Russian Hackathon Will Bring Developers To Compete For Prizes, Open To Foreigners
Fintech 2.0, a hackathon dedicated to the development of new technologies, including AI, for smart banking and financial sectors will take place in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 5-6. The official languages of the event are Russian and English, and participation is open to remote contestants via Skype. Bringing developers together. The stated goal of Fintech 2.0 is to bring together developers who are specialized in the solutions in the banking and financial sectors, in order to produce products and explore new technologies in such areas as trading risk management, mobile payments, and....
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Coinbase recently announced it was organizing the second Coinbase Bitcoin Hackathon, the Bithack V2. Along with this announcement, the Coinbase team also revealed the launch of the developer portal which provides information and documentation for all of Coinbase's APIs. The Hackathon is a distributed, six-week competition, open to anyone who is willing to participate. This gives the chance for developers from around the world to build bitcoin-integrated applications and to submit them for consideration. Developers will be able to access the Coinbase API to develop new applications to....
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - February 21, 2014 - BitPay, a provider of business solutions for virtual currencies announced its participation as a premier sponsor at the LAUNCH Hackathon 2014 in San Francisco, CA. The event begins on Friday, February 21, 2014 at the San Francisco Design Center. LAUNCH Hackathon is a global effort being held in conjunction with The Startup Weekend and Up Global, with attendees competing for over $2 million in investment and many other prizes. Over 1,000 developers will be competing in the 48-hour Hackathon, which aims at encouraging additional development of....
Tomorrow, the Texas Bitcoin Conference (TBC) is kicking off at the Circuit of the Americas Technology and Conference Center. The conference venue is a whopping 44,000 square feet and in order to properly utilize it the Texas Bitcoin Conference will be hosting everything from a hackathon to a “bitcoincert.” The list of speakers is extensive; speakers are divided into three tracks which run simultaneously throughout the day: A Meta track, a Technical track, and a Merchant track. Texas Bitcoin Conference is hosting a Bitcoin 2.0 Hackathon simultaneously with the conference on Wednesday and....