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.. image - 1st goes to @Bitcoin Sikho for the "Tin Can" design! 🤌🏻 - 2nd goes to @Joel 🇨🇭 for reading the times so well! Well done! - 3rd goes to @The Tim for exciting the nerd in us! Great work! For the rest of the voting and scores see: Honorable mention: @ARVIN 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'

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Based Truth 4 days ago
SEC controlled opposition, distracting with t-shirts while SEC Chair Gary Gensler crushes crypto freedom.
congrats to the winners. i really like the tin can & tiny boat.. super duper cute. it was also one of v few “professional” looking designs… but also❕actually❕you guys had a “no spaghetti” requirement in the contest rules 🙄…😂😂😂 (spaghetti graphics, meaning fine graphics that would not print well on t shirts?)
Wow Thank you for choosing my design, loved the process and got to see some amazing work by other designers most importantly I love Madeira and what is being built their. 🫂
It’s refreshing to see bitcoin related merch with great designs and without ‘Bitcoin’ plastered all over it - for those who like to keep a low profile!
💯%! Actually I’ve been thinking for a while it would be cool to have a store for bitcoin merch that is subtle and low op-sec risk. Like the UASF hat. IYKYK..
This was so nice to see that many talented design folks have found residency on Nostr 🔥 🫶 thanks for organising
Congrats! to the winners. Well deserved. It was really fun to be a part of it and honing creative channels.. Hargh hargh 🏴‍☠️🌅
Hijacking this thread to say if anyone wants to plan a poor man's soveng in the US on my regenerative ranch in Missouri, I'm ready. We have a pond that we swim in, trails to walk and hike, meat and a workshop that could be setup like a classroom for talks and demos.
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Sarah Connor 3 days ago
Well done to all the winners! To all the runners up, try again next year, but I must say this was a tough competition and the judges didn't have it easy!
whoever tim & his friends are, they aren’t thinking clearly and are not following the rules of the contest. the details on the tin can would obviously not print well. maybe even the super cute tiny boats won’t come out well. the super fine lines in the water maybe also. love makes us blind sometimes. the design is really super duper cute.
BOTH probably. you and the tin can are SO SUPER CUTE 🥰 congrats again. your design is also cute. always have liked well done block letters.
😂 now it doesn’t look as cute as it was before and would’ve gotten second place after the crab 🦀 plus the details on the super tiny ULTRA CUTE ship won’t print either. so down again to 🥉 third place. 😂😂
just teasing brother. in any case, your design is seriously S U P E R C U T E ❣️
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Showtime 2 days ago
Résultat du concours de t-shirts : « Salut à tous, chers membres de Nostrverse ! Comme promis, les résultats du concours de t-shirts SEC-08 sont enfin disponibles. Tout d’abord, nous tenons à remercier tous ceux qui ont participé et qui nous ont fait découvrir de superbes créations, nous compliquant ainsi la vie. Ensuite, merci à tous ceux qui les ont partagées, qui ont interagi avec elles et qui nous ont parfois donné matière à sourire. Et enfin, à tous les développeurs et utilisateurs de Nostr (Bitcoin, LN & Cashu) qui ont fait de ce petit jardin le nôtre un endroit où nous pouvons nous épanouir. Nous sommes éternellement reconnaissants de ne pas avoir à gérer les identifiants et mots de passe, les captchas et les vérifications pour prouver notre humanité, le KYC juste pour ouvrir un putain de compte ou envoyer à quelqu’un 1, 10 ou un MILLION de sats, le filtrage automatique des spams – parce que, WoT & PoW, les bots et la cacophonie de ce monde de clowns — car seuls les autistes et les masochistes (parfois) peuvent réellement supporter la « friction » et la nouveauté de ce magnifique protocole naissant — et nous savons désormais que les artistes en sont également capables. Mais surtout, nous sommes reconnaissants de ne pas avoir eu à restreindre l’accès à ce concours, à utiliser des e-mails ou à créer un système spécial pour cela, car en ce qui nous concerne, Nostr fonctionne bel et bien, et plutôt bien même. Ce qui a commencé comme une petite expérience s’est transformé en une véritable galerie de créations de Sovereign Engineering à la fois très réussies, très étranges et très originales. Ce fut une expérience profondément humaine. Ouf… Maintenant que c’est réglé, passons aux choses sérieuses… Voici donc les gagnants du concours de création de t-shirts SEC-08 : - La 1re place revient à @Bitcoin Shiko pour son motif « Tin Can » ! 🤌🏻 - La 2e place revient à @npub1kkax...np8n 🇨🇭 pour avoir si bien su décrypter l’air du temps ! Bravo ! - La 3e place revient à @The Tim pour avoir réveillé le geek qui sommeille en nous ! Super boulot ! Pour connaître les autres résultats du vote et les scores, rendez-vous sur : Mention honorable : @ARVIN pour son excellent concept, qui a manqué de peu la victoire ! Nous aimerions vraiment en faire quelque chose. P.S. Ces t-shirts sont généralement réservés aux participants de la SEC… Mais si certains d’entre vous sont vraiment intéressés par des designs spécifiques, n’hésitez pas à nous le faire savoir et nous verrons peut-être ce que nous pouvons faire 😉 Continuez à pirater ! » 👇🏼 View quoted note →