 What's up guys welcome back to another video. I actually got a special guest for you today I got none other than our head blockchain engineer Benji Yeah, I had to drag his ass down over here. He's a hard person to get a hold of Anyways in today's video, we'll be talking about Benji's kind of roadmap of how he became a blockchain developer the current let's say Ecosystem what's happening in blockchain space and exciting things that we're working on in blocky So Benji man when you start well, we've been coding for a while But how did you start your path when it came to blockchain coding blockchain coding? Well really I had all these ideas that I wanted to build apps and these ideas I tried like getting people to put them together and I realized It's much better to actually build your own vision So when you know what you want to build actually to figure out how to go out and build that So I started picking up HTML CSS some really basic first programming languages And then I really got dove deep into JavaScript and learning solidity after that because the two are very similar And then I started building my own dApp. So decentralized applications Based off like with the languages I knew then and kept expanding from there So whether it was an online tutorial about how to build a dApp or whether it's just me the hacking away One late Friday night to build the application. That's how I really started getting into it and picking up new languages from there So what was one of your biggest roadblocks when learning these languages? Oh, man Yeah, there is there is quite a few roadblocks out there whether it's like an outdated tutorial you spend like six hours on Like trying to figure out. Why is this not working? Ah, but I think probably the biggest roadblock I would say is like you need quality content to learn from and Once you have that that's a really good foundation to start learning because it's really putting the pieces of a puzzle together So like learning this bit of this language Oh, I can use this in this application over here and really when you get those pieces of the puzzle like Starting to like mesh. That's when you really see your apps come together. So finding quality content to learn from Was there any kind of like exponential learning curve yet to do differently than let's say learning JavaScript or Python or go Really it was I Would say There's not too it's very similar to learning some other languages with the exception that there's not a lot of Excellent information on tutorials like with tutorials or anything else about building your own decentralized application So there is a learning curve in the sense that you are in the Wild West you are like groundbreaking like when you build something there's a chance that it's never been built before on the blockchain so You have to be prepared to get your hands dirty and really dig into the code and learn exactly what everything does Is there any examples you like in the space that kind of excites you examples? I was really into like sort of a crypto gaming aspect. Yeah, so I really think that Ethereum when it becomes much more scalable that's gonna be extremely exciting because they'll be able to take that into online games into a much more like a Very larger degree than like say crypto kitties We'll be able to have micro transactions. You can actually have like items in the game all like ERC 721 tokens so that they're all unique and then you could have secondary markets for those or anything It's really exciting with I think the next big like development would be with Ethereum and scalability so besides a theory of any other projects you think any other projects Well, it'd be interesting to see Neo how they evolve. I know they're really being in China right now But expanding beyond China because I know their smart contract language is pretty robust Yeah, and seeing really what competition that is to Ethereum and solidity. I'm excited Cosmos Cosmos that'll be interesting too. Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be good all the scaling solution and protocol layer I'm very excited for them to compete against each other and more competition better and in any ecosystem Yeah, definitely seeing who can do it the best. Yeah. Yeah And so like what advice would you have for new upcoming developers who want to enter the space? new and upcoming developers There's gonna be a bunch of roadblocks But don't stop like really have that idea like I want to build this and be determined Because when you actually do get that built and you succeed even just building a small section of it It's a fantastic feeling So I would say don't like stay determined and find quality content that you can learn from because that's really key to your like Educational path and really becoming a quite a skilled developer and don't get trapped into the ICOs Fake ICOs and real I see crazy Crazy man. It's a Wild Wild West of the most dumbest and stupidest ideas I've ever seen Seriously, not to mention that technology doesn't even exist It doesn't and like you're just buying a token that doesn't represent anything Like last week I made 87 billion Benji tokens just for fun. Who needs to work when you can just make Benji tokens. Yeah Hit me up. My ICO is coming up next So why don't we kind of inform everybody on some cool stuff that we're working for block ekes. Yeah We have some really cool projects coming out. Yeah Which one do you want to go into your questions about both questions about these? Yeah, okay So we have a Q&A that's live now for block ekes and pretty much what it is is say You have a really difficult question that you can't you haven't found an answer for you can actually post it on the block Ekes website and attach some Ethereum or soon to be any ERC 20 token and then soon soon to be any token at all Yep to pay for it So say I know the answer to this really complicated question or even just a comp a question that there's not a good enough answer out Therefore I can come in and answer that and you can award me That bounty and that that's motivating more people to answer questions That's one exciting project, but also we have bounties one dot IO which is going to be coming out very soon And what that is is it's a bounty network where people can post new questions or new Projects that they want you to work on or build them an app or solve a bug that they have pretty much anything related to Blockchain apps and then you would actually win the bounty. So you could have multiple developers working on that bounty and All to earn however much Ethereum or whatever token that's staked for it. Yeah, I'm excited about it We know right now blockings We have roughly about 30,000 plus students in our pipeline and like half of them are looking to fulfill all these projects They're like etching to work on projects So I can't wait to like bounty one comes out where we can actually match them up with companies and the projects done Yeah, for sure. Then we'll have some like really solid developers can show the companies This is the work they've done. Yeah, they're really good and get them some blockchain jobs. Yeah, so it's super exciting times Like any other coding language it takes time. It's one thing to read Documentations another thing to actually practice and build things Same thing like I give the analogy you can read all the books in your life about riding a motorcycle until you get on a fucking motorcycle And you realize well fuck, it's not that easy At the same time, you'll never know the exhilaration of driving motorcycle Until you actually do if you're looking to become a blockchain developer go check out block eeks There will be a link below this video if you're looking to earn some ether by answering developer questions Check out block eeks as well. That's questions dot block eeks There's also a link below this video and if you guys have any questions regarding becoming a blockchain developer or the blockchain Ecosystem just leave a comment below this video guys and we'll talk to you guys soon. Peace