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Christoph Jentzsch

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
246 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

It's just not easy right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

I see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

So it's also not so important because, as I said, I think currency is the least interesting aspect of blockchain for me right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

it's where it started this is the application of bitcoin but you've seen the limitations in scalability and even in privacy and all of this then actually i have to say it's not a very good currency people are starting also say it's just a store of value i could go with this but then you would say why does it has value well you can use it as a currency and then you have the problem actually so i i does have features you can do a lot of nice

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

But for me, if I think about blockchain and especially Ethereum and smart contracts, it opens up different applications.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

It opens up something I would call programmable money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

And that becomes interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

Programmable money?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

Sorry for my pronunciation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

That's okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

That's what I like.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

And yes, of course, it's money for me in this regard, like if you pay to open a lock.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

But in the end, our users, they're most likely not paying either, although they can if they want to.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

But they're most likely to pay with a token which is bound to euros, a euro token, which is always worth one euro.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

That's what we have done with Chain Uncharged because they're users that

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

blockchain or crypto, and they are paying extra euro in the application.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

Right now, we do build hardware, we integrate an existing hardware.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

So it's more or less just a software update.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

Many of those devices already have enough computing power to run a so-called light client, which can connect to the blockchain.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
781: Crypto: What AirBnB Looks Like In Digital Currency World

So we just started, but the charging stations have a little over 1,000 charging stations right now.