Author: Amir Taaki 2012-07-17 09:19:38
Published on: 2012-07-17T09:19:38+00:00
The Hackathon event was held and the winners have been announced. Andreas Schildbach and grazcoin won first place for their idea of offline transactions for Android bitcoin wallet. Genjix came in second with Bitcoin Pong, a multiplayer game where one can win or lose bitcoins. Jeremias Kangas and Stefan Thomas secured third place for accepting payments without sharing private keys through their ultra-safe merchant tool acceptbit.com. Fourth place was awarded to yellowhat and PK for their way of doing multisig transactions for BitcoinJ/Android via BitcoinJ Multisig. Genjix also secured the fifth, seventh, eighth, and ninth places with his tools for monitoring double spends, calculating live btc in restaurants, playing strategy games for bitcoins, and embedding messages in a block chain respectively. IN-Berlin provided the space to hold the hackathon and bitstamp.net, bitcoin2012.com, and LocalBitcoins sponsored the event. Room77 hosted the afterparty and served burgers and pampero. Yossarian and other people who attended the presentations were the jury to decide on the winning ideas. The source code for the various projects is available at different links mentioned in the context. Participants were requested to share their bitcoin addresses with Jeremias. The next hackathon is scheduled to happen before the Bitcoin London Conference on Wed 12th and Thur 13th September in London.
Updated on: 2023-06-06T06:26:06.813668+00:00