Lykke Corp based in Zürich funds the competition. 2 Mio Lykke coins (8'000 USD) is allocated to funding core development in next 3 months, Richard > On 30.09.2015, at 14:22, Thomas Kerin wrote: > > Who is funding this? > > Why not fund Core development? > >> On 30 Sep 2015 7:37 am, "Richard Olsen via bitcoin-dev" wrote: >> All, >> >> We are looking for participants in a Bitcoin related competition: the aim is to build a trading platform (initially for foreign exchange, other assets will follow) which lets participants settle their trades through the blockchain via coloured coins. To facilitate a quicker trade reconciliation, the use of a sidechain is a suggestion but by no means a requirement. There will be an online briefing event today where we will outline the requirements in more detail, though much of it we have posted on our website www.lykkex.com . >> >> As we want this to be a community driven effort rather than something turning into a proprietary technology, all contributions will be made available under a MIT license on Github. >> >> I look forward to answering your questions at the online briefing event or over email, >> >> Thank you and kind regards, >> Richard Olsen >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bitcoin-dev mailing list >> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev