Polkadot Hello World Article Series

Polkadot Hello World #1: Cost-Effective Cloud Deployment of a Validator Node

This tutorial is based on Polkadot POC2.

The following article series “Polkadot Hello World” (describes the steps and findings during my personal kickoff phase in the area of the Polkadot multi-chain framework. The full article series can be found here.

In the last months, I was extensively researching projects in the area of blockchain and crypto with the goal to find a challenging visionary project, which allows me to build up know-how and experience in this topic.

The project should be in the early inception phase in order to allow me to collect valuable insights about the evolvement of such an open source decentralized Web project (also known as Web 3).

I’m a strong believer that the decentralized Web-driven amongst others by the various Blockchain and Crypto innovations — will be the next big thing.

You know I’m an IT veteran, which was starting programming with the ZX81 back in 1981 (in Basic), moved forward with C++, Pascal, Modula, Oberon to Java JDK 1.0 (1996), followed by Perl, TCL, Groovy, Javascript and a multitude of other languages and landed now for the next year(s) with Rust (which is a safe, concurrent system programming language, ideally for crypto and blockchain work).