Hello fellow Steemians and Pivians! Welcome to our "PIVX Steemit Original: Meet a Pivian" interview series.

At PIVX, we're all about our community and with our Meet a Pivian interview series we want to put Pivians in the spotlight. Make sure to check in often for a new one!

This time we interviewed a Pivian known as William.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

My name is William and I turn 50 in January 2019 and officially begin the next chapter in my life. I live at an undisclosed location outside of San
Antonio, in the Republic of Texas.

What are your hobbies?

Who has time for hobbies? I’m actually working 12 to 16 hours a day, 7 days a week on a number of diverse but related projects focused around starting my own business and securing a bright and prosperous future. I am a freelance transcriptionist working for three different crowdsourcing companies: TranscribeMe, 3Play Media, and Amara On Demand.

I am also a military veteran who was deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Storm.

What is your screen name, avatar and how did you get them?

My screen name is my real name and my avatar is unflatteringly real as well.

I’ve been online in various forms since November 1994, using such tools as CompuServe’s WorldsAway, IRC, bulletin boards, and ICQ in the early days, then moving on to more sophisticated communication tools as they became available. I recently reactivated my old six-digit ICQ account, but all my friends from those far away days have moved on long, long ago.

I went dark for about 15 years and stayed pretty much anonymous while playing just about every MMORPG that ever came along. I was known only by the names of the characters I played.

More recently, I’ve decided to come back into the light and build my brand and identity on the interwebs. I realize that with all the social media tools and platforms out there actively compiling and collating our personal data, it is well-nigh impossible to remain truly anonymous and so for my second life I have decided to take control of the narrative and flood the interwebs with a plausible and consistent profile that bears the foundation of truth.

What you see is what you get, but there will always be much more going on with me than most people will ever know.

When and why did you get into cryptocurrency?

We all seem to have a similar story. I first heard about crypto back in late 2013 or so when a friend of mine who ran a Minecraft server was setting up a miner for this thing called Bitcoin. I was in a dark, dark place at that time, donating plasma to buy food and living in an old Range Rover in a church parking lot. I wasn’t really in the position to mine Bitcoins or give much thought at all to such normal things as having reliable electricity, internet, or many of the other things people tend to take for granted.

Fast forward to June 2017, and things are still challenging but looking a lot better overall. In reaching out to friends I knew from years gone by, I reconnected with an old buddy who had been a Forex trader years ago. He came at me on Facebook messenger bursting with excitement about this new thing called Ethereum and how I should hurry up and use his affiliate link and join Coinbase. Well, I did start looking into it, but it took a while for me to get enough background information to realize that there was way more going on than I first realized.

Somewhere in the process of doing the background research in Bitcoin, Ethereum, and blockchain technology I got hooked. Not specifically on Ethereum, or even Bitcoin for that matter, but on the cryptocurrency space, blockchain technology, and the promises they held for the future of humanity.

In July 2017, I bought $5.00 worth of Ethereum and put it on an Exodus wallet, but I was fairly unimpressed with what I had left over after paying the gas and fees to acquire and transfer those funds. Since then I’ve messed around with little bits here and there in various exchanges and wallets, but I’m not yet in a position to HODL anything long term. Thus far it has all just been a learning experience; trying to figure out how the process works, and what the cryptocurrency space is really all about. On the bright side, I didn’t lose a lot of money because I didn’t have a lot of money to lose in the first place, and I was able to learn many of the same lessons others have paid far more dearly to learn.

When and why did you get into PIVX?

An investor friend of mine “webbah” from the Exodus Slack mentioned PIVX one day back in September 2017. I took note of what he thought of the project at the time and decided to check it out for myself.

By this time, I was starting to gain deeper insight into what blockchain was really about and what this industry had to offer, and I was becoming deeply and permanently hooked. I saw PIVX as an embodiment of all the things I was seeking as far as privacy, freedom, and financial independence. The project appeared to be technologically sophisticated, genuinely useful, and fundamentally sound. In addition, the community was and is without equal. It is truly magical what is happening around the PIVX project as we move steadily forward into a bright and prosperous future.

What is your favorite thing about PIVX?

