Today we’re talking with Dan Edelback, CEO of Exidio. Dan didn’t have the most traditional route in discovering the crypto space. He says he’s always been intrigued by emerging tech and tinkering with it. He’s also passionate about helping others and trying to make an impact, so he started working at a non-profit that helps Chicago’s homeless to get and keep employment. It was here that he met his now wife. The two quit their jobs and went to Costa Rica to serve in the Peace Corps. Dan and his wife worked with small business owners there to help in growing a small ecotourism collective. When Dan was ready to check another thing off his bucket list, he decided to go with learning more about personal finance. This is when he ended up going down some rabbit holes. He found communities on Reddit and started learning about crypto, and it’s ability to upend the financial industry. That was in 2017, and he’s been full time crypto ever since.

In 2017 Dan wasn’t part of the forming group for the Sentinal project, but he kept close attention to it. Sentinel is a peer to peer marketplace for people offering bandwidth or looking for bandwidth. It’s essentially a decentralized VPN protocol. Sentinal was created because people were looking for opportunities to connect securely online with privacy routing their traffic. Often central VPNs will claim they are secure, but we see them get hacked a lot. In 2018 Sentinal launched its first application. People would use the app to post all the details around a node on the blockchain. When you connect to the app, all the nodes you see are pinging the blockchain and displaying that information for you. Up until March 2021 DeFiChain was on testnet on Ethereum. Sentinal knew from early on that Ethereum wouldn’t be a good solution. They’re now on the mainnet on Cosmos. With Sentinal however, no one is in control of it and anyone can opt in. As the network grows, Dan says more and more companies can leverage this network as their base layer infrastructure for their own VPN. This means they don’t have to run all their own servers, as they’d be leveraging a global, decentralized network.

--

Divi is creating the world's first closed-loop, vertically-integrated cryptocurrency ecosystem. Much like Apple's ecosystem is anchored by iCloud, the Divi Project blockchain serves as the core of the Divi network of technologies. Thanks to a keen understanding of the divide that separates the mainstream from the crypto world, the Divi team is able to create solutions to the industry's biggest problem: adoption by non-technical users. Divi's user-friendly, one-click solutions aim to bring blockchain-based payments into modernity with great UX. In this podcast, we will cover all aspects of cryptocurrency, hot topics, and technology as worldwide adoption grows.