S5 E5: Alessandro Cecere on Bitcoin Full Nodes

Published: May 1, 2020, 2 a.m.

Alessandro Cecere is a bitcoiner from Venezuela who is very passionate about Bitcoin full nodes. As the CEO and founder of Coinspree, he is looking into the most interesting and promising ways of protecting financial sovereignty with dedicated hardware.\n\n\n0:00 \u2013 Introduction\n\n04:36 \u2013 How Alessandro Cecere got into Bitcoin full nodes, Bitcoin Core\n\n05:17 \u2013 Coinspree, A Bitcoin only business\n\n5:30 \u2013 Alessandro's beginnings with Bitcoin full nodes on a Raspberry Pi and CASA HODL\n\n06:30 \u2013 Not running a node equals not having a truly decentralized experience with Bitcoin\n\n07:40 \u2013 Bitcoin is a digital continent, not just a cryptocurrency\n\n09:12 \u2013 Bitcoin more than code, it's a HUGE step for humanity\n\n10:15 \u2013 Art & Bitcoin full nodes\n\n11:15 \u2013 Coinspree nitcoinizing Universidad Metropolitana by donating pandoraBox\xae devices\n\n13:30 \u2013 Faster digitalization of economies, faster Bitcoin adoption\xa0\n\n15:20 \u2013 Knowing hyperinflation in the flesh makes you triple down on Bitcoin\n\n17:00 \u2013 Alessandro's story from the 2008 financial crisis\n\n23:10 \u2013 Technological challenges that precoiners have when trying to run a Bitcoin full node\n\n25:10 \u2013 Reducing the learning curve for adopting Bitcoin full nodes\n\n27:00 \u2013 Importance of Bitcoin Core and running a node\n\n31:20 \u2013 Bitcoin's resilience and different ways of running a node\n\n33:30 \u2013 Understanding what's behind a full node makes you love one like it's your baby\n\n39:00 \u2013 Other Bitcoin full node companies from the industry\n\n41:00 \u2013 pandoraBox\xae: a full node inside every home and office, globally\n\n42:00 \u2013 Bitcoin full nodes can put privacy and financial freedom in people's hands\n\n42:30 \u2013 pandoraBox\xae: Less cables + Art for faster acquisition coming from precoiners\n\n44:00 \u2013 About Alessandro Cecere\n\n46:40 \u2013 Alessandro's thesis, "A production line for Full nodes pertaining to peer-to-peer Blockchain Networks: case Bitcoin"\n\n49:30 \u2013 Why is Coinspree working on increasing the capacity of Bitcoin full nodes production lines?\n\n50:50 \u2013 Most nodes on the market are unappealing to non-Bitcoin users.\xa0\n\n51:40 \u2013 mynodeBTC is an Amazing Project that helps with mass adoption!\n\n52:00 \u2013 Coinspree's Experience with Casa\n\n55:10 \u2013 Yes, pandoraBox\xae will soon be opened to people\n\n56:13 \u2013 Setting up and owning a Bitcoin full node company and/or business is hard\n\n56:30 \u2013 Samourai Dojo and Nodl have loyal users who are mostly coiners\n\n1:01:10 \u2013 BitBox Base has geograhical boundaries: REMOVE THEM! It's a Bitcoin full node!\n\n1:02:30\u2013 VC Industry and Bitcoin full node companies\n\n1:10:00 \u2013 Even a blind person should be able to run a Bitcoin full node: POWERFUL DUDE!