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We discuss the challenges of building a privacy-centric portfolio management tool and the tradeoffs required compared to highly centralized alternatives. We dive deep into local-first software and take a look at how Lefteris has made this a pillar of Rotki. Topics Covered in this episode: - Lefteris' history in blockchain development and the path to Rotki
- Technical challenges in building private, secure portfolio management tools
- Local-First Software
- Exciting developments for Rotki
JOIN THE COMMUNITY: TBP Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebtcpodcast Hashing it Out Discord: https://discord.gg/eCwSWRyzam RESOURCES: Rotki Website - https://rotki.com/ Lefteris X - https://twitter.com/LefterisJP Rotki X - https://twitter.com/rotkiapp Rotki Discord - https://discord.rotki.com/ Rotki Docs - https://rotki.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Rotki Github - https://github.com/rotki Download Rotki App - https://rotki.com/download TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 Intros 02:40 Motivations to build Rotki and Tax Code 05:00 - Managing the various DeFi opportunities and DeFi primitives 06:50 - Prioritizing new features and keeping up with the ecosystem 11:00 - Premium features of Rotki - Ethereum Staking, graphs, back ups and more 12:35 - Data structure and ecosystem growth 16:45 - Infrastructure costs and active management 19:45 - Securing Rotki while adding new features 21:44 - Supported ecosystems - more than EVM 28:50 - Nodes, Pruning, Transaction Hashes 32:00 - Local-first software and challenges in business use cases 35:15 - The roadmap and what’s next for Rotki 36:30 - 10 words or less - describe Rotki 37:00 - Is what you do hard? |