$5,000 Up For Grabs at CoinDesk's Makeathon
We've all heard of recording land title-deeds on the blockchain as an amazing use-case for digital currencies and blockchain tech, but what else is out there? How else can we connect the dots to see new ways of using this revolutionary technology? We're interested in finding out, so we're hosting a Makeathon ahead of Consensus 2015. We want to gather a diverse, multi-disciplinary group of people with the goal of discovering fresh new use-cases for this amazing technology. This isn't just an event for software developers or designers either. We're looking for people who are immersed in....
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Day one of the Consensus 2015 Makeathon brought together more than 60 developers, industry experts and students with the goal of developing new solutions using blockchain tech. Held at New York-based co-working space General Assembly and sponsored by Braintree, Chain, Coinbase and KeepKey, the two-day event involves 16 teams competing to win $5,000 in cash or a digital currency of their choosing. The teams are focused on solutions for financial inclusion or financial infrastructure, with interesting early solutions emerging. At the end of the morning's brainstorming session, teams had....
The Consensus 2015 Makeathon drew to a close today when Team 15 was awarded the event's $5,000 prize for an application that envisioned how the blockchain could be used to produce verifiable, immutable receipts for use during an insurance claims process. Led by Tierion CEO Wayne Vaughan, the four-member team included Citi credit and portfolio risk management associate Thulasi Nambiar. New York University computer science major Deepak Atal. Apttus sales engineer Dom Steil; and Coin Cafe's Emily Faber. Introducing the concept, Vaughan said: "Right now with our current insurance system there....
There are only 21 days to go until Consensus 2015, CoinDesk's inaugural summit on digital currencies and blockchain tech. In honour of the very special nature of the number 21 in the cryptocurrency space (there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins created), we're releasing a limited batch of 2-for-1 Consensus tickets, available for 24 hours only. We've added some great new sponsors and speakers to our lineup recently, including Gyft, Coinbase, Chain, Abra and BNY Mellon. After receiving a great response to our call for Makeathon applications - it was oversubscribed by 300% - we've closed....
Following an unexpected hard fork of the CoinDesk news blockchain today, the much-lauded industry news site continues to experience website issues, users report. At press time, CoinDesk readers were experiencing varying text sizes on the pages of articles as a result of being directed to one of at least two separate histories of the CoinDesk news blockchain. Since the issues began, a number of competing development efforts have emerged in an attempt to address the situation at CoinDesk, with new technological solutions including CoinDesk Supreme, CoinDesk Wild Cherry, CoinDesk with Lime,....
This past Friday's bitcoin auction held by the United States Marshals Service has seemingly been talk of the town, and now, the service has released some information with regard to Friday's happenings today in a chat with bitcoin news website CoinDesk. A total of 45 bidders registered for the auction (with one of the requirements being the need to wire a $200,000 deposit from a US bank account), with 63 bids submitted during the twelve hours the auction ran, from 6 am to 6 pm East coast time. Unfortunately, the juicy information such as who won and how much their bid was worth is still....