Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Private Portfolio Management

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: 

1. Lefteris' history in blockchain development and the path to Rotki
2. Technical challenges in building private, secure portfolio management tools
3. Local-First Software
4. Exciting developments for Rotki

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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?