Hi 👋, I'm calvadev!
I am the founder and CEO of Shopstr Markets, a Nostr marketplace service that facilitates private, permissionless transactions using Bitcoin.
My focus has been on growing the free market and making open commerce accessible to all.
I believe that Bitcoin has the potential to open up previously ignored or irrelevant countries to the rest of the world in regards to financial access and tapping into their human capital. I think it is the most important free market monetary system that has existed in the history of humanity.
Nostr, on the other hand, facilitates the adoption and spread of Bitcoin while also allowing for the construction of globally distributed, decentralized, and interoperable applications. Whether that be for social media platforms, search engines, collaborative tools, or anything else you can think of, Nostr is restructuring the internet as we know it.
- - I was born in Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. and raised in Houston, TX, U.S.A.
- - I know English, Spanish, and have been learning Portuguese
- - I have been to 21 countries across 4 continents
- - My favorite books are Zero to One, Great Expectations, Animal Farm, The Network State, and The Creative Act
- - My favorite movies are The Shawshank Redemption, The Social Network, The Big Short, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- - My favorite shows are The Rehearsal, BoJack Horseman, Fargo, Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, and Lost
- - I put 100% of the money that does not go towards my living expenses into Bitcoin
- - If I lived close enough to a casino I could potentially develop a gambling addiction
- - I am obsessed with "barefoot"/grounding shoes and sandals