The Solitary Walker on the Bridge: My Decade with the Hemi Project
Looking back, my first encounter with the Hemi project felt like fate lighting a lamp in the digital wilderness. It was the autumn of 2024, and I was just a quantitative analyst struggling in the traditional financial system, buried daily in Excel spreadsheets and derivative models, trying to capture a semblance of order from the noise of the market. Bitcoin was no longer a marginal experiment; it had become a philosophy—a silent rebellion against centralized power. However, the world of Ethereum's smart contracts made me feel a subtle alienation: it was too flexible, flexible enough to sometimes feel like a speedboat swaying in a storm, while Bitcoin stood as that towering lighthouse, solid yet hard to reach. My career was meant to be that of a builder of bridges, yet I always lingered at both ends, unsure of how to connect them.