How Did You Get Started With Bitcoin?

I was just doing my masters in computer science with a focus on distributed computing. At the time I was mostly working on BitTorrent, which is a different peer-to-peer protocol that some of your listeners might know too. And so I stumbled over this paper on some obscure blog and it very much meshes with my own interest. So I decided to look into it and it slowly became a hobby. It eventually became my full-time job once I started my PhD on scalability and security of Bitcoin.

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