This Friday I will be blogging about NYU's first Cryptocurrency Hackathon! Currently almost 200 students have registered to participate, and I'll be providing a firsthand look into the world of University Hackathons as it happens.
Overview
This will be an overnight hackathon ending Saturday evening.
The judges:
Fred Wilson - Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
OverviewThis will be an overnight hackathon ending Saturday evening.
The judges:
Fred Wilson - Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures
Jalak Jobanputra - Founding Partner FuturePerfect Ventures
Ryan Selkis - Director, Investments, Digital Currency Group
Peter Smith - Co-Founder, Blockchain
Adam Ludwin - Founder, Chain
Alice Lloyd George
Associate, RRE Ventures
The sponsors:
Check back Friday afternoon for updates on NYU's first Crypto hack!
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UPDATE: 12:30am Saturday morning
We're well into the hackathon and the TKC Programming club is building a space invaders game that awards players bitcoin for high scores.
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UPDATE: 1:20am
Lego competition went well and we walked away with Pebble smart watches!
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Conclusion:
NYU sure knows how to throw a great hackathon. The university provided plenty of great food throughout the event (even a massive midnight Chinese meal!), and really brought in a huge amount of talent to compete.
Many schools were represented, and the judging panel was made up of representatives from many of the East Coast's top VC firms like Fred Wilson and well known Bitcoin community members like Yifu Guo. The sponsors and mentors were phenomenal as well. Both the Blockchain team members and the Chain founders stuck around the whole time and were a great help to us in our project.
I highly recommend attending one of NYU's hackathons if you ever get the chance. Everything about it was perfectly organized and we had a ton of fun meeting new people and working on our project (which, by the way, ended up taking first place!).
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UPDATE: 12:30am Saturday morning
We're well into the hackathon and the TKC Programming club is building a space invaders game that awards players bitcoin for high scores.
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UPDATE: 1:20am
Lego competition went well and we walked away with Pebble smart watches!
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Conclusion:
NYU sure knows how to throw a great hackathon. The university provided plenty of great food throughout the event (even a massive midnight Chinese meal!), and really brought in a huge amount of talent to compete.
Many schools were represented, and the judging panel was made up of representatives from many of the East Coast's top VC firms like Fred Wilson and well known Bitcoin community members like Yifu Guo. The sponsors and mentors were phenomenal as well. Both the Blockchain team members and the Chain founders stuck around the whole time and were a great help to us in our project.
I highly recommend attending one of NYU's hackathons if you ever get the chance. Everything about it was perfectly organized and we had a ton of fun meeting new people and working on our project (which, by the way, ended up taking first place!).
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