Blockchain Pioneers Hackathon 2018 | May 25-26, 2018 | Bratislava, Slovakia

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Bitcoin Garden: Blockchain Pioneers Hackathon 2018
https://bitcoingarden.org/blockchain-pioneers-hackathon-2018/

DECENT is proud to announce the first of its global series – the Blockchain Pioneers Hackathon. This series will span the globe, seeking to connect top talent from around the world with DECENT’s open-source blockchain platform, DCore. The series kicks off in the city of the company’s headquarters, Bratislava, Slovakia and is co-hosted by 0100 Campus, an internationally recognized coworking space and avid supporter of innovative technologies. Over the next few months, the series will continue in cities such as Berlin and Shanghai.

Hackathons offer a great collaborative platform, providing people of various technical backgrounds a chance to challenge their creative minds and network with like-minded peers. The goal is to create something truly unique and real-world ready, given the tools and resources provided.

DECENT’s inaugural hackathon will host teams of two to five people, coding through numerous obstacles and creating one-of-a-kind blockchain solutions for the chance to win amazing prizes provided by both the DECENT team and 0100 Campus. Participants will have the exclusive opportunity to work beside and learn from seasoned blockchain experts and IT entrepreneurs at the various on-site event workshops.

The hackathon will be focused on creating projects on the DCore platform with the themes: Enterprise – projects improving operational efficiency, and Transformation – projects enabling business model innovation. These projects will be judged by DECENT and event partners....

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Bitcoin Garden: DECENT’s First Hackathon Introduced Great Ideas
https://bitcoingarden.org/decents-first-hackathon-introduced-great-ideas/

With all the “buzz” around blockchain technology these days, businesses are pushing hard to enter the space and even harder to obtain a viable, real-world ready product. Blockchain is still in the early stages of adoption, mostly driven by startups, although some large companies like IBM, Walmart and Visa have opened research and development operations and are starting to get their feet wet in the innovative tech as well.

Even still, we have yet to see many real-world use cases or actual products using blockchain technology. However, this might change very soon due to a new phenomenon pumping life into accelerated production and developmental efforts, called “hackathons”.

The term is a portmanteau of “hack” and “marathon” (hack as in diving into progressing technologies, not as a criminal act, and marathon as in an endurance style event since they usually last only 1 or 2 days without many breaks). This kind of creative challenge is a powerful way of getting ideas and projects off the ground, in a very short time period.

Hackathons draw in programmers, developers, graphic designers, and other tech savvy professionals from around the world to collaborate together on new projects with a specific industry or goal in mind. Although they aren’t anything new in the technology sector and have been around since Canada circa 1999, some blockchain companies are applying this old school tool to the new technology and it seems to be very advantageous....