College Crypto Hackathon Invites Students to Create Unique Bitcoin and Blockchain Applications
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....
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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....
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....
MIT students aren't the only ones who are getting their paws on free bitcoins. Coinbase announced on Wednesday that for a limited time, they'll be giving away $10 worth of bitcoin to college students who create a new Coinbase account with a valid .edu email address. The offer applies to universities around the world (not just in the United States), and Coinbase says they've done well to include the top 500 universities around the globe. "We believe that getting more young scholars thinking about and transacting in bitcoin will help spur the growth of the ecosystem and contribute to the....
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Thomson Reuters along with EY and others is organizing a blockchain hackathon in Switzerland. The future of blockchain looks bright, thanks to increasing adoption of Bitcoin’s underlying technology by leading industry segments. Innovation holds the key to widespread implementation of distributed ledger technology across industries. Thomson Reuters, along with Ernst & Young and other blockchain players are trying to facilitate such adoption by organizing a Blockchain Hackathon. The two-day blockchain hackathon is being held over the weekend, between 27th and 29th January 2017 in Baar,....