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I am Now Officially an Open Source Contributor One of the coolest things about the blockchain/crypto craze in my opinion is the wealth of amazing open source projects. A goal of mine for a while has been

A Recap: The First Four Months of My Gap Year in San Francisco Last Friday marked the end of my semester at Horizons School of Technology. Here are some quick stats to quantify my experience: 16 weeks

Why CryptoKitties Highlights the Future Success of Blockchain Unless you were living under a rock over the course of the last week, you at some point probably came across the Ethereum sensation: CryptoKitties.

A Steemy Update 11/27/17 Hey guys! It's been exactly 19 days since my last post, a bit too long, I know... unfortunately I got quite busy between the pre-Thanksgiving grind, the Thanksgiving grind (I worked

No more 2x hardfork!!!! Screenshot: Proof:

Bitcoin Edge Dev++:An Incredible Experience and How I Got Here I had an absolutely incredible last two days learning the high level technical overview of Bitcoin. As I've had more and more people lately

My Exciting Week Ahead While every week so far in SF has been incredible, I am especially excited for this one! However, I guess a few of you may be wondering, "hey Rob, where is your weekly post?"

A Thought Experiment: How my Parents's Dislike of Video Games brought ned to SF Have you ever thought "How did I get here? How did this situation come to be?" Here is a very interesting thought

Horizons School of Technology Week 5 & 6 This post is a week in the making, and because of that I decided to just combine it with this week's post. Thus, instead of a detailed overview, I will condense

A Night With Ned - SF Steemit Meetup Incredibly excited to be hosting @ned in SF October 16th at 7PM. I am hoping to bring together Steemians, crypto newbies, Bitcoin Core devs, and Satoshi himself for

Horizons Week 4: Web App Authentication and Further Crypto Adventures A very busy, yet exciting week. I have structured this article the same way as the previous three: What I Learned What I Ate What I

Own a Pebble Watch and love crypto??? Well now you're in luck. BitSee is a Pebble Watch Application that displays the prices of the top 5 crypto. Now you can watch crypto prices: During meetings During

Are you Ready to Steem in Beautiful SF? @steemrollin and I are organizing a meetup for mid-late October and looking to connect with Steemians in the area. Please help by resteeming this post or tagging

Ethereum Developer Meetup of the Century: Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Poon, Jun Hasegawa Some Background on Ethereum (Quoting the White Paper) In short, Ethereum: "provides a blockchain with a built-in

What I Did Week 3 in SF: TechCrunch and Vitalik Buterin Speaks Disrupt TechCrunch SF After winning tickets to TechCrunch last weekend, I had the privilege of attending this prestigious event on Monday.

Horizons Week 3 - Backend Baby! This week was an especially exciting week as I got to attend TechCrunch Disrupt SF AND I got to hear Vitalik Buterin and CO. speak twice... So, I will split this post into

Yeah... A Milestone Post Milestone posts are quite cliche. However, milestone posts are actually so cliche that people have stopped doing them. So here you go, lets: Make Milstone Posts Great Again This

Horizons School of Technology Week 2 Hello again everyone! Hope everyone had a great week. Just got back from an insane hackathon yesterday and now at TechCrunch Disrupt SF this morning so this post is

Let's Try This Again I always sort of dismissed Twitter as a "less than useful" social media application. However, three things brought me back: Twitter is apparently now a legitimate source

Horizons School of Technology Week 1 This week was the first week at Horizons School of Technology. Horizons is a 16 week coding bootcamp I am attending in San Fransisco this Fall. It will teach me the