My Entry to blockchain stack by ethwaterloo 2019 hackathon
Tags: blockchain, opensource
Published: 2019-11-11 04:03:04

        Blockchain! CryptoCurrency! Bitcoin! ethereum!!!! In my day-day worklife never googled anytime about the blokchain stack and I am glad I attended ethwaterloo2019 hackathon https://ethwaterloo.com/ which led me with a lot of takeaways for me to work on to learn about blockchain and ethereum.

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    From my first impression, my inner feeling said that I don't belong to this dev community because I never played around with ethereum stuff in the past. But after attending first session which was like a 2 hour workshop presented by Getting started with Ethereum development: How to use Metamask, Remix and Web3.js [A must attend for beginners!]
with Josh Crites from Consensys Academy helped me playaround with solidity programming language to write smart contracts with web based ethereum IDE: https://remix.ethereum.org/. My understanding in Object Oriented Programming Language helped me to jump start into Contract Oriented Programming with .sol or solidity language :)

   Well, it was cool that I jump started to solidity and deployed a smart contract but I didn't understand what is really happening behind the scenes. https://ethereum.org/learn to get some basic understanding decentralized web-based applications which is far far far different from centralized systems we are surrounded in our day to day life. Spent a couple of hours going over ethereum, blockchain & couple of protocols.

  Saturday (November 9th 2019) and almost 0 degrees here at waterloo. On this day of event, I attended two workshops which helped me to get the feel of cryptocurrency, token based rewards, clovers & different protocols which got invented by awesome opensource engineers :). One which really blow my mind is the workshop: Brave's Story related to brave browser: https://brave.com presented by https://twitter.com/SampsonMSFT. After downloading brave browser I felt like future will be very bright where most of the people will live in Targeted, Tracking Ads which takes people privacy on risk. One fascinating thing about brave browser is you can earn which you watch content on different websites, awesome right!!.

  Second Workshop which is a mix of philosophy with a touch of blockchain technology blow my mind which is regarding "financial freedome for & by the people" which is presented by https://twitter.com/owocki. This session helped to learn about bounties, gitcoin & commiting to github issues or PR's with bounties. Check out my tweet on this workshop:
{% twitter 1193409597010300929 %} https://twitter.com/pidugupraneeth/status/1193409597010300929?s=20

  Today (sunday, Nov 10th 2019), event concluded with some awesome cool ideas by utilizing metamask plugin which helps to track ethereum tokens & I was really fascinated the culture of bounties ethereum community encouraging developers by the sponsors of this hackathon. I am very happy & glad that I attended this hackathon which is kind of an eye opener for me with a strong belief for a bright & decentralized future.

Happy Coding everyone! Good Night :)