Merrick: The key elements of the idea were basically in place in that bar, that time in San Francisco. After that, a guy called Wendell Davis arrived in San Francisco and we met up with him,. And he was like, yeah, this is a cool idea. Polkadot actually arose through the paper. So I wrote the paper and I've written the yellow paper before.
We finally sit down with Gavin to go through a bit of what Parity has been working on with Polkadot and Substrate. We talk about Polkadot early history and who was involved and where the idea spawned, up to coding practices and where Substrate became a thing.
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