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Coinbase的Mike Lempres, Galaxy Digital的Mike Novogratz, High Fidelity的 Philip Rosedale 和 Edelman的 Margot Edelman将加入Block.one总裁Rob Jesudason和CTO Dan Larimer担任比赛评委。
旧金山2018年11月6日讯：突破性的EOSIO区块链软件协议发布公司Block.one今天宣布Coinbase首席政策官Mike Lempres、Galaxy Digital创办人和CEO Mike Novogratz、爱德曼国际公关公司副总裁Margot Edelman, High Fidelity的联合创始人和CEO Philip Rosedale将在11月10-11日的EOS旧金山全球黑客马拉松中担任裁判。
这次比赛将由Block.one的CEO Brendan Blumer开幕，其评委团还包括Block.one总裁Rob Jesudason，革命性的DPOS区块链共识算法的发明者及该公司CTO Dan Larimer。
“EOSIO是一个面向全球的项目，我们吸引了全世界最优秀的开发者，所以能把这些人带到这场世界上最有活力的技术中心我们感到非常高兴。”Block.one的总裁Rob Jesudason说，“旧金山位于全球技术中心，所以我们很清楚，这个城市最好、最有前景的地方正抓住EOSIO的力量推动区块链进入主流应用。我们可以预见到一大波创新和创意潮，能马上在这场活动中看到这些这真的是太好了。”
这场黑客马拉松吸引了超过400名程序员和开发者，他们要争分夺秒通过利用EOSIO代码库解决一个具体的问题。优胜者将能够获得10万美元的奖金。
“美国的开发者给了EOSIO莫大的支持，对此我深表荣幸，” Dan Larimer说，“现在我们要在这个国家最出名的技术中心举办这场比赛，我们想利用这个机会表达我们对美国的赞赏。我们觉得区块链生态系统和活动的快速发展、丰富和活力让我们更有动力。”
获得前三名以及最佳社会影响奖的四支队伍将会和前面三次比赛的获奖队伍一起，在12月7日在南非开普敦举行的决赛中竞争总冠军。届时，南非比赛的总冠军将会获得50万美金的巨额奖金，之后还会分批获得Block.one风投部门总计150万美金的投资。
Mike Lempres是Coinbase的首席政策官。作为美国领先的数字货币公司，Coinbase提供了货币交易和钱包服务，让消费者和投资者能够使用比特币、莱特币和以太坊等数字货币。Mike的工作是保证各州、各地、全国和国际政治家能够建立合法、规范的生态系统，从而让数字货币能够在安全、可信的前提下发展和运行。2017-2018年间，Mkie担任Coinbase的首席法律和风险官，带领该公司的法律、合作、风险、企业秘书和政府事务小组。
此外，Mike还在Coinbase的所有子公司董事会任职。他在公共和私人领域都有丰富的经验。他在三任政府中担任过政府高官，和两任司法部长每天一起工作，他在白宫工作过，也在移民署担任过司法副部长和副执行长。
Michael Novogratz是Galaxy Digital的创始人和CEO。他曾经是峰堡投资集团的合伙人和主席。此前，他在高盛供职11年，在1998年成为高盛的合伙人。2012到2015年间，他在纽约美联储投资顾问委员会工作。
“我们处于区块链行业快速创新的时代。这次黑客马拉松上提出的创意有可能决定区块链未来如何应用，从而影响数百万计的人。能够在Block.one的活动中坐在前排我觉得特别荣幸。” 开源分配的VR平台High Fidelity的联合创始人Rosedale说。Block.one的风投部门EOS VC通过Michael Novogratz的Galaxy Digital管理的基金投资过High Fidelity。
之前，Rosedale创建了虚拟世界游戏Second Life，其活跃用户达到了一百万，每年的交易额达到70亿美元。除了各类科技创造（包括1996年被RealNetworks收购的视频会议产品FreeVue，Rosedale也在RealNetworks担任过CTO），Rosedale还研究过过分布式工作和计算。
Margot Edelman管理爱德曼公司位于美国的新兴科技部，这个部门也坐落于旧金山。Margot对所有科技都饱含兴趣，她的客户包括公关公司的高管和企业领导人、客户层面从科技公司、风投公司到名人都有。
Margo先前在世界经济论坛工作过，每年论坛在瑞士达沃斯开年会的时候她在新闻组工作，那时候，她需要指引路透社、彭博、美联社等媒体了解论坛议程、安排采访。Margot毕业于哈佛商学院和哈佛大学，她还曾经为哈佛大学校刊攥稿。
已确认的评委名单如下：
- Dan Larimer, CTO, Block.one
- Rob Jesudason,总裁, Block.one
- Mike Lempres,首席政策官, Coinbase
- Mike Novogratz,创始人和CEO, Galaxy Digital
- Margot Edelman,副总裁, 爱德曼
- Philip Rosedale,联合创始人和CEO, High Fidelity
- Bradford Stephens,联合创始人和执行合伙人，区块链资本
完整的评委名单将在赛前公布。
旧金山这场比赛之前EOS全球黑客马拉松已经在香港、悉尼和伦敦举行过。截至现在，参赛者已经超过1000人，这个比赛的目的是改进EOSIO周边的开发者和企业生态环境，让世界抓住区块链技术带来的机遇。
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Coinbase’s Mike Lempres, Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz, High Fidelity’s Philip Rosedale and Edelman’s Margot Edelman to join Block.one President Rob Jesudason and Chief Technology Officer Dan Larimer on panel of judges
San Francisco, 6 November 2018 — Block.one, publisher of the ground-breaking EOSIO blockchain software protocol, today announced that Mike Lempres, Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, Galaxy Digital Founder and CEO Mike Novogratz, Edelman Public Relations Vice President Margot Edelman, and High Fidelity co-founder and CEO Philip Rosedale will participate as judges at its EOS Global Hackathon event in San Francisco on November 10–11.
