Sovereign Engineering

SEC-08 applications close tomorrow midnight. If you have been on the fence, act - now!
https://sovereignengineering.io/#apply
#naddr1qv…r0mu
Build with us:
https://blossom.primal.net/016582ba387661c9403f6c724de64a0b127b2dfc17086e3ed372080157ecd9f9.jpg

2026-06-21 07:56:07 UTC

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Archives today are very fragile and are a problem that we deeply think about. We have been thinking about doing a cohort dedicated on that.
Raise your hand if you'd like to solve it and tag someone who you'd like to solve it with.
#nevent1q…tkp5

2026-06-19 16:18:34 UTC

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Next cohort

2026-06-19 09:55:30 UTC

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We are also hyped you won and would like to share our hype with you if you'd only got in touch with us 😅
#nevent1q…nfud

2026-06-18 10:58:01 UTC

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Can you please reply to our DM? 😅

2026-06-17 18:30:29 UTC

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Love certainly does make us blind sometimes )

2026-06-17 17:18:29 UTC

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Tim and his friends seem to disagree it seems 😄

2026-06-17 17:12:02 UTC

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Stay tuned!

2026-06-17 15:18:20 UTC

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yes, that is what we meant 😄

2026-06-17 15:06:46 UTC

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Now we are talking!

2026-06-17 15:05:25 UTC

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Please check your DM 😅

2026-06-17 00:10:49 UTC

GM good people of Nostrverse! As promised, the SEC-08 t-shirt contest results are in.
Firstly, we thank you, to the people that participated and shared with us such great designs to make our lives harder Then, to the people that shared them, engaged with them and sometimes provided us something to chuckle about. And finally, to all the Nostr (Bitcoin, LN & Cashu) developers and users that have made this tiny little garden of ours where we flourish. We are eternally grateful to not have to deal with logins and passwords, captchas and verifications to prove our humanity, KYC just to fucking get an account or zap someone 1 or 10 or a MILLION sats, auto spam filtering - because, WoT & PoW, bots and the cacophony of the clown world - because only autists and masochists(sometimes) can actually bear the "friction" and novelty of this beautiful nascent protocol - and now we know that art people can too.
Most importantly, we are grateful that we didn't have to gatekeep this contest, use emails or create some special system for it because as far as we are concerned Nostr does work and it works pretty well. This started as a small experiment, and it turned into a proper gallery of very good, very weird, very Sovereign Engineering designs. This was a very human experience.
Phew.. now that that's out of the way, let's get to the meat.. so, the winners of SEC-08 T-shirt Design Contest are..
https://blossom.primal.net/0c95282b5273012f716c82f839c5546023fa18c1a1f5ad5b08392c90b204da99.png
- 1st goes to @nprofile…vhew for the "Tin Can" design! 🤌🏻
- 2nd goes to @nprofile…5ds4 for reading the times so well! Well done!
- 3rd goes to @nprofile…6s0u for exciting the nerd in us! Great work!
For the rest of the voting and scores see: https://tshirt.sovereignengineering.io/results
Honorable mention: @nprofile…cg4q for such a great concept, but just missed it! We would definitely like to do something with it.
P.S. These t-shirts are usually exclusive for SEC participants.. Now, if people are really interested in specific designs, do let us know and maybe we can do something about that 😉
Keep on piratin'

2026-06-16 06:34:43 UTC

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UTC

2026-06-16 05:42:15 UTC

Thank you every who participated in the t-shirt contest. This was one of those experiments to test the open waters as we do at SECs and we are surprised and happy about it! We've got some really good designs and we're really going to have to make some hard choices!
Stay tuned, we'll be announcing the winners pretty soon. Until then, you can view all the submissions at:
https://tshirt.sovereignengineering.io/
#SovEng

2026-06-16 05:23:31 UTC

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Appreciate your efforts, but just a bit too late

2026-06-16 05:21:47 UTC

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Oi! Just a wee bit late, were we..?

2026-06-16 05:17:41 UTC

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Wholesome! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-15 20:57:08 UTC

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Nice! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-15 20:54:48 UTC

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We concur.. last couple of hours until submissions close.. the mystery shall be revealed soon!
#nevent1q…4jrt

2026-06-15 20:52:28 UTC

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Keys are very important! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-15 20:49:25 UTC

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Grateful for your submission, despite all odds! Thank you!

2026-06-15 20:48:17 UTC

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That's a good system! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-15 20:46:34 UTC

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Would make a great cover art! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-15 09:48:46 UTC

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Nice! This will come in very handy for SEC-08!

2026-06-15 04:05:38 UTC

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Tonight 23:59:59 hrs UTC

2026-06-15 04:03:19 UTC

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"How many clankers you got under that floor?"
Thank you for your submission

2026-06-15 03:59:59 UTC

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Lovely! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-14 20:54:18 UTC

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One day to go!
#nevent1q…flzr

2026-06-14 15:01:40 UTC

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We love pixels too! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-14 15:00:34 UTC

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Thank you for you submission again!

