Coinbase Holds Internal Hackathon On Electrum, Http & Xim
Coinbase held their second internal hackathon at the Coinbase HQ, the company announced yesterday, focusing on projects its workers do not normally work on. The Bitcoin exchange acknowledged their team investigates "new behaviors that an open, global payment protocol can uniquely enable." The hackathon went on for 48-hours so the team could explore such new horizons. Assigned to the hackathon were teams of Coinbase engineers, designers and business operations individuals. Their only requirement was they had to work outside the normal purview of their jobs and try new things. "After a....
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