New York City Bitcoin Center Hosted its First Hackathon This Weekend
This past weekend, the newly-established New York City Bitcoin Center held it's first hackathon event, which was designed to allow participants to improved existing bitcoin-related applications and ways to improve cryptocurrency exchanges. One of the more noteworthy presentations was on a bitcoin ATM model including a discussion of the hardware and software," said James Barcia, communications director at the Center. The 72-hour event went right through the holiday weekend - and that's not the end of it. The NYC Bitcoin Center is planning to host more of these hackathon events at least once....
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The NYC Bitcoin Center held its first hackathon over the weekend. An educational hub for the cryptocurrency, the Center hosted a developer event to further educate the technically inclined about the power of distributed money. James V Barcia, the Center's Communications Director, said: "Hackathon participants worked on ways to improve cryptocurrency exchanges and streamline bitcoin-related apps, making them more efficient and user friendly." Some of the featured projects included various types of wallets for bitcoins and altcoins, including Coinbase. A walkthrough of what it takes to build....
The Bitcoin Center is New York City's premiere Bitcoin and digital currency hub. Located in the heart of lower Manhattan's Financial District, only 100 feet from the NYSE, the center acts as the region's premier physical Bitcoin institution. Dedicated to promoting awareness of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, it seeks specifically to advance education and innovation in the financial tech space. It has done so since it was founded last year by leading entrepreneurs, policy makers, and thought leaders. In the spirit of this ethos the center is partnering with BitDevs NYC to host its first....
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It seems like the Bitcoin Center in New York City (just 100 feet from the NYSE) is getting into a number of different activities. From bitcoin classes, to hackathons, to in-person trading - the center is adding something else: debates. The Center has organized a debate on bitcoin, and named Andrew Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital and Jeffrey Tucker of Liberty.me as the two opponents. The purpose? "To discuss divergent, uniform views on Bitcoin". Schiff specializes in communications for media and clients at Euro Pacific Capital, and Tucker has written a number of books and contributes to the....