380: From Bitcoin Mining in 2012 to Building the Future of Decentralized Work with Guest Speaker Vitali Mikhailov from EasyStaff.io

About this episode

Vitali Mikhailov discusses his journey from Bitcoin mining to building a decentralized work platform with EasyStaff.io.

In this episode, I sit down with Vitali, co-founder of EasyStaff.io, a freelance payroll and marketplace platform processing over 20 million euro per month across its ecosystem. Vitali shares his journey from mining Bitcoin in Russia back in 2012 to building a multi-product fintech platform with a real, functioning DAO at its heart. We dig into why most DAOs fail to get participation, how EasyStaff Connect DAO distributes 90% of tokens to users based purely on business activity, and how the community is already voting on real product decisions. Vitali also opens up about the challenges of launching without venture capital, his plans to go fully open source, and why he sees blockchain-based legal token recognition as the natural next step for the platform. Disclaimer Nothing mentioned in this podcast is investment advice and please do your own research. It would mean a lot if you can leave a review of this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share this podcast with a friend. Be a guest on the podcast or contact us - https://www.web3pod.xyz/ Connect: EasyStaff Website: https://easystaff.io EasyStaff Connect DAO: https://connect.easystaff.io LinkedIn…

People in this episode

Host: Sam Kamani

Guest: Vitali Mikhailov

Topics covered

• Bitcoin mining
• Decentralized work
• Freelance payroll
• DAOs
• Fintech
• Blockchain

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• EasyStaff
• DAO
• freelance
• blockchain
• fintech
• decentralization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EasyStaff.io, EasyStaff Connect DAO

Places: Russia

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