My application to the DAO House
My application to the DAO House for the Miami Hack Week Hackathon, thought some of you might find it interesting
Miami Hack Week is a hackathon started by people who want to turn Miami into a technology producing city, or a tech hub.
Their website promises to only gather the TOP talent from the world to the best city on the planet. Big claims.
So far, I’ve seen that it has a great energy and application process. To participate in Miami Hack Week, you have to apply, and be accepted by one of the sponsoring houses, just like Harry Potter!
This is my application to DAO House, a crypto focused house, thought it was one of my strongest first, as I’m a crypto person!
Crypto person + crypto house = ❤️
Here it is:
1. Why do you want to be a part of this house ?
Because I’ve spent all of my adult life promoting, investing in, trading and using crypto.
I localized Bitcoin.org into Spanish (translated 55,000 strings of text from the website) and became the coordinator for the translation of Bitcoin.org into Spanish (The website started by Satoshi Nakamoto, from which most Bitcoin nodes and clients have been distributed).
2. Why are you coming to Miami Hack week?
I want to explore the tech scene in Miami, meet the people and the places moving Miami tech forward.
I’m thinking of moving to the US, and Miami seems like a great choice.
I haven’t been accepted to a house yet, but booked 14 days already, to explore🤪
Found out about MHW because Lucy Guo is involved with it, and because she is public about disliking San Francisco 😂, another city I considered moving to.
3. Why are you interested in joining *this* house?
Because I’m all about freedom, anti-communism, taxation is theft, and reinventing money.
Money is an extremely important technology… Some say it’s among the best invention ever, up there with language, and writing. Money has more users than phones, or ROADS, or WATER PIPES!
I think the future of money looks like property titles and contracts secured by math, available anywhere on Earth, beamed down by satellites.
Property titles flying through air and space, available to all, out of the reach of thieves and tyrants!
4. Do you love to make things? If so, tell us about something you’ve made
• I fixed League of legends, the most played game, fastest growing sport, and the game that makes several billion dollars in revenue per year, yes that game. The developers didn’t fix their game, for over a year. So I fixed it for them:
https://github.com/nixtoshi/league-of-legends-voice-chat-on-mac
• I built, got funding for, and failed a startup called “Nixden” when I was 20 (you can look it up on Crunchbase). After failling I paid my employees and refunded all my investors in full. The year was 2016, we were building a way for video games to easily launch and operate in-game currencies and in-game assets with a simple API. I learned that the issue of games that involve crypto wasn’t easy-to-use middleware between games and crypto, but rather the base layers in crypto being too expensive and clunky (ETH, or colored coins on top of Bitcoin back then). Realized that I should have started a new blockchain. My startup failed, but I later invested in the Flow from DapperLabs, as they were attacking the same problem with the right approach “blockchain for gaming”. They were extremely successful, they got product market fit with NFTs, and my investment went to the moon.
• Won 2nd prize for the international blockchain hackathon “Fintech Americas 2015” when I was 20. I flew to Miami for the first time in 2015 to receive this prize. MHW will be my 2nd time in Miami, and surely my 2nd hackathon win in Miami.
• Signed up for a technical school that was meant for university students and graduates when I was 14. Attended the program in full and learned to design websites. Back then I would attend high school in the morning, feel out of place in the low-stakes world of high school, and then go to the technical school in the afternoons for 4 to 5 hours every day. I absolutely loved it, I once had to walk home because there were no buses at 11PM. I graduated from the technical school with 8/10 before high school ended.
• I also have a blog on Medium, where I talk about crypto, game theory and economics. Hackernoon and The Capital published my stories before. I microtroll on Twitter: @nixtoshi
Medium: https://nixtoshi.medium.com/
I was born in Cusco, Peru, not US, a non-English speaking country that has 1/10th the GDP per capita. So I picked a jurisdiction that is 10 times harder than US when I was at the login screen.
So far, in my life I’ve mainly spent time reading and investing. But I really want to build more often. My 2023’s resolution is to launch a DAO or product every month until one has organic growth :) 🚀
