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2026-04-14T14:41:34Z

The pressure is increasing… 🫣

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Bitcoin Atlantis soon.
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I use it as money every week!

2026-02-07T18:10:59Z

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I use it as money every week!

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2026-01-27T19:48:39Z

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Let’s go! 🚀 #naddr1qq…z9k6

2026-01-21T19:37:23Z

Let’s go! 🚀

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We said we're doing it again. We meant it.

SEC-08 runs from July 20 to August 28, 2026. Six weeks of summer in Madeira with twenty-one builders. School's out, bring your dog, bring your family or come by yourself.

SEC-05 wrapped up last October and it was productive chaos. Localhost maximalists, Routstr, Beacon, FIPs, ContextVM, noDNS, Paygress, Earthly.City, Spotstr, Innpub and six weeks of pure vibe coding. Friday demos ran long because everyone shipped multiple projects. Poncha-fueled evenings produced memes that became real code by morning. The energy was electric.

SEC-08 is open exploration, not a focused sprint like SEC-06 or SEC-07. Bring your half-baked ideas. Bring your project that needs momentum. Bring the thing you've been wanting to build, but needed the right people around to make it real.

Past cohorts produced Zapstore, Tollgate, Nutzaps (NIP-60/61), Wikifreedia, and dozens more because of the isolated, in-person environment. Madeira is remote, hard to reach, and in-person only. That's how magic happens.

Applications are now open for SEC-08: YOLO++ (apply here). Six weeks. July 20 - August 28, 2026. See all upcoming cohorts.

If you're building freedom tech - the protocols, infrastructure, and tools that no single entity can control - we want to hear from you. If you know someone who should be there, send them our way.

Great weather. The ocean as far as the eye can see. Vibe to your heart's content.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions Podcast

2025 was a year of building for @nprofile…urgt, ...

2025-12-16T13:17:30Z

2025 was a year of building for freemadeira (nprofile…urgt), monsterabooks.com, Sovereign Engineering (nprofile…k4zn) and BasaltoFund (nprofile…kzcs)! 💪🏻

Checkout the highlights at https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/208871/173931306816636018

A lot more is coming from us in 2026! 🔥

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2025-12-07T09:55:04Z

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The internet is amazing. Or at least, the promise of the internet is amazing: anyone, anywhere, can publish anything and reach the world. No gatekeepers. No borders. Just packets flowing freely between peers.

But that's not the internet we have.

What we have is geoblocking, deplatforming, and censorship. Closed systems masquerading as open ones. Infrastructure that was originally built for resilience is now optimized for control.

In February 2025, LaLiga ordered Spanish ISPs to block Cloudflare IP addresses to stop pirate streams of football matches. GitHub went dark. So did ChatGPT, Instagram, Bluesky, X, and some 3,300 other websites. Millions of Spanish users couldn't reach half the internet because one court order hit one infrastructure provider.

They were trying to stop football streams. They accidentally broke the internet. This is just one example of many.

Cloudflare went down again on 5th December - third major outage in three months, affecting 28% of Cloudflare's traffic. X, Zoom, Canva, banks, and many others went down. One company sits in front of 20% of the web, and when it hiccups, the internet chokes.

We need a better internet, and that's exactly what we are exploring in the upcoming SEC-07 cohort. We want to spend the better part of April exploring how we could re-imagine the network stack to be more robust, more resilient, and more resistant to control.

As of today, the internet's architecture is a series of permission layers. DNS translates names into addresses, but ICANN controls the root, and your domain can be seized with a court order. IP addresses route your traffic, but they can be blocked, tracked, and geolocated by any ISP in the chain. Certificate Authorities vouch for encrypted connections, but a handful of companies decide who's "trusted," and they can revoke it overnight.

This isn’t a theoretical threat, as various headlines of the last couple of months clearly show: The UK's Online Safety Act requires age verification to access social media. Australia banned under-16s from platforms entirely, no parental consent exceptions. The EU's proposed Chat Control would mandate scanning all encrypted messages - Signal, Threema, and Proton said they'd leave Europe rather than comply. Brazil blocked X nationwide for two months and fined users $9,000/day for using VPNs to bypass it. The US Supreme Court unanimously upheld the TikTok ban, affecting 170 million users. India had 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, second only to Myanmar's military junta. Kashmir went 552 days without internet. In Myanmar, you can get six months' jail for having a VPN installed.

