Great, we look forward to seeing you...Come say hi, the beers are on us!!

Made me think of the quote by Aaron Swartz "The worlds entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitised and locked up by a handful of private corporations."

You're absolutely right. We will soon be updating content on our home page. But for now thank you for posting the correct dates - our event starts November 7th. Hope you'll be joining us.

Hi there, I spoke at the coinscrum Meetup in London last week. I didn't focus on how to build a team as there is so much information to try and get across, and I only had 5 minutes! Please post any proposals into our ideas page, then make sure you sign up to our slack channel - ether.camp on there you will find #find-a-teammember. However I'm usually around and if you have any questions on forming your team please ask. We will be soon launch a set of videos to help clarify how to get the most from this years hackathon. Thanks for interest and support, good luck with your project.

Nice1 Stephrn_T - I know have an idea posted and have joined the Slack. Any help finding team members will be highly appreciated. Again, thanks for this post to make us aware, and thanks for organising the event. Looking forward!

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. Thanks

That's great to hear compil3r - were super excited about getting Jaan Tallinn as a judge I'm glad he's inspired you to join us :) We've been fortunate that most of the judges we've invited to take part have accepted. There's a lot of experience and talent to help mentor the teams so I hope you take advantage of it. Good luck with your project. Thanks for posting the video lamalama

re posting the video, totally my pleasure. it was a great event and i hope to be able to make it to the next (not sure when that is...)

I'm hoping to give another quick presentation at next weeks London Coinscrum - Tuesday 30th. At the same venue. Please come and introduce yourself and I'll buy you a pint :)

Agreed, but there also seems to be quite a few ideas that have already been expressed. Take this one for microfinance:

"let's build a microfinance platform that provides to poor people a micro investement to help them to make their own business. it help to creat a partenership between the financier (the investor) and the other partner (the requester or working partner) who manages the financier’s investment.

The investors provide the money to the requester against an agreed portion of the profit that the second partner will make by investing the money. Both parties agree in advance to a profit sharing relationship and the timeline of the project. No guaranteed return, any losses would be borne by investors.

Profits generated by the enterprise are divided between the hub and the requester in accordance with the profit sharing ratios set out in the Agreement"

They are non tech specific, I guess they just haven't gone out to the broader community, that or the name ether.camp attracts only Ethereum peeps. There's still a couple of months until it starts so it'll be interesting to see if they attract any devs from outside the Blockchain world.

Interesting, it's not Blockchain specific, but the article seems to be pushing the crypto scene.

I think the case here is for a Blockchain company trying to break out of the cryptocurrency chains.

I saw a couple of post by people complaining that they couldn't get their Steem tokens out of the Steem system and into Bitcoin - has this been resolved?

I love articles like this as it makes me wonder what article of today will be seen as profound or rudimentary a century from now - talk of DAO's, holidays on Mars, or how the Blockchain will cure all ills?

It would appear that once again the music industry is at point of disruption - whether it's Imogen Heap's Mycelia project or the one mentioned in this article, something is coming!!

Imogen Heap's product has, in the nearly a year it's been going, had total sales of ... $125.

Also, what you actually got was authorisation to download the file (the song file certainly isn't on that blockchain). This has issues in that DRM still doesn't work.

All of this is the record industry panicking at no longer controlling the means of production. However, the big problem with "selling" music is that the marginal cost of music distribution still approaches zero. Blockchains won't solve this.