Second Round Winners Named in MIT Bitcoin App Contest
The MIT Bitcoin Project has announced the second-round winners in its summer-long app creation competition, the MIT BitComp. The winners are Tomorrow Market, a decentralized futures market. Fireflies, a bitcoin-based platform for crowdsourcing goods and service delivery; and Ethos, a system that establishes decentralized online identities. Of the three, Ethos was the only entry that also succeeded in the first round. The competition began in early June and is aimed at stimulating development in the small but growing bitcoin crowd at the storied Cambridge, Massachusetts university. $15,000....
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Kalush Orchestra, the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, are auctioning off an NFT for charity. The auction started May 25 on MetaHistory — the official Ukrainian charitable NFT museum – and will last only until the 28th. Bids will be accepted in both cryptocurrency and fiat currency (via Monobank), thus creating a friendly competition for what type of currency can bring the most donations.
Kalush Orchestra Auction NFT for Ukraine
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