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Rocelo Lopes: Expert in Crypto-Currency and Blockchain Technologies

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Rocelo Lopes: Expert in Crypto-Currency and Blockchain Technologies
In an interview with Insights Success, Rocelo Lopes, CEO of Stratum Blockchain Tech, shares his journey and his contribution in the Crypto-Currency and Blockchain Technologies. He is innovative and pioneering in the development of technologies using cryptography. He is responsible for the development of Bitcoin’s first vertical operation in Latin America, which ranges from mining to solutions for the end user. Rocelo Lopes has cryptography in his DNA.
Below are the highlights of the interview between Rocelo Lopes and Insights Success.
 
Kindly elaborate on your journey in becoming the business leader. 
My journey started when I was very young, a little boy actually. My family came from a poor region in the northwest of Brazil, and when I was a kid, we moved to São Paulo, looking for opportunities. Since then, I always liked to study and to discover new things. My father, seeing that, taught me how to work in little jobs, like shining shoes to selling potatoes on the free market. When I was 14 years old, I was selected to work in a company where I had the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and new technologies. After that, in the ’90s, I’ve started to provide services to other companies such as IBM and Microsoft.
 
Allying my range of knowledge on entrepreneurship and new technologies, I started to study cryptography, founded Othos Telecom in Brazil and South Africa and became a reference in encrypted telecommunication. Nowadays, we still have operations in more than 20 countries around the world. But, in 2013, I received a payment from one of my clients in bitcoin. I didn’t know at the time what I was dealing with. But, it caught my attention and, again, I started to study about that and then I saw a huge opportunity – it was a coin, but cryptographed! It was when the payment I receive almost multiplied in 10 times its value.
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