Despite all of the controversy over their decision to change the payout structure and not award the prizes they originally claimed they would, Sirius Labs has made good on the promises to the winners they selected in their Chia hackathon. Multiple winners have come to me to show that as promised during the winners announcement,…
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Sirius Labs statement on hackathon
Sirius Labs has posted a statement to their hackathon discord channel about their decision to change the payout structure of their hackathon. It reads a little bit like they didn’t really know what they were getting into when they decided do this and thought maybe that for $100 000 they would be able to in…
On Chia Network and partnerships
Recently Chia Network had their first real partnership disaster, where their hackathon partner Sirius Labs went off the reservation and exercised a clause in their ToS to radically reduce the promised payouts by about 92%. This kind of behaviour is really harmful to a new ecosystem community, so it is good to see that Chia…
Sirius Labs pulls rug from hackathon “winners”
In life there are winners and losers, but in the Sirius Labs hackathon it appears there are only losers as it seems Sirius Labs are exercising a clause in their terms and conditions to restructure their prize pool down from $400 000 to about $33 000. I haven’t been in the cryptocurrency space for very…
Sirius Labs Chia Hackathon winners announced
Sirius Labs has announced the winners of their Chia Hackathon tonight via Medium post. I am going to write up some more about the winners tomorrow, but check out the entire post and watch the presentations that are embedded there. Congrats to Digital Farming Initiative for taking first place. We are excited to announce the Global…
DFI hosting discord shindig with giveaways
Digital Farming Initiative (DFI) will be hosting a discord celebration in their channel here tomorrow night to cap off their Sirius Labs hackathon presentation. They have 2 entries submitted to the contest and presented them both, Arbor Wallet and Arbor Place, their light wallet and NFT marketplace respectively. So to celebrate they will be hosting…
Sirius Labs publishes map of Chia hackathon participants around the world
One of the big concerns about the Chia ecosystem was that there wouldn’t be any applications or utility running on the blockchain. Well, according to a tweet from Sirius Labs, who is running the global Chia hackathon running right now, we might not have to worry about that at all. If we break down this…
Sirius Lab – Some more information about the company behind the upcoming Chia hackathon
Today at 1pm EST Sirius Labs, the company partnered with Chia Network on the upcoming hackathon, took the time to answer some questions from the community about themselves and the contest they are running soon. This is very good, because as a new company that no one has ever heard of there was a lot…
Chia Hackathon with Sirius Labs delayed indefinitely
Sirius Labs and Chia Network have delayed their hackathon in an announcement made on Keybase and on the Sirius Labs website. It was originally supposed to start on July 18th, but now they do not have a date and will be announcing it soon. Gene Hoffman, President and COO of Chia Network, had the following…
Chia Network and Sirius Labs partner on Chialisp hackathon
In an attempt to get some utility into the Chia blockchain, Chia Network has partnered with Sirius Labs to do a hackathon with $500 000 in prizes starting on July 17th. You can check out the details here. But who is “Sirius Labs”? I don’t know. I cant find any information about them. The contest…