2026-06-14 08:44:47 UTC

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@nprofile…jvwp

2026-06-14 08:37:12 UTC

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Neat! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-13 17:33:55 UTC

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Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-13 17:33:02 UTC

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Thnk you for your submission!

2026-06-13 17:32:21 UTC

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Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-12 10:36:14 UTC

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Arrr! Thank you for you submission!

2026-06-12 10:33:19 UTC

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Layers upon layers, that's how we build. Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-11 12:54:46 UTC

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Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-11 10:39:58 UTC

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Thank you for your submission! ARRRR!

2026-06-11 10:32:17 UTC

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To the open seas full of possibilities and treasure waiting for the worthy! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-11 10:29:04 UTC

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Onwards! ARRRRRR! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-11 10:25:39 UTC

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We believe in you Katelyn!

2026-06-10 16:13:38 UTC

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We did say, nothing is off limits! 😂 Thank you good sir!

2026-06-10 15:53:23 UTC

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We are sure there's a story to that design? Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-10 15:51:24 UTC

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Beautiful! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-09 22:15:34 UTC

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A survivalist! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-09 22:13:42 UTC

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We hope to see you soon, 'til then, keep on piratin'

2026-06-09 22:12:25 UTC

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Very stoic! Thank you good sir for your submission!

2026-06-08 20:47:06 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/67fe53f3fcbc8f84d69137de86b18047b4e09d5f4a6d617a723e319194455148.gif

2026-06-08 20:38:59 UTC

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Mr Sassy Batman, thank you for taking the time out to care about the boring, useful stuff and your effort to spin up a clean demo. This is exactly the kind of spirit we share and collect at Sovereign Engineering. Come join us for SEC-08.
On Nostr powered forms, there is https://formstr.app/
One remark on your demo, there should be an option to keep the submissions private and only visible to the host to protect participants' privacy.

2026-06-08 20:30:00 UTC

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Beautiful! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-08 10:41:21 UTC

One week left to win 1,000,000 sats! https://tshirt.sovereignengineering.io/

2026-06-07 15:55:35 UTC

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Striking right at the core! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-07 09:09:53 UTC

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Shipping since 1492
#nevent1q…4ty3

2026-06-07 09:02:40 UTC

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You know the answer! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-07 08:56:09 UTC

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Peep Peep! Thanks again!

2026-06-07 08:54:27 UTC

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I see what you did there! 😁 Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-04 19:38:16 UTC

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Howdy folks! When we thought of doing this we did not expect that we'd get these many submissions and such high quality ones! Its been great seeing all them come in! We appreciate them!
For all the people still working on their master pieces, 10 more days to go!
And to repeat, you can submit as many designs as you want, we know you have more than one crazy idea!
Keep on piratin' .. ARRRRR!!!!
#nevent1q…y9pl

2026-06-04 18:45:19 UTC

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Prescient! 👏 👏 👏 Appreciate your submission! Thank you! Hope to see you back on the island soon mate

2026-06-04 18:41:21 UTC

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Clean! Lovely! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-04 18:39:20 UTC

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Electric! Thank you for you submission!

2026-06-03 14:04:01 UTC

🤙 https://relay2.sovereignengineering.io/6fea79f8d5aee22a406a65fbaafdccd5c61e08baac28bf6182f44443f9cee042.jpg https://relay2.sovereignengineering.io/87c93913a0461a8fc8a298946851ce300eea6206726525ee1e0e8bcc09c4dddd.jpg

2026-06-03 08:35:07 UTC

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That's a deceptively sweet little ostrich! Thank you for your submission!

2026-06-02 06:52:49 UTC

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Thank you for your submission! Arrrr!

2026-05-30 20:03:43 UTC

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This was one of the really cool demos!
#nevent1q…hd3x

2026-05-30 16:31:04 UTC

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Clean! Thank you for your submission!

2026-05-30 16:30:21 UTC

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You can submit more than one design, we know you have more than one idea - we know, we have a million! So, as long as the contest is live, keep 'em coming!
Ahoy!
#nevent1q…y9pl

2026-05-30 16:27:52 UTC

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Cool! Thank you for submitting! Keep them coming, multiple submissions are very much welcome!

2026-05-30 16:26:36 UTC

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Lovely! Thank you for submitting!

2026-05-29 10:49:41 UTC

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Nice! Thank you for your submission! Keep it coming!

2026-05-27 19:11:55 UTC

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For the engineers, SEC-08 applications are still on. Apply below:
https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC-08
P.S. you, yes you reading this, if you're not an engineer, share this with the engineers tirelessly fighting against the enshitification of the internet.
#nevent1q…y9pl

2026-05-27 19:06:05 UTC

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Nice! Thank you for your submission! Keep them coming!

2026-05-27 16:41:20 UTC

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Will check this out. Have you tried relatr and its elo plugins?
https://github.com/ContextVM/relatr

2026-05-27 11:08:55 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ec7143832e97db6fde1ce67c607f0f1c33c4e95a926fc0073041a4fd7305c8f2.jpg
#nevent1q…8a3c

2026-05-27 11:08:11 UTC

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Thank you for your submission! Keep them coming!

