pleb.fi
/miami2023
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PLEBFI’S BACK
BACK AGAIN
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may 16-17 in Wynnwood
its bankLESS season
if you dont come you will have to turn in your pleb card
come for 2 days of hacking, mentorship, workshops, and discussions on how to contribute to bitcoin functionality accelerationism and build kickass applications on bitcoin using nostr, fedimint, miniscript, and more. we’ll also get into how to get your project funded either traditionally or through new age pleb means.
also food. some kind of party after. fun.
APPLICATIONS
Fill out this form and we’ll send you a follow up email to buy tickets through eventbrite.
Prices will be:
- $10 for early bird (before May 1)
- $20 regular (May 1+)
with gratitude to…
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May 16 THE LAB AT WYNNWOOD
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30am-9:00am | Provided by our sponsors | Light breakfast + coffee |
| TRACK | MINISCRIPT | MINISCRIPT |
| 9:00am-9:15am | ecurrencyhodler | Kickoff |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Rob Hamilton | Smart contracts with miniscript |
| 9:45am-10:15am | Édouard | Miniscript: new challenges for hardware wallets |
| 10:15-11:00am | Rob and Antoine | Miniscript panel |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Lunch | Provided by our sponsors. Served at the Lab |
| TRACK | NOSTR | NOSTR |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Jameson Lopp | Why Nostr Matters |
| 12:30pm-1:00pm | /dev/fd0 | Joinstr (remote) |
| 1:00pm-1:30pm | Ray Yousef | CivKit |
| 1:30pm-2:00pm | Jeff and Pablo | Biggest Nostr challenges |
| 2:00pm-2:30pm | Lisa Neigut | Bitcoin deep dive: intro to protocols |
| TRACK | SIDECHAINS??? | SIDECHAINS??? |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | BREAK | BREAK |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Burak | tbdxxx - a privacy preserving layer 2 |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Paul Sztorc | Drivechains |
| TRACK | ORDINALS | ORDINALS |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Eril Gun Ezerel | A data-rich exploration into the Ordinals space |
| 4:30pm-5:15pm | Jamil, cbspears, Psifour | Decentralized ordinal marketplace panel |
| 5:15pm-5:30pm | ecurrencyhodler | Hackathon kickoff |
| 5:30pm-6:30pm | Dinner | Provided by our sponsors. Served at the Lab |
| 6:30pm | Open room | Space open all night and all day May 17 to hack |
May 17
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 12:am-4:00pm | Open room | The Lab open until presentations |
| 8:30am-9:30am | Provided by our sponsors | Light breakfast + coffee |
| 11:00am-12:00pm | Lunch | Provided by our sponsors. Served at the Lab |
| 3:30pm-5:00pm | coinward | Side event for non-hackers: Bitdevs Miami @ Bitcoin Grove |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Hackers uber from the Lab to Grove | The Grove (7580 NE 4th Ct, Miami, FL 33138) |
| 5:00pm-6:00pm | Hacker Presentations | The Grove (7580 NE 4th Ct, Miami, FL 33138) |
| 8:00pm-11:00pm | Hackers + Attendees | Afterparty 🎉 |
key dates
- tue may 16th morning-day: workshops + talks
- tue may 16th evening: hackathon kickoff
- wed may 17th morning: hackathon
- wed may 17th afternoon: hackathon judging & demos
what is this “hackathon” you speak of
it is the friends you make on the journey. we will have a <24 hour hackathon sprint starting after the workshops (please sleep tho) for plebs to build and showcase innovative ideas for the bitcoin ecosystem. don’t have any ideas or friends? the workshops will surely inspire.
there will be prizes. a bevy of them (subject to change till the event starts – we’ll likely add some category prizes & nudge the main prizes if we have the budget to).
| prize | cash | other |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | $4000 | TBA |
| 2nd | $2500 | TBA |
| 3rd | $1000 | TBA |
basic rules
no cheating allowed – while it’s OK if your submission is part of a larger project or ecosystem (e.g., you build something using sapio or an extension to sapio), the point is to try out new things and explore. there’s no firm rule here – we’ll know cheating when we see it, and disqualify at our discretion. when in doubt, ask an organizer if your project is in the spirit of the event.
we love teams; but we also love to see lots of projects. to strike the right balance, teams may have up to 3 attendees.
to make the event more inclusive, you can also have a ‘remote only’ +1 teammate, just let us know in advance who they are. in the spirit of getting real remote participants, we encourage remotes to be e.g. 2 hours+ away from miami (if you see them during the event in person it’s a disqualifier). interested in being a remote hacker? either ask your friends attending or sign up to share your info with teams.
How To Win
BUILD WHAT MAKES YOU THE MOST EXCITED YOU FREAK
but judging is subjective. at this event we’re going to try to evaluate on 4 categories:
- did you learn something new that others can learn from
- does what you’re building work towards solving a real unment need
- is what you’re building non-obvious
- did you make use of something cool from any of the lectures throughout the workshops
if you just do something cool based on things you already know, it’s not a DQ, but we’re going to value people trying out new things.
we’ll adjust these rules as the event draws near; ask any clarifying questions in the telegram.