We spoke with the CoinMarketCal Founder & CEO, Anthony Ribeiro.

Anthony is a diligent leader, with a natural ability to identify problems and create solutions. As a CEO, Anthony is a perfect reflection of the blockchain industry, as the industry itself was created as an alternate solution to today’s problems.

Below is our Q & A:

ELC: When the idea for CoinMarketCal came to you, was it instantaneous? Or did the idea for CoinMarketCal take some time to develop?

Anthony Ribeiro: “There was definitely a ‘WOW!’ moment, back in Sept. 2017, I realized how much time my friends and I spent researching. At that time if you were interested in cryptocurrency there was no short-hand way to research. You would have to go through: Bitcointalk, Slack, Twitter, Telegram & more; if you wanted to keep up with dates, it was virtually impossible with more than 1000 coins. I realized we needed a new tool, and I was surprised that none existed. That’s the basis of our project.”

ELC: How would you explain the significance of projects that are evidence-based and community driven?

Anthony Ribeiro: “Community-driven was a given to build a long term, long standing project. It couldn’t be done otherwise. It is impossible for a single person or even a small team, to maintain a database with information on all of these projects. It is also economically uninteresting.

As far as CoinMarketCal being evidence-based, I think it was needed too; especially because people rely on us to stay informed. Not only that, but in an era of fake news, evidence-based news is more than welcome. We need to provide our community with the tools to research and verify the information we provide. Don’t trust. Verify. That is really important.

Since Oct. 2nd, there has been no events on CoinMarketCal without proof or source; and there never will be. Because of the nature of the cryptocurrency markets at that time, there was a lot of scammy things going on, and we do not want to represent fake news at all.”

ELC: You’re in a very delicate position, dealing with news. Your image and integrity sit on a thin line. How do you treat this?

Anthony Ribeiro: “Exactly, your image can be destroyed in a second. But we (and I mean we, because we are a team) built this with long-term goals in mind. Even though I didn’t know about the success we would have, I wanted to build a sustainable product for me, my friends, and the crypto community; and that still rings true right now.”

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

Anthony Ribeiro: “ I wake up and check my emails. I answer to every single request we receive, it’s very important for a community-driven project. My

priority is to answer to our coin representatives’ requests because they submit almost 50% of all the events. Then, I usually work on the upcoming updates with Jérôme Chesne, CoinMarketCal’s CTO. The website is always improving, we listen to our users a lot. This is typically what I do but every day is filled in with other things like calls, managing advertisements and marketing which is all very important as well. I will talk to the same 7-10 people every day, and usually answer between 25-30 emails daily.”