Bitcoin 2019 Programming Recap
Bitcoin 2019 reunited a fractured BTC community around collective goals, highlighting the people and organizations bringing them into reality. Event programming was designed to be relevant and compelling to as diverse a range of the Bitcoin community as possible, while not shying away from technical discussions as well as macro-societal trends.
Day 1
Welcome & Opening Remarks
David Bailey, CEO of BTC Inc, welcomes the crowd to Bitcoin 2019.
Market Perspectives & Predictions
Tim Draper, CEO of Draper Associates, and Anthony Pompliano, Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
Is Bitcoin Unstoppable?
Bill Barhydt, Founder and CEO of Abra; Max Keiser, Co-Host of Kesier Report; and Anthony Pompliano, Founder and Partner at Morgan Creek Digital.
In Review: Protocol Improvement Outlooks
Matt Corallo, Engineer at Chaincode Labs; Jeremy Rubin; Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Lightning Labs; and Steve Lee, Square Crypto.
Scaling to the Masses
Francis Pouliot, CEO and Co-Founder of Bull Bitcoin; Eric Lombrozo, CTO of Ciphrex; Dan Held, Director of Business Development at Interchange; and Aaron van Wirdum, Technical Editor at Bitcoin Magazine.
Addressing Privacy
Andrew Poelstra, Director of Research at Blockstream; Isabela Bagueros, Tor Project; Leonhard Weese, President of the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong; and Matt Odell, Co-Host of Tales From the Crypt.
The Genesis of Asia’s Mining Pools & Their Vital Role in the Bitcoin Ecosystem
Chris Zhu, Poolin; Wang Chun, F2Pool; Jane Hu, BTC.com; and Dovey Wan, Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures.
Scaling Decentralized Identifiers on Bitcoin
Daniel Buchner, Decentralized Identity at Microsoft.
Macro Tailwinds of BTC
Brendan Bernstein, Founding Partner at Tetras Capital
Evolving Traditional Finance: Onboarding the Next Generation of BTC
Raghav Chawla, Director of Product Development at Fidelity Labs; Alex Adelman, Engineer at Lolli; Nimrod Lehavi, CEO at Simplex; and David Wachsman, CEO at Wachsman PR.
Examining the Future of Custody
John Reinhardt, Business Development at Gemini; Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO at Unchained Capital; Zac Prince, Founder and CEO at BlockFi; and Marty Bent, Co-Host of Tales From the Crypt.
Trends in the Institutionalization of Bitcoin Markets
Colin Zhang, CEO of HashKey Pro; Chris Wittenborn, Velocity Markets; Ran Neuner, CNBC Crypto Trader; and Rich Rosenblum, Co-Founder of GSR.
What’s Next in Mining
Jan Čapek, CEO of Slushpool and Braiins; Marco Streng, Genesis Mining; Matt Corallo, Chaincode Labs; and Adam Traidman, SBI Mining Chip Co.
Day 2
Lyn Ulbricht, CEO of Free Ross Ulbricht
Lyn Ulbricht, CEO of Free Ross Ulbricht.
Lessons From a Civil War
Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift; Eric Lombrozo, CTO of Ciphrex; and Aaron van Wirdum, Technical Editor of Bitcoin Magazine
Rethinking Smart Contract Development on Bitcoin
Diego Gutiérrez-Zaldivar, CEO of RSK; Andrew Poelstra, Director of Research at Blockstream; Max Keidun, CEO of Hodl Hodl; and Tyler Evans, CEO of Echo.
Forecasting Layer Two Innovation
Nik Bhatia, Founder of Time Value of Bitcoin; Paul Sztorc, Director of Research for Tierion; Alyse Killeen, Managing Partner at Stillmark Co.; and Stephan Livera, Host of the Stephan Livera Podcast.
Future of Exchanges in a Lightning-Enabled World
Simon Cowell, Corporate Development at Bitstamp; Tim Byun; CEO of OKCoin; Konstantin Richter, CEO and Co-Founder of Blockdaemon; and Austin Alexander, Senior Vice President at Kraken.
Lightning Round I
Pierre Rochard, Founder of Lightning Power Users.
Lightning Round II
Lisa Neigut, Blockstream.
Lightning Round III
Jack Mallers, Founder of Zap.
Lightning Round IV
Conner Fromknecht, Head of Cