Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Private Portfolio Management

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