PotCoin
Financial rails for a community pushed outside traditional banking.
Official site placeholderJosh Farrell / Josh In The City
Punk Rock // Cryptography // Open Systems
Building fair systems for artists, communities, and self-sovereign technology. DIY ethics applied to the digital world.
Josh came out of skateboarding culture and the New Jersey punk underground, then carried that refusal into early cryptocurrency, blockchain infrastructure, digital identity, and artist-first technology.
About
A founder from the punk underground.
Josh Farrell is a musician, founder, and early cryptocurrency pioneer whose work sits where punk ethics meet open systems. His roots are in the 1990s New Jersey skate punk scene, where DIY culture was not branding. It was how records got made, shows got booked, communities formed, and ideas survived without permission.
As founder of Bigwig, Josh helped shape a fast, melodic, independent punk sound built from movement, friction, and self-belief. Years on the road turned abstract ideas about fairness into lived reality: artists create the value, but platforms, labels, processors, and middlemen too often define the terms.
That same instinct led Josh into early cryptocurrency and blockchain. In 2014 he co-founded PotCoin, an early attempt to build financial rails for a community underserved by traditional institutions. Since then, his work has continued across cryptography, wallets, identity, artist payments, and open-source technology.
Today, Josh focuses on technology for creators and communities: systems that support ownership, verify identity without surrendering dignity, move value more directly, and keep power close to the people who make culture.
Music
Bigwig and the NJ skate punk signal.
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Bigwig belongs to the fast lane of 1990s skate punk: sharp hooks, basement-show urgency, van miles, and the stubborn belief that culture can be built by the people inside it.
That background still matters. The same ethics behind punk flyers, independent records, and scene-building show up in Josh's technology work: reduce dependency, share tools, protect the creator, and do not wait for permission.
Projects
Open tools, fair rails, independent culture.
YesKey Wallet
Self-custody tools for people who should own their keys and identity.
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Artist-first streaming, payments, identity, and creator monetization.
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Transparent inspection tools for on-chain communities and open networks.
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Teaching digital identity as agency, not surveillance or platform capture.
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Streaming and payment models that move value toward creators directly.
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Experiments in cryptography, identity, wallets, community infrastructure, and software that treats users as participants instead of inventory.
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From punk venues to protocol layers.
- Bigwig, skate punk, New Jersey scene-building, DIY culture.
- Music, motion, independent networks, and firsthand artist economics.
- PotCoin launches as an early crypto project for cannabis communities.
- Early proof-of-stake experimentation and alternative network design.
- On-chain experimentation, digital collectibles, and NFT precursor concepts.
- Viral mainstream crypto campaign era and culture-meets-protocol visibility.
- Artist systems, digital sovereignty, fair technology, and open-source work.
Manifesto
The underground was right.
Own your keys. Own your name. Own the work that carries your life inside it.
Support independent artists before algorithms teach you what culture is allowed to be.
Reject gatekeepers who confuse distribution with ownership.
Choose open systems over closed rooms, inspectable code over institutional trust theater.
Technology should increase freedom, not turn every person into a data exhaust pipe.
DIY culture still matters because it teaches people to build the missing thing.
Transparency matters. So does privacy. Serious systems know the difference.
Community over hype. Utility over spectacle. People over platforms.
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Contact
Build outside the default.
For music, protocols, identity, open-source systems, and artist-first technology.
jashtography@gmail.com