Anatoly Berdnikov
Anatoly Alexandrovich Berdnikov 
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Education
He graduated from the Moscow Psychosocial University (MPSU), Faculty of Economics, specializing in "Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Finance."
He holds an Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) degree.
Certified specialist in the financial market for brokerage activities, securities management, and forex dealing.
Certified specialist in the financial market for investment fund management, unit investment funds, and non-state pension funds.
Biography and entrepreneurial activities
Anatoly Berdnikov was born in the city of Miass in the Southern Urals.
After serving in the army under contract, he went to work as an auto mechanic at the Ural factory. Within a few months, Berdnikov left his job at the factory and engaged in entrepreneurship. He opened a successful chain of coffee shops and implemented several other business projects.
At the age of 23, he got acquainted with the Internet and realized that he wanted to connect his life with the IT industry. He devoted all his free time to self-education, reading books, and searching for information about making money online. He actively studied crypto-economics, probability theory, game theory, and principles of web development. He gradually delved into the world of cryptocurrencies, started trading on LocalBitcoins, and earned his first small income. He tried his hand at mining.
In 2016, with the support of his friends, Berdnikov decided to seriously engage in work in the crypto industry. He founded WALLBTC, a service for buying and selling bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies. From a simple exchange platform, the project grew into a payment system used by 30,000 people daily.
During this period, Anatoly moved to Moscow. During business meetings, he met new people and discovered new opportunities for his company in the crypto world, specifically coins based on PoS and DPoS technologies. Anatoly created a pool based on PoS (DPoS) technologies and organized it all in a Telegram bot where users of the coins join together and increase the efficiency of cryptocurrency mining.
Thus, in March 2019, the Telegram bot Spacebot appeared for storing and mining cryptocurrency (PRIZM tokens). By the summer, Spacebot had gained wide popularity and started generating good dividends for its participants.
At the end of 2019, there was a collapse of PRIZM due to the poorly calculated blockchain economy and the collapse of the development team. Many participants, including Anatoly, lost large sums of money. Berdnikov publicly apologized to all Spacebot users who suffered losses together with him and stated that he would create his own blockchain to avoid similar situations in the future.
By this time, under his leadership, a team of more than twenty specialists had gathered. Their new project became the cryptocurrency exchange BIT.TEAM, founded in 2019 and successfully operating to this day.
In 2020, the BIT.TEAM team, led by Berdnikov, launched the Decimal blockchain with its own token and a wide range of functionality for business applications. The project's main goal is to help people who are not deeply involved in the crypto industry to discover cryptocurrencies and learn how to manage them in the online spacewith minimal risks and maximum security.
In 2021, Berdnikov opened the cryptocurrency analytical rating agency Coinmarketrate.
Expert and Public Activities
On August 29, 2023, Anatoly Berdnikov, the director of Decimal, became a participant in the organization RACIB (Russian Association of Cryptoeconomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain) [1].
Anatoly is actively involved in public activities and is a member of the All-Russian Public Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises "Opora Russia" in the Committee for Investments and Innovations. He promotes and represents Decimal within the small and medium-sized business community.
Anatoly is also a member of the working group on cryptoeconomics under the Government of Moscow, which has gained him recognition in business circles and led to his invitation to join RACIB.
Thanks to Anatoly's expertise, Decimal obtained an expert account on a specialized platform where over 15,000 journalists send thematic queries to experts, and their responses are included in scientific publications. In particular, Anatoly Berdnikov's participation led to publications in the newspaper "Vedomosti" [2] and several other publications.
Other Information
He works as a consultant in creating investment platforms, issuing digital financial assets, and utility digital rights.
He is a speaker and participant in international conferences dedicated to investments, IT development, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies.
List of Anatoly Berdnikov's favorite books:
- Avinash Dixit, Barry Nalebuff "The Art of Strategy"
- Hideo Kojima "The Genes of Genius"
- Michio Kaku "Physics of the Future"
See Also
References
- ↑ RACIB is an organization whose main goal is to lobby the interests of the cryptocurrency and blockchain community in Russia. Participants in the community are usually businessmen, scientists, or political figures who have contributed to the development of the crypto industry in Russia.
- ↑ Binance запускает в Казахстане платформу для торговли криптовалютой | Ведомости (in russian)