{"id":1600,"date":"2017-11-24T12:17:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2017-11-25T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T12:19:10","slug":"sydney-blockathon-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/24\/sydney-blockathon-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Blockathon Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been to a hackathon before so thought I&#8217;d volunteer and see what they are like. This <a href=\"https:\/\/mcichack.com\/blockathon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one<\/a> was pretty neat. It started on Friday at 5pm at the University of New South Wales at the\u00a0Michael Crouch Innovation Centre.<\/p>\n<p>After the welcome and\u00a0 introduction to the mentors and rules it was pizza time!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.41.42-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.41.42-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.41.42-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.41.42-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.52.41-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.52.41-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.52.41-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-17.52.41-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.14.01-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.14.01-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.14.01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.14.01-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.26-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.26-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.26-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.26-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1605\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.34-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.34-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.34-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-18.20.34-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After dinner, it was time to head up stairs and start hacking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.16.51-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.16.51-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.16.51-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.16.51-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All the teams found a space to claim their own and started putting a plan together. Some teams had an idea already, others formulated ideas late into the night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.10.41-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.10.41-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.10.41-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2017-11-24-19.10.41-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is Daniel Bar who put this whole amazing event together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been to a hackathon before so thought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-meetups"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon-300x201.jpg",300,201,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blockathon.jpg",300,201,false]},"author_info":{"info":["seandotau"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/community\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Community<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/category\/meetups\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Meetups<\/a>","tag_info":"Meetups","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talkcrypto.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}