Speakers and panelists

Dr. Saifedean Ammous

Bitcoin economist & author

Jimmy Song

Bitcoin Educator, Developer and Entrepreneur

Samson Mow

CSO at Blockstream

Oleg Andreev

Protocol Architect at Stellar. Author of Gitbox, CoreBitcoin and BTCRuby

Rodolfo NVK

Founder of Coinkite (Coldcard & Opendime)

Murad Mahmudov

A cryptocurrency analyst and Partner at cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Adaptive Capital

Stephan Livera

Bitcoin Podcaster

Peter Todd

Applied Cryptography Consultant, Bitcoin engineer

Max Keiser

Co-host of "Keiser Report" on RT, co-founder of Heisenberg Capital

Stacy Herbert

Co-host of "Keiser Report" on RT, co-founder of Heisenberg Capital

Ádám Ficsór

Wasabi Wallet

Nicolas Dorier

BTCPay Server and NBitcoin contributor

Rui Gomes

Lead Software Engineer at OpenNode

Alex Bosworth

Lightning Infrastructure Lead, Lightning Labs - CEO of Yalls.org

Eric Voskuil

Maintainer of Libbitcoin, a Bitcoin developer toolkit & an ex navy fighter pilot

Dan Held

Director of Business Development at Kraken

Tone Vays

Content Creator, Derivatives Trader & Consultant, host of @Crypto_Scam podcast

Pierre Rochard

Operator of one of the largest Lightning Network routing nodes, LightningPowerUsers.com

Jeremy Welch

Founder and CEO of Casa

Ray Youssef

CEO and co-founder of Paxful, a p2p Bitcoin exchange

Jameson Lopp

CTO at Casa, creator of Statoshi, founder of Mensa's Bitcoin Special Group

Adam Back, Ph. D.

CEO at Blockstream

WhalePanda

Bitcoin Accumulator through Trading

Alena Vranova

Head of strategy for Casa, builds innovative companies in Bitcoin. Introduced the first hardware wallet

Matthew Mežinskis

Host of CryptoVoices podcast

Ambroid

Shitcoin bagsimalist

Florian Maier

Software Engineer & Security Professional researching the decentralized architecture of tomorrow

Giacomo Zucco

CEO at BHB NETWORK

Peter McCormack

Host of the "What Bitcoin did" podcast

Rigel Walshe

Aspiring Cypherpunk

Francis Pouliot

CEO of Bull Bitcoin

Sergej Kotliar

CEO at Bitrefill

Tatiana Moroz

American folk singer-songwriter, freedom activist, CEO of Crypto Media Hub, and creator of the Tatiana Show

Yuri de Gaia

Bitcoin broker, entrepreneur and evangelist. Operations at L2B Global

Ketominer

Hardware designer, programmer, infrastructure engineer, provider of lightning based hosting services

