The challenge given to contestants in the first CoinGeek hackathon was to create a project that would encourage more people to use BitcoinSV for the first time - to promote ‘onboarding’ in the jargon.
The winner, announced at CoinGeek’s recent Toronto conference, is a project called UptimeSV, from a team in Australia. The idea behind Uptime is to pay people for the use of their computers and mobiles to run tests on websites and IP addresses.
The leader of the Uptime team, Brent Bevear, explains in this podcast that “we wanted to give people a way of completing jobs to earn BitcoinSV because I think that’s the most significant way that you can get a lot of people interested”. Uptime will offer the chance to earn “a little bit of money in the background” doing something useful.