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一起来感受一下上周活动的氛围和活力吧，毕竟这是迄今最大的一场呢。
竞争(Competition)、协作(Collaboration)、创意(Creativity)——这三个“C”在上周的旧金山的The Village 随处可见。在Block.one的EOS全球黑客马拉松第四轮比赛中，参赛选手的数量达到历次最高，共475名参赛选手竞争获得十二月决赛的资格。这三个“C”再加上最后一味配方—肾上腺素(adrenaline)—你就能感受到这个赛事独特的滋味了。
“EOS社区和我之前接触过的区块链社区完全不同，”这场比赛冠军队NouGit的Rob Behnke说，“我的兴奋之情甚至可以化出实体。”
另一个参赛选手，SoHo Token Labs的CEO Elissa Shevinsky说，“这次黑客马拉松的氛围非常温馨和贴心，这真的太厉害了。”
EOS全球黑客马拉松的目标是在Block.one EOSIO区块链协议上建立发展一个全球的开发者和企业家的平台，积累足够的基础设施，最终促成主流社会应用区块链技术。和前面在香港、悉尼、伦敦的比赛一样，在旧金山的这场比赛吸引了全球各个领域的人才，不管是成绩斐然的程序员还是完全的区块链新手。
每次比赛中，参赛小组需要在26小时内根据当天宣布的一个具体的“挑战主题”利用EOSIO代码库开发出应用程序。这次的比赛中，他们应该做出一个商业模型，这个模型中，企业应该能够通过在股东中更好地进行利益分配或者通过把更多的价值反馈给客户从而获得更好地竞争优势。
“我睡得不多，只眯了一会儿，我们花了很多时间想创意，才能保证编程的时候时间不会太赶，”Zehao Li说，他特地从北京飞过来参赛，也带着他的小组Six Degrees取得了第三名。
随着时间的流逝，大多数黑客都露出疲态——但还是有足够的力气一起倒计时，这么大的工作量之后，一些人在案边倒头睡着，然后才重新集合、展示想法、参加闭幕式、等待裁判从十组决赛的选手中选出优胜者。
前三名的队伍和获得最佳社会影响的队伍会参加十二月七日在开普敦进行的决赛，和其它15个队伍角逐总冠军。
“技术圈最聪明的人现在都在研究区块链，很多人都在EOS公司，我不知道未来是什么样的，但我相信这些人。”来自纽约的Shevinsky说。
NouGit团队击败了参赛的其它74支队伍，赢得了十万美金的奖金，他们的获奖作品是基于赏金的去中心化的git repo，即用于追踪和协调文件和软件中的源代码更新的系统。
“我们团队很多人已经在区块链业做了很久了，EOSIO平台让我们能够创新和建立我们信赖的应用，” Behnke说，“NouGit会成为全世界的开发者社区一直渴望的去中心化、有激励措施的git repo。我们很高兴能够继续参与EOS社区和生态系统的发展和学习。”
Pollinate以最后一英里快递递送服务创意获得第二名。Six Degrees获得第三名，他们的项目是基于奖金的就业项目，用户可以依靠他们的私人和职业联系为求职者提供工作。
很多参赛者还聊到这场比赛的规模，他们说旧金山代表了这个领域的生机活力。“我真高兴看到旧金山是举办城市，”Shevinsky说，“这里有无限可能。”
“我想进入链圈，所以我来这里想认识和接触这些‘美丽心灵’，”自由网络开发者Terrence Butler这么评论。
除了现金奖励，很多开发者认为这个比赛提供了一个机会，让他们玩得好的同时还和这个发展中的新社区的成员合作。参赛者整晚都可以向其他技术和企业导师咨询，而导师们的专业性和耐心都受到参赛者的称叹。
“这是一个很好的学习机会，有人能带你走出错误。”Energenius团队的Teddy Brinkofski说。
总部设在纽约的LUmeos的首席技术师Zokir Tiliaev评论说，“区块链社区的一个问题是现在专家还不够，所以想找到帮助不容易。尤其是EOS，这个技术实在太新了，所以像黑客马拉松这样能够看到这么多专家在场的机会实在是太少了。”
最终，当参赛的小组利用EOS技术提出各类想法——不管是以减少能源开支为目标的去中心化能源交换项目，还是用食品补助券[1]购物的线上平台——学习和合作的精神取得了胜利。EOS_ebt食品补助券团队依靠这个项目获得了最佳社会影响奖，并获得3000美元的奖金。
EOSHub的Ami Heines从特拉维夫特地来到旧金山，他在之前的伦敦比赛中担任过导师，这次他在接受Block.one采访的时候抓住了一个普遍的感受，他说：“我对这个技术以及对它促进人类福利的潜力感到非常高兴。可能有人会觉得我这么说有点假，但我确实是这么认为的。”
[1] 美国政府发放给贫困家庭的食品补助券，现在也被称为SNAP(Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program营养补充援助计划)
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We captured a slice of the atmosphere and energy at last weekend’s event—our biggest to date
Competition, collaboration, creativity — those three Cs were all in abundance at The Village in San Francisco last weekend as a record 475 participants graced the fourth instalment of Block.one’s EOS Global Hackathon series, all vying for the chance to attend our Grand Finale in December. Add in a fourth ingredient — adrenaline — and you have some idea of the event’s unique flavor.