Hass McCook

Chartered Civil Engineer. Oxford MBA. Bitcoin Mining Researcher

Fernando Ulrich

Co-host of Crypto Voices podcast

Sam Wouters

Bitcoin educator

Pavel Kravchenko

CEO at Distributed Lab

Dr. Maxim Orlovsky

CEO at Pandora Core AG

Eric Lombrozo

CEO at Ciphrex

Michiel Lescrauwaet

Co-founder Adamant Capital

Jonathan Leong

CEO of BTSE

Bernard Labno

Bisq contributor

Konstantin Gladych

CEO Atomic Wallet, founder Changelly

Jan Čapek

CEO at Braiins

Matt Odell

bitcoiner

Alex Petrov

CIO at Bitfury

Alexandra Moxin

CEO & Host at Advance Tech Media

Videos from 2017 & 2018 conferences

Agenda

Day 1

Time	Topic	Speaker/Panelists
10:00	Opening words	by Max Keidun & Roman Snitko
10:20	PANEL • Unpopular opinions in Bitcoin	Eric Voskuil, Oleg Andreev, Jimmy Song, Samson Mow. HOST: WhalePanda
10:50	All cryptography is bad and you should feel sad (pdf)	Oleg Andreev
11:20	How Bitcoin Changes Incentives (prezi.com)	Jimmy Song
11:50	Strange Theories of Money and Credit (pptx)	Eric Voskuil
12:20	COFFEE BREAK
12:40	Bitcoin as Base Money (Google Slides)	Matthew Mežinskis
13:20	Opening up (Google Slides)	Roman Snitko
13:50	1on1 • OTC trading	Max Keidun & Yuri de Gaia. HOST: Fernando Ulricht
14:20	PANEL • Physical security in Bitcoin	Florian Maier, Rigel Walshe, Jameson Lopp, Rodolfo Novak. HOST: Peter McCormack
14:50	LUNCH BREAK
15:30	Designing a Hardware Wallet (Keynote)	Rodolfo Novak
16:00	Privacy Visions (prezi.com)	Ádám Ficsór
16:30	A Story of Music on the Silk Road (pptx)	Tatiana Moroz
17:00	50 Positive Catalysts on Bitcoin's Horizon (pptx)	Murad Mahmudov
17:20	BREAK
17:40	BTCPayServer announcement
17:42	1on1 • Payment processing	Nicolas Dorier, Rui Gomes. HOST: Roman Snitko
18:10	Lessons from the Trenches: using Bitcoin & Lightning in commerce (Google Slides)	Sergej Kotliar
18:30	CLOSING PANEL	Oleg Andreev, Eric Voskuil, Peter Todd, Eric Lombrozo, Samson Mow. HOST: Roman Snitko
19:00	AFTER PARTY

Day 2

Time	Topic	Speaker/Panelists
10:00	Opening words (prezi.com)	by Giacomo Zucco
10:10	13 Threats to Your Bitcoin	Jeremy Welch
10:40	PANEL • P2P exchanges	Roman Snitko, Ray Youssef, Bernard Labno, Jonathan Leong. HOST: Ambroid
11:10	Bitcoin as a benchmark (pptx)	Michiel Lescrauwaet
11:25	Open-source upgrade to the BTC mining stack (Google Slides)	Jan Čapek
11:40	PANEL • REKT: how to survive the bear market	WhalePanda, Ambroid, Tone Vays, Florian Maier. HOST: Matt Odell
12:10	COFFEE BREAK
12:30	Bitcoin as a practical tool for individual freedom (prezi.com)	Rigel Walshe
13:00	LNP/BP Macroeconomic Data, Theories, and Intuitions (Google Slides)	Pierre Rochard
13:30	PANEL • Wallets	Ádám Ficsór, Konstantin Gladych, Rodolfo Novak HOST: Alena Vranova
14:00	Running bitcoin in production environments (pdf)	Ketominer
14:20	The Information Theory of Money (pptx)	Dan Held
14:50	LUNCH BREAK
15:30	How to really kill bitcoin (pptx)	Saifedean Ammous
16:00	PANEL • Education in Bitcoin	Sam Wouters, Pavel Kravchenko, Jimmy Song HOST: Stacey Herbert
16:30	Lowering Chain Fees and Improving Privacy with HyperLoop (pdf)	Alex Bosworth
16:50	Yellow Rock Bad, Orange Coin Good: Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin (pptx)	Hass McCook
17:10	PANEL • Lightning Network	Samson Mow, Alex Bosworth, Max Keidun, Alex Petrov. HOST: Stephan Livera
17:40	BREAK
18:00	Scalable computing in LNP/BP: Prometheus protocol	Maxim Orlovsky
18:20	1on1 • Reflecting on scaling, 5 years on	Adam Back, Giacomo Zucco. HOST: Alexandra Moxin
18:40	CLOSING PANEL	Tone Vays, Saifedean Ammous, Pierre Rochard, Francis Pouliot HOST: Max Keiser
19:10	Closing words