2026-05-27 08:09:55 UTC

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Friction is good. Slow is better. Small is beautiful.
#nevent1q…95n0

2026-05-27 08:08:04 UTC

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You don't need permission to do whatever you want with open protocols. We get so many participants at every SEC who are new to Nostr and they have had material contributions to making Nostr better in more than one ways.
As the saying goes "you can just do things" and that sometimes also means you have to protect open protocols from enshittification.
#nevent1q…4ed5

2026-05-26 18:13:46 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/dc8cf29675d16edb73ef9b6b2eae15c88cc0b363185bfd6e51984065e961e33f.webp
Howdy fellow Pirates and Nostriches! SEC-08 is coming up and for people who aren't able to participate, here's your chance! We doing a contest for the SEC-08 t-shirt design!
Whether you are a designer or not, let that not dampen your spirits. Make it as fun or as serious as you want it to be. Nothing is off-limits. Be radical!
Final submission: June 15th
To participate, post a mockup of your design on Nostr and use the #SovEng hashtag or tag @SovereignEngineering. We'll announce & zap the winners shortly after.
Head over to https://sovereignengineering.io/contest for more details!
#SovEng #SEC-08

2026-05-25 19:32:03 UTC

Checkout the heartbeat on all the projects that were created or explored during one of the SECs:
https://heartbeat.sovereignengineering.io/
Its a good way to keep track on the most active projects.

2026-05-23 21:17:46 UTC

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Good and accessible discussion on FIPS. Give it a listen
#nevent1q…h9fz

2026-05-22 19:33:33 UTC

Happy Pizza Day 🏴‍☠️ https://blossom.primal.net/159cc1f7ae7468abbd71753e51dca87158264a42414f01a43d3941192e7cf5fe.jpg

2026-05-22 17:10:56 UTC

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You haven't, you are already here ;)

2026-05-22 16:45:21 UTC

#asknostr
https://blossom.primal.net/e1ca58d01c2b0a0da7244f77d32ce68848212bc7a5bd048718ee9d9a5718ccc0.jpg

2026-05-22 15:04:31 UTC

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Yea, summers are certainly slightly hotter, but max would be around 28-30 °C, but great for swimming in the ocean!

2026-05-22 14:21:00 UTC

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We also accept applications from engineers who's first language is not English. Apply below:
https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC-08
#nevent1q…t6vu

2026-05-22 14:10:04 UTC

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We certainly do need to! You can buy it in person on the island, but maybe we should find a shop to host our merch

2026-05-22 13:49:24 UTC

Lots of action on nostr lately and big discussions. The back and forth online may sometimes be good for headlines, but rarely do they lead to productive outcomes.
@nprofile…x58v , @nprofile…4m66 come for SEC-08, where the whole program is designed for all kinds of crazy experiments, for high-bandwidth communication, to solve the hard problems.

2026-05-20 11:40:13 UTC

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You should be at the next SEC!

2026-05-16 17:48:20 UTC

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MEN WANTED for an uncertain journey, no wages, very hard problems, summer in Madiera, 6 weeks of intense experimentation, more than vibes, short-term success doubtful, honor and recognition of fixing the internet in case of success.
SEC-08 runs from 20 July - 28 August. Apply here:
https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC-08
#nevent1q…8klf

2026-04-18 18:44:32 UTC

One for the road! SEC-07 comes to an end! It was wild and it was radical! It was FIPS, FIPS and a lot more than that! What an incredible cohort! Thank you to all our participants! Keep it wild and see y'all back in summer 🤙
#SovEng
https://blossom.primal.net/4d60777a24af631fdfc47f92f741cfb4bdab694dfbf1bf837d0c4c47f536c2ed.jpg

2026-04-15 12:58:29 UTC

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Zaps are the right signal. Users should be able to zap the features they want most. 👍/👎 is a weak signal.

2026-04-10 17:26:53 UTC

SEC-07 right now
cc: @nprofile…sjfc
https://blossom.primal.net/59a519099990c31695853dfbe66588f11a2924f445a4da2b33c6dd018da9ead3.png

2026-04-10 16:41:37 UTC

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Post your (PoP)Proof of Ping as a screenshot as a reply to this message to npub1zv58cn7v83mxvttl70w5fwjwuclfmntv9cnmv5wmz2nzz88u5urqvdx96n so we FIPs
Every correct screenshot gets Zapped!
#nevent1q…qqsp

2026-04-09 18:16:49 UTC

The goods have been secured, Captain! https://blossom.primal.net/75725f6bc2d6a70b2be1dc688fe67f829631a8188c9d48cefb0c0fe50d51a9a1.jpg

2026-04-07 17:20:59 UTC

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We need more brave souls. Read this book!
#nevent1q…vps9

2026-04-05 22:03:36 UTC

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yes you can, mind the latency though 😉

2026-04-05 19:39:13 UTC

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Whoever said nostr isn't fun, isn't doing it right
#nevent1q…u5ag