About

I’m a Bitcoiner

Hi, I’m @btccnc on Twitter… another Bitcoin anon pleb that has been deep down the rabbit hole for a while now.

Yes, I went through the usual journey that a lot of you also went through. The dismissal; The reintroduction; The (mild) shitcoining; The learning; The realisation and the awakening. Typical story – ‘nuf said.

I consider myself a Bitcoiner. A Maxi? Yes, but only quietly toxic.

I’m a Tech guy

I have a day job. I work with high-tech products, mostly writing software, almost exclusively software for hardware. Software for hardware that needs to work and always work. If you know, you know.

I’m a part time Machinist

Or at least, I’m working on being that. Machining and making machines is something tangible, which is something software isn’t. It’s my escape and my fun. Machining does pull on some of those day job qualities… problem solving, precision, execution and a whole bucketload of debugging. What is different is its tangible. Solid. Metal. Heavy. Real. That’s the appeal.

Making this “stuff” is my outlet. To me it is an expression of the quality and the precision of the Bitcoin software, network, system design, the game theory and the economics.

I’m an Aussie

…kind of . Yes, legally I am, but that distinction seems to matter less and less as the rabbit hole journey continues.

Sorry for the shipping rates… it is what it is.

Why BTCCNC?

Because y’all on twitter keep asking if you can have something I have made. Ok – lets do this.

But here’s the thing…. these items are handcrafted… even though they are CNC machined on my own machine… each one has many many hours poured into it. If you want some of those hours, I’d like some of your sats. I think that’s a fair trade.

What machine do you use?

It’s my own design and I constructed it myself. Yes… that’s right… from the ground up.

It’s a steel moving gantry machine, designed from the start to be wet (flood coolant) and runs a with 3kW Spindle and 600w AC Servo motors. It has a few other nice little tricks too… boring machine techy stuff.

So far it is quite capable, with repeatability and precision and rigidity beyond that which I initially dreamed of.