Hi, my name is Janosch and I’m a member of Team Nimiq. I’m working on core, specifically on Albatross and Nimiq 2.0.

To be honest, when I first looked at Nimiq, I thought it was yet another altcoin (back then there was a new altcoin every day). But I was quickly proven wrong by the amazing UX and the cryptography behind it. That’s when I started playing with their code, implementing missing parts and sending in pull requests. And well a few months later they invited me to code full time with them.

If you have any questions about what’s going on behind the UI, don’t hesitate to ask me. I’d really love to get more information out there on not only what we’re doing, but also much more on how we’re doing it.

As an example I would like to show the community what’s going on in the code for Albatross. We have about 50k lines of code and a lot of interesting stuff is happening there. I’d also like to put some small self-contained coding sessions on YouTube. Although I’m not sure if there would be any interest in watching me code Rust

Right at this moment I’m working on creating a client API for core-rs that is very similar to the one in core-js. It’s only for core-rs-albatross right now, but can be backported to core-rs easily. So, maybe a video of how to use the Rust client API then? Let me know what you guys think about it.

By the way, we split our core-rs repo into the Nimiq 1.0 core-rs (which was always there on the master branch) and core-rs-albatross (which contains only Albatross-specific branches, issues, etc.) We’re also going to use the GitHub project to manage our issues and pull requests from now on. We’ve been using an internal Gitlab in the past for this, but we want you guys to see what we’re doing. You can expect to have a lot of stuff going on there now - more than just commits on master. So I’d really love to see some of you come by and maybe leave a comment with your opinion on the issues there. And of course, if you want to contribute even more, don’t hesitate to open your own issues or pull requests. I know, opening pull requests can be intimidating, but it’s not that bad and pretty rewarding once your changes get merged

Happy hacking! - Janosch