Yesterday was #HivePhilippines' 11th official meetup in Davao City, Philippines.
In attendence was 
Hive account@jancharlest, 
Hive account@lawrence.ribz, 
Hive account@princesremedies, 
Hive account@usveteran, 
Hive account@chrisrice, 
Hive account@emafe and the group welcomed a new member named Carlo who is waiting for his Hive account, 
Hive account@postnzt.
Carlo actually arrived at the mall first but it took Hive account@chrisrice a while to find him, and Gerhard Hive account@usveteran arrived at the scene right when Hive account@chrisrice had realized that Carlo was sitting a few tables down from him. Hive account@chrisrice was eager to get to know Carlo and came to find that Carlo is from the #MonkeyTeam, a software development group hailing from Mindanao State University with a history of participating in tech startups.
If you remember our last meetup, Hive account@jancharlest brought Hive account@princesremedies with him and after discussing ideas with him and Hive account@chrisrice, she sent word to the #MonkeyTeam that there was an opportunity to start a business in the city of Davao. She invited Hive account@chrisrice to a FB group chat named #MonkeyBusiness where Hive account@jancharlest was already a member and Hive account@chrisrice shared a business idea that he thought would be good to launch on the Hive blockchain.
Here is a summary of the #MonkeyTeam:
- Nelvin is their strong back-end developer.
- Jonathan is their strong front-end developer for User Interfaces.
- Carlo Hive account@postnzt works as a back-end developer and front-end developer.
- Princes Hive account@princesremedies is a developer who codes mainly in PHP.
The #MonkeyTeam FB chat had been silent a few days leading up to the meetup but Carlo informed Hive account@chrisrice that they have actually been reverse engineering Steemit and the Steem blockchain. He explained it like a mobile phone.
- If he is to make his own mobile phone or duplicate the one in his hand, he needs to know how all of it works, the CPU, memory and all the things that make up the phone so that when he builds it, hackers won't be able to exploit weakpoints in the phone he makes in case something breaks inside the phone. They basically have to know the Hive blockchain like the back of their hand before building their own Hive-based dApp and that is what they are working on now.
It wasn't all serious talk during their meetup though, Hive account@usveteran brought in some of his original humor and made the group laugh with his side comments and jokes. Hive account@princesremedies had a few big laughs and Hive account@usveteran actually really enjoyed Carlo's company.
Carlo Hive account@postnzt is currently working at a call center where he handles clients at AT&T who are upset about their billing expenses, and he mentioned that as a developer, he is gaining people skills and wants to reverse engineer people so that he can work with others better, meet their needs and provide better software products.
Hive account@usveteran also mentioned how expenses seemed to go up a lot in the United States after the Women's Equal Rights Movement. Not because of women being treated equally but based on the fact that twice as many people joined the workforce which led to more money being thrown at asset prices like real estate and other goods that ultimately increased the cost of living.
Carlo could see Hive account@usveteran's point and Hive account@chrisrice eventually understood some of what he was talking about but Hive account@chrisrice also suspects that the US Federal Reserve increased the money supply of the USD during that timeframe and that is what caused the inflation. Having said that, both of those details might be two aspects of what made it harder to survive in the United States as a middle class citizen.
All in all it was an excellent meetup!
The group had fun and laughs thanks to Hive account@usveteran, and Hive account@chrisrice and Carlo discussed the upcoming Hive-based dApp coming from the #MonkeyTeam. Big-time credit goes to Hive account@jancharlest for onboarding new developers to the Hive blockchain and to Hive account@chrisrice and 
Hive account@nathansenn since they are the usual regulars attending the meetups.
Hive account@nathansenn is currently in China right now but will be back in Davao City by tomorrow. In addition to all of this, Hive account@jancharlest will be blogging on Hive.Blog more regularly soon and has agreed to write a Tagalog summary of the meetups on Hive Philippines via his personal account, Hive account@jancharlest. If you want to see his English summary of the meetup, click here.
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