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David A. Johnston

David A. Johnston

Austin, United States

Web3 & AI Technologist | Technologist in Web3 & AI

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Mandarin, Turkish, German
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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