Making Blockchain Technology Accessible With Horizon’s Peter Kieltyka

In this episode of "High Bit," Peter Kieltyka discusses the dual challenge of maintaining decentralization and accessibility in blockchain technology, and the growing significance of APIs in building connected systems. CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction 01:38 What Horizon Does and the Challenges in Delivering the Crypto Gaming Platform 04:53 How Peter Came to the Decision of Working on Blockchains 07:07 How APIs Are Created for Modern Client Server Web Applications 12:25 All About GRPC 15:40 Chi: Peter’s Software That Lets You Write Microservices 21:15 Peter’s 2 Favorite Books He Recommends to Everyone He Works With 27:27 What Else to Look Forward To from Horizon

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Welcome to High Bit, a podcast hosted by Initialized Capital managing partner Brett Gibson about the art of technical problem-solving. A high bit is the most significant part of the binary representation of a number. In programming language, it is commonly referred to as the most important thing you need to understand about a problem. We spoke with our guests about just that. In each episode, we’ll break down a gnarly engineering problem and hear how the builder’s ingenuity and inventiveness led to a successful outcome.