Topic: [ANN] Bitcoin to get significant exposure in Assembly this year - page 2. (Read 4169 times)
Wow this is really cool stuff you are doing here! I hope you're gonna take some pictures to show us how it the event went!
Mining pool operators take notice! You have an opportunity to get more users as our partner at Assembly. If you join us we can direct everyone participating for the "Fastest Bitcoin Miner" competition to your pool by including your pool in the instructions for the competition. Partnership would also include a logo at our stand and a Finnish article at our portal that promotes your pool. Partnership cost varies depenging on what role the partner has but the cost for this would be around 50 bitcoins.
Hardware partners have an opportunity as well of course. Currently our partners for the event are Bitpay, Easywallet and Localbitcoins. Exchanges, merchant services and e-wallets are not accepted as partners at this time due to conflict of interest. Any legit merchants and other service providers are accepted in general if the deal is acceptable for both parties.
Hardware partners have an opportunity as well of course. Currently our partners for the event are Bitpay, Easywallet and Localbitcoins. Exchanges, merchant services and e-wallets are not accepted as partners at this time due to conflict of interest. Any legit merchants and other service providers are accepted in general if the deal is acceptable for both parties.
If you could get Hesburger to accept Bitcoins during the event, it would rock.
I was thinking that we could offer some sort of delivery service for the food at Assembly. A service that is only available with bitcoins. We would deliver food to computer places directly and accept bitcoins. If this is allowed we might just do it. 
If you could get Hesburger to accept Bitcoins during the event, it would rock.
I'm happy to announce that we will be presenting localbitcoins.com and easywallet.org there, at the same stand as Bittiraha.fi people!
When is this event actually happening?
The event is being held from August 2nd to 5th.
See http://www.assembly.org/summer12/ for more information.
When is this event actually happening?
I've thought a demo (in the Assembly sense, not in the general bitcoin sense) based on the blockchain would be pretty cool. Imagine something like the 4k competition where you are implementing a dll that will be called with a file descriptor of the blockchain up to a given checkpoint. It would be a lot of good seed material for procedural stuff, and you might even get some cool graph visualization stuff out of it. Perhaps a 64k limit would be better...
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If you have a nice video ads you can also try to use http://www.google.com/ads/tv/ and target up to 42 million U.S. households.
It's going to be some great exposure for Bitcoin, and we are happy to be part of it!
What types of competitions are you planning?
None of the competitions are set in stone yet but the implementation is already underway on the first one and it's basically a done deal. The second one is easy to organize but we haven't done anything about it yet.Basically the main competition is about finding QR codes hidden all around the event place. 30 codes total, with 10 in fairly evident places, 10 in semi-difficult locations and 10 well hidden onces. Participant scans the code or writes down the plain text Bitcoin address below it and then sends a small amount of coins to the address. We will give out free bitcents for each participant in case they need them.
In that competition each participant has to report to the stand and show the actual device and the list of transactions, we also have some decoy methods we'll use to make sure cheating is impossible and people who attempt to cheat are banned immediately. The winner is the one who finds the most codes and succeeds in sending bitcoins to them. Top 3 are rewarded. Prizes for both competitions will be bitcoins.
The other competition is a "fastest miner" competition. Only people at the venue can participate, and only with hardware that is present at the event place. We will physically check each participant and their mining hash result to confirm that it's a valid entry. Top 3 is rewarded once again. The prizes for this one will be a bit lower than for the main competition, but they will be good amounts of bitcoins nonetheless.
What types of competitions are you planning?
None of the competitions are set in stone yet but the implementation is already underway on the first one and it's basically a done deal. The second one is easy to organize but we haven't done anything about it yet.Basically the main competition is about finding QR codes hidden all around the event place. 30 codes total, with 10 in fairly evident places, 10 in semi-difficult locations and 10 well hidden onces. Participant scans the code or writes down the plain text Bitcoin address below it and then sends a small amount of coins to the address. We will give out free bitcents for each participant in case they need them.
In that competition each participant has to report to the stand and show the actual device and the list of transactions, we also have some decoy methods we'll use to make sure cheating is impossible and people who attempt to cheat are banned immediately. The winner is the one who finds the most codes and succeeds in sending bitcoins to them. Top 3 are rewarded. Prizes for both competitions will be bitcoins.
The other competition is a "fastest miner" competition. Only people at the venue can participate, and only with hardware that is present at the event place. We will physically check each participant and their mining hash result to confirm that it's a valid entry. Top 3 is rewarded once again. The prizes for this one will be a bit lower than for the main competition, but they will be good amounts of bitcoins nonetheless.
What types of competitions are you planning?
BTW, I didn't see anything Bitcoin related in the sponsors page yet
We are there, just search the page for Bitcoin. The logo is from Bittiraha.fi (which means "Bitmoney" in Finnish). It is a Finnish language Bitcoin portal. Bitcoin isn't sponsoring the event, we are. 
Our site is basically an expanded version of "we use coins", we don't offer only information we offer an exchange, a Finnish version of Bitpay and a forum, Finnish language Bitcoin news, blogs etc.
It makes sense to try to get Finnish people to our site because it's the best source for Bitcoin information in Finnish and it provides crucial services in Finnish. However we will give Bitcoin itself direct exposure in the event of course. We will have the Bitcoin logo in many places at the event and the ads we produce will be about Bitcoin. Also the seminar is about Bitcoin itself of course, not us.
Our stand is split between exposure for us and Bitcoin, in the end it will depend on the amount of partners we get. More partners mean more exposure for Bitcoin and our partners, less partners and there will be more exposure for us because we have to justify the cost somehow.
Obviously exposure for us means exposure for Bitcoin as well because our site is a Bitcoin site. It's just not an international site, and Assembly also has a lot of international visitors. That's why we need to split the exposure between us and Bitcoin in general.
That looks like a group that would pick up on Bitcoin potential right away. Incorporating Bitcoin into gaming makes sense to us, but it will take clever messages to reach mainstream gamers. Demos and game intros would be cool ways to demonstrate Bitcoin. BTW, I didn't see anything Bitcoin related in the sponsors page yet, but the military defense contractor sponsor looked interesting. I would love to buy a fighter jet with Bitcoin someday!
There is some fantastic synergy between bitcoin and gaming. I hope you reach a lot of people.
If we could have a Bitcoin demo competition, with Bitcoin prices we could get some cool visuals. It could be just a usual demo with atleast one bitcoin image or 3d logo thrown in. As for ad, maybe you could use the one created for memory dealers and the one showing the github work on the client. They both suit the audience.
Speaking of demo parties, there was a Bitcoiner at the last Alternative Party and many were interested in the concept, the old school demo people are quite crypto-anarchist snyway
Nice! That sounds really good. It means that the seminar will likely get a good attendance as well.
Would be cool to invite all the gamers mine for a while and invite them to donate the BTC to something nice...
Speaking of demo parties, there was a Bitcoiner at the last Alternative Party and many were interested in the concept, the old school demo people are quite crypto-anarchist snyway
Speaking of demo parties, there was a Bitcoiner at the last Alternative Party and many were interested in the concept, the old school demo people are quite crypto-anarchist snyway
Please don't use screw banks, it is totally wrong target audience 
I do agree on that but it is our backup anyway. It is certainly better than nothing. I hope the community can help us make something more appropriate. Jump to: