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Yo!

I never formally introduced myself in the past and it's coming close to almost 4 years of being on "this" chain and peer pressure was building from seeing all of the other introduction posts so here we go. 

I'm Acid, yo! People have actually called me Acid ever since in middle school when a random kid who was really into wrestling didn't remember my name and called me Acid randomly after the wrestler Trent Acid and since nicknames are a popular thing in Finland the majority thought that'd be a fitting one for me for some reason. Aside from all the confusions it brought over the years, some of them being parents of girlfriends being wary of me thinking I either do a lot of LSD or sell it or them thinking I'm an english/american exchange student it's been a fun nickname so I haven't minded it much. Some close friends preferred to use my real name but the majority liked the nickname as well but enough about Acid!

I'd say I'm kind of a special person, not just because that's what my mom said but aside from the odds of being born during this time in the universe I also happened to live in a country which I didn't speak the language of. Basically there's a small percentage of the population in Finland who speak swedish as their main language and living in those parts you kind of never had any use of Finnish. Growing up my dad didn't like the low selection of free TV channels the Finns provided so he installed a satellite and during the days I wasn't in school I'd binge watch a ton of anime and cartoons _in german_. Since swedish is kind of similar to it I learned it quite quick and really started liking it but in turn it made me dislike Finnish more, maybe cause it was so different from these languages or maybe cause it was just harder to learn and barely anyone I was in contact with wanted to speak it I have to say I wasn't much of a fan. In high school they taught german and as I already knew a lot of it I started liking it even more and in contrast disliking finnish and doing worse and worse in those courses. Thankfully by the time I was in college a new law came in place which meant that you didn't have to write the finnish exam to finish college just a couple years before I was to write it, feeling like I hit the lotto I wrote the highest grade in german and decided to pursue it in further education.

After a year of studying it (partying mostly) I took a break from the studies to do my mandatory military training. Got lucky to just be average enough to not have to go to "school" there which meant staying another 6 months and teaching newbies what it was like to shoot and run and do nothing of value the rest of the time so managed to get away with just 6 months in. Then again I did pretty much nothing the next 6 months as I was waiting for the next university semester to begin aside from nerding myself in world of warcraft while now smoking cigarettes which I started doing in the last month of military training cause that's how boring it got there. Back in university I kind of started disliking the lectures, I still really liked german but wasn't sure if becoming a teacher was the right thing for me, either that or a translator which I wasn't much of a fan either considering the increase in automation and me getting really into Reddit and hearing about how humanity will be doomed "soon" enough cause automation was taking over. Well they weren't completely wrong but maybe a bit ahead of their time, much like Reddit itself was in early 2010 when i tried telling my friends it's amazing and they should try it but they just couldn't get into it because it was so bothersome to subscribe to specific subreddits or find them to make your homepage fun to read. So they stuck to their facebooks and instagrams while I just eyerolled at them because they just didn't understand. Anyway I decided to quit studying german and do something else with my life, got into IT for a couple years but I guess my brain just wasn't wired the right way to code things.

While failing at IT I stumbled upon Bitcoin in early 2013, yes I know, everyone and their grandmas will tell you they all got into Bitcoin at 2010-2013 and are now "blockchain influencers" and while I do consider myself lucky to have gotten into it as early as I did and at the same time even luckier that I stuck around long enough to learn more about what exactly it was I was also in a crappy position as a student to never really be able to invest much into it even though the prices were as low as $50 a coin at the time. I did get really fascinated by decentralization and blockchain though, so much so that by the time the altcoin era started I lost all interest in my IT studies and dived deep into this goldrush of opportunities. Ordered a couple GPU's with my last euros and became a full time miner looking for the next shitcoin launch to mine early. Had some decent luck to mine some good alts very early, one of them being x coin a.k.a. darkcoin a.k.a. dash but I was usually ahead of my time to call them for the shitcoins with unfair launches and distributions and underestimate the dumb money that would buy up most bags anyway later on and sold most of what I mined too early. Regrets were had, determination was being broken and I found myself taking time off from chasing the next altcoin to instead chasing the next girl and missed out on some other good ones like the ETH ICO and this unique coin that launched in a ninja way which I'm sure many of you might have heard of. ;)

Once I did hear about it again though I fell in love with it, it reminded me of the early times when I saw what Reddit could be before it became too big and lost that magic and ever since that day I've spent most of my time trying my best to do what I can to help this coin get to a place where more people would know about it. Unfortunately for me I realized way too late the early implications of the distributions and at the same time I didn't wanna make the same mistakes of having dumped coins too early so I held tight during the 2018 ATH's and even went back all in way too early into 2018 never to image the 98% drop that was about to come. So here we are now, some crazy markets behind us, a ton of life-changing opportunities pretty much wasted but I am happy that this coin I spent so much time and effort on helping its distribution, the coin that I like to call "how Bitcoin should have been" in terms of rewarding humans for being humans and doing what humans will always be good at in regards to increasing automation, I'm happy that it gets to live on and my efforts at distribution didn't go to waste now with **Hive**.

It feels like a new start, a more fair start and the sky is the limit. I'm overwhelmed by the positive movements from the community to show up and make a stand for decentralization and the true advantages to blockchain aside from the earning part and I know there are a lot of people here that truly value freedom and won't sell that out for any kind of money or billionaires. I found my home almost 4 years ago and it recently got renovated so for now I'm going to enjoy doing what I've been doing on Reddit for almost a decade but on top of that also finding the inspiration to write longer content like these aside from just commenting and curating and I'm looking forward to more people finding out about Hive and realizing its true potential and how it can improve you as a human if you use it right. Excited about the future and growing this amazing community! 

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