BSV has no shortage of builders who ship code. But some ship through conditions that would stop most people cold.

Ty Everett is the founding president of Project Babbage — a framework for building Bitcoin apps that puts user identity at the center. His company builds the stack that developers use to create decentralized apps on BSV: Metanet identity, PeerMail encrypted messaging, Gateway.Cash payment buttons, and the Bitcoin CPU that lets you run Ethereum applications on BSV.

He also has a disability that would qualify as OKU in Malaysia. He ships anyway.

What Babbage Built

Project Babbage is not a single product. It is a constellation of infrastructure:

Metanet Desktop — A wallet and identity manager that serves as the entry point for building on BSV. It handles permissions, trust, and identity functions across applications. Users own their data, not the platform.

IdentiCert — A third-party identity certification system. When you receive an encrypted PeerMail, it arrives with an identity badge from a certifier you trust. This makes phishing and impersonation structurally impossible — the authentication is built into the protocol, not bolted on as an afterthought.

Gateway.Cash — Embeddable payment buttons for websites. A blogger adds a WordPress plugin, configures a button ID and style, and visitors can pay in satoshis without accounts, without KYC, without intermediaries. The button is tied to the creator’s Metanet identity.

Bitcoin CPU — An EVM compatibility layer that lets developers run Ethereum applications on BSV. Announced at BSV DevCon 2024 in London. “We can build some cool stuff on top of the Bitcoin CPU, even if people weren’t on BSV to begin with,” Everett said.

BSV Hackathon — In April 2025, Babbage organized the Texas BSV Hackathon with $50,000 in prizes. The goal was not just to award prize money but to establish a reusable developer stack — wallets, identity, overlay networks, micropayments — that the entire BSV ecosystem owns.

Computing With Integrity

Babbage’s tagline is “Computing With Integrity.” This is not marketing. It is a design philosophy:

“Bitcoin was the missing piece that made ancient economic concepts possible in the digital world — without trusted third parties.”

The problem Babbage solves is that the internet was built without a native identity layer. Accounts are siloed per platform. Your data is held hostage when a service shuts down. Micropayments require intermediaries that make sub-cent transactions uneconomical.

Babbage’s answer: make the user the center of every equation. The wallet is the user’s agent. Applications request permission through the wallet, not the other way around. Identity is portable across platforms because it is anchored to the user’s key, not the platform’s database.

Keep Building, and They Will Come

In a 2024 interview at BSV DevCon, Everett said something that echoes the attitude of everyone building on the original protocol:

“The superior technology always prevails. Just keep building things, keep in between the ditches.”

He acknowledged that BSV has faced resistance from an establishment invested in competing visions of Bitcoin. His response was not to argue. It was to ship more code.

“We’re not trying to stop things from being built on other chains. We’re trying to show how to build them on this chain and how to do it in a way that’s going to put users at the center of every equation.”

Why This Story Matters

The software industry has a cult of the “10x engineer” — the able-bodied, sleep-deprived prodigy who ships at inhuman velocity. It rewards brute force output. It does not reward resilience.

Everett built a company and an open-source ecosystem while managing a disability. He organized a hackathon, rebuilt the entire Babbage stack, presented at three conferences in a single year, and published a paper on “Computing with Integrity” that he submitted to Craig Wright for review.

The metric that matters is not how fast you can code. It is whether you keep shipping when the conditions are against you.

“I think there’s been a lot of potential that has existed for some time in BSV, but we’re finally in a place where we’re making that into a reality.”

Project Babbage is at projectbabbage.com. The stack is on GitHub at github.com/ProjectBabbage. Ty Everett is at github.com/ty-everett.