Sustainability. Many ideas will come and go in the cryptoverse. The weak will fall by the wayside and the strong will absorb the best of what they had to offer and become stronger still. Such is the law of nature. As time passes, more and more people will cluster around those projects that have the foundation and vision to go the distance. I firmly believe that PIVX is one such project.

What is your favorite color?

I am an Aquarius. My eyes are blue. Blue is both my favorite color and the color I most closely identify with. Details about why are a much deeper and more profound conversation outside the scope of this post.

You’ve told us that you went dark for several years, but that has now changed as you’re building your brand and identity online. What do you think about privacy in the cryptoverse in general and in relation to PIVX?

Privacy in the cryptoverse means retaining responsibility and control of your own individual identity and not being subject to manipulation by individuals or groups who do not have your best interests in mind.

In the end, nobody else will ever be able to protect your personal interests as well as you yourself can. The responsibility is yours and yours alone.

PIVX helps you protect your financial privacy by enabling you to convert transactions that are merely pseudonymous to fully anonymous by protecting the transaction, amount, source, destination, and path from unwanted scrutiny. This is an important part of retaining freedom of your sovereign identity thus allowing you to conduct commerce with other sovereign individuals unaffected by outside forces seeking to scrutinize or manipulate such commerce.

People within the PIVX community might know you for your great work in the translation team. How did this come along?

Well, I don’t know how many people actually know about me, but I am trying to slowly build a solid reputation. I started trying to figure out how I could help in the cryptoverse with the Exodus project, but there really wasn’t any meaningful way I could contribute at the time. With PIVX, it was much easier to just roll up my sleeves and dig in where I saw a need. Since my most recent skillsets lie with copywriting and transcription, it was natural to gravitate toward improving the reach and impact of the PIVX videos by volunteering to transcribe the audio into text, so that’s where I made my start. The rest, as they say, is history.

In case people don’t know: we have a strong focus on having transcripts available for our videos and we translate a lot of our content in many languages. Why do you think this is so important?

There are a multitude of reasons why having a transcript of the amazing video content produced by the PIVX community is useful. Whether for persons deaf or hard of hearing, for those whom English is a second language, for times when it is impossible or inconvenient to have sound playing, as a basis for translation into multiple other languages, or for search engine optimization helping the PIVX community to gain greater exposure by having all the spoken words indexed in keyword searches.

It all comes together to help spread the information wider and more deeply than it would otherwise have gone if not for captions. It is an essential part of reaching as many like-minded individuals as possible who are seeking what PIVX and the PIVX community is all about.

Do you have a crypto dream?

Without going too far down the rabbit hole, I should explain that in my own personal journey I have come to know some deep and fundamental truths about the purpose of life and the fundamental fabric of the universe. To summarize, the purpose of life is to live it in such a way as to help as many people as you can to reach their true potential. This is actually the basic vision behind the company I am starting, but I’ll have to save that story for another day.

The freedom and opportunity that the cryptoverse offers billions of otherwise disenfranchised souls is truly profound and a mission worth giving all and everything you have.

Is it about giving? Yes.
Will we change the world? Absolutely.
Will we become rich in the process? Sure, but with a richness that goes far beyond what dollars alone could ever possibly provide.

Last question: Do you have a prediction for PIVX at the end of this year and can you elaborate on that?

PIVX has been over $12.00 and I believe it will sail well past $15.00 by the summer of 2018. By the end of the year it’s anyone’s guess, but if I were to speculate based on fulfilling the ambitious 2018 PIVX Roadmap, I can see it going north of $50.00 just in time for Christmas.

$500? $1000? $10,000? Probably not by the end of 2018.

One thing we have to keep in mind is that PIVX is a privacy coin, it’s Proof of Stake, and it’s designed for utility and longevity with a continuously renewable supply and sophisticated inflation algorithms rather than a fixed supply and artificial pump and dump fundamentals. That isn’t going to be as attractive to folks who are just trying to make a quick buck and don’t really understand what’s really going on here. The growth of the PIVX platform will be slow and steady rather than flash and crash, but usage will inevitably grow as more flash and crash projects fall by the wayside and more people start to realize what PIVX has been about all along.

PIVX is here to stay and the world is a better place because of it.

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Thank you, William, for taking the time for this interview as well as for your open-heartedness!

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