GildedPleb, Highly Available Nodes, & Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #39 (In-Person)

**Details**

Join us for another amazing Bitcoin meetup! Gilded Pleb will be presenting on “Building and Running a Sovereign H.A. Cloud Node from Scratch at Home: What It Is and Why You Should Care”. GildedPleb is a full stack software engineer and longtime bitcoiner based in Los Angeles working on open source bitcoin projects. We will then follow it up with a Socratic Seminar led by Andre Neves and Andrew Yang.

P.S. If you have topics you’d like to discuss or would like to present on a topic, reach out to us on twitter @bitdevsla!

**Speaker Info**

GildedPleb: https://twitter.com/gildedpleb

**Socratic Host Info**

Andre Neves – Co-Founder & CTO, ZEBEDEE

Andrew Yang – Bitcoin PM

**Agenda**

7:00pm Snacks/Drinks

7:30pm GildedPleb

8:00pm Socratic Seminar led by Andre Neves and Andrew Yang

9:00pm Networking & Drinks at a bar up the street!

**Location**

7456 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046 (Zephyr Theater)

**Parking**

There’s 2 hour parking in the residential area and metered parking along the street. You can also buy a drink and park at the CVS across the street.

**Socratic Seminar**

Inspired by Bitdevs NY, this is an event for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and related protocols. The Socratic Seminar events are formatted to foster debate, information sharing, and lively discussion.

Discussion topics from a variety of sources are collated by meetup members in the weeks preceding the events. We investigate pull requests in the Bitcoin Core, lnd, and other relevant repositories; we study network statistics, research papers, technical blog posts and other interesting content. To complete the meeting, members present open source projects, companies, research and other relevant materials. A feedback and Q&A section follow.

Please contact the organizers if you’d like to present at the Socratic event or have a recommended topic for discussion: contact at bitdevsla.org

A post will be made prior to the event which outlines discussion topics. Archives of discussion topics and presentations can be found in the event descriptions of past meetups. The discussion portion of the event is NEVER recorded. It is recommended that you have a firm grasp of the basics of Bitcoin in order to extract the most value from our Socratic events.

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