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CambrianSV Lisbon: Working with technology that ‘illuminates the

higher things in life’
TECH 27 APRIL 2020

Charles Miller 
The Bitcoin SV ecosystem took a leap forward during one week in February, when 30
developers gathered in Lisbon, Portugal for entrepreneur Jack Liu’s second
CambrianSV Bootcamp.

The first Bootcamp was in Bali towards the end of last year. In Lisbon, Jack suggested
the theme of “efficiency”, challenging the developers of independent apps and projects
to find ways to integrate with each other’s work, taking advantage of the ability of
the Bitcoin SV blockchain to share data.

It was a theme echoed by speakers at the opening night dinner. “Now we’re opening up
the next phase of this book,” said Jimmy Odom of Bittboard, “so what can we each do
inside of our own projects that we open ourselves up to a broader world?”

For Ryan X. Charles of Money Button, it was a question of taking advantage of “a really
unique opportunity right now to create real businesses”. And for Paul Martin of RelayX,
a startup founded by Jack Liu, their work should be measured in terms of “how you
change people’s daily lives”. Paul stressed the collaborative nature of the Bitcoin
ecosystem, encouraging all the developers to “see ourselves as working for Bitcoin –
Bitcoin the organism, Bitcoin the network”.

There was a sense of the group as pioneers, setting out to change the world through
Bitcoin projects. That was dramatised by a visit to the mouth of the Tagus river, to the
monument to Portugal’s great explorers (above) who set sail from there in search of
adventure and new prosperity.

Beneath the monument, Joshua Henslee of the Bitcoin Assocation said he had felt
“obligated” to abandon the security of a regular job to work on “this Bitcoin thing”: “I
need to put my talents towards this …I felt like I need to be out on the front lines,
helping out.”

Andrew Kondelin of Loggeru made a direct connection between the ancient explorers
and today’s BSV developers: “imagine being the guy to go around the tip of South Africa
and circumnavigate the world, or the guy that took Florida for Spain. These
opportunities exist in Bitcoin SV right now. The massive land grabs that we can make
right now, you can’t make in any other place in technology.”

After five days together, there was plenty to show from a productive week, developing
and connecting products. For instance, there was a demonstration of a new integration
between the image recognition software Bittboard and the advertising platform
TonicPow.

But when it was time to go their separate ways, it was the intangible benefits of
spending a week together in Lisbon that were celebrated. As Ardian Tola of Ataraxy put
it: “life is not about technology, life is about higher things. And the beauty of this
technology that we’re working on is that it’s illuminating those higher things for us.”

New to Bitcoin? Check out CoinGeek’s Bitcoin for Beginners section, the

ultimate resource guide to learn more about Bitcoin—as originally envisioned by
Satoshi Nakamoto—and blockchain.

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