Esky

30+ years

Underground Music

DJ, artist, and promoter embedded in the underground music scene for over 30 years — UK, France, Tunisia, and beyond. Played alongside and helped build scenes that never made the mainstream. RaveCulture is not a brand built on hype; it is built on three decades of lived culture.

2017 – 2020

BTCPayJungle

Built BTCPayJungle — a free, open source Bitcoin payment platform. Entirely self-funded: servers, hardware, hosting, and years of learning all paid for out of pocket. No VC, no grants, no investors. Just personal investment in building real skills and real tools. Grew to over 10,000 users. Listed Saifedean Ammous's Bitcoin Standard book for sale in Bitcoin directly through the platform. Supported by major figures in the Bitcoin maxi community. After three years, donations dried up during the Bitcoin winter. Faced with charging users or closing, chose to close rather than compromise the free and open ethos. One of the hardest decisions — but the right one. Computers, code, and servers are not cheap, and every penny came from personal funds.

2020 – 2023

Jungle Lab & Liquid Network

Moved on to Jungle Lab — a Liquid Network NFT platform co-built with Adam from Raretoshi. Three years building Bitcoin-native NFT infrastructure before the EVM NFT boom. Then came cluster headaches — a debilitating neurological condition that forced a step back from coding. Kept playing music, kept maintaining the scene in the UK, France, and Tunisia. Never fully stopped.

2022 – Present

The Comeback

Mojo back. Coding again. Playing out again. Built RaveCulture on Base — token-gated events, NFT tickets, the RAVE token, a Farcaster Mini App, and BaseFM. Began deep study of Agentic AI systems and built Agentbot — autonomous AI agents for onchain interactions. Everything learned across BTCPay, Liquid, years of underground culture, and now AI poured into one flagship brand. This is the long game.