I'm a telecom fiber optic technician in Canada. I've been mining and running all types of cryptocurrency infrastructure since 2017 — GPUs, full nodes, masternodes, staking nodes, ASIC mining, and Oracle nodes.

🔷 DigiDollar Oracle Operator — I run Oracle Slot 17 (digibyte-maxi) for DigiByte's DigiDollar stablecoin system. I build and maintain the monitoring tools, hardening guides, and deployment scripts that keep my oracle node running 24/7 on a hardened Linux VPS.

⛏️ Crypto Mining Infrastructure — Solo mining DGB and BTC using GSS/GSSM by MMFP Solutions, Start9/DATUM Gateway, custom ASIC monitoring scripts and Discord webhook alerting, which I originally developed for my personal setup over the years and have now shared with fellow crypto hobbyists.

🛠️ Open Source Tooling — Everything I build for my own infrastructure gets published so other operators can use it. If it's useful to me, it's probably useful to someone else.

• oracle-monitor.sh — 800-line health monitoring system with 12 automated checks, external config file, --dry-run mode, Discord webhook alerting, anti-flap engineering (cooldown timer + hysteresis buffer), quorum margin tracking with heartbeat-based oracle counting, MuSig2 session monitoring, and degraded consensus detection. Runs on cron every 5 minutes on my oracle VPS.
• oracle-network-status.sh — Gitter network status bot that posts automated oracle health summaries to the DigiDollar community channel every 12 hours via Matrix API. Reports quorum health, consensus price, MuSig2 signing status, software version adoption, and stale/inactive operators with @ mention notifications. Community-requested feature by shenger.
• ORACLE_HARDENING_GUIDE.md — Full VPS security hardening guide (690 lines) covering SSH, UFW, Fail2Ban, kernel hardening, and systemd. Based on my live oracle setup, reboot-verified.
• HOME_ORACLE_HARDENING_GUIDE.md — Home network security hardening guide (1,257 lines) for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Three tiers from essential to advanced — covers firewall, port forwarding, NTP time sync, router hardening, UPS, VLANs, and WireGuard. Community-requested by Aussie Epic.
• Oracle VPS automation — systemd services for auto-start on reboot, passphrase-secured startup scripts, cron-based monitoring with 12-hour health summaries, and Contabo VPS snapshot management for disaster recovery.

• Blockchains: Bitcoin — there is no second best! Well... besides DigiByte 😄
• Node History: Full nodes, masternodes, and staking nodes across DigiByte, PIVX, ChainFlip, SESH/Session/Oxen, and so many others over the years
• Community Governance: Helium Network MCC (Manufacturer Compliance Committee) — reviewed and approved IoT hotspot manufacturers for the HNT network
• Infrastructure: Linux Ubuntu VPS's, systemd services, UFW firewalls, Fail2Ban, SSH hardening, sysctl tuning
• Scripting & DevOps: Bash tooling, cron automation, Discord webhook API integrations, JSON parsing with jq, systemd service creation, health monitoring with state-machine alerting (anti-flap, cooldown, hysteresis), VPS security hardening, Linux server administration
• Mining Hardware: Started off with all types of GPU mining hardware in 2017, a variety of ASICs — Antminer S9, S17 Pro & S19 — and now as 'Home Mining' has taken off and devices have advanced, I have an assorted collection of Canaan Avalon Series Miners, multiple NerdQaxe++ & NerdQx devices and a few more...
• Mining Software: GSS/GSSM by MMFP Solutions, Start9 OS, DATUM Gateway, ESP-Miner-NerdQAxePlus, AxeOS, BitCoin Knots.
• Certs: MCSE, MCP, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+
• Education: Post-secondary Systems & Electronics Technology