The question of who controls internet speech isn't new. John Joink drew this cartoon in 2011, during the SOPA/PIPA debates. The mechanisms of control were already in place. What's changed is the scale and the brazenness - governments across the political spectrum, from democracies to dictatorships, now exercise this control openly and in lockstep.

We now have the tools to fix this, and SEC-07 is dedicated to exploring them - routing discovery through pubkeys instead of registrars, building connectivity without exposing addresses, establishing trust through cryptographic proof instead of corporate authority.

The goal is to explore questions such as: How can we make ICANN and IANA irrelevant, DNS optional, and Certificate Authorities unnecessary?

We're joined by the Tollgate team for SEC-07. Tollgate is one of the projects that came out of Sovereign Engineering - alongside noDNS, FIPs, Paygress, and others built during SEC-05. They've been deep in the network stack. They know where the bodies are buried.

SEC-07 runs March 30 - April 17, 2026. Three weeks. Focused work. In Madeira. See all upcoming cohorts.

SEC-07 applications are now open.

If you're building the plumbing for the self-sovereign internet, we want to hear from you. Greybeards and veterans of the network stack, those who watched the open internet's promise fade, we especially want to hear from you, your expertise is needed. If you know someone like that, send them our way.

Great weather. Ocean as far as the eye can see. No shortage of hard problems to solve.

More: sovereignengineering.io | No Solutions Podcast

My oldest son published his first book about the history of ...

2025-12-03T14:44:43Z

My oldest son published his first book about the history of Portugal. 🇵🇹 Apparently, the nation's history is currently experiencing a transition to sound money... 😉

Published with pride by @monsterabtc! 🔥

A system that has to consume always more and more and more… but ...

2025-11-30T08:43:00Z

A system that has to consume always more and more and more… but I’m to blame because I didn’t use a paper straw! 🤡

Jeff Booth (npub1s05…eyhe)

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2025-11-15T09:38:43Z

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We expect great weather, blue ocean as far as the eye can see, and interesting problems to solve. Apply for SEC-06 today and see you in sunny Madeira soon!

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Onwards! 🚀 #naddr1qq…q3u9

2025-10-30T07:52:22Z

Onwards! 🚀

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SEC-05: YOLO Mode is over and YOLO it was! It was an expedition in vibe coding and vibe we did We concluded our last Demo Day on 10th October, with most participants having more than one demo, and 6 minutes per demo felt less. The spirits were high thanks to Ponchas and LLMs despite their sycophantic hallucinations. The fifth edition saw about 50% alumni and 50% new participants. It was built upon the explorations of SEC-04 to enhance our collective understanding and utilisation of LLMs, as well as the ideas explored across all the SECs. It was also the cohort where we literally memed our ideas to life! Great memes were born during Poncha-fuelled evenings and Sunday walks.

Main Themes

It is challenging to pinpoint the main theme, as the cohort was highly dynamic and participants came from diverse domains; however, one of the underlying themes was a local-first approach. Most things being built were oriented towards being offline as the default. This also lent into selling/creating markets for locally available resources viz. compute, hardware, maps & even IPs over Nostr and automated purchases of the same by machines using Cashu - Oh! How could we forget, wifi & data too - 🎩🤏 Tollgate!

A second major theme was rethinking the entire Internet stack using Nostr keys as identities that can announce, be discovered, and communicate with each other without having a domain, connected to centralised DNS servers, or having certificates from CAs. Audio/Video streaming & MLS was another highlight, combining Nostr with other protocols like Iroh & MoQ . The challenges of doing A/V, the simplicity of Nostr contrasted by the complexity of current browsers, inspired justinmoon (nprofile…vu4x) to rise up to the challenge and build a browser from the ground up, where he channellised his and other participants' collective hatred for WebRTC.

We saw quite a few projects on Maps over Nostr, where we not only overlaid information over Open Street Maps, but also stitched our own maps and served them as blobs. There was an acute need for deeper integration below the application layer of various tools and apps such that they can be easily installed and have a unified experience à la Umbrel, leading to many discussions & projects on local DBs, Wallet UX(NWC/NWA), Blossom, Torrents & local relays.

Two important toolings that were used over and over by various projects were the Applesauce library and ContextVM.

Applesauce has matured, is optimised, and very opinionated, which makes it extremely useful. Being functional in nature also allows it to be very reliable. It does take some getting used to, but hzrd149 (nprofile…tfpf) has published very good docs , extensive snippets and live examples . It's a fantastic library for building applications,10/10 recommended.

