Congratulations on your getting Ph.D. and becoming the tenur-track professor.
Prof. Brown.
I came to know you from
https://steemit.com/report/@steamsteem/re-gentlebot-comment-voting-report-for-gentlebot-for-2017-09-07-20180608t003023025z
since you voted at my comment which I never expected vote from others.
I have been to Colorado Springs a few times and still need to visit there periodically.
It's also quite rare case in Korea, I guess.
I am interested in your study, and I wish that I were young to apply to study DLT. I will try to read your posts with some time.
Thank you for letting me know you.
I often vote for replies to gentlebot; I created him.
Glad you're interested!
I used python. Really, if you want to do real blockchain development, you need C++ because most industrial-grade blockchains are created in that. I've been happy with Python for my simple stuff.
Gentlebot isn't open source, but you could check out https://github.com/biophil/pocket to see a public app I created.