I'm wildly fascinated with cryptocurrencies, which is how I found SteemIt. One of my favorite parts is Elliptical Curve Mathematics... nerd alert. I love not going out to bars, not drinking, not partying, and going to bed unreasonably early. I have an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy and working out. I'm passionate about entrepreneurship and own a small lighting company that I started when I was 25, www.slaterlighting.com. I also flip real estate and trade the crypto markets both manually and via high frequency trade robots (contracted, I can't code). "Working" is one of my favorite things to do. I'm a private pilot, I like to surf, read, and I ride a scooter whenever possible. In the last few years I’ve realized that I really love any type of adventure. Recently that has been boating, fishing, free-diving, and probably something new that I’ll discover this week lol. I didn't grow up religious in anyway but after a lot of research, I believe Jesus is who he claims to be... walking on water, being God, and saving people #OGsurfer.
If you are on Steemit, there is a good chance you like Cryptocurrency and blockchain. I first heard about Bitcoin in 2015 and at the time the part that really struck me is that the supply of Bitcoin is limited to 21,000,000 coins. I fundamentally disagree with central banking and quantitive easing (money printing)... it's a ponzi scheme that is somehow "legal". I love that cryptography allows us to place trust in mathematics not trust in a 3rd party or corrupt central bankers. Anyway, after some research my investor side kicked in and I started to see Bitcoin as being very similar to real estate... except digital real estate. With the population exponentially expanding and real estate being a finite supply, it’s a sound long term store of value. I decided to buy some Bitcoin as a long-term investment and was lucky to buy in the $200 range. As the value of my investment grew, so did my curiosity.
In my business life, I have noticed that markets move towards efficiency. Bitcoin/crypto is a significantly more efficient way to store and transfer value and therefore I expect it to continue to be highly disruptive to the financial space in the coming years. My research lead me to my next investment, Ethereum. I bought Ether for a long term play at $11 and then some more at $50. I have of course been tempted to sell but my plan is to hold long term as I believe the cryptocurrency space is still in its infancy. Lastly, I decided to take a small amount of USD and try my hand at trading it manually as well as invest some into a high frequency trading robot. Both have been fun and overall successful but I still have a lot to learn. I will probably post on Steemit about Crypto most frequently and I also post some of my trading thoughts and/or strategies on Twitter @b_slater_
Aside from entrepreneurship, a word I can usually only spell with spell check, I love to fly! I got my private pilot's license last year and like cruising around Florida. I learned on a Cessna 172 and recently have been flying a Piper Cherokee Arrow. There is a sense of freedom I feel in flying that is hard to describe in words. More things seem possible in my life when I fly. I am in the process now of training for my IFR license. My goal is to explore as much of Florida and the islands as I can by both air and sea. Here is a picture of me getting ready to turn for final in a Cessna 172 in northern Florida...
I'm really excited to be a part of the Steemit community. I like knowing that mostly everyone on here are early adopters for crypto and a peer to peer future. There are some really interesting and smart people on Steemit and I look forward to meeting more of you soon!
Here are some mainstream avenues to follow my nerdy ways...
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