Frequently Asked Questions
By Yoel González — July 11, 2024
• Who are you?
Yoel González Paneque, born in Havana on August 11, 1996 ( years old). Got on the internet for the first time at the beginning of 2011. Since then, I've become quite interested in a variety of topics that seem to only keep expanding with each passing year. As it is natural, all this learning, content creation, and consumption, generate large amounts of information that make it increasingly difficult for me to keep track of, specially when I want to share something with another person. And so, a few years ago I came up with the idea for this website: A personal catalog where I can store all my projects, bookmarks, interests, findings, thoughts, etc.
• What's the meaning of '5bitcube'?
Usernames are kind of a tricky thing, to be honest. You basically need to come up with a word that will be attached to you for the rest of eternity; and this word needs to match your personality or line of work, be memorable, easy to pronounce, sound cool, search engine friendly, and most importantly, not be taken already by some bozo in Czech Republic 15 years ago. Of course, you can always change it, but once you start producing content and getting a bit of fame, there is no going back. It will indeed be set in stone forever. So anyway, it was the year 2021 and I had this dishwashing job at a Japanese restaurant in Miami; and there was this Cuban-American dude who would often hang out at the place and get free shit all the time for some reason still unknown to me, who would call me 'cubiche' on occasion. So that definitely got into the mix and there were also the words Bitcoin, and Cube (as in Rubik's), which are two things that I'm quite interested in. The '5' was just to make it a bit catchier, so '5-bit-cube' it became. I don't think it means anything in particular, but to me it represents the clusterfuck of ideas that are flowing constantly in my head. My head is a 5bitcube, whatever that means. Fun fact: It has the same number of letters as deadmau5, whose real name is Joel, by the way.
• Where do you live now?
Somewhere near Lleida, Catalonia.
• Which languages do you speak?
I speak English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese and I'm currently learning Russian. You can read 5bitcube's Complete "Language Learning" Journey if you want to know the details.
• Do you play any instruments?
I can mess around with a piano or guitar.
• What's the meaning of life?
To play the game.