Podcasts: S5 E5: Alessandro Cecere on Bitcoin Full Nodes 🔗 4 years ago

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.

0:00 – Introduction

04:36 – How Alessandro Cecere got into Bitcoin full nodes, Bitcoin Core

05:17 – Coinspree, A Bitcoin only business

5:30 – Alessandro's beginnings with Bitcoin full nodes on a Raspberry Pi and CASA HODL

06:30 – Not running a node equals not having a truly decentralized experience with Bitcoin

07:40 – Bitcoin is a digital continent, not just a cryptocurrency

09:12 – Bitcoin more than code, it's a HUGE step for humanity

10:15 – Art & Bitcoin full nodes

11:15 – Coinspree nitcoinizing Universidad Metropolitana by donating pandoraBox® devices

13:30 – Faster digitalization of economies, faster Bitcoin adoption 

15:20 – Knowing hyperinflation in the flesh makes you triple down on Bitcoin

17:00 – Alessandro's story from the 2008 financial crisis

23:10 – Technological challenges that precoiners have when trying to run a Bitcoin full node

25:10 – Reducing the learning curve for adopting Bitcoin full nodes

27:00 – Importance of Bitcoin Core and running a node

31:20 – Bitcoin's resilience and different ways of running a node

33:30 – Understanding what's behind a full node makes you love one like it's your baby

39:00 – Other Bitcoin full node companies from the industry

41:00 – pandoraBox®: a full node inside every home and office, globally

42:00 – Bitcoin full nodes can put privacy and financial freedom in people's hands

42:30 – pandoraBox®: Less cables + Art for faster acquisition coming from precoiners

44:00 – About Alessandro Cecere

46:40 – Alessandro's thesis, "A production line for Full nodes pertaining to peer-to-peer Blockchain Networks: case Bitcoin"

49:30 – Why is Coinspree working on increasing the capacity of Bitcoin full nodes production lines?

50:50 – Most nodes on the market are unappealing to non-Bitcoin users. 

51:40 – mynodeBTC is an Amazing Project that helps with mass adoption!

52:00 – Coinspree's Experience with Casa

55:10 – Yes, pandoraBox® will soon be opened to people

56:13 – Setting up and owning a Bitcoin full node company and/or business is hard

56:30 – Samourai Dojo and Nodl have loyal users who are mostly coiners

1:01:10 – BitBox Base has geograhical boundaries: REMOVE THEM! It's a Bitcoin full node!

1:02:30– VC Industry and Bitcoin full node companies

1:10:00 – Even a blind person should be able to run a Bitcoin full node: POWERFUL DUDE!