Know your devs - raid5 View this email in your browser Wallets take centre stage It has been a busy week so far for the Reddcoin team, with tralf's Reddcoin Browser Wallet Demo Video release announced on Reddit yesterday. Wallets are in the wider news as well, as tech teams focusing on Bitcoin struggle to keep their projects at the cutting edge of innovation. There is a lot to read and learn about all kinds of diverse projects, but one point that keeps cropping up again and again, regardless of the cryptocurrency (including Bitcoin), the teams involved, and the goals of these projects... is the issue of centralisation. The Reddcoin team is on the cusp of making history as the first team to propose a fully decentralised tipping platform. Full decentralisation is by definition the only answer to the problem of reliance on “trusted third parties”, laid out by Satoshi Nakamoto in article 1 of the Bitcoin White Paper. We are living in exciting times, and with the Reddcoin project now leading the way in the development of advanced features that remain true the visionary goal at the heart of all cryptocurrency, the Reddcoin team feels that we are at the right stage of the project to begin explaining more about each team member: their work on Reddcoin, their expertise, and simply who they are and what makes them tick. I'm really pleased to invite you to find out more about a Reddcoin dev in this newsletter, the latest in the Reddcoin devs series. And it's the right time to introduce this dev, as he is working on aspects of the all-important upcoming wallet system! Meet raid5...

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Name: raid5 / Adam McDonald Age: 30 Nationality: American Education: BS / MS in Computer Science

Experience: I started my professional career when I was an undergrad. In one of the computer science classes I attended, our professor was so impressed with the end result of our class project that he spun it out into a startup company with a few of us students. I was mainly doing backend enterprise Java and frontend web development at the time. Once mobile platforms started to emerge, I was quick to jump on learning both iOS and Android development. I now work for an agency that focuses on design/development of mobile, set-top, and tv apps. Day job: Mainly iOS development, but a lot of other platforms as well (Android, AppleTV, etc) Programming languages / fluent: Objective-C, Ruby, Java Programming languages / conversational: Python, Javascript Programming languages /

learning: Go Time working on Reddcoin: I’ve been involved with Reddcoin development for a couple months now. Responsibilities on the Reddcoin team: My main focus has been laying down the foundation and UI for the upcoming iOS wallet.

“In the future, there will be two types of official Reddcoin wallets. QT wallet and reddcoind are full wallets required to run a full node. A second type of wallets, called thin wallets or SPV wallets, will use the technology of Electrum modified and enhanced to support PoSV and staking. These wallets include mobile wallets on iOS, Android, next-generation Social Wallet on desktop and wallets inside browsers (Chrome/Firefox/Safari).” (Laudney, Architecture of a Decentralised System for Social Payment and Services, 6 September 2014)

Reasons for joining Reddcoin: I got into cryptocurrencies in late 2013 as a miner. Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin were my main areas of interest initially since they were the big players. When Reddcoin was officially announced, I immediately knew this project had potential. I lurked around the subreddit for a while and eventually started getting more and more involved. We have a great dev team and I’m always looking forward to the awesome stuff they do.

Interests and hobbies: American Football (Go Hawks!), Snowboarding, Video Games (Diablo 3, Far Cry 4 and Madden have been consuming most of my gaming time lately).

Favourite film(s): The Bourne series has always been one of my favorites. I’d have to rank the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit series right up there as well. The Matrix might be my all-time favorite if I had to pick a single film in the past twenty years. Favourite music: I listen to quite a variety of music from alternative to rap, but I do have some favorites that I always fall back to: Taking Back Sunday, The Used, We Can As Romans, Blink-182, Eminem, Deadmau5, Knife Party. Favourite author(s):



Neal Stephenson (favourite:

Snow Crash)



Daniel Suarez (favourite: Daemon) Favourite quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind." - Dr. Seuss Favourite time machine destination: I think it would be awesome to go back to see live dinosaurs, but then I’m sure I’d quickly want to get out of there before I got eaten alive. How do you balance your day job with the all-consuming obsession that is Reddcoin? Not very well :) but I’m working on it. What is your favourite food? I’m not sure if I can really narrow down a favorite. It really depends how I’m feeling on that specific day, but I am a big fan of spicy foods. It’s a pretty close tie for me between Seafood, Mexican, and Pizza.

