We spoke with Decent Technologies Co-Founder & CEO, Parker McCurley.

Parker is sharp, enthusiastic about his team & confident about the future; demonstrating exactly what you want to see from a Chief Executive Officer.

Below is our Q & A:

ELC: Building on Blockchain is all about the people that are on the front-lines of the industry. What is it like working with these businesses on a day-to-day basis?

Parker McCurley: “It’s really interesting, right? To make a long-story short you could say the bull-run was a financial battering ram that changed a lot of things and started a lot of very fascinating and ambitious projects. However, there’s a lot of social implications of decentralized systems that don’t really fit well with the existing legal frame-work in the United States and plenty of other countries. Because of this, a lot of the capital that has been generated has been invested in legislation and research to find ways to bring this technology to a place where its useful today, and not just a dream-shot for the future. So that’s kind of a premise of Decent and what we do.”

“What it’s like is, trying to remain extremely objective, technical & logical while all the associated culture and conversation is popping up around the non-technical aspects of our industry, which there are many of. In essence we’re trying to be the gate-keepers of truth.”

ELC: Where would you say the blockchain industry is headed by 2020?

Parker McCurley: “I think we’re going to see a pretty accelerated change, even in comparison to other tech bubbles that have occurred. I think we’ll see a lot of devices being built to bridge common business requirements to blockchain. At the next step, allowing people to interact with products that are powered by smart contracts, but don’t require direct knowledge of how blockchains work, to use properly. We’re at that point where a better user experience for businesses, rather than software developers, is going to make progress so much faster.”

ELC: Any interesting projects in the works? Teams you’re working with?

Parker McCurley: “A really interesting project we were working on is with a company called Swytch. They’re pretty impressive, an amazing team by background; they’re in the energy industry. Swytch.io is their website, and they’re working on a way to gamify the production of renewable energy and also the lack-of-production of non-renewable energy. Using a reward system for big players in the energy industry to really incentivize the production of renewable energy, and I think in the bigger picture contribute to man-kind’s departure from using non-renewable resources. It’s been a really cool project to work on because there is a lot of really talented people strapped into this.”

ELC: What is an average day of work like for the Decent CEO?

Parker McCurley: “My schedule is totally variable. Sometimes I’m waking up super early to catch a flight, but on an ideal day I’m waking up at 9:30. I get up, catch up on e-mails, then I focus on managing the relationships we have with our clients, making sure that we’re making good progress on all the projects that we have going on. Then, the rest of my day is dedicated to writing code and hacking away on stuff. I’ll break for dinner, have a couple beers and then get back to work.”