Coinding Holds Global Bitcoin Hackathon for Game Developers with $5000 in Prizes
A screenshot from an example game built by Coinding. Bitcoin API provider Coinding is running a global hackathon, challenging game developers around the world to integrate block chain technology into a video game. Over $5000 USD in prizes are up for grabs in total, including a top prize of $3000 cash for the best integration of block chain technology into a game. Bitcoin and Video Games. Video games are often held up as one of the most interesting and important use cases for Bitcoin, but so far real world progress in this area has been limited, with few concrete examples to point towards.....
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Coinding is a new service that is launching soon. It promises to be a real world Bitcoin treasure hunt. Users find Bitcoin hiding around their city simply by travelling with their phone. The phone's location is used to determine where the user is and apps will be available for Android and iOS. Since these Bitcoin will be given away for free, it's unlikely that they'll be worth much, but the point is to create a fun way for newbies to get into Bitcoin. Furthermore, the service promises to link to places that accept Bitcoin within one's vicinity to help popularise the cryptocurrency. At the....
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....
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - February 21, 2014 - BitPay, a provider of business solutions for virtual currencies announced its participation as a premier sponsor at the LAUNCH Hackathon 2014 in San Francisco, CA. The event begins on Friday, February 21, 2014 at the San Francisco Design Center. LAUNCH Hackathon is a global effort being held in conjunction with The Startup Weekend and Up Global, with attendees competing for over $2 million in investment and many other prizes. Over 1,000 developers will be competing in the 48-hour Hackathon, which aims at encouraging additional development of....
Coinbase recently announced it was organizing the second Coinbase Bitcoin Hackathon, the Bithack V2. Along with this announcement, the Coinbase team also revealed the launch of the developer portal which provides information and documentation for all of Coinbase's APIs. The Hackathon is a distributed, six-week competition, open to anyone who is willing to participate. This gives the chance for developers from around the world to build bitcoin-integrated applications and to submit them for consideration. Developers will be able to access the Coinbase API to develop new applications to....
PRESS RELEASE. Moledao presents MoleHack: NFT 2.0 – a global challenge to discover new innovations in the NFT space. In partnership with Bybit, Polygon, BitDAO, iZUMi Finance, Project Galaxy, thirdweb, buildspace, L2Y, Web 3 Collective and more, the hackathon has over $80,000 grants and prizes in total for builders to win.
In conjunction with MoleHack: NFT 2.0, Moledao launched its exclusive web 3 membership NFTs on Project Galaxy for both new and old builders of Moledao. For the new builders of MoleHack: NFT 2.0, the first 50 registrants who submit their completed....