Madeira
Mar 03 - Apr 11
Six weeks of high-bandwidth ideation, experimentation, mentorship, dialog, cross-pollination and discussions on how to build kickass applications, services, and businesses for a self-sovereign future.
Nostr
Un-silo the Web
Lightning
Un-fuck the money. (Super)charge sats.
SEC: What Is This?
This is not a conference. This is not a hackathon. Neither is this a school, or an academy, or a workshop. This is something else. Something new, something more dynamic. The goal of the Sovereign Engineering Cohort is to bring the best and brightest—the ones with the brightest fire burning inside, those who have not given up on the Web or the world—together in a beautiful place for a prolonged period of time.
Explore the unknown. Re-think how we do things online. Ship things that last.
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The vast and endless sea is the ocean of possibilities that bitcoin & nostr open up. The ships are the tools we’re going to build; the wood is the software we’re going to write.
The Crew: Who Are We?
Pablo is the developer behind many Nostr applications, most notably
Highlighter
&
Zaplife, and
the lead maintainer of NDK. His upbringing in ever-chaotic
Argentina taught him the urgency of building tools and
parallel systems that are resistant to the state and, more
importantly, transcend the limited and limiting mental
models that are downstream from its constraints. Formerly
Head of R&D at Swan, he is now fully focused on
exploring Nostr’s “and other stuff” with an R&D lens.
Gigi is the author of 21
Lessons, a popular book about lessons learned from
falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. His current
work-in-progress book, 21
Ways, tries to illuminate Bitcoin from multiple angles.
He is the creator and maintainer of bitcoin-resources.com
and nostr-resources.com , a comprehensive
list of bitcoin and nostr resources, respectively. He
launched the German-speaking Bitcoin podcast “Einundzwanzig”
which turned into a community movement that now spans multiple countries. He
is passionate about privacy, human rights, and freedom
technology. As the head of strategy and operations at OpenSats, he spends most of
his day thinking about how to best support the development
of free and open-source software as we transition towards an
increasingly bitcoinized world.
André is our local Madeiran, serial doer, and father of four.
He takes care of the fiat side of things and is our local
connector. He soon found out that working for other people
was not ideal and ventured into a diversified portfolio of
private businesses, as for example, Cowork Funchal, the
first coworking space of Funchal, the main city in Madeira
Island and An Island Apart, the biggest holiday rental
management company in the archipelago. Bitcoin infects the
mind, so now some of his other (ad)ventures include Monstera
Media, Basalto Investments, and, most recognizable, being the
founder of FREE
Madeira and responsible for Bitcoin Atlantis.
MW is a fiat refugee, fleeing clown world in mainland EU. His dedication to the
Bitcoin Standard is absolute, and he's fully committed to contribute to shaping
a better world #forthekids.
Looking back on 20+ years of experience as an entrepreneur in
the digital agency industry, MW has skilled-up dozens of
developers, being the founder of The App Academy, and worked
with lots of startups and growth companies alike.
Now venturing into the heart of lightness on Madeira with
Sovereign Engineering, he's convinced we're witnessing the
beginning of a new era, and this time we have to do it right.
This second chance is all we'll ever get: to recreate the web
with freedom technology, as it is supposed to be, for all the
people in the world and their future prosperity.
Participants: What Are The Requirements?
We assume that you know what Bitcoin is and why it is important. We assume that you know what Lightning is, how it works, and why instant settlement of a trustless digital bearer asset is a big deal. We assume that you know what nostr is and how it can help to un-silo the Web. We assume that you know how to code and that you have tinkered with things in the past.
We are looking for people with passion and an eagerness to build. Other than that, we don't have any requirements.
Dates: When Is It Going Down?
SEC-01: nostr + other stuff - Concluded.
SEC-02: P2P markets - Concluded.
SEC-03: eCash + nostr - Concluded.
SEC-04: Building it right - Coming soon...
| SEC-04: | Mar 03 - Apr 11 |
| Duration: | 6 weeks |
| Requirements: | You can code, are eager to build, and understand nostr reasonably well. |
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