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I got to share my urllib3 origin story on the OSI website (OSI maintains the Open Source definition):

I got to share my urllib3 origin story on the OSI website (OSI maintains the Open Source definition): https://opensource.org/maintainers/shazow

Nice 😄  I'm pretty sure I used urllib3 for my btcnow website, which I think was first website that would immediately send bitcoins when people bought with credit cards etc.

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

shazow.net

Currently: WhatsABI

Nice 😄  I'm pretty sure I used urllib3 for my btcnow website, which I think was first website that would immediately send bitcoins when people bought with credit cards etc.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Btcnow

https://web.archive.org/web/20120118191746/http://www.btcnow.net/ looks legit!

Google Checkout to Bitcoins in three seconds was definitely a "holy shit" moment for a lot of people in 2011 😄

Yeah I was selling about 100 bitcoins a day for 2-3 years. I was taking a 10% cut for the convenience, which almost covered all the fraud 😄

It was just me screwing around on the train to and from my old office job, but I onboarded a lot of people I think.

I wish I still had 100 coins lying around 😅