Russia’s Innopolis City to Host First Blockchain Hackathon

This past weekend, the newly-established New York City Bitcoin Center held it's first hackathon event, which was designed to allow participants to improved existing bitcoin-related applications and ways to improve cryptocurrency exchanges. One of the more noteworthy presentations was on a bitcoin ATM model including a discussion of the hardware and software," said James Barcia, communications director at the Center. The 72-hour event went right through the holiday weekend - and that's not the end of it. The NYC Bitcoin Center is planning to host more of these hackathon events at least once....

“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.

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....

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,....

Blockchain technology is of great interest to participants of hackathons. Therefore, Telos will host the first crypto hackathon ever on an Ivy League Campus. None other than the renowned Harvard University will be home to this three-day event. A Crypto Hackathon At Harvard University Given the growing interest in blockchain technology, it is plausible to […]