Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Design Competition

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:17:24 +0200

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 <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Who is funding this?
> 
> Why not fund Core development?
> 
>> On 30 Sep 2015 7:37 am, "Richard Olsen via bitcoin-dev" <[email-masked]> 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 
>> 
>> 
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