. It's a major blow to Bitcoin, though some may say otherwise as an excuse to espouse their ideals. Regardless of how this pans out, I think I'm done messing around with exchanges.

Royal Tiffany from Xotika sums it up nicely:

Since this is my #introduction post, I'll add a little about myself. Most of my background has been in various visual communications. I worked at a newspaper, a record label, a large format printing company, a branding agency, etc. I moved on to Bitcoin stuff in 2012-2013, and have been consumed ever since.

My real name is John. Here's a shitty picture of me (right) with CFTCVIX (left) in a shitty limo in NY: