Property of Finite Computer Minister of Development
Open-source AI agent platform spanning chat, private compute, hosted sites, search, and skills.
Asset no. 0005
In service current role
- Hacker
- Organizer
- Speaker
Alex Lewin
Minister of Development
Finite Computer · Atlanta, GA
HELLO I’m a software engineer from Atlanta, GA. I build AI agents at Finite Computer.
At a glance
the short version. every sticker links to the full story.
Short on time?Plain CV- Property of Finite Computer In service
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1st Stringer Safety AI Hack for Freedom I Austin, 2026
Stringer Safety
App that helps protect journalists in high-risk places: a trusted contact network, location and status sharing, and a one-click SOS that triggers AI response recommendations.
1st at AI Hack for Freedom I, 2026.
- Nairobi
- Taipei
- Riga
- Istanbul
- Florianópolis
- Berlin
- Toronto
- Austin
- Arion Parking
Arion Parking
Parking app that takes payment over the Lightning Network.
1st at Bolt.fun Shock the Web, 2022.
- Pleb FM Lightning jukebox 1st · SatsxSW 2022
Pleb FM
Lightning-powered jukebox and radio station: a running auction for the next song.
1st at SatsxSW hackathon, 2022.
Lightning Welder
Helps legacy Lightning wallets pay BOLT12 offers.
1st overall at bitcoin++ Berlin, ecash edition, 2024.
this spot saved for hackathon #17
AI Hack for Freedom IV, upcoming
Career path
5 roles, from NCR Corporation to Finite Computer. newest first.
Now
Auburn University Student permit
Valid
- Zone
- Software Engineering
- Class
- Undergraduate
Hackathon wins
Prize stickers
The set so far, newest first
- 6 firsts
- 2 seconds
- 1 prize
Kiss-cut vinyl · 9 pcs · 2021–2026
Stringer Safety
1st · AI Hack for Freedom I · · Bitcoin Park, Austin, TX
App that helps protect journalists in high-risk places: a trusted contact network, location and status sharing, and a one-click SOS that triggers AI response recommendations.
Team captain: journalist Anjan Sundaram.
First-place prize: 0.5 BTC.
Lightning Welder
1st overall · bitcoin++ Berlin, ecash edition ·
Helps legacy Lightning wallets pay BOLT12 offers.
Built with Super Testnet.
He also ran this hackathon and took no part in the judging. He has not competed in his own hackathons since.
BitDevs Upgrade
Prize winner: Bitcoin Education Track · AI4All ·
A project to improve the UX of BitDevs websites and add AI generated summaries to help new attendees.
Announced as “BitDevs Upgraded”.
Auntie LN
1st · SatsxSW hackathon ·
Proof of concept for verifiable communication between Lightning nodes over Nostr; an alternative transport layer for the Lightning Network.
Pleb FM
1st · SatsxSW hackathon ·
Lightning-powered jukebox and radio station: a running auction for the next song.
Later raised over 2 million sats at TABConf 2023.
TreePay UX
2nd (tied) · Pleb.fi Miami ·
A user experience for congestion-controlled bitcoin transactions using CTV.
Team Eth Heads
1st · NCR Global Hackathon, 3rd annual · · Out of 300+ teams
With Bryan W. Nonni, Sam (Abdulwahab) Jarkas, Christian McDaniel, Stefan Bjelcevic and Jay Arcement.
Things I built
Open-source AI agent platform spanning chat, private compute, hosted sites, search, and skills.
Plinko with sats.
A Rust competition for the biggest builds, biggest cleans, and longest compile times.
AI-designed crab merch and apparel. Marketed towards agents.
Tools for developing Fedimint clients.
Chromium extension to capture any DOM element as PNG, JPEG, or SVG.
Compare fees, spreads, privacy, and KYC requirements across top Bitcoin exchanges.
A game: “Reddit’s r/thebutton but with sats. Last one to pay when the timer hits zero wins.” Shows off Lightning’s instant settlement.
Lightning-powered jukebox and radio station: a running auction for the next song.
Oxford-style debate voting platform. Used for live debates at bitcoin++ mempool edition 2025.
Helps legacy Lightning wallets pay BOLT12 offers.
Parking app that takes payment over the Lightning Network.
Proof of concept for verifiable communication between Lightning nodes over Nostr; an alternative transport layer for the Lightning Network.
A user experience for congestion-controlled bitcoin transactions using CTV.
Bot that uses browser automation to solve puzzles on chesscup.org.
pump.fun parody for Lightning Labs’s Taproot Assets.
Solved Kattis competitive programming problems.
App that helps protect journalists in high-risk places: a trusted contact network, location and status sharing, and a one-click SOS that triggers AI response recommendations.
