Original Title: The Genesis Story: How Crypto Found Me
Original Author: @hmalviya9
Original Translation: zhouzhou, BlockBeats
Editor's Note: @hmalviya9 recalls how he was inspired by his friends at Google and MIT, particularly Rish, to create the blockchain platform Itsblockchain.com, and combine it with Digital Gorkha to build a global digital identity system. While communicating with team members Mehul and Jeet, he found they struggled to understand the potential of blockchain. Faced with heavy debts and a team that saw no future, the author decided to leave the old project to pursue blockchain opportunities, ultimately choosing to let go of the past and focus on building a greater future. Blockchain became his new mission.
The following is the original content (reorganized for readability):
I turned to the teacher who had always helped me understand valuable things about the future—my teacher is Google.
Google is not just a search engine—it is the greatest teacher for anyone who is curious enough and knows how to ask questions. If you know how to ask, Google can open doors that traditional education systems don’t even know exist.
You only ask the right questions when you are truly driven by a problem you want to solve. Not to pass an exam, not to show off, but to genuinely address that issue that keeps you awake at night.
The problem I wanted to solve was simple yet difficult—how do I find a technological moat for Digital Gorkha?
Not just a feature or product, but a defensive layer strong enough to excite investors even when they see our chaotic equity structure, making them willing to fund us.
I understood the game—they were all here to make money, not for charity. But if I could show them the future we were building—a future only we could realize—then that ugly equity structure would become like a small dent on a Ferrari.
For weeks, I had been working day and night to improve the Digital Gorkha product. I wasn’t waiting for a miracle—I was making calls, sending emails, and tracking potential clients. I successfully found two teams that had developed crazy technology in mobile biometrics.
One of them even applied for a patent that allowed phones to scan thumbs and irises—technology that used to be achievable only through expensive equipment during UIDAI's AADHAR registration events.
The deal I finalized meant we could now deploy the same biometric capabilities globally at a lower cost—no bulky equipment, no long lines at centers. Just the smartphone in your hand.
It was then that the true vision of Digital Gorkha began to take shape in my mind:
"What if we could create a universal identity system—like AADHAR—but for the entire internet?"
We wouldn’t need physical centers; instead, we would set up 10,000 DG devices globally, creating a million new digital identities for real people each year, ensuring security and global portability. This would become a new layer of the internet—a real, verifiable digital identity.
At that moment, I realized: Digital Gorkha was not just a visitor management system. It could become a global platform for creating internet identities.
As the vision became clearer, the hardships behind it were equally brutal. I sent hundreds of emails each week, trying to establish partnerships across continents. Through this effort, I secured potential clients in Mexico and Kenya. These teams loved our product idea and actively marketed it to local customers. Theoretically, our sales pipeline was being built. However, to scale this business to the next stage, I needed one thing—funding.
To attract real funding, we needed not just a product but a vision supported by technology that others couldn’t easily replicate. So I turned again to my teacher—Google—and posed a bigger question: "How to build the world's most secure global identity system?"
At that moment, Google quietly returned the answer to me—blockchain.
As I began to delve into blockchain, I felt a sense of déjà vu. That strange feeling, as if I already knew this thing.
Then, suddenly, it became clear—Bitcoin.
I remembered the days in college when we were frantically trying various things in a small apartment in Jalandhar with an Alienware laptop. At that time, my friend helped me mine a few bitcoins, which were very cheap and almost worthless.
But during the same period, I suffered severe losses from a scam called Liberty Reserve, and I foolishly thought Bitcoin was also a scam, so I gave up without hesitation.
The last price I saw for Bitcoin was $50, and now, when I checked again, it had risen to $400.
I sat there, staring at the screen, starting to blame myself for not having enough curiosity back then. If I had just trusted my instincts and learned a bit more, my life might be completely different now.
But that regret lasted only a few minutes.
Because soon I realized—"This time, you are still early."
I realized that blockchain was still in its early stages, and this was my moment to get ahead again and seize the opportunity—just like during the hacker era, like early blogging, like every wave I had previously caught.
Getting ahead, learning things the world wouldn’t realize for years to come seemed to have become part of my DNA.
I knew the best way to master a technology was to learn and share.
Because when you teach others, you learn better—ten times better.
I wasted no time, opened GoDaddy, and started looking for a domain name that included the word "blockchain." After an hour of searching, I found it—Itsblockchain.com.
I immediately reserved the domain, created Twitter and Facebook pages, and decided: I would start writing down everything I learned.
Not as a professional blogger, but as a curious person sharing what he was figuring out—with the world.
Meanwhile, I knew I needed technical strength to truly integrate blockchain into Digital Gorkha. So, I called Rish, my old friend, who was studying at MIT—possibly the smartest mind I could reach at that time.
When I pitched him the idea, he was immediately excited. We decided not only to write articles about blockchain but also to co-found Itsblockchain.com together, starting to build a global blockchain community in India—while others didn’t even understand what blockchain meant.
Rish also provided me with tremendous help on the technical side. He tailored a detailed architecture for a blockchain-based universal identity system for our product. I quickly applied it to my new investor presentation. Now, when I pitched Digital Gorkha, it was no longer just a dull visitor management system—it was an entry point to a globally secured digital identity backed by blockchain.
Everything began to make sense—except for the people around me.
Mehul and Jeet couldn’t understand at all. They were still stuck in the mindset of franchising and local transactions. For them, blockchain was just "extra work"—not a transformative opportunity.
I tried to explain: "We are already recording verified visitor data every day. With biometrics, we have a real chance to build a decentralized identity network!" But it was like explaining the internet to someone still stuck in the fax machine era.
It wasn’t their fault. In 2016, blockchain was indeed too early. Most people hadn’t even heard of it. Fewer could understand how it would permanently change the internet. In those frustrating moments, I realized something powerful—I was on a sinking ship.
The debt of 500,000 rupees was suffocating us. A team with no future in sight.
And we were just two months away from everything collapsing.
I faced a choice: stay on the sinking ship out of loyalty, or start building a new one to embrace the person I was becoming—the one ready to create something greater than himself.
As I delved deep within, the answer became clear: blockchain was now my mission.
I had to move forward. I had to leave the old chaos behind and invest everything into building a future venture, so I would never again miss an opportunity out of fear or ignorance.
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