“The EOS community is unlike anything I’ve seen in blockchain,” reflected Rob Behnke, who was part of the first prize-winning team, NouGit. “You can cut the excitement with a knife.”
Another participant, SoHo Token Labs CEO Elissa Shevinsky, commented: “The atmosphere at this hackathon has been really warm and supportive. And that’s been amazing.”
The EOS Global Hackathon is aimed at growing a global community of developers and entrepreneurs building on Block.one’s EOSIO blockchain protocol and amassing an infrastructure that facilitates the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology. As at previous iterations in Hong Kong, Sydney and London, San Francisco drew talent from all geographies and all walks of life, from accomplished programmers to complete novices.
Teams at each event are given 26 hours to develop applications, using the EOSIO codebase, in response to a specific hackathon “challenge” that is announced on the day. In this instance, their projects had to show evidence of a business model in which competitive advantage is gained by better alignment of interests among stakeholders or by driving more value back to users.
“I slept a little, just a little bit, [as] we spent a lot of time to think about the ideas so we can’t afford to be late on the programming,” said Zehao Li, who flew from Beijing for the event. His team, Six Degrees, took third place.
Most hackers showed signs of fatigue as the clock ticked away — but there was enough collective energy to shout the final countdown in unison. And after such a mammoth effort at their screens, some fell asleep at their desks before re-grouping to pitch their ideas and then witness the closing ceremony, where judges chose the winners from ten finalists.
The three winning teams — and a fourth, awarded the prize for Greatest Social Impact — will join 15 other teams at our December 7 finale, in Cape Town.
“Some of the brightest minds in technology right now are working on blockchain solutions and many of them here in EOS, so I don’t know exactly what the future will hold but I’m betting on those people,” said Shevinsky, who had travelled from New York.
Team NouGit beat out 74 others for the US$100,000 first prize with its bounty-based decentralized version of a git repo, a system for tracking and co-ordinating changes to source-code in files and software.
“Many of our teammates have been in the blockchain industry for years and the EOSIO platform really empowers us to innovate and build applications that we believe in,” said Behnke. “NouGit will become the decentralized, incentivized git repo the global developer community has been yearning for. We are beyond excited to continue to be part of growing and learning from the EOS community and ecosystem.”
Team Pollinate took second spot with a proposal for a last-mile package delivery system. Six Degrees, in third, offers a bounty-based program through which people can leverage their personal and professional connections to refer candidates for jobs.
Many participants remarked on the sheer scale of the event, and commended the choice of San Francisco as a location that epitomizes the energy in the sector. “I love that San Francisco is the host city,” said Shevinsky. “There’s just so much going on here.”
“I’m trying to get into blockchain, which is why I came here to network and be around all these beautiful souls,” gushed Terrence Butler, a freelance web developer.
Notwithstanding the cash prizes on offer, many developers present saw the event as an opportunity to have fun and collaborate with members of a growing but still niche community. Technical and entrepreneurial mentors were on hand all night for participants to consult with — and their expertise and staying power were both applauded.
“It was a great learning experience being able to have someone walk you through an error,” said Teddy Brinkofski of a team named Energenius.
Zokir Tiliaev, the New York-based CTO of Lumeos, commented: “One of the problems with the blockchain community is there’s not enough experts, so there’s just not that much help out there. Especially with EOS, it’s such a new technology so finding those experts in one place like we have here at the Hackathon, it’s a rare moment.”
In the end, that spirit of learning and collaboration seemed to win out as teams worked on EOS-based ideas ranging from a decentralized energy exchange that lowers energy costs to a platform that allows individuals on food stamps to use them to shop online. The latter won — for the EOS_ebt Food Stamps team — the Greatest Social Impact award and a cheque for US$3,000.
EOSHub’s Ami Heines, who travelled from Tel Aviv and had previously served as a mentor in London, captured something of the general sentiment when he told Block.one: “I’m really excited about the technology and the potential to benefit humanity. I’m sorry if that sounds cheesy, but I really believe it.”
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