Money 2020 Hackathon finalists and exclusive interview with $5k prize winners.
Money 2020 Hackathon finalists and exclusive interview with $5k prize winners. Las Vegas, Nevada – The Money 2020 Hackathon had about 40% of developers submit projects built on Bitcoin APIs like Blockchain’s and Chain’s, and Bitcoin projects take home a total of $25,000 in cash prizes. Bitcoin Bookee, a sports betting platform, won $5,000 in prize money. “Bitcoin Bookee is a decentralized marketplace for online sports betters that enables two individuals to wager their bets using bitcoin, using a safe and secure environment that alleviates the need to have a third party handling so there....
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Exclusive Interview with Gem’s Julian Vergel de Dios from Inside Money 2020. Las Vegas, Nevada – On November 2 at Money 2020 Julian Vergel de Dios, Senior Developer at Gem, a simple and secure Bitcoin platform for developers was busy building an app that enables bitcoin transactions from within messaging applications. Along with Dan Treiman, CTO of Weave, Vergel de Dios submitted the application to the Money 2020 hackathon for a chance to win a part of the $125,000 in cash prices.
This is the weekly news bits of Bitcoinist.net. We inform you of the actual happenings of the cryptocurrency market. Hope Gold Coin, Festival of Hope and the Master Protocol. The Mastercoin Foundation has announced this week, that it will be supporting a great music and charity event: HOPE GOLD COIN, The Festival of Hope and the Master Protocol. It will be the largest live music and charity event in history, where a 100 charities will be introduced globally and that will benefit directly tens of millions of people around the world. The event is schedule to start on the 5th of September....
The lucky winners of the upcoming Texas Bitcoin Conference Hackathon could walk away with up to $1m thanks to David Johnston, co-founder of BitAngels, a bitcoin-oriented angel investor group. While it might sound like a very generous gesture on Johnston's part, he views it as a rather prudent investment instead. The Hackathon will be held on 5th - 6th March in Austin, Texas, with the CEO taking to reddit to explain his plan in an AMA. There was no shortage of questions - after all, we are talking about a potentially life-changing sum of money. Kickstarter-style fundraiser. Instead of....
The Blockchain team with prize winners at the NYU hackathon. A bitcoin-themed hackathon held at New York University (NYU) over the weekend hinted at the kinds of applications new developers are creating, showcasing everything from new games to shopping research and trading tools. The two-day event, titled HackBit, culminated in eight teams pitching their ideas to a panel of judges. Each team had three minutes of presentation time, followed by two minutes of questions. About 75 attended the hackathon, mainly university students from the north east and at least one from Ohio. Also....
Coinbase announced the BitHack v2 Hackathon a few weeks ago. With this Hackathon, the company was trying to get developers to design new applications using Coinbase API. Anyone from anywhere in the world could submit a Bitcoin project to BitHack v2, as long as it met our simple guidelines. Over 300 teams registered, and we received 84 qualified submissions from twelve different countries. Many of these submissions came from people who were not able to build payment applications before Bitcoin. Today, Coinbase finally announced the BitHack v2 winners who will collectively receive over....