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: Lefteris' history in blockchain development and the path to RotkiTechnical challenges in building private, secure portfolio management toolsLocal-First SoftwareExciting developments for RotkiJOIN THE COMMUNITY:TBP Twitter: https://twitter.com/thebtcpodcast Hashing it Out Discord: https://discord.gg/eCwSWRyzam RESOURCES: Rotki Website - https://rotki.com/ Lefteris X - https://twitter.com/LefterisJP Rotki X - https://twitter.com/rotkiapp Rotki Discord - https://discord.rotki.com/ Rotki Docs - https://rotki.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html Rotki Github - https://github.com/rotki Download Rotki App - https://rotki.com/download 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? Logos Press Engine includes Logos Podcast and Hashing It Out. Hashing it Out dives into the mechanisms and hardware of the technology that aid in making sovereign communities.