From Mining in China to Self-Taught AI: The Story Behind MyZubster

My Journey

I never followed a traditional path. I learned everything on my own.

My journey started with exploring the web beyond the surface – on Tor and .onion sites – where I truly understood what privacy and digital freedom mean.

I dove into Artificial Intelligence, learning to master chatbots and language models as tools to create, not just to consume. I experimented, failed, and tried again. I realized that technology is a tool – and those who master it can change things.

But I don't live by code alone.

I practice two sports with discipline:

• 🥊 Thai Boxing – for power, resilience, and a fighter's mindset
• 🤸 Calisthenics – for body control, functional strength, and freedom of movement

And when I'm not training or coding, I listen to tekno music – I follow Spiral Tribe, a group that represents freedom, underground culture, and independence.

The Idea Was Born in Sweden

The idea for MyZubster was born far from home.

I was in Sweden, working with developers scattered around the world, and managing remote mining operations in China. It was in that global context that I realized how complicated it was to accept Monero payments in a simple and private way.

Accepting Monero was unnecessarily complicated:

• ❌ Most payment processors don't support Monero
• ❌ Setting up subaddress generation required deep technical knowledge
• ❌ No ready-to-use marketplace solutions existed

So I started building my own solution.

What I Built: MyZubster

MyZubster is a self-hosted Monero payment gateway and skills marketplace ecosystem – 100% open source.

Core Features

1. Subaddress Generation
Every order gets a unique Monero subaddress for privacy and tracking:

javascript
async function generateSubaddress(label) {
  const response = await fetch(`${MONERO_RPC_URL}/json_rpc`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      jsonrpc: '2.0',
      id: '0',
      method: 'create_address',
      params: { account_index: 0, label: label }
    })
  });
  const data = await response.json();
  return data.result.address;
}