ContextVM is the mature version of DVMCP by Gzuuus (nprofile…psfv) . It is a lot more than just a DVM or an MCP server. It is a protocol to communicate with remote services in a structured manner without having to deal with Network configuration, IPs, etc. Irrelevant. What it enables is not just a protocol to communicate with your MCP servers remotely, but to expose ANY services and access them from anywhere if you know its npub. It was seen being used in many projects and was found to be very easy to work with. Read the ContextVM docs to learn more.

Highlight Projects by Category

AI & Local-First Computing

Routstr (by shroominic (nprofile…guuj) , nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7en9v4j8xtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0vfjkuucpzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghsqg8y04eca6xe2fdrftlcdjh2t3aa2l49jwn3mx682ss3v5p502cs0qtrlmrv (nprofile…lmrv) & redshift (nprofile…3lqa) ) - many updates to Routstr, a protocol to buy and sell LLM compute using Cashu payments over Nostr

OTRTA (Routstr client) (by Thefux (nprofile…davc) ) - Openrouter over nostr using Cashu for selling local/API compute in a self-custodial manner

Local++ (by shroominic) - Mobile app for local LLM models with dynamic online/offline switching using Routstr/OTRTA

Remote Vibin' Tools

Wingman (by pw21 (nprofile…srg0) ) - AI Development remote assistant app, which now can use many LLM providers

Opencode UI (by Justin) - Web companion for managing remote opencode instances

Communication & Social

NEET (by Justin) - P2P calls via Nostr using Iroh for hole punching

Marmot Chat (by Justin) - Audio/video calls between Nostr IDs using MLS for E2EE & MoQ for data transfer

Innpub (by Paul (nprofile…vl6n) & Justin) - Location sensitive voice meetup app using MoQ

Maps & Location

Spotstr (by k0sh (nprofile…yz6c) ) - Maps on Nostr with encrypted group sharing of locations and importing BTCMaps data

Earthly.city (by Schlaus Kwab (nprofile…t5pj) ) - Maps stitched, stored, and served as blobs

Nostr Globe (by Evan) - Mapping map overlay data on the globe - very pretty

Gather (by noa (nprofile…qtay) ) - Spontaneous event publishing with temporary postings

File & Blob Management

BloVM (by Gzuuus) - Blossom server monitor & indexer with blob health checks, also uses ContextVM

Blob Box (by hzrd149) - simple Blossom server built for UmbrelOS

Mining - by vnprc (nprofile…22jg)

hashpool - Improvements on hashpool - mining pools, eHash & Cashu; dashboard, proxy

bitcoin-nostr-relay - A Rust library for relaying Bitcoin transactions over the Nostr

Cashu NUT Proposals - by vnprc

NUT-XX: Deterministic NUT-13 Derivation Paths - Dynamically and predictably map currency unit names to derivation paths.

NUT-XX: Mining Share Payment Method - Proposal to mint ehash with the mining_share payment method.

Networking & Infrastructure

Paygress (by DhananjayPurohit (nprofile…l4uf) ) - VM provisioning and VPN purchasing over Nostr with Kubernetes integration

noPorts (by Arjen (nprofile…8d6t) ) - NGrok-like service over Nostr with smart reverse proxy

noDNS (by Arjen) - DNS over Nostr

FIPs (by Arjen) - Fuck IPs using bloom filters

Chrysalis (by Noa) - Atomic Cashu mint migration with "traveling server" concept

Wallets & Payments

noDNS BIP353 & BOLT12 (by Thomas (nprofile…3mq9) ) - BIP353 & BOLT12 payments over noDNS

Nutoff (by Gzuuus) - Cashu wallet using ContextVM for remote access

Wally (by Paul & Arjen) - Desktop native wallet with NWC

Beacon (by Pete Winn) - AI and Bitcoin stuffed in chat apps, WhatsApp/Signal/Qual uses ContextVM

Search & Discovery

ants (by Gigi) - Nostr search done reasonably well

Boris (by Gigi) - Highlighter fixed and done right - finally!

Seekstr (by TheFux & k0sh) - Semantic multimedia search across Nostr data

Applesauce & Window.nostrdb.js - by hzrd149

Window.nostrdb.js - A polyfill for window.nostrdb

Backyard Explorer - An example search app for window.nostrdb

Nostr Bucket - Browser extension that provides a Nostr event cache to all web apps

Nostr Gatekeeper - A Nostr connect bunker that actually works

Memes & Games - by Pete

Retired in a field - solving developer funding and using ContextVM

Craig David - get roasted by Craig David(AI), because no matter what, he's having a better week than you.

