Chewing Glass - PaulX

<p>Chewing glass is what Solana developers do. Introducing a new series on the Solana Podcast, Chewing Glass! Chase Barker (Developer Relations Lead at Solana Labs) talks shop with the most interesting builders in the Solana ecosystem. It’s for devs, by devs.</p><p> </p><p>Todays guest is PaulX, a Solana developer who invented the Solana Escrow program (lovingly referred to as the "Solana Bible") and core contributor to Anchor. </p><p> </p><p>00:40 - Intro / Origin Story</p><p>3:58 - How did Paul X find out about Solana?</p><p>7:43 - Motivation behind creating the escrow program</p><p>14:13 - Framework, using Anchor in Solana</p><p>21:08 - How can folks transition from web 2.0 to web 3.0</p><p>29:00 - Advice to other developers</p><p> </p><p>chase (00:38):</p><p>Hey everybody, and welcome to Chewing Glass, the show where we talk to Solana developers who have been building in the Solana ecosystem. We talk about the good, the bad and the ugly. Today, we have our very first and very special guest, Paul X. Paul X is actually the creator of the escrow program. The Solana escrow program, this program actually saved a lot of lives over the months. Back of the day, all that existed was docs.solana.com and the Paul X escrow tutorial, sometimes referred to as the Solana bible. How's it going, Paul?</p><p>Paul X (01:15):</p><p>Yeah. Hi, thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm doing great.</p><p>chase (01:20):</p><p>Yeah, it's really great to have you. Just for context, Paul and I met probably about six months ago, or five months ago. When I first joined, I was writing a Getting Started blog post. I found out about the escrow tutorial. I wanted to talk to Paul to get some feedback and really just kind of get my bearings about me for what's going on in the Solana ecosystem. Also more recently, had a chance to catch up with him in Lisbon unexpectedly. That was pretty great. I guess we're just going to dive right in. I guess the first question I've got for you, Paul, is when did you get into blockchain?</p><p>Paul X (01:57):</p><p>Firs