Chainlink guru Zach Rynes only doxed himself as the man behind the six-year-old pseudonymous account “ChainLinkGod” a month ago. But he can’t stress enough the perks of starting out in crypto anonymously.
“You should probably be anon first unless you have a good reason to be doxed because you can always go doxed from being anon, but you can’t go the other way around,” he tells Hall of Flame.
Beginning incognito also offers you the flexibility to step back without embarrassment if your account is a flop within the community.
When Rynes started posting on X, he was just a kid.
“I joined crypto in early 2018. I was a high school student. I wasn’t even actually old enough to open a Coinbase account at the time.”
He started ChainLinkGod the following year aged 18. Raised in the Southwest United States, Rynes’ favorite subjects in school were history and computer programming. Apart from crypto, the now 24-year-old these days enjoys hiking, off-roading and heading down to the shooting range to engage a different part of his brain.
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Despite starting out young, he was smart enough to understand the significance of Chainlink.
The elder frog of Chainlink.
“I knew there was a problem with smart contracts where they can’t connect to anything in the external world. How useful could they be really at scale? And from there, I stumbled upon Chainlink,” he explains.
Back in those days, most people in the Chainlink community were members of the frog army.
“I think it’s more like every community has its own memetic energy to it. The Chainlink community was frogs and cubes and hexagons, and everybody was like a frog identity at the time,” he adds.
Rynes’ educational threads about Chainlink ended up being a hit with the Chainlink community, garnering him 171,800 X followers.
“I saw that there was this information gap where people didn’t really understand oracles, and I wanted to step in and be that liaison,” he…
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