About this episode

Gustavo Flores discusses building Bitcoin infrastructure in Mexico and the challenges of operating in a low-trust environment.

***"We're entering the Bitcoin golden era with all the new technologies we're discovering because for the first decade Bitcoin was still very, at least for the first five, six years, there was so little capital in the industry that not a lot was getting built. Plus Bitcoin still had all these early on issues. Now we're getting to the moment where Bitcoin is extremely solid. It's a trillion dollar industry, right, or a trillion dollar asset. So I think we're just entering the golden era." ~ Gustavo Flores*** I sat down with Gustavo Flores, the CEO of Aureo, Mexico's Bitcoin platform, and this conversation went far beyond just building software. Gustavo actually left Canada for Mexico because of the intense COVID mandates. He recognized the red flags of government overreach early on and refused to stick around. But what he found in Mexico was a completely different beast. We talked about the harsh realities of building a Bitcoin company in a low-trust society where people are conditioned to expect scams. And yet, Gustavo and his team are building some of the most impressive tools I have seen. They figured out a way to route local fiat directly to a self-custodial Lightning address…

People in this episode

Host: Guy Swann

Guest: Gustavo Flores

Topics covered

• Bitcoin technology
• fiat-to-Bitcoin bridges
• self-custodial wallets
• low-trust society
• entrepreneurship in Bitcoin

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• fiat-to-Bitcoin
• self-custodial
• Lightning address
• Aureo
• entrepreneurship
• Mexico
• COVID mandates

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Aureo

Places: Mexico, Canada, Mexico City

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