Decentralized Dance Party Invades Europe with Blockchain Tech
The Decentralized Dance Party is exactly what it sounds like, and arguably the first decentralized autonomous organization. It formed during Bitcoin's infancy, and it quickly gained mainstream media attention. Although it began as a separate movement, the DDP became involved with Bitcoin in 2011, and will be using it to help fundraise for their upcoming European tour and new blockchain applications. The Party. It begins at a central location, where the party-goers gather. Boomboxes are handed out, all of them tuned to the same FM radio channel. A brigade of banana men direct the crowd, and....
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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....
You've heard of open source networks. Now get ready for "Open Source Partying," courtesy of Tom and Gary's Decentralized Dance Party. Partying is nothing new, but the power of social media, crowdfunding, and cryptocurrency are making it happen in a new way. And the cryptocurrency evangelist Drew Glover, AKA Tom, happens to run BitNational, Canada's largest bitcoin ATM network. This week, they have expanded beyond their foundation in North America and are on their way to fulfilling a European tour starting Sept. 17, 2015, in London, England. Crowdfunding Will Launch Europe Tour. After....
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....
What did you do this past New Year's Eve? If you weren't at the international arrivals terminal at the Vancouver Airport, you were clearly missing out. This 'Decentralized Dance Party' (aka New Year's Eve Banana Boombox Throwdown) was funded by bitcoin donations and most certainly took jet lagged travelers by surprise. "Big thanks to the hundreds of fearless free spirits who Partied with us alllllll the way to the airport and back (with the spontaneous assistance of TransLink and the Vancouver Police Department) for what was the likely the most ridiculous NYE countdown that Vancouver will....
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: