#THANKYOUANDREAS

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About two years ago, I enlisted myself to the Massive Open Online Course in Digital Currencies at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. Andreas Antonopoulos was one of the two teachers. I can easily say that he was <em>by far</em> the best mentor I ever had. Not only because he taught the most interesting subject ever, but because of his extraordinary patience with everyone of us. For hours at a time each session he would answer every question everyone of us had. I consider his talks lessons. Not only lessons in Bitcoin but in history, philosophy, economy and, perhaps above all, rhetoric. I can gladly admit that I’ve been following his talks obsessively since I first discovered them. The first time I really “got” Bitcoin it was like a perfect storm had been formed by the whimsy winds of my personality traits. I’ve always had an interest in maths and how things work under the hood and I’ve always regarded personal freedom to be important. I’ve also always had a touch of rebel in me and these things combined made me stumble down the Bitcoin rabbit hole pretty quickly. Like most others I was afraid to buy and in hindsight I should have bought earlier. Andreas made the process a little faster. Thank you Andreas.