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 Novak

Product designer and strategist, creator of 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 Interchange

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

Lawrence Nahum

Bitcoin wallet GreenAddress founder, Bitcoin expert, executive at Blockstream

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

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Agenda

Day 1

Time	Topic	Speaker/Panelists
9:00	Opening words	by Max Keidun & Roman Snitko
9:20	PANEL • Unpopular opinions in Bitcoin	Eric Voskuil, Oleg Andreev, Jimmy Song, Samson Mow, HOST: WhalePanda
10:00	All cryptography is bad and you should feel bad	Oleg Andreev
10:30	Incentives Matter	Jimmy Song
11:00	Strange Theories of Money and Credit	Eric Voskuil
11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:50	Bitcoin as Base Money	Matthew Mežinskis
12:30	[ to be announced ]	Roman Snitko
13:00	1on1 • OTC trading	Max Keidun & Yuri de Gaia, HOST: Fernando Ulricht
13:30	Physical security in Bitcoin	Florian Maier, Rigel Walshe, Jameson Lopp, Rodolfo Novak, HOST: Peter McCormack
14:00	LUNCH BREAK
14:40	Designing a Hardware Wallet	Rodolfo Novak
15:10	[ to be announced ]	Ádám Ficsór
15:40	A Story of Music on the Silk Road	Tatiana Moroz
16:10	[ to be announced ]	Murad Mahmudov
16:30	COFFEE BREAK
16:50	BTCPayServer announcement
16:52	1on1 • Payment processing	Nicolas Dorier, Rui Gomes, HOST: Roman Snitko
17:20	[ to be announced ]	Sergej Kotliar
17:40	CLOSING PANEL	Oleg Andreev, Eric Voskuil, Peter Todd, Ádám Ficsór, Giacomo Zucco, HOST: Roman Snitko
18:20	AFTER PARTY

Day 2

Time	Topic	Speaker/Panelists
9:00	Opening words	by Giacomo Zucco
9:10	13 Threats to Your Bitcoin	Jeremy Welch
9:40	PANEL • P2P exchanges	[to be announced]
10:10	[ to be announced ]	[ to be announced ]
10:40	PANEL • REKT: how to survive the bear market	WhalePanda, Ambroid, Tone Vays, HOST: Florian Maier
11:10	COFFEE BREAK
11:30	Bitcoin as a practical tool for individual freedom	Rigel Walshe
12:00	LNP/BP Macroeconomic Data, Theories, and Intuitions	Pierre Rochard
12:30	PANEL • Wallets	Lawerence Nahum, Ádám Ficsór HOST: Alena Vranova
13:00	Running bitcoin in production environments	Ketominer
13:20	The Information Theory of Money	Dan Held
13:50	LUNCH BREAK
14:30	How to really kill bitcoin	Saifedean Ammous
15:00	PANEL • Education in Bitcoin	Sam Wouters, Pavel Kravchenko, Jimmy Song HOST: Stacey Herbert
15:30	Lowering Chain Fees and Improving Privacy with HyperLoop	Alex Bosworth
15:50	Yellow Rock Bad, Orange Coin Good: Environmental & Social Impacts of Gold & Bitcoin	Hass McCook
16:10	PANEL • Lightning Network	Samson Mow, Alex Bosworth, Max Keidun, HOST: Stephan Livera
16:40	COFFEE BREAK
17:00	Scalable computing in LNP/BP: Prometheus protocol	Maxim Orlovsky
17:20	1on1 • Reflecting on scaling, 5 years on	Adam Back, Giacomo Zucco HOST: Alexandra Moxin
17:40	CLOSING PANEL	Tone Vays, Saifedean Ammous, Pierre Rochard, Samson Mow HOST: Max Keiser
18:10	Closing words