Ep 46 - Building a Wallet and the day in the life of a Dev

On this LAB Radio, episode Aaron Mangal chats with Kylan Hurt
about the life as a developer at Edge wallet, a multi-currency
wallet with baked in secure Single Sign-On (SSO)
functionality. 


We discuss how he became a developer, building a wallet,
programming various code bases (like Javascript) and other topics
from a dev's perspective.


Kylan Hurt, Software Engineer at Edge


Kylan is a Software Engineer for Edge Wallet, a team that
develops a multi-cryptocurrency wallet software and application.
Kylan has worked with such organizations as Intuit, Z Global
marketing, Knowledge City, Datagonia and Let's Talk Bitcoin.


He is also the organizer of the San Diego Blockchain
Development Meetup and previously produced and hosted of The
Captain Crypto Show, a discontinued cryptocurrency-related
podcast.


Edge, a multi-currency wallet with over 15 coins
including BTC, ETH, XMR, XRP and more


Here is some lore about how Edge (formerly AirBitz) came to be
from the company website:


Edge’s first product, a bitcoin wallet and business directory,
was launched in the winter of 2014, under the company name of
“AirBitz” and has been securing millions of dollars worth of
bitcoin ever since. Like many others, Airbitz was inspired by the
bitcoin revolution and set out from day one to build tools that
kept bitcoin users safe and in control.


The Airbitz Bitcoin Wallet was the first application of a
security model we coined as “Edge Security”. By the end of 2015,
we had successfully packaged up the tools that make the Airbitz
Wallet awesome into a software development kit (SDK) that
developers could use for their own applications. Our “Edge
Security” SDK has since been integrated into top-tier blockchain
projects such as Augur, Wings, and OpenLedger.


Airbitz quickly advanced from a bitcoin wallet in 2014 to a
paradigm shifting data security solution and multi-currency
wallet in late 2017. Given our company’s evolution and coining of
the term, “Edge Security”, we thought it would be best to
highlight this focus as the core of our brand.


 


After listening to this episode you will learn:


How Kylan self-started learning programming from a previously
dissatisfying job

The path he took to go from nothing to building an app (Edge
wallet)

Why Javascript is a more common language for front-end
programming

How you can do a lot of backend (server side) programming
with Javascript

Why other languages force you to configure your own server to
write and deploy code

What nodes are and why they are critical to decentralization

How 0x works as a decentralized exchange protocol

A day in the life of a developer at Edge

How Edge eats their own dogfood through internal
Cryptocurrency usage as a company

Why development in the Blockchain space is bleeding edge and
people should realize everything is a work in progress



 


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