Kirill Orlov is the founder of AXErunners which offers AXE, a decentralized X-11-based cryptocurrency and was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied computer science and considers himself an old-school linux geek. He was out of the scene from 2009 to 2011 but couldn’t stay away too long. Kirill says he has command line OCD and has a second profession as a photographer.
What do you love most about digital currency?
Open source and solid community. Even when digital currency will grow bigger and will be able to sustain wider market capitalization – it still will be the same open source and anybody could contribute to the network.
Decentralization also eliminates the human error since to break the code or inject , you need majority of the network users. Of course, this is not the case when the release doesn’t meet minimal code quality. But this could be improved with more intensive test workflow.
What’s your digital currency investment strategy?
Do your own research. And don’t expect any rest if your portfolio contains more than one position. All the Wall. St graphs and daily analytics from trendy cryptocurrency portals – waste of time if your topic is future.
Bitconnect’s story highlights that statement. You can have extremely positive growth and countless amount of supporting factors like solid white paper, outstanding website and busy Github.
But all that nice stuff was useless. The human factor is the most important criteria. There is no graphical representation of human behaviour on any financial blog. You have to look for it yourself. And to get that vital information – you have to be online 24/7 browsing block explorer and tracking twitter hashtags, re-analyzing gathered data.
What do you see in the future for Bitcoin?
A few years ago it felt like cryptocurrency scene will have Bitcoin and its multiple forks with lower code quality but wider functionality like deeper privacy.
Human nature proved more than once that on a global scale every system will be abused at some point. So overall picture felt more-less balanced – Bitcoin with its settled legal state and its forks with more anarchistic views.
But today it feels like all current and future networks would become one big financial infrastructure, moving assets from one chain to another. You can already observe first steps in atomic swaps between chains, etc. Since there is already a huge amount of really solid projects, would make sense to boost their performance merging some tasks.
And the only number that would have noticeable weight – overall market capitalization.
What’s one thing you’ve learned since you got started with digital currency?
Trust no one. The current market is very young and lacks of proper regulations. This creates a negative impression for the rest of the financial sector.
To develop proper regulations, institutions will need to catch up and learn the platform on the same level with developers.
This is very a hard task. But I think it’s necessary. And independent decentralized projects have the power to contribute and change the current situation. But we need to start working as a team and prove that cryptocurrency scene is not just a bubble with developers chasing easy money.
What motivates you to push forward every day?
Dedication. I don’t believe in talent. That word describes the presence of certain reflexes from the beginning of human life’s cycle. I doubt that the list of primitive reflexes also includes Java and extreme driving skills. That fits more into conditioned reflexes.
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