My Hive Fest Diary 3a: Day 1 Conference - 3 Takeaways from @thebeedevs Presentation
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Here's my first pic of me let loose on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, posing in front of "some random tall building" - rather, in front of a random hotel in front of a random tall building - while on my way to the RexKL Cinema for the Day 1 Conference. (The "random tall building," I found out later, is called Merdeka 118 [Merdeka = "Independence"], the tallest building in Malaysia, which I suppose is why I can see it while beetling along a random KL street.)
Sapper Hurley Was Here?
Here we are at the entrance of the converted cinema. It was opened in 1948, so I was looking forward to checking out this building because my father, a sapper in the Royal Engineers, served in Malaya (as it was then) during the "Emergency" in the 1950s. (An "emergency," you understand, not a war, so the plantation owners would not lose out on insurance claims...) Did my dad ever come here on leave? I don't know.
Here's the conference hall with wrap-around visual effects...
Okay, let's get on with the main topic, which is "my three takeaways" (as someone who is not a developer) from the first presentation, which was by @itsola of @thebeedevs ...
Takeaway 1. Metamask
The Beedevs have succeeded in getting Hive approved by Metamask, which means you can:
(1) use Metamask as your Hive wallet and swap Hive for whatever other tokens work with Metamask. I have a dormant Metamask wallet so it might be time to dust it off.
(2) open a new Hive account with Metamask, which I guess could help make onboarding easier, or at least give us more choice as to how to effect it.
See:
Takeaway 2. HiveSense
We could do with a better search function, so this sounds promising, but I haven't tried it yet.
See:
Takeaway 3. Nodes
No node pics, sorry. However, I was interested to see that the cost of running a node has come down quite a lot: from $2,000 to something like just $100, and there's also a big reduction in the amount of RAM and storage capacity that you need.
Indeed, the audience was impressed when @itsola revealed that the little pouch she was carrying actually contained her own portable node! Unlike me, @techcoderx was thoughtful enough to take a couple of photos of it during Chainfest on Day 2, that you can view here:
Also, you can watch @itsola delivering the presentation on Youtube - there's more than my three takeaways, so check it out and see for yourself!
Cheers!
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