The Swarm First Five: Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party
Swarm, a next generation crowdfunding platform leveraging Bitcoin technologies, has announced the first five companies that will raise funds on the Swarm platform: Manna, Coinspace, SwarmOps, Judobaby, and Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party (DDP). What is a Decentralized Dance Party? In the words of Tom and Gary: In August 2010 the first DDP Facebook invites were sent out. In a classic entrepreneurial move, the invites were sent before Tom and Gary had the resources to launch DDPs. But overwhelming support from across the country and their discovery of IndieGoGo led to launching....
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I love decentralized systems and activities and chose to write about decentralized art for Issue 21. In the list of 10 examples of decentralized art, I included a bonus example that I found on YouTube. The Decentralized Dance Party has been held in close to 29 cities throughout Canada and the US. All of their 20+ kickstarters were successfully funded, and a couple of parties were sponsored by corporate partners like Rayovac and AMD. This time around Tom and Gary are upping the ante and throwing a global party titled the Global Party Pandemic. They hope to raise the funds for this massive....
Swarm represents a unique opportunity for anyone to take part with their bits to bitcoin and support new and interesting projects. We will include the stories related to Swarm's Demo day here: Demo Live Stream - Video of the November 5th demo. Manna - Autonomous drone network. SwarmOps - Volunteer and management software. JudoBaby - Pet and sport celebrity video games. Decentralized Dance Party (DDP) - The Global Party Pandemic. Coinspace - A shared workspace for Bitcoin users and businesses. Read More:
Swarm, a next generation crowdfunding platform leveraging Bitcoin technologies, has announced the first five companies that will raise funds on the Swarm platform: Manna, Coinspace, SwarmOps, Judobaby, and Decentralized Dance Party (DDP). On October 13, 2014, Rick Falkvinge, a Swedish IT serial entrepreneur, uploaded a video to YouTube where he pitches SwarmOps. What is SwarmOps? “SwarmOps [is] management software for decentralized swarm organizations.” Why SwarmOps? “As long as everyone has bought into the goals and vision of the organization, the edges are where the best tactical....
Decentralized crowdfunding startup Swarm has announced the first class of businesses that will feature on its bitcoin-powered platform. The crowdfunding platform's application process saw a number of groups submit applications, with a select few advancing to the video presentation stage. Entrepreneurs hoping to take part in the initiative pitched their projects, all emphasizing the importance of decentralized innovation. The company now says that five companies and organizations comprise its first class: Manna - a developer of smart personal drone networks. Coinspace - an operator of a....
Swarm has partnered with Focus Investments to fund its second class of startups. The fund will provide between $5,000 and $50,000 in funding to startups accepted into the round, which follows its first announced in October. Participants in its inaugural round included Coinspace, Manna and a decentralised dance party. Focus invests primarily in bitcoin ventures and projects such as Counterparty, Factom, GetGems and NXT. A decentralized crowdfunding platform, Swarm helps startups establish themselves as distributed collaborative organisations (DCOs), allowing them to sell cryptographic....