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  1. Enrique Gamboa

Winning the MIT Hackathon 2024

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Last updated 9 months ago

Cross-Posted from Medium

Enrique Gamboa, May 5 2024

Introduction 🌟

Greetings! As staunch advocates for open-source and cryptocurrency, participating in the MIT Bitcoin Hackathon 2024 was an excellent match for our team’s aspirations. Driven by a commitment to innovation, we embarked on a challenge to enhance how open-source contributions are rewarded 🪙. We focused on integrating Bitcoin, GitHub actions and the Lightning Network into our solution.

The Hackathon Challenge ⚙️

The atmosphere at the hackathon was charged with excitement, featuring a blend of intense coding and collaborative innovation. Over the weekend of April 19th to 21st (the Same as the Bitcoin halving 2024), we developed our project, “Lightning Bounties,”, which integrates GitHub Actions with Bitcoin rewards 🪙, providing a compelling incentive for open-source contributions.

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Read the full article here: https://jegamboafuentes.medium.com/our-epic-win-at-the-mit-bitcoin-hackathon-2024-34fab944e78d