A token to fuel an accelerator isn't a bad idea at all. Most accelerators would have loved to do the same, but don't have a blockchain they verify on. This project is the first of a kind in terms of the tech.
>> erase technical barriers by creating a virtual, map based infrastructure for easy deployment and management of mesh-networks (smart contract based) - enabling anyone to act as an ISP.
Also Meni Rosenfeld who's one of the first people involved with Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining research. Also the founder of the Israeli Bitcoin Association.
Alex Shelkovnikov, corporate venturing and blockchain lead at Deloitte, and Meni Rosenfeld, founder of Cluster, a hub for disruptive technologies, will both join Lubin on the panel of judges. Each judge will have a portion of votes to award to the camps they favour.
Thanks, Stephen_T
I created a proposal about a week ago (after the announcement of Jaan Taallin as a judge). I will join the Slack discussion and am looking forward to #find-a-teammember.
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The underground party scene in China (especially in Shenzhen) is getting bigger and bigger. The party isn't over and raids like that are not something that party goers are not used to.
"One team, for example, wants to free academic knowledge by implementing a token and blockchain-based publishing system to replace academic journals:
A distributed publication platform build on Ethereum and IPFS could incentivize post-publication peer review, reduce the lag between work written and read, and save the taxpayer billions by reducing library subscription fees."
I didn't see any sponsors on their website, but there are some logos in their promotional material. As far as I remember they had Augur, the Ethereum based prediction market on there. Also, Jack, Augur's founder is on the judge list.
"Today’s technology revolution promises to provide more information, more widely than ever. Yet we have left almost two million New Yorkers in the digital dark." - That is NYC, imagine Detroit, or Athens..
There are a few projects that are trying to tackle the music industry copyright issues, mechanical rights distribution and also p2p distribution of Creative Common releases. They all look promising, but none have seem to catch on a network effect. Early days?
The issue comes into play that Bitfinex owned the private keys of all wallets in their possession, and the winners of positions were shown an accounting ledger through Bitfinex as opposed to having possession of their own coins. Now I can not pretend I know what happened behind the scenes with the back and forth between Bitfinex and the CFTC, but I can say that based on all evidence, Bitfinex was unable to pay out all positions within the required 28 day period. Verbiage within the original CFTC complaint suggests that the primary cause of this was Bitfinex's accounting system that was at fault.
didn't know they updated it, i'll give it a go later tonight. thanks! any bitcoin related updates? their seed money is all from bitcoin VCs so there must be something going on..
I installed Brave when it first came out as the ad plan sounded very interesting. There was another attempt using bitcoin in the browser to 'bypass' ads, but unfortunately, it wasn't have been successful (in the network effect sense) I'm still waiting for the LastPass option :)