Texas Boy in a DC World
Texas Boy in a DC World

Texas Boy in a DC World

The adventure of moving from Houston, Texas to Washington, DC, and all the shenanigans that take place!


New Year New Congress: What is Going On

6 Jan 2023 3 minute read 6 comments Cje95

As many know currently things are not going smoothly in Washington, DC. As someone who works on a Committee in the House of Representatives, it is an extremely challenging time. Congress is broken up into two different chambers the Senate with 100 Me...

The Binance Issue with BNB People Do Not Seem to Think About

27 Dec 2022 2 minute read 8 comments Cje95

I won't lie I am a walking conundrum when it comes to Binance. The reasons for this are numerous but for the most part, it boils down to the lack of accessibility for United States users face when it comes to using it. While Binance.US exists everyon...

Crypto Traders Rejoice as Tax Rule Falls Out of the Omnibus Bill

22 Dec 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Cje95

Well, the 4,000+ page text for the government funding bill, more commonly known as the omnibus, has been released, and while I am sure there are plenty of interesting tidbits, one key thing stands out among the rest. The biggest tax loophole in the c...

Finally Escaping

18 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95

To whoever thinks that working for Congress is easy and a task that anyone can do, I have some oceanfront property in Arizona for you to buy. Being a kid from Texas Washington DC is an alien planet. Even the people that I have met from Cali and New Y...

When Working in a Crypto/Technology Legislative Body Weares You Down

5 Dec 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Cje95

There are a ton of things that I love about my job from what I do to who I work with but every once in a while it just becomes a little excessive. Like most things in life, it is possible to have too much of something, and recently I have really run...

U.S. Elections

8 Nov 2022 1 minute read 1 comment Cje95

It is Election Day here in the United States and the implications of this year's elections are key on several fronts. For those of you who are not aware I work in Congress for a House of Representatives Committee. I say that so that before anyone tri...

Finding Balance: Life, Work, Publish0x, and r/Cryptocurrency

2 Nov 2022 3 minute read 5 comments Cje95

Before I landed my first full-time job in Congress I will give myself some credit and say I did a pretty fantastic job of posting almost daily. This was key to really jump-starting having a successful blog on Publish0x as I was navigating writing for...

The Last Two Weeks Have Been Brutal and This Week Doesn't Look Any Better

27 Sep 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Cje95

Quick Overview  Full warning this post is a major deviation from my typical updates. Recently, I have been trying to write more and more about what is going on on Capital Hill from the rumors to the actual events and what its impacts on crypto could...

Portfolio Goals 2022: Update

30 Aug 2022 2 minute read 8 comments Cje95

In January of this year, I posted an article about the goals that I had for accumulating crypto this year. At the time I made the post I was looking for a job in Washington, D.C. wanting to get back on The Hill after interning for three different mem...

One Bitcoin Mining Company Scored Big Time for Helping Save Texas' Electrical Grid

6 Aug 2022 3 minute read 27 comments Cje95

In July when there were record-setting heat advisories across the U.S. and a lot of energy grids became stretched to their limits. For almost a week straight in Texas, triple-digit temperatures hit the major cities in the state at the same time. Texa...