Escaping Uncle Shaft

A number of years back; I had the pleasure of spending a week with the intense Michael Gogulski.

Gogulski, who then lived in Bratislava, and may still, was the first person I knew to use the internet virtually borderlessly. He was on the cutting edge of tech despite being in a place that geographically was not. Few people even today use it as borderlessly as he was using it a decade ago.

It was no surprise to hear him referenced as a local Bitcoin guru the other day in Slovakia. Anyone in the...