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:
