Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain - 040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee

040: The New Blockchain Business Model – with Nodesmith’s Brendan Lee

08/07/19 • 26 min

Blockchain Innovation: Interviewing The Brightest Minds In Blockchain

Brendan Lee is the CEO & Co-Founder of Nodesmith. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science, and has spent much of his career building developer platforms. In this episode, Brendan and I discuss:

The complexities around running a full node and how Nodesmith solves that problem
We go over some of the concerns developers and engineers may have. For example, if you outsource your full node, who controls the keys? Or, what are Nodesmith’s API standards?
And, from an economic perspective, we look at the Nodesmith business model – “Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)”

The complexities around running a full node and how Nodesmith solves that problem
We go over some of the concerns developers and engineers may have. For example, if you outsource your full node, who controls the keys? Or, what are Nodesmith’s API standards?
And, from an economic perspective, we look at the Nodesmith business model – “Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)”

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Sascha Mojtahedi is the CEO of Bunz. The Bunz App uses its BTZ token to facilitate peer-to-peer bartering and purchases, while also compensating users for interacting with partner brands. In this episode, Sascha and I discuss:

The $325 billion-dollar “data and attention economy” Bunz is tapping into
The difference between the Brave Browser BAT (Basic Attention Token) model and the Bunz BTZ (Bunz Trading Zone) model
The simple yet clever business model that Bunz uses to drive revenue while generously compensating its users – what Sascha calls, “the 60% promise”

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041: Decentralization-as-a-Service – with Blockdaemon’s Konstantin Richter

Konstantin Richter is the Co-Founder & CEO of Blockdaemon. He is a serial software entrepreneur and has also held senior-level positions at prominent firms such as Nokia and Deutsche Telekom.

In this episode, Konstantin and I discuss:

The difference between Blockdaemon and other infrastructure startups
Key reasons why individuals and enterprises should outsource their blockchain infrastructure
Blockdaemon’s business strategy – what Konstantin calls, “Decentralization-as-a-Service”