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Vision
Scalar School was created from a shared dream: to make Bitcoin open-source development inclusive and accessible for beginners.
Established at block 834812 by Luciana Ferreira and Rachel Rybarczyk with a generous grant from the Human Rights Foundation, we have been able to drive change within our developer community and amplify our voice. We are now expanding our reach and increasing our impact.
Values
We believe in open source. As stewards of freedom, progress, and the free flow of information, everything we produce is MIT-licensed. Scalar School is built to span generations and create a lasting impact on humanity.
Low time preference, high sense of urgency. We value agency and taking bold steps today to create meaningful change, confident in our ability to learn and adapt as we grow.
Impact through playfulness. Technical rigor doesn’t have to be boring, and life is better when we learn with joy. Even the hardest days are brightened when we come together as a community to study, code, and grow.
Abundance mindset. We believe money is energy, a force that flows freely, and that the prosperity of our peers uplifts us all.
Harmony in diversity. We embrace emergence as the natural result of collective effort and diverse perspectives. Through collaboration, adaptation, and the free exchange of ideas, we catalyze innovation and progress.
We forgive. Relationships and shared values come before being right. We embrace mistakes as opportunities to grow, keeping empathy and collaboration at the heart of everything we do.
We dream big. Want to become a core dev? It's perfectly possible. Here, imagination knows no limits, and with focus and hard work, there's no end to what we can achieve together.
What we do
We meet. Hosting nightly sessions on Discord where we come together to code and learn. The community is open to activity proposals and lessons, and members can count on our engagement and peer review.
Join our Discord serverScalar School XWe design. The ecosystem lacks educational materials in Brazilian Portuguese. We focus on translating existing content and designing brand-new instructional materials compiled from the best sources.
Check out the didactic materials we created in Brazilian PortugueseWe build community. We support universities in bootstrapping their Bitcoin Clubs through the Bitcoin Students Network. Check out the hall of clubs kickstarted and nurtured by Scalar School.
We are also proud organizers of the classic Bitdevs events in the countryside of São Paulo state, covering Ribeirão Preto-SP and São Carlos-SP, collectively known as Bitdevs Interior:
Bitdevs Interior GitHub OrganizationBitdevs Interior XCheck out the artwork created by the students for the genesis meeting of the UFSCar Bitcoin Club:
Attention from the press
We were honored to receive coverage from BeInCrypto when we launched our first Bitcoin course cohort for women.
School offers a free Bitcoin course for womenSee this iconic post from the first cohort of Scalar School.
First Cohort Scalar School XOur people
“Life is a cooperative game. Don’t let anyone make you believe that this is a competition.” —Luciana Ferreira
Rachel Rybarczyk
Board Member
Luciana Ferreira
Founder & CEO
Super Testnet
Genesis Builder
Lorraine Marcel
Genesis Builder
Ella Hough
Genesis Builder
Evan Kaloudis
Founder at ZEUS Genesis Builder
calle
Genesis Builder
nikbott
Student League Coordinator
Luiza
Genesis Builder
Umi Miyahara
Genesis Builder
Alana Mediavilla
Genesis Builder
Art Assoiants
Genesis Builder
Christof
Genesis Builder
Matthew Vuk
Genesis Builder
Ester Zanato
Genesis Builder
Luiz Rosa
Genesis Builder
Marcos
Genesis Builder
Pedro Faria
Genesis Builder
Ricardo Agostinho
Genesis Builder
Felipe Moura
Genesis Builder
Cirqueira
Genesis Builder
Diego Reis
Genesis Builder
Here’s what our students from the first cohort shared through the anonymous feedback form
"Luciana's teaching method is excellent and covered the entire explanation of how Bitcoin works, which was exactly what I wanted to learn." —Anonymous
"Luciana understands the need to adapt her approach for a Brazilian female audience. It wouldn’t be convincing if it were just for marketing purposes." —Anonymous
"Luciana's work is incredible and has been essential for the growth of the community." —Anonymous
And here’s what our valued community members are saying
“Scalar School is doing an essential work: educating junior developers in Latin America about bitcoin app development, with an emphasis on inclusion. I have been particularly proud to contribute a Bitcoin Script workshop to their educational curriculum and I look forward to working with them even more in the future. Without the support of Scalar School, many potential developers might not find a place to learn how to make bitcoin apps, or be chased away from toxic environments that aren't friendly to women or lack the patience to teach junior developers the basics. Scalar School fixes this and they have my full endorsement.” —Super Testnet
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Feel free to contact us at luciana@scalarschool.org