This week, we speak to Pavel Bains, CEO of Bluzelle Networks. Bluzelle is a decentralized database using Blockchain technology. Bluzelle allows individuals to rent any spare computer storage space to application developers to earn cryptotokens.

Tune in to hear about:

Pavel's background, journey in Blockchain and why he moved from Canada to Singapore to start Bluzelle

Bluzelle's prior work with banks and insurance companies (including HSBC, OCBC, MUFG, AIA etc.) and how that lead to a focused effort on decentralised databases

What is a decentralised database and how it different from decentralised file storage (examples of file storage projects include Filecoin, Storj and Sia)

Tech stuff: where the data sits, how consensus is maintained

Stakeholders in the ecosystem: producers and consumers (including how to become a producer/node)

Why Bluzelle decided to have two tokens: BLZ and BNT

Competition with the 'traditional' players like Amazon Web Services, IBM, Oracle etc and within the Blockchain space (BigChainDB)

ICO journey: experiences and challenges

Bluzelle's roadmap (Alpha in June 2018 and beyond)

Pavel's outlook on the Blockchain space

Projects Pavel is excited about/partnering with: Zilliqa, Sentinel Protocol, 0x