Ben Arc
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Sessions
The world has been cucked into giving our data away & paying outlandish amounts for media we never own. We explore why freedom technology is a needed counter to the enshittified internet and how it can restore the internet to seeder/leecher culture.
The Bitfest 2026 hackathon runs across Nostrshire on Friday and Bitfest on Saturday.
Come with an idea, form a team, join somebody else’s build or simply take part in the sessions happening around you.
End of Day 0 check-in.
GM Fiatjaf!
Day 1 hackathon check-in.
A brief history of Nostr, why its important, and what/how you can build with it.
"Making Time our Money?" After 30 years on the frontlines of the international system, Nils Melzer has been working on a manifesto for global governance reform, and has ended up with a time-based monetary system as its center piece.
This will be a fire-starter discussion in the Socratic style, bringing together a number of thinkers in the freedom space to stress-test the idea for feasibility, utility, and scalability.
LNbits has been building free and open-source hardware for bitcoin for almost a decade.
In this session we look at some of the project and build a bitcoin wallet and bitcoinswitch.
Free to attend, donations welcome.
Final presentations and demos for the Hackathon.
Closing and Hackathon winners annoouncment.