HACKATHONS ORGANIZED
- 16 hackathons organized
- 8 countries + online Countries: USA, Canada, Kenya, Brazil, Taiwan, Germany, Türkiye, Latvia
- 1,471 participants 12 events with a public head count
- $263,525 in prizes 14 events with a public prize figure
- Number 17:
AI Hack for Freedom IV
San Francisco, CA
upcoming · · USA
save the date
- Number 16:
AI Hack for Freedom III
- Number 15:
bitcoin++ consensus edition
Toronto
· Canada
- 16 projects
- 17.542M sats in prizes
- Number 14:
bitcoin++ open source edition
Nairobi
· Kenya
- 90 participants
- $6,180 prizes
- Number 13:
AI Hack for Freedom II
Nashville, TN
· USA
Prizes paid in bitcoin
- 8 teams
- $50,000 prizes
- Number 12:
bitcoin++ exploits edition
Florianópolis
· Brazil
- about 60 participants
- 21 projects
- Number 11:
bitcoin++ sovereignty edition
Taipei
· Taiwan
- 58 participants
- $7,785 prizes
- Number 10:
Lightning++ 2025
Berlin
· Germany
- 38 participants
- $15,560 prizes
- Number 9:
bitcoin++ scaling edition
Istanbul
· Türkiye
- 18 participants
- $7,750 prizes
- Number 8:
bitcoin++ privacy edition
Riga
· Latvia
- 29 participants
- $5,700 prizes
- Number 7:
bitcoin++ mempool (“pool”) edition
Austin, TX
· USA
- 30 participants
- $10,000 prizes
- Number 6:
Bitcoin 2025 Official Hackathon
Online
· for the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas
- 832 participants
- $58,750 prizes
- Number 5:
bitcoin++ AI Turbo Hackathon
Austin, TX
· USA
Two hours, during SXSW
- 21 participants
- non-monetary prizes
- Number 4:
bitcoin++ beach edition
Florianópolis
· Brazil
- 86 participants
- $15,100 prizes
- Number 3:
bitcoin++ ecash edition
Berlin
· Germany
- 20 participants
- $15,200 prizes
- Number 2:
AuburnHacks 2021
Online
Executive director
- 137 participants
- $15,160 prizes
- Number 1:
AuburnHacks 2020
Auburn, AL
· USA
- 112 participants
- $6,340 prizes
room for more
Talks & press
on stage a lot. all over the map.
Alex Lewin World tour 2023 to 2026
workshops podcasts panels talks discussions
2026
TABConf 8
Bitcoin Takeover, S17 E46 Podcast · Guest
PubKey, New York City Discussion
Teaching AI As a Tool for Freedom (Broadcast on X)Event page: Teaching AI As a Tool for Freedom
Bitcoin 2026 Panel · Moderator
Bitcoin 2026 Panel
2025
bitcoin++ Taipei Workshop
Lightning++ Berlin Panel
bitcoin++ Florianópolis Workshop
2024
Btrust Developer Day, Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024, Nairobi Workshop
bitcoin++ Berlin
How to build a Fedimint wallet in 20 minutes (without Rust) (Video on YouTube)
ATL BitLab Talk
bitcoin++ Buenos Aires Workshop
Fun with Lightning: How to Win Every Bitcoin Hackathon
2023
Atlanta BitDevs Talk
Extending Bitcoin with Zero-knowledge Proofs (Event page on Meetup)
AI Unchained, Ai_003 Podcast · Guest
State of Bitcoin, Ep. 67 Podcast · Guest
one size fits all stages
On air
BitDevs Radio Hour
Podcast · Co-host · Ongoing
A weekly podcast on technical bitcoin news, with Stephen DeLorme
Backstage All access
How to Win Every Hackathon
Workshop
a workshop I teach
given ×2
- bitcoin++ Florianópolis 2025
- bitcoin++ Buenos Aires 2024
bitcoin++
Stamp card member since 2023
- Austin 2023
- Buenos Aires 2024
- Berlin 2024
- Florianópolis 2025
- Austin 2025
- Riga 2025
- Istanbul 2025
- Berlin 2025
- Taipei 2025
- Florianópolis 2026
- Las Vegas 2026
- Nairobi 2026
- Toronto 2026
NPR All Things Considered
Human rights activists look to harness AI for the greater good
Coverage of AI Hack for Freedom III in Washington, DC, a hackathon he helped organize.
Human Rights Foundation
Announcement of the AI Hack for Freedom I winners, with Stringer Safety placed 1st.
Patents
Patent records
- Named co-inventor
- Alex Lewin
- Named inventor on
- 4 U.S. patent filings
Methods and a system for in-store navigation
- Publication no.
- US 12,536,579 B2 on Google Patents
- Filed
Self-sovereign identity structured messaging for cross channel authentication
- Publication no.
- US 12,354,083 B2 on Google Patents
- Filed
Self-Sovereign Identity Verifiable Credentials for Consent Processing
- Publication no.
- US 2023/0032782 A1 on Google Patents
- Filed
Methods and a system for managing and integrating non-fungible tokens (NFTs)
- Publication no.
- US 2024/0037539 A1 on Google Patents
- Filed
Every number opens its public record on Google Patents.
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