🎉 Hey BOLT.FUN Makers! It's Awards Time! 🎉

It's time to announce the winners of our BOLT.FUN Maker Awards for January 2024! We've all been on a small break during the holidays after the ending of #LegendsOfLightning vol. 2 tournament, but it’s time for all of us to wake up and start building recharged!

Some of you had no chill even during this slow month! Actively sharing your journey and knowledge with the community. We see you and we always want to reward your effort and commitment to proof-of-work.

It’s time to announce and celebrate the standout contributors of this month with our new BOLT.FUN Badges, our merch and a sweet January Maker Deal - FREE 3 hour Design consultations with the Peak Shift team experts!

January’s Top Builder 🛠️

During the course of January, some new faces have entered the community. With sharing his project updates every second day and being an active member with incredible stamina, one of the new makers especially stood out as a Top Builder… 🥁

Michael Tidwell 🎉

First up, a huge round of applause for Michael setting up the new building standard as a new face in the community! Check out and give some feedback to his impressive project -

Satoshi Settlers

Settle and develop the blocks of bitcoin on a shared world map.

Explore Bitcoin differently with this game! It's a pseudo block explorer where blocks spiral out from the genesis block at the center. Buy land or 'blocks' using lightning payments, specifying your lightning address for refunds. Customize block color and add messages. Game is currently WIP so many more features to come!

• Say hi to Michael on his first post: Hello everyone!

• Then he posted a devlog update which prompted Lana to do user testing on the new features

• Inventory system was added to Satoshi Settlers and an About page from Dalia's feedback on the previous dev update

• Johns was really inspired by Satoshi Settlers and decided to do a 5 minute Design Challenge on creating a logo and CD cover for the game!

Way to go, Michael!

January’s Top Writer ✍️

You may have noticed that we made a new #startups topic on our website, our friend from bolt.observer started actively writing and sharing insightful educational content for everything that you need to know about startups and business ownership, so the January’s Writing Badge goes to:

Aljaz 🎉

“If we are making money for the new world, we might as well rethink business models for it” — says Aljaz.

Aljaz is a man on a mission, not being afraid of exploring new and different ways to build freedom tech businesses and open up conversations on the topic.

Ultimately he wants to make freedom tech viable and enlighten people with starting up discussions about alternative business models and building companies in less traditional ways, but he’s also looking for some answers. So let’s have scalable conversations in this space and participate in the crowd sourcing wisdom

Here are some of the top Aljaz’s recommendations:

• Learn everything about starting a business with Startup Therapy podcast

• He shared the List for free resources for developers

• And shared a huge Database of VC funds and Angels

Thank you for sharing your words, knowledge and recourses with the community. Keep it up with the good work! Join the conversations in our new #startups topic!

You want a shot at one of these awesome badges and Maker Deals? Get involved!

Share your projects, chat with fellow makers, and let your creativity shine. Whether you're building, writing, designing, or just brainstorming about the next big thing, we want to encourage you to get your brilliant ideas outside of your head and introduce it to the making world.

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