Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future technologies are always to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

We're just around the corner, from Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing,

blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Future Tech Podcast.

I'm your host, Juliette Lamar, and I have with us on the line Constantine Richter.

He is the CEO and co-founder at Block Demon. Welcome so much. Well, thank you so much

for having me. Great to be here. Absolutely. So tell us a little bit about Block Demon. It sounds

a little scary. Yeah, well, the actual correct way is Block Damon. Even though you can say

Block Demon as well, Damon is an operating system that runs behind this an old computer science term.

And then obviously it leans itself a little bit on the demon, which maybe, you know, sort of indicates our more sort of anurkic, hacky nature.

Since blockchain is, you know, kind of came out of the cypher punk movement and stuff.

We're leaning on that old tradition on taking privacy very seriously.

You know, we're Bitcoin maximalists, and we, you know, want to help bring sustainable

blockchain infrastructure to, you know, the wider enterprise community.

So we are, in Silicon Valley terms, people always have these descriptions of, we are a Y of

that.

And so we are the Heroku for blockchain.

Heroku is a cloud configuration company that's been popular over the last 7 or 8 years,

really helping people configure complex Amazon, Google, Azure cloud infrastructure and deployments.

And so the real technical world of deploying and connecting software stacks to each other is very complex

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