BattleHack (or Battle Hack in the 2013 series) was a series of global
hackathon
A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of '' hacking'' and ''marathon'') is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 h ...
contests organised by
PayPal
PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support E-commerce payment system, online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alter ...
.
Competitors were required to solve a local problem by coding.
Winners of the first prize of each contest got an
axe
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as the trophy, and admission to the world finals where competitors competed for the $100,000 grand prize.
Competitors retain the ownership of their
applications
Application may refer to:
Mathematics and computing
* Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks
** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...
made in the contests.
In 2016 PayPal/Braintree shut down the developer relations program along with all related programs such as BattleHack.
It was announced that BattleHack would be returning
however as of Jan 16, 2018 the domain name lapsed and has since moved into new ownership.
See also
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Hackathon
A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of '' hacking'' and ''marathon'') is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 h ...
References
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Hacker culture
Software development events
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