CryptoSolitaire Monthly Updates for August 2019
It’s time once again for another CryptSolitaire update! Take a look at some of our team’s top 9 accomplishments last month.
1. Bicol IT Blockchain Meetup 0x2
Last August 3, we conducted our second Blockchain Meetup in partnership with Bicol IT, Onlicoin, SparkPoint, and Ctrl Alt Work. Unlike the first meetup where only a few attended, this time around the venue was full! Thanks to SparkPoint’s surprise announcement of an airdrop of their SRK token to attendees of the event.
The meetup started with a talk from Harvey Javier, Lead Mobile Developer of SparkPoint. He discussed how they developed their cryptocurrency wallet app in just 2 months. He also sent out 65,000 SRKs to each of the attendees after they installed the SparkPoint wallet on their Android phones. This was worth around ₱300 during the meetup but climbed to around ₱700 by the start of September.
Our very own Aldrick Bonaobra, CryptoSolitaire’s Blockchain Developer, also talked about Non-Fungible Tokens. This is the technology that powers our playing card decks. He discussed how it differs from fungible tokens like Bitcoin, Ether, SparkPoint and other cryptocurrencies.
After the two technical talks, a panel discussion followed. The panel included the speakers, Harvey and Aldrick, and Onlicoin’s founder, Michael Alcala. Our Head of Technology, Rico Zuñiga served as moderator. The audience asked questions on regulatory compliance, avoiding scams, and the future of Bicol region as a potential Blockchain development hub.
2. Radio Guesting at DWRK 98.7 with Mr. Rey B. Camarquiz
Last August 4, just a day after the meetup, CryptoSolitaire co-founders Rico and Ismael, joined a live radio show hosted by Mr. Rey Camarquiz. The three of them talked about Blockchain and Cryptocurrency technologies, use cases, adoption, investing, and avoiding scams. Watch the recorded session here.
3. Playing Card Deck is Complete
Chen Naje, our inaugural deck artist, has done it! Chen has finished our first ever NFT playing card deck and presented us his masterpiece last August 12. Chen is well known to his 31.9k followers on Instagram as @chenandink. Read more about the thought process and concepts behind this masterpiece in our Medium post.
4. Ibalong Epic: Story of Baltog an Augmented Reality Experience
Our Head of Marketing, Ismael Jerusalem, organized and conducted the first Augment Reality art exhibit featuring the local epic of Ibalong last August 17–18 at Ayala Malls Legazpi. This is the first of its kind in the Philippines. An innovative combination of creativity and cutting edge technology.
The CryptoSolitaire team also participated in the event as a merchant. We were the only one selling digital art, all the rest were selling physical merchandise! Our Head of Technology, Rico Zuñiga, also gave a quick talk about what cryptoart is, how it works, and how it will benefit the art world.
5. Rico’s ConsenSys Developer Bootcamp Graduation
Our Head of Technology, Rico Zuñiga is now a ConsenSys Certified Blockchain Developer! Rico received his certificate of proficiency last August 20 after 3 months of training. The Ethereum Developer Program Online Bootcamp started last May 15 with participants from around the world.
This is another reflection of our team’s commitment to continuous improvement and learning. Rico has always promoted lifelong learning and iterative but continuous improvement. Not only in our projects, but also in our personal growth.
6. Live interviews with our team
We’d love for our community to get to know more about us on a personal level. Watch our live interviews with our team members to learn more about them.
Watch the videos:
- Ismael Jerusalem, Head of Marketing
- Rico Zuñiga, Head of Technology
- Aldrick Bonaobra, Blockchain Developer
Unfortunately these interviews are mostly in our native language. We are planning to add subtitles soon for everyone’s benefit. We’re also writing summaries of the video interviews in english so watch out for them here in our Medium.
7. 2 OJT’s from BU joining our team (Aug 27)
Last August 27, two IT students from Bicol University joined our team for an immersive on-the-job training. They will be working on real projects and undergo training in git, project management, documentation, and iterative coding. Welcome Arlen Joy and Marielle to the CryptoSolitaire team!
8. Launching a Solitaire game demo, our first open source contribution
We launched our first open-source project last August 28. A web solitaire game that features the deck created by Chenandink. This is an early proof of concept and will be continuously improved by us and other interested devs from the community. The source code is released under the MIT license.
9. DTI Kapatid Mentor Me Program with Ismael
Ismael Jerusalem, our Head of Marketing, attended another seminar from DTI. The Kapatid Mentor Me program was held at the Concourse Convention Center last August 29. Aside from marketing topics, Ismael also learned about entrepreneurial mind-setting & values formation.
That’s all for our monthly update for the month of August! CryptoSolitaire has a lot more to offer in the coming months! Learn more about us from the following links:
Our Website: https://cryptosolitaire.io/
Telegram: https://t.me/cryptosolitairegame
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cryptosolitaire/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptosolitaire
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cryptosolitaire.io/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cryptosolitaire
