I have been interested in bitcoin and the blockchain for a few years now. Recently in the past year I started scripting towards it and seeing which language best fit for me in what I wanted to do. Node and PHP have been where I have ended up. Mostly PHP at this time as I have written a few things in PHP to connect and use the blockchain but I think I will be using Nodejs more in the future.
I make my living now as a powershell scripter in the windows world. It puts the toast on the table but at home and in everything else I only use linux. So of course that brought me here. I am a follower of 
this is the future for me. http://silverbitcointrade.com/ - eventually just as steemit has started to take off we will be able to get this site up and running for the world to use.