Borderless Block Party: The Month-Long College Hackathon
The College Cryptocurrency Network (CCN) is having a month-long hackathon, starting November 1st, which is sure to be a coding fiesta for students. Participants in the hackathon will be encouraged to use their creativity and technical skills to help build the “next generation of solutions utilizing both bitcoin and blockchain technologies.” The....
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The College Cryptocurrency Network is organizing a bitcoin and blockchain hackathon next month for students across the world. The Borderless Block Party will be a month long party beginning November 1, 2015 where students will get to build new blockchain based products using various available decentralized technologies and toolkits. In order to participate in the Borderless Block Party, there is one simple prerequisite - the participant has to be a student who is currently enrolled in courses, be it high school, university or even an online degree. Students can enroll for the contest....
The College Cryptocurrency Network (CCN), a leading cryptocurrency organization supported by established financial institutions and bitcoin startups including Barclays, Augur, BitGo, Blockchain, Ethereum and Factom, has officially announced the launch of the "Borderless Block Party," a month-long hackathon designed for high school and undergraduate university students to create innovative financial solutions and technologies through the implementation of bitcoin and the blockchain technology. The participants of the Hackathon will be mentored by financial experts and bitcoin gurus from its....
The Manhattan Community Board No. 2 (which covers the Greenwich Village, SoHo, NoHo, Chinatown and Little Italy area) unanimously refused permits for the Bitcoin Block Party, otherwise known as the "Decentralized Hip Hop Skateboard Block Party." The block party, being planned for this Spring, is a coming together of the GMT Tavern, a bar and restaurant in the Village, and Cut Rush Creative Labs, a production company based in Brooklyn that supports the development of cryptocurrencies. It will be free and open to the public with many vendors, merchants and cryptocurrency developers to walk....
An invitation for applications to participate in a $50,000 Ether coder hackathon was launched. The announcement of the 5-week hackathon is coming in time for the Ethereum hard fork planned to occur at block 1,920,000, which should be on July 20 or 21 depending on time zone. It is an event where participants will be part of a team to build “a real product while the entire crypto community watches and casts their vote on what captures their imagination,” according to hack.ether.camp. Participants will tell the story behind their innovative ideas and turn them into a working product with the....
A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers come together to build things, often in teams. Hackathons are generally 24 hours long or longer, and they sometimes have a specific focus. Bitcoin is often used in hackathons, such as at Money20/20's hackathon which focused on finance, where a few Bitcoin companies offered their APIs to hackers for projects. From January 9th to 11th, a Hackathon will focus on Bitcoin: the Miami Bitcoin Hackathon. Also read: Bitcoin Found Its Way to McDonald's London Hackathon. The Hackathon will take place from January 9th to 11th in Miami, and is....