More of a Disruptive Virtual Accelerator Than a Hackathon with $50k Grand Prize

ibtimes.co.uk

8 pointscompil3r4 comments

I've been keeping an eye on this, and a thought occured. The prize money isnt as important as taking part.

"It will be a transformative event for the industry with hundreds of great ideas feeding into groundbreaking teams, all competing and showcasing their work,"

With the list of judges, and their idea behind 'fans', I think this could transform the Ethereum eco-system.

I think we need more blockchain application that getting down to reality. It looks like the online hackathon going to the right way.

Alex Shelkovnikov, corporate venturing and blockchain lead at Deloitte, and Meni Rosenfeld, founder of Cluster, a hub for disruptive technologies, will both join Lubin on the panel of judges. Each judge will have a portion of votes to award to the camps they favour.

This is why taking part could be more important than 'winning'- If I'm trying to create a peer to peer application, which after all is part of the promise of Blockchain tech, than Jaan Tallinn is a pretty important guy to be aware of your team...

"Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian programmer widely celebrated for writing the peer-to-peer engines of Kazaa and Skype."

Reply on news.ycombinator.com