The blockchain and cryptocurrencies are some of the most disruptive technologies of the decade.

On this episode, you'll meet Stuart Farmer, who is building a suite of developer tools

that speed up the process of creating new and custom blockchains and apps.

This is Talk Python to Me, episode 165, recorded May 15, 2018.

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Stuart, welcome to Talk Python.

Thanks.

Yeah, it's great to have you here.

I've wanted to do a show on the blockchain for quite a while, and some folks from your company reached out, and I thought, maybe this is just the perfect chance to kind of bring Python and cryptocurrencies in the blockchain together. Yeah, absolutely. I love

Python. It's like my main language. So talk about it. It's good. It's good. Absolutely. And you

guys have some really interesting and surprising things happening. Like you're not just building

with Python, but you're actually going a little farther.

And we're going to talk all about that.

But I want to sort of set the stage with some of the background technologies.

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