Introducing ETHBuenosAires: You won’t fool the Children of the Revolution
To understand an Argentinian’s drive to work with blockchain technologies, you need to be able to understand our history. Our country officially originated 208 years ago. Since then, we have been let down, scammed, and unlawfully controlled by the institutions we are supposed to trust.
Santiago Siri, of Democracy Earth, explained it well on a Twitter thread a few days ago. “When I think about the future of Argentina, it is this new generation of entrepreneurs that come to my mind who are not shy from tackling global problems and can bring the lessons learned from our past failures as a nation to improve money, trust and society as we know it.”
ETHBuenosAires is led and organized by people that were quite young during the 2001 significant economic, social, and political crisis. During these convoluted times, our parents, friends, and relatives saw their savings vanish when banking institutions decided to prohibit access to their funds, freezing them and then devaluating those funds due to the devaluation of the Argentinian Peso. These were exceedingly tempestuous times — for instance, it was hazardous to get out to the streets: people started rioting, and rightfully so. We had five presidents in 11 days. Hell, one of them even escaped in a helicopter. From the Government House. In short, he escaped from his job as The President of the Republic *facepalm*.
However, those events didn’t occur out of anywhere. That was only a much feared yet expected breaking point. The institutional debacle was a byproduct of years and years of corruption, sellout, privatization of public organisms and services, funds malfeasance and any other institutional evil practice that you might think of.
At a very young age, when kids are supposed to worry about friends and school, we were confronted with all of this. We knew institutions were deeply flawed even before we knew what an institution was.
Turning into Blockchain is only natural to us, as these technologies take a pragmatic approach towards solving the issues that lay at the core of our dysfunctional society. Open source development comes hand in hand with our ethos as well. We are tired of (the powerful) others appropriating, taking ownership and doing whatever caters their best interests.
We have identified, analyzed, chosen and implemented technological toolsets because these are the strongest weapons we count and trust on, for the purpose of building a better future.
South America has outstanding talent building web 3.0 core architectures and projects. Rootstock (RSK), Ripio, Zeppelin, Decentraland, and Muun, among other projects, have been doing trailblazing work in the blockchain space for years. Now they have stepped up and decided to give something back to the South American community and introduce more people to the ecosystem: ETHBuenosAires.
This hackathon aims to bring more people into our industry and to be able to offer mentorship to the amazing tech talent in South America because we see technology as one of the very few things that can push the continent forward.
We’ve worked hard on a unique proposal for this event. You are all invited to join the vision, learn about what we do and why we got here, and of course, get into the competition. The reward, in this particular instance, is not only monetary. It goes beyond: you can join our revolution → click here
