Community Spotlight: Bruno G

Nano’s Brazilian Community Manager

Hi Bruno, it is great to catch up with you! Some of the community may recognize you as one of Nano’s longest running community managers, but would you mind introducing yourself to the readers?

Hello and thanks for the invite. My name is Bruno, I’m from Brazil and currently, work as a computer scientist and as a community manager for Nano managing the Brazilian community. I discovered Nano last year when two of my friends sent me a message about RaiBlocks — I’d never heard of it — so they introduced the concepts of the currency to me. They asked if I could study the source code as they are not programmers and wanted to know more about the RaiBlocks technology. As I studied the source code, I started to learn about the protocol and how it functions. By that point, my friends had created a Raiblocks group on Facebook and new users were joining daily asking the usual questions like: “What’s block lattice?” or “Why doesn’t it have miners?” As the group grew exponentially, we decided to have someone that all Brazilians could come to with any questions involving tech, the community, really anything. With the support from the Nano team, I was made the Brazilian community manager.

Bruno at Bitconf earlier this year

The Nano community in Brazil has a reputation of being quite large and active. It is very exciting to see Nano introduced to different regions across the globe. Can you tell us about how Nano is seen in Brazil?

Nano is seen as an ideal cryptocurrency for payments in our community. The idea of ​​high scalability, no fees, and instant transactions has gotten the people to think about practical uses of cryptocurrencies. In Brazil, we had a president who confiscated the people’s money through their savings accounts. So, the idea of a decentralized cryptocurrency-fast, scalable and without fees-aroused the interest of many people. It has been amazing, Nano has also made it possible for us to aid our Venezuelan neighbors who are practically starving.

That is great to hear, the core use-case of a decentralized cryptocurrency is to empower individuals in this situation and that often gets lost in the day to day news. Have there been any recent projects or events to help share potential that Nano brings?

At the beginning of the year, the community collaborated to take Nano to the largest cryptocurrency conference in Latin America. We had the opportunity to manage a booth, give a lecture, and distribute gifts and papers explaining the technology behind Nano. Currently, myself and 13 others moderate our Facebook group of about 15,000 members — 10,000 still being fully active. Everyday we post news, announcements, and tips - all in Portuguese. As a software developer and having studied the Nano protocol and its source code, I’ve been trying to explain the Nano protocol to the community in a didactic way. Through livestreams, we talk about the technology, we discuss ongoing improvements and features in the protocol.

You are clearly very passionate about Nano and we love that you share our enthusiasm and excitement about the potential it holds. So, what’s next for the Brazilian community

Currently, we are planning to go to the Bitconf Summer Edition, the largest conference about cryptocurrency of Latin America. It’s the same event that we attended earlier this year and I received an invitation to return and speak about Nano again. The event is far from where I live so we hope to support it through crowdfunding at The Nano Center in order to pay for the trip.

Thank you so much for taking this time to tell the community about your involvement in the nano community. Your contribution is invaluable and we appreciate everything you are doing!

If you are a Portuguese speaker and interested in joining the community then you can find them here.