Hyper-media/note/OS/vibe - by Paul

Hypernote - Main idea of the hypermedia system built on Nostr

Hypernote Stories - Story feature extension

Hypernote Elements - UI elements library

Hypernote OS - Hypernote imagined as an operating system

Zig doing Nostr, finally! - by Paul

Zig MDX - An MDX (Markdown with JSX) tokenizer and parser written in Zig

Zing Nostr Loader - A WASM-first Nostr event loader built with Zig, designed for high-performance caching and deduplication

Hypernote Pages - Component-oriented version of Hypernote OS using zig-mdx and zig-nostr-loader for building reactive Nostr applications

Web Browser

Frontier Browser (by Justin) - The Web is Dead, Long Live the Web!

Memes

We had some great memes!

don't fuck with spiders

bum fist

retired in a field

sometimes you are the retard, sometimes the cow

moo money, moo cows

the ultimate fight is the cow within

localhost maximalist

FIPs: Fuck IPs

Experiments in SEC-05

This cohort saw many experimentations in the tradition of #SovEng:

We had a proper chef for our BBQs this time, and they were a feast with good cuts of handpicked meat from local butchers, Sangria, and freshly made Ponchas!

We had outdoor BBQs after our Sunday hikes, and they were quite fun!

Week 4 was an unstructured week to give everyone a breather from the intensity of the vibe, which was highly appreciated, and gave us new information to work with.

Week 5 saw collaborative work for group demos, an exercise in composition and building more complex things, which resulted in some excellent projects.

Paths Forward for "the other stuff"

We are starting to build less social media and more of the other stuff on Nostr. What we have on our hands are the seeds to completely rethink the entire Internet stack, layer 2 and upwards. We think we have the primitives and a general sense of direction to make ICANN and IANA irrelevant, DNS optional, Certificate Authorities unnecessary, and solve 402.

Path Forward for SovEng

As has been shared with our Alumni, we are professionalising and making structural changes to SovEng. We are stronger and way more motivated than ever. SEC-05 truly felt like our experimentations had matured, and we are onto something truly radical. It's time to focus our efforts and boost this 10x. We have big plans for next year, which shall be announced as they materialise.

Next item on the agenda is to brainstorm how we want to conduct the next year and beyond. In the very least, there will be the regular two cohorts, but we want to be more focused and have continuity that SEC is. We have been contemplating doing at least 3 cohorts, of which two will be a bit shorter (in spring & fall) and one of regular length, i.e., 6 weeks (probably in summer). Along with that, we do wonder if we can do smaller sprints with select participants on focused domains. Maybe even 3-day sauna retreats.

A lot of what we can do in the immediate future depends on a lot of some things. Regardless, we are very ambitious and our stoke is over 9000! SovEng will continue, and we will keep shipping the future no matter what!

Closing Notes

SEC-05 was a blast, but it wouldn't have been possible without our participants loosing sleep before Demo Days showing off their awesome vibes, the Captains for their time and leadership, the ladies at the Cowork being such wonderful hosts, SuperPopLimon (nprofile…haqa) our chef for the feasts, andreloja (nprofile…kxan) for providing the space, NoGood ✌️ (nprofile…uk43) for the badass artwork and made our swag awesome, PABLOF7z (nprofile…478g) for the groundwork , and Gigi for the heart he puts into SovEng and making it a point to participate despite his challenges.

Altright me laddies, now get back to yer piratin'! I'll leave y'all with this..

Thank you for having me on @nprofile…m6vk! 👌🏻 Great ...

2025-10-18T13:29:01Z

Thank you for having me on stephanlivera (nprofile…m6vk)! 👌🏻 Great conversation…

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🎥 In this conversation between andreloja (nprofile…kxan) and stephanlivera (nprofile…h02q), they explore how freemadeira (nprofile…7u78) and other key contributors are helping shape Madeira Island to be one of the most Bitcoin-friendly places in the world. André also shares the story of how Basalto was born.

We believe Madeira offers a rare combination of freedom, innovation, and quality of life – a place where forward-thinking individuals and investors can truly thrive.

Thinking about relocating to Bitcoin Paradise?
Let's talk!

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Yes… Dinner with André. Great movie. Great line!

2025-10-18T13:28:16Z

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Yes… Dinner with André. Great movie. Great line!

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2025-10-09T07:53:13Z

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