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Mindaugas
Kiskis
VoB: Can you introduce yourself and your VoB: How do you imagine the future world of
projects in a few words? Blockchain, then?
Mindaugas: Hi. I’m working on a project with Mindaugas: I believe in Blockchain. I think it’s
my co-founders, called Consent Token. Basi- a great technology, with a lot of potential.
cally, we’re building a consent platform both for I think us and the community itself doesn’t
the users to give consent and for businesses to understand the full potential yet. There is
get consent. a tendency to sort of simplify some things
The platform is going to share value of the which are way more complex than how they
data that this consent controls, between the look at first glimpse. For example, exactly this:
users and the businesses, who want to use privacy and anonymity is not always good.
the data. There are a lot of situations where they are
actually undesirable.
VoB: What is your opinion on the best Block- So why not offer something which would
chain innovation use case? be non-anonymous?
Mindaugas: Well, honestly, I think that the
best Blockchain use case innovation is yet
to come. At the moment, my feeling is that
the gap is actually widening, not closing. For
example, our project would not benefit from
Our project doesn’t care about anonymity.
We want to know the identity of the user,
and we want to be very clear about that.
VoB: What would you say to scammers?
different Blockchain platforms that are in Mindaugas: You know, scammers are probably
existence at the moment, because, we don’t also part of how innovation happens, too.
want anonymity. I think anonymity is not as Innovation is not always a good process.
useful for many applications on the Blockchain. I think it’s kind of a challenge for us as the
Existing Blockchain platforms do not offer Blockchain community members to address
KYC (no anonymity) as a feature of the plat- this issue proactively, to embrace it, and to try
form itself, so it’s certainly a letdown to be to do something about it ourselves, rather than
honest. just saying, „scams happen. So, what...?”
I think we need a new platform for that. As We as a community, as a Blockchain community,
many platforms as we have, there is an obvio- have to do something about it.
us need for more.
VoB: Thank you.