✍️ TABConf.com 6 Hackathon Rules ✨
🙏 Brought to you by @npub1earn...ja5j @PlebLab
- Team sizes are 1-4.
- You cannot be on multiple teams.
- One submission per team.
- Your project must be developed DURING the TABconf hackathon.
- All entries must be open source. The link to the codebase must be included in the submission.
- You must submit before the deadline. No late projects will be accepted.
- Include a 1-minute demo video.
- Must use Bitcoin in some capacity.
Judging criteria dropping Monday ✌️✨
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💎 Key Facts About The @TABConf 8 - Oct 12-15, 2026 ATL Hackathon 💎
🧑💻Round 1
- You have 10 days to build a new Open Source project using Bitcoin one of the three categories.
- Starting 09:00AM PT Wednesday, October 16th 2024.
- Ending 11:59PM Friday, October 25th, 2024.
- Enter as an individual or as a team of up to 4 people.
- You cannot be on multiple teams.
- Build whatever you want to compete to win the Best Hack Overall as long as it follows our rules. To compete for the other categories, you MUST build in something in the respective categories. If no projects are received for the category, it will be forfeit.
- Submissions must be contain a 1 minute video that contains the following:
- Name of the project
- Demonstration of the project
- How Bitcoin is used within the project and fits within a particular category (if relevant)
- Example submission have been added as a reply to this thread. We do not assess the quality of the video itself. Remember to keep it concise.
- Submissions will take place on the TABConf GitHub with a provided template. Use the examples as a reference.
- Winners of this round will advance to the semifinalists where they will will have the opportunity present Main Stage at TABConf 6.
- Round 1 will be judged by Car of @PlebLab and I.
🥇Round 2 - The Semifinalists
- If you advance past round 1, you will be eligible to pitch to the Grand Judges (super shadowy judges FTW).
- Pitches will be a maximum of 5 minutes.
- This is where you will be able to win the top prize and potentially categories as well.
- If you win best hack overall, you won’t be eligible for another category.
- Winners will be announced at the closing ceremony.
🔮 Stay tuned for The Rules dropping on Friday!
Excited to share the categories!
💯 Best Hack Overall
🤑 Best Value4Value Product or App
👾 Best Taproot Hack
Stay tuned for the rules, which will drop on Friday! View quoted note →
Hey everyone,
In relation to Zap Conf, we will need to postpone the conference.
New date: 12/06/24 & 12/07/24
We have Startup Day in Mexico City with our friends at @PlebLab @yopaki_ during the same date.
Additionally, I got sick for almost all of August which set me back.
Dang I’ve missed a lot. Time flies in the nostrverse
It's an honor to announce that I'll be hosting the second @npub1earn...ja5j x @PlebLab Hackathon for @TABConf 8 - Oct 12-15, 2026 ATL 6!
Last year we had incredible projects delivered from the most talented builders in the world. The energy was magical and I don't think I have ever experienced anything quite like it.
I look forward to seeing the exceptional projects this year and what comes of them.
More details to be dropped on Monday!


Excited to share I’ll be in Nashville next week! 🥳
Please reach out if you want to grab a coffee or stop by the @npub1earn...ja5j Booth in the Makerspace. 🌐⚡️ 

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I look forward to the future with you all!🍻 View quoted note →
Happy to share, I’m launching a new virtual conference!
Our aim is to provide a virtual conference experience that is globally accessible with the very best Lightning and Nostr speakers in the world. All value to value.
Our conference will be action packed with:
- 4 stages of content
- buildathon
- StarCraft BW tournament
- community (vendor booths and game rooms)
The 4 stages.
- Main Stage
- Lightning
- Nostr
- StartUps
When?
September 21-22
Learn more at https://www.zapconf.xyz
If this isn’t proof of work, idk what is View quoted note →
Btw, @QW ‘s presentation ended up being the best nostr fundamentals I’ve seen delivered so far View quoted note →
This guy builds 🔥👏 View quoted note →
Daily random nostr thoughts:
Nostr is the identity and content management layer for the internet.
- These events are verifiable such that you can determine from a signature that it came from a specific pub key. So you can control your identity and all the content that is associated with your identity as well as verify other’s events / content.
Running a Nostr relay is the data ownership layer of the nostr content.
- If you own the relay, while you can’t verifiably tamper the events, you can delete them, however. So you do have some control you can exert over other users content.
- imo, you only own content if you are also running a relay, as you cannot guarantee persistent long time storage otherwise. It does help make your content resistant to censorship though by being able to distribute it to a network of relays.
These layers are parallel and interoperable with other protocols similarly to RSS, SMTP, Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. It could even house metadata about the protocols and networks built on top of said protocols.
Nostr can be used to distribute to other protocols, networks and platforms programmatically.
Due to the simplicity of events, it makes it really easy to gather information that isn’t tied to someone’s government issued ID, maintaining some degree of privacy.
Maybe making it possible to generate enough open data of all kinds to train an open source AI model. Perhaps a path way to monetization for relay operators and reasons to persist data?
IMO, nostr is already inherently a better spec / tech and more secure than something like smtp / email for example. Nostr Id / NIP05 represents a lot more than a direct messaging address. Google reads all of your emails whereas we could use the encryption to secure the content. Service providers could restrict outside users from being able to query anything other than what they are able to produce valid signature for a particular pubkey as authentication.
I could make a case for RSS too, but we’re on the road to adoption and it’s not really practical to make those claims just yet.
Thoughts?
When you’re right, you’re right. What else is there to say?
Scheduling the next BitBuilders soonTM. View quoted note →



