Remi Tuyaerts talks about decentralized non custodial earning options in crypto

Remi Tuyaerts is no stranger to startups. While studying at Nottingham University, he used an exchange year to work on a series of social entrepreneurships in Malaysia. Holding a position of COO for the student project he oversaw the setting up of three self-sustaining projects involving the local populations setting up a black soldier fly farm to eat organic waste (and using the larvae as food for local animals), setting up a mushroom farm in abandoned houses and another project which converted plastics into beanbag and employ homeless people.

While he first came across bitcoin in his first year in university, it wasn’t until his final year as a computer scientist that the technology really interested him. With two other fellow students he set up a platform to provide credit for small and medium sized companies. His two fellow students knew nothing about technology and he knew nothing about finance, all three went on a journey that led them to a successful exit for a company that had great ideas but no actual turnover three years later.

“We did look at blockchain as part of the solution but this was in 2017 and it just wasn’t ready.”

Tuyaerts stayed on as CTO for a period until the business was acquired by a Dutch bank with 350 employees. At this stage he wasn’t getting his hands dirty anymore and he wanted to build again.

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