BTC Media Announces Distributed: Trade Blockchain Event Series and Hackathon

BTC Media, the parent company of Bitcoin Magazine, and SixThirty recently announced a 24-hour blockchain hackathon with $25,000 in prize money will take place on June 12-13, 2016, a day before their Distributed: Trade conference, in St. Louis. Teams competing in the hackathon are tasked to build blockchain applications that optimize financial services and supply chain operations and to find solutions to problems in payments, supply chain management and data security. The hackathon is being held at T-REX, a world-class facility in the heart of downtown St. Louis that incubates technology....

Distributed: Trade is the upcoming global blockchain conference focusing on trade networks and financial services. The use of blockchain technology in trade and financial services is the hot thing in the recent days. Now we have the first ever global conference focusing on these core areas, scheduled next month. ‘Distributed: Trade’, as the conference is called, will be held at the Washington University in St. Louis. The Distributed: Trade conference is the place where one can find leading blockchain technology-based service providers along with major enterprises and financial institutions....

“ARE YOU A BLOCKCHAIN ENTHUSIAST, A HARD-CORE CODER, A DESIGNER OR JUST A HACKATHON OBSESSOR? IF SO, JOIN THE DBS BLOCKCHAIN HACK FOR AN INNOVATIVE TWO DAYS OF EXCLUSIVE BLOCKCHAIN CHALLENGES AND API ACCESS FROM TOP FINANCIAL INSTITUTES – AND SOME SERIOUS HACKING.” If you visit the DBS Blockchain Hackathon web page, this is exactly what you are greeted with. The hackathon will have a meeting on April 16, 2015 to where attendees can discus ideas and get acquainted with one another. The main event will be on May 8-May 9 — 48 hours of pure blockchain innovation.

Bitcoin has many innovative attributes just waiting to be unleashed to the public. One of them is how the blockchain could help shape the future of industrial trade by recording activity with more precision and taking quite a bit third party costs out of the equation. Recently, during the first week of January, Wanxiang Blockchain Labs and Deloitte....

Blockchain or bitcoin's distributed public ledger has been touted as one of the next biggest potential disruptions in technology, so much so that developers are organizing the first ever blockchain hackathon to be held in Dublin, Ireland. The event aims to gather developers and tech enthusiasts to build something new or game-changing. Participants will have 50 hours to build a blockchain product from scratch, competing with 150 other people for the first prize of €5,000, the second prize of €2,000, and the third prize of €1,000. The product pitch should take no more than 30 seconds and....