Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator. What Heroku does for the cloud, they do for blockchain networks: easy one-click deployment, management, and supervision of nodes, no matter in what configuration. Their solution is fully portable, allowing you to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so you don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. The company also supports the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advise. Konstantin Richter, CEO/Founder, Blockdaemon, joins me on the Tech Talks Daily podcast. Konstantin shares his background as a software developer, and how he came to enter the world of crypto/blockchain. We discuss the origins of Blockdaemon and how the company has evolved over the past three years. Other topics up for discussion is the institutional adoption of DLT. The pros and cons of institutions entering the sector and how we can bring institutions into crypto the right way. Finally, why nodes are important scaling up blockchain networks and democratizing the control of nodes in a network.