The event, which will be opened by Block.one CEO Brendan Blumer, will also feature on its panel of judges Rob Jesudason, President of Block.one, and Dan Larimer, Block.one CTO and inventor of the revolutionary Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) blockchain consensus algorithm.
“EOSIO is a global project that is engaging the best developers from around the world, so we’re delighted to be bringing this series to the world’s most dynamic tech hub,” said Block.one President Rob Jesudason. “San Francisco lies at the heart of the tech universe and it’s clear to Block.one that the city’s best and brightest are seizing the power of EOSIO to propel blockchain toward mainstream adoption. We’re seeing a wave of innovation and creativity and it’ll be exciting to see that up close at this event.”
The hackathon will be attended by more than 400 programmers and developers, who will compete in a race against the clock to solve a specific challenge that will involve developing an application that uses the EOSIO codebase. A top prize of US$100,000 is on offer to the winning team.
“I am thrilled by the support US developers have shown for EOSIO,” said Dan Larimer. “This is an opportunity for us to show our appreciation by bringing this hackathon to one of the country’s most well-known tech hubs. We’re seeing the rapid growth of a diverse and dynamic blockchain ecosystem and events like these fuel that momentum.”
The top three prize winners, as well as the team selected for the Best Social Impact Award, will join the winning teams from three previous events and compete in a Grand Finale Pitch Competition in Cape Town, South Africa on December 7. The ultimate winner in South Africa will receive a Grand Prize of US$500,000, taking the total prize money awarded during the series by EOS VC, Block.one’s venture capital arm, to US$1.5 million.
Mike Lempres is Chief Policy Officer at Coinbase, the nation’s leading digital currency company. Coinbase provides exchange and wallet services to enable consumers and investors to access digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum. Mike works to ensure that state, local, federal and international policy makers create a legal and regulatory ecosystem that enables digital currencies to grow and operate in a safe, trusted way. From 2017–2018, Mike served as Coinbase’s Chief Legal & Risk Officer when he led the legal, compliance, risk, corporate secretary and government affairs teams.
In addition, Mike serves on the Boards of all Coinbase subsidiary companies. Mike has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors. He has been appointed by three Presidential administrations to senior government positions and has worked closely on a daily basis with two Attorneys General. He was selected as a White House Fellow, and has served as a Deputy Associate Attorney General and Executive Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Michael Novogratz is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. He was formerly a Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group LLC. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Novogratz spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected Partner in 1998. Mr. Novogratz served on the New York Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets from 2012–2015.
“We’re in a period of rapid innovation in the blockchain industry. The ideas developed at these hackathons have the potential to shape the future of how blockchain technology is applied, impacting the lives of millions of people. I’m honored to take a front-row seat at these events from Block.one,” said Rosedale, co-founder and CEO of High Fidelity, an open-source distributed Virtual Reality platform. High Fidelity received funding from Block.one’s venture capital arm EOS VC, through a fund managed by Michael Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital.
Prior to High Fidelity, Rosedale created the virtual civilization Second Life, populated by one million active users generating US$700m in annual transaction volumes. In addition to numerous technology inventions (including the video conferencing product FreeVue, which was acquired in 1996 by RealNetworks, where Rosedale later served as CTO), Rosedale has also worked on experiments in distributed work and computing.
Margot Edelman leads Edelman’s Emerging Technology offer in the US and is based in San Francisco; passionate about all things tech, Margot advises executives and business leaders on communications and her clients range from tech companies to venture capital firms to well-known individuals.
Margot has worked for seven years on the press team at the World Economic Forum during its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where she led broadcast media from Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press and others around the Forum and arranged broadcast interviews with participants. Margot is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Harvard University, where she was a writer for The Harvard Crimson.
Confirmed judges are:
- Dan Larimer, CTO, Block.one
- Rob Jesudason,President, Block.one
- Mike Lempres,Chief Policy Officer, Coinbase
- Mike Novogratz,Founder and CEO, Galaxy Digital
- Margot Edelman,Vice President, Edelman
- Philip Rosedale,Co-founder and CEO, High Fidelity
- Bradford Stephens,Co-founder & Managing Partner, Blockchain Capital
The full panel of judges will be released closer to the hackathon date.
The San Francisco edition follows EOS Global Hackathon events in Hong Kong, Sydney and London. To date, over 1,000 participants have been involved in the series, which is aimed at growing the developer and enterprise ecosystem around EOSIO and helping the world to grasp the opportunities presented by blockchain technology.
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