j-dog@j-dog.net:~/history$ cat timeline.txt

j-dog.net

1990s

1990s
  • Started hacking. BBSes, IRC.
1996
  • Expelled from the Everett School District for computer hacking. Began my work career.
1997
  • Registered elitehackers.org and ran it for a couple of years: papers, users, cons and the hAx0r Br0z newsletter. 1998 capture
1998
  • Defcon 6, Las Vegas. Photo album.
  • Hired by RealNetworks, Seattle.
  • Built a bulk email system doing a million deliveries an hour.
  • Built some of the first load balancing services.
  • Designed and built payment processing handling over a million dollars a day.

2000s

2000
  • resentment.org goes live: a security site and free shell host, home of ViperDB, PDPIRC and other tools. 2000 capture
  • The "resorg" in jdogresorg comes from here.
2001
  • Left RealNetworks for California: bulk email delivery and software development for various companies.
  • Registered j-dog.net.
2004
  • Launched DatingPsychos.com, "exposing the psychos of the world". Sold in 2009. 2004 capture
2005
  • Launched Hahpi.com, an invite-only social network. 2006 capture
2008
  • Launched Bid Low 2 Buy, a reverse auction site. Sold. 2009 capture
2010
  • resentment.org shut down. Shutdown notice
  • The domain was later sold to a Christian church group.

Bitcoin, Counterparty, Dogeparty, XChain

2014
  • Mined Dogecoin on day one.
  • Issued assets on Dogeparty on day one.
  • Built dogepartychain.info, the first Dogeparty block explorer.
  • Began experimenting with tokens, pushing the limits of what could be attached to them and what they could be used for.
2015
2016
  • counterpartychain.io became XChain.
  • Authored CIP-4, Subassets.
  • Elected Counterparty Foundation community director.
  • Rare Pepe Scientist.
2017
  • Shipped FreeWallet mobile and desktop, an open-source, non-custodial wallet for Counterparty.
2018
  • Launched Mafia Wars, a token-based cross-project game.
2019
  • With John Villar, put forward a run of Counterparty improvements. Chief among them:
  • Dispensers, digital vending machines that sell tokens for bitcoin.
  • MPMA sends, many assets to many addresses for the cost of a single transaction.
2021
2023
2024
  • Handed Counterparty back to its original founders in January.
  • Kept the original protocol going as Counterparty Classic after the October ledger fork at block 866,000.
  • Launched tokenscan.io as the new home of the Counterparty and Dogeparty explorer, freeing up xchain.io for the XChain Platform.
  • Launched ancientrelics.io to bring attention to the early token experiments that pre-date NFTs.
  • Wrote BTNS, the Broadcast Token Naming System.
2025
  • Developed the XChain Platform.
2026
  • Launched the open-source XChain Platform: cross-chain, chain agnostic, smart contracts, and all sorts of cool functionality.