An Interview with Wendell Davis from Hive Wallet
Hive is beautiful and simple. Hive (sometimes stylised as “hive”) is perhaps the most beautiful and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet to date. If Apple were to develop a Bitcoin wallet, it would probably look something like this (although it’s pretty unlikely that Apple would given its stance on Bitcoin apps). Recently, I had the pleasure of talking to Wendell Davis, one of the developers behind Hive. Here’s how our interview went: CCN: So how did you first get into the Bitcoin scene? Wendell: Actually I was a member of the Metzdowd crypto mailing list back when [Bitcoin] was originally....
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