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Burst Coin Summer Hackathon Starting Today. Win up to 1 MILLION BURST Coins

A Burst Coin Community-funded Event Burst Summer Hackathon has Started Today! with the chance to win up to1 Milion in BURST Coins.

Burstcoin (BURST) is a cryptocurrency and an Eco system built from a fork of the Nxt (NXT) cryptocurrency cryptocurrency was founded in August 2014. One of the major innovations that enabled these solutions was the introduction of a Proof-of-Capacity (PoC) algorithm. BURST is (as far as i know) the only coin that can be mined using Hard Disks.

Burst Summer Hackathon Event Details:

Prize Pool: 1 Million BURST (and rising)
Submissions accepted until August 31, 2019, 12:00AM PT (GMT-8).

  • Prize Pool: 1 Million BURST (and rising)
  • Submissions accepted until August 31, 2019, 12:00AM PT (GMT-8).
  • 3 winners will split the balance of the Prize Pool as follows:
    • 1st place: 75%
    • 2nd place: 20%
    • 3rd place: 5%
  • No limits on team sizes. Entrants may be on multiple teams.
  • Anyone (except Judges) is eligible to participate.
  • Multiple entries are allowed.

Judging Criteria:

  • Extra points may be awarded for using community projects and libraries like BlockTalk, BurstJS, Burstkit4j, etc.
  • Extra points may be awarded for projects falling into one or more of these categories:
  • Smart contracts
  • Hardware integrations
  • Exchange support / compatibility
  • E-commerce
  • Retail adoption
  • Extra points may be awarded to projects releasing their code under a permissive open source license like GPL, MIT, or Apache.

How to Submit An Entry:

Submit entries to (1) Burstcoin Reddit, and (2) via email to hackathon2019@burst-alliance.org (cc: bursthackathon2019@gmail.com) by the deadline, including these materials:

A written summary of your project.
A showcase of your project in one or more of these formats:
Video (links to YouTube are preferred)
Working Example / Demo
Proof / Whitepaper
Source Materials
Design Documents
A link to view the source code (optional, but preferred).
An 800×600 px graphic/artwork to go with your project.
Please indicate if you would prefer to opt out of your project from being listed on a Burst Hackathon showcase web site.

If you have any immediate questions or comments, feel free to leave them here. We look forward to building awesome stuff together!
This is a community-funded event. We want to give a HUGE thanks to everyone who has donated to make this possible, but let’s not stop there. Please show your support and donate to the prize pool today:

M. Ali

Daily cryptocurrency trader, miner, technology enthusiast and a full time IT and security consultant. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to email him at nabil@wibbic.com

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