Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki | Insights On Private Portfolio Management and Local-First Software
Hashing It OutWe sit down with Lefteris Karapetsas of Rotki — the portfolio tracker that protects your privacy. We discuss the challenges of building a privacy-centric portfolio management tool and the tradeoffs required compared to highly centralised alternatives. We dive deep into local-first software and take a look at how Lefteris has made this a pillar of Rotki.
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|Prioritising new features and keeping up with the ecosystem
11:00|Premium features of Rotki — Ethereum staking, graphs, backups, 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?