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February 2026 is Self Custody Month at BOB Space. This month’s discussions and workshops will be led by builders of self custody tools, namely Rama (Penlock.io) and Ben (SeedKeys.xyz). Details below, with signup and location in Meetup links. Do join if you’re in Bangkok on Feb 13th and/or 27th.

First session:

On Friday, Feb 13th, 2026, we deep dive into self-custody with Ben (SeedKeys.xyz) & Rama (Penlock.io). They'll introduce a new framework to compare self-custody strategies & products, and explore the various ways to backup a seed phrase securely. Open discussion and Q&A to follow.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/313212962/

Second session:

On Friday, Feb 27th, 2026, the second meetup of Self Custody Month features a hands-on workshop by Rama (Penlock.io) and Ben (SeedKeys.xyz). You'll learn how to generate a seed phrase by hand, stamp it on metal, and optionally turn it into a 2-of-3 backup using Penlock's cryptographic wheel—enabling offsite recovery & secure inheritance. Join us for what promises to be a fun and empowering session. Networking and open discussion to follow.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/313213615/

Details on BOSS Challenge 2026 below. If you're in SE Asia or thereabouts, do apply with BOB Space's affiliate link below ⬇️

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chaincodelabs/jobs/4067590009

PS. You can exclude your phone number and CV/resume for the application. The important thing is completing the challenge to get to the next step. Let's get it!!

Here we go again!!

Excited to announce Cohort 4 of the BOB Buidlers Residency program. The theme for this Cohort is ‘Usability’, which ranges from UX/UI designers to projects that aim to make #Bitcoin more user friendly, especially for those in the Global South.

Before we get to the Residents, huge thanks go out to Tokyo Bitcoin Base (

) for co-sponsoring Cohort 4. The initiative and efforts shown by Teruko (

) there were truly remarkable. So glad we could make this first-of-its-kind #Bitcoin only collaboration happen.

Now for the Residents and Projects: there’re 2 Projects and 2 Resident Designers in this Cohort.

Each Project aims to make specific features of Bitcoin (like privacy and everyday payments) easier to use. They will be supported by experienced and proven Resident Designers.

Cohort 4’s Resident Projects:

1. User-friendly Silent Payments Wallet by @theanmolsharma_ on X (github.com/theanmolsharma)

2. Bounty for Openpleb QR-to-Lightning payments platform implementations (github.com/gandlafbtc/open-pleb). This project was ideated by Gandlaf (

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   ), who was also a Cohort 1 Resident.

Cohort 4’s Resident Designers:

X) Veronika or V (

) an experienced designer with active contributions to

, amongst others.

Y) Adeyemi Matthew (

) another experienced designer who contributed to #StratumV2 in 2024 and whose team took third place in the SKBD wallet hackathon in 2025.

Welcome to Cohort 4 everyone! Look forward to another great one.

Last Friday (Aug 8), Meetup 1 of Grassroots Lightning Month kicked off to a roaring start.

from #WelB talked about his journey of orange-pilling small merchants in Thailand and onboarding them onto the Lightning network.

Here are some images from the meetup, including all the things you can buy with Lightning in Thailand. Products and services range from coffee, food, homemade ghee to barbershop, car wash, books, clothing and Muay Thai lessons/workouts.

If this was any indication, can’t wait for the Aug 22nd double-feature event!

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August 2025 is Grassroots Lightning Month at BOB Space BKK. 3 events have been posted in Meetup per links below.

Aug 8 - Meetup 1 with My from WelB. He’ll talk about onboarding small merchants to Lightning, especially in eastern Bangkok.

Aug 22 - Meetup 2 with Mick, who’s been orange pilling any merchant with a pulse in Huay Pheung district, Kalasin province.

Also Aug 22 - the augural outdoors Lightning Free Market, where small merchants can come sell their food, beverages and other stuff on the front lawn of BOB Space. They will all accept Lightning payments.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308479/

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308762/

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/310308868/

To wrap up Mempool and Transactions Month, meetup 2 this Friday is a continuation from last time, and provides a more technical deep dive into various transaction types. Join us!!

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/308881501/

Next Friday (Jun 27th), our bi-weekly meetup features a discussion of FOSS Bitcoin Grants, followed by an Application Writing Demo. Might be of interest to those looking to take that next step.

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/308580249/

Started getting back here on Nostr because the posts can be as long as you want and you don't need to get blue checks...plus it's gotten much better.

So ditto

Quick reflection on a couple of conferences attended in the past 2 months.

• Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) 2025 by HRF: Another signal-packdd event featuring freedom fighters and non-compliers from around the globe. Bitcoin as a financial freedom tool continues to feature more prominently. Privacy tech and tools (think Nostr, Cashu ecash, etc.) continue to mature and draw in more FOSS developers. And this year also marked the 5th Anniversary of BDF (Bitcoin Development Fund) - huge shoutout to the team at #HRF led by

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  . Another tech development of note is the launch HRF’s AI for Human Rights spearheaded by

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  . 2025 somehow seems to be an inflection point for AI in terms of promises vs. reality. Kinda been sleeping on this tbh, so will wake up and pay more attention.

• Bitcoin Seoul 2025: for an event in its 2nd year, super professional production. So props to the organizers. Program wise, spent all of the first day (Industry Day) at Builders Stage. Save for maybe 1 talk (perhaps ours), every speaker was solid. 2nd day (Public Day) featured some great panels focused on Bitcoin adoption and financialization. And the dinners were legendary thanks to Calvin and Specter.

Finally, an image from each event ⬇️

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It’s common knowledge that every air conditioned minimart in and around Bangkok comes with natural non-AI security systems. Some of them go above and beyond ❤️😂

The penlock.io wheel created by an open source contributor who visited us. It’s an offline tool to generate a seed phrase - and then split that into 3 parts; only 2 of which are required to recover the seed. Like an analog multi-sig for your seed phrase.

Pretty neat stuff! https://image.nostr.build/13be11fd01120e7d1349a9c212b1817ef0e2994e2608701595887da162a77391.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2d1ba15c0daa4e04ca78deb3cfa58361303d74e8943c70803e9c210b5f100b17.jpg

We had fun at the #BitcoinPizzaDay meetup last night at our new location. Thanks to

for sponsoring one of the pizzas (it went quick!)

And special shoutout to

for doing a vibe coding demo. It was kickass and we were definitely vibing. And ofc thanks to all the regular and new members who came by to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this historic day for Bitcoin.

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Thrilled to announce 2 more meetups to wrap up April 2025:

• Apr 17th: Special Freedom Edition w/ Win from Human Rights Foundation (HRF).

• Apr 25th: Nostr Month session 2 w/

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  of

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  , Thailand’s home-grown Nostr client.

Details in Meetup links:

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/307258483/

https://www.meetup.com/bob-space-community-events/events/307258415/

A good well written long form piece on ecash and Bitcoin utilization