Mukhtar Musa, a 17-year-old blockchain developer who goes by the identify Blockchain Hashira. On this interview, we delve into his background, journey into blockchain improvement, and his ideas on the business.
Mukhtar Musa Muhammad also called Blockchain Hashira, shared his distinctive background, rising up and not using a father and being a pure tech fanatic. His fascination with know-how began at a younger age, and his path into blockchain improvement was not influenced by anybody, however quite, it simply “got here to him.”
“I’ve really been tech-savvy since little, like fixing stuff round the home and in addition doing quite a lot of mini innovations even earlier than I used to be capable of entry YouTube”, he added.
Mukhtar discovering function as a blockchain developer
Mukhtar began his tech journey as a cybersecurity knowledgeable at age 13 utilizing his Android telephone. He later ventured into internet improvement. His journey into blockchain improvement started in 2022.
In line with the younger developer, the revolutionary nature of blockchain know-how is much like the arrival of the web and this attracted him to the realm of endeavour. He was captivated by the know-how behind cryptocurrencies and NFTs and this drove his curiosity in its technical facets.
He at present focuses on Solidity– a high-level programming language that defines the principles and logic of decentralized functions. This program is used to create good contracts for blockchain platforms like Ethereum. He’s additionally a flexible developer with expertise in JavaScript and Python as he plans to discover Rust and resource-based languages like Cadence.
Describing his expertise in blockchain improvement, Mukhtar says it’s a steady cycle of studying about new applied sciences being constructed on the blockchain. He emphasizes the alternatives for collaboration and assembly nice minds within the web3 house.
Potential for NFTs nonetheless excessive
Regardless of the current downturn in curiosity for NFTs, the blockchain developer has already created Testnet NFT tasks and helped others construct theirs. A TestNet NFT mission is a improvement and testing setting for creating non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the blockchain with out utilizing actual cryptocurrency. It permits builders to experiment and refine their NFTs earlier than deploying them on the mainnet or essential community.
In his phrases, “I’ve created some Testnet NFTs tasks and in addition helped some tasks in constructing theirs too. The potential in NFTs could be very excessive and I’ll say the reason for the downturn in curiosity in the mean time is the individuals are simply there to earn cash and don’t perceive the know-how itself.”
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In line with Musa, he believes that the potential in NFTs stays excessive and attributes the decline in curiosity to people solely looking for financial good points with out understanding the underlying know-how.
He talked about his startup- Noob Techies. “I’m constructing a startup providing everybody, primarily teenagers, a free probability within the Web2-Web3 house. We are going to construct, be taught, and collaborate”, he talked about in an interview with TechNext.
He has efficiently balanced his tutorial pursuits along with his tech endeavours, viewing college as an additional exercise. He highlights that everybody’s journey is completely different, and his capacity to excel in each domains displays his distinctive method.
His recommendation to imminent builders, particularly teenagers, consists of mastering the fundamentals, adopting a project-based studying method, staying constant and disciplined, and having fun with the training course of whereas documenting the journey.
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