The Faces behind BlockPay

Rodrigo & Christoph at the GTEC Blockchain Innovation Award in Berlin

Disruptive innovation was a term coined by Clayton Christensen in 1995. He describes it as a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors.

That is the goal of BlockPay.

But first, what is BlockPay?

BlockPay is a peerless point-of-sales platform because it aggregates multiple digital currencies and combines their communities by providing one agnostic solution for all. First-time merchants can accept all leading digital currencies at zero cost with a few simple taps. In comparison to traditional POS services, like BitPay or Coinbase, BlockPay merchants manage their own private keys and have full control over their company funds at all time. This increases security and independence from other third parties.

Now let’s get to know the innovators behind BlockPay.

Christoph Hering (CEO)

Christoph at the Bits&Pretzels Festival 2016

In 2014, Christoph started his career in the B2B money-transfer industry, inspired by the potential impact of blockchain technologies in the financial world. He was looking for a faster, simpler and cheaper option to transfer money via blockchain technologies. His research led him to discover the power of the Bitshares blockchain. Tired of the limited scalability of Bitcoin, Christoph got involved in the Bitshares community, looking for a better solution.

Christoph met his future co-founder Ken at the local Bitcoin meetup in Munich in 2014. Buoyed by their passion and the business opportunities that Bitshares could provide, they soon identified what was missing.

Shortly after that Eureka moment, the idea for BlockPay was born.

In December of 2015, Christoph and his team kicked off the development of BlockPay with their first crowdfunding campaign and raised more than USD 20,000 in one week. Thanks to the initial seed funding, they were able to build four different proofs of concept including BlockPay “S” and BlockPay for Odoo.

In the spring of 2015, Christoph expanded the core founding team and brought on Rodrigo Crespo, who would be in charge of business development and marketing.

Asked what his vision for BlockPay is, Christoph summed it up in 10 words.

“To accelerate the transition to a blockchain-based digital economy.”

Rodrigo Crespo (CMO)

Rodrigo installing BlockPay at Wirtshaus am Bavariapark

Rodrigo came to BlockPay with vast experience from the business and start-up world. Among his first tasks was establishing the Ambassador Programme. Like its name suggests, the Ambassador Programme is a global programme where hand-picked ambassadors are chosen to lead the digital currency conversation among their communities of blockchain and Bitcoin enthusiasts.

The problem to Rodrigo was simple.

“People worldwide own digital currencies, the problem is they don’t know where to spend them. The Ambassador Programme was created to address that.”

To date BlockPay has over 60 ambassadors in 30 countries and counting.

With growth comes responsibility. Responsibility towards the community as well as the BlockPay organization. Whilst BlockPay has been growing its clientele as well as employee number, the community remains at the core of BlockPay.

“To us, BlockPay is not just a company. It’s a community of people worldwide!”

Welcome to the Digital Payments era!

For more information on BlockPay visit us at: https://BlockPay.ch or for any enquiries send Chris an e-mail at [email protected]

Join us on social media!
Facebook: https://facebook.com/blockpayde
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlockPay_ch

Upvote, ReSteem & Follow us for future updates

.