Staking Interview with Konstantin Richter CEO of Blockdaemon

The DIVI Crypto Podcast

Today we’re talking to Konstantin Richter of Blockdaemon, a blockchain deployment facilitator. Konstantin’s first real career after school was with T-Mobile, building out network infrastructures. Here he learned how to distribute content and how to trade and package metadata. Like any technology there were issues and Konstantin knew then he wanted to become an entrepreneur and help solve those problems. Once in the entrepreneurial world, Konstantin got excited about blockchain in 2012. In 2015 he became an advisor to a few companies working to build a more holistic solution around decentralized ledgers. Some of this technology was ahead of the times, but Konstantin was now involved in the production ecosystem. Making his exit in 2017, Konstantin knew that his next entrepreneurial project would be with blockchain. Working with a team, Konstantin aimed to bridge the gap between what blockchain could do and what people thought it could do. Working with companies like Amazon and Google, they were automating the deployment and management of bitcoin nodes across a hybrid cloud structure. Today Blockdaemon has 75 note types and 30 protocols fully automated. Konstantin says it’s as easy as pulling out your credit card and pushing a few buttons to get your own fully synced node. Konstantin says that 2018-2019 was a time of building and learning. On a technical capability level, they had a lot of work to do. Blockdaemon is available to anyone that wants to connect to blockchain networks with security, consistency, and privacy. In the beginning, it was more about physically employing nodes that was hard. Now the focus is on assurances of consistency for their clients. Konstantin says their focus is ultimately the liquidity cycle of networks. Blockdaemon has an enterprise option but is still at the institutional adoption stage, being one step too early for widespread usage. Blockdaemon was one of the first to focus on nodes and is still the only place you can deploy a wide range of POW, Top 10, and POS tokens. Being in a good position to satisfy demand, Blockdaemon has a wide cohort of customer and use cases. Going into 2021-2022, Konstantin says he’s most excited about payment networks, transaction systems, and the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency. To learn more about Blockdaemon or nodes, visit blockdaemon.com and sign up for their newsletter. Blockdaemon can also be found on Twitter, and Konstantin himself can be reached at [e-mail]. -- Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.