
David A. Johnston
Austin, United States
Web3 & AI Technologist | Technologist in Web3 & AI
Summary
My 11 Year Journey in Bitcoin / Blockchain: In 2012, I became passionate about the potential of Bitcoin and how it can be a hedge for inflation and progress for censorship resistance. In 2013, I spoke at the very first Bitcoin Summit in San Jose, CA and met many of the like minded entrepreneurs who would later start Coinbase, Shapeshift, Binance, Bitcoin.com to make the world more open and free. That same year, I co-founded BitAngels with friends - world's largest Angel network to invest in the blockchain industry. In 2014, I wrote the first white paper for The General Theory of Decentralized Application. As one of the first investors in Mastercoin (Now Omni Protocol which is used by the first stable coin Tether's USDT), I became the chairman of the board to facilitate the first ever ICO. In 2015, I co-founded Dapps Fund - the first all token fund. LP's contributed Bitcoins, they were reinvested into Mastercoin, Ethereum, Maidsafe, Factom and many more projects. The tokens were distributed at the end of 2 year back to the LPs at the end of 2016. It was fun to be one of the first few people to analyze Vitalik's whitepaper: https://medium.com/@DJohnstonEC/informational-report-on-ethereum-d847c66be95d Since late 2016 after the Dapps Fund, I've hired staff and have been running my own family office under the name Yeoman's Capital and invest exclusively in open-source, permission-less technologies. www.Yeomans.capital By 2020 I expanded my work into Bitcoin mining and in partnership with James Haft began assembling the DLT assets and plan for what would become DLT ASA. Now in 2023 I’m focused on building open source AI agents trained on Smart Contracts = Smart Agents
Web3 & AI Technologist
1 Apr 2023 - Present
3yrs 4mos
Created the framework for "Dapps" in 2013 & “Smart Agents” in 2023. Weaving humans into the heart of Web3 & AI. Freedom Maximalist. Decentralist.
Advisor & Investor
DLTx
1 Mar 2021 - Present
5yrs 5mos
San Juan, Puerto Rico
As an advisor to DLTx LLC I'm focused on executing of DLT's strategy of building, operating and supporting the world's top public blockchains.
General Partner At Space Fund
SpaceFund
1 Sept 2018 - 31 Jul 2023
4yrs 10mos
Austin, Texas Area
Serving as a General Partner at the SpaceFund. Working to bring blockchain tech to the New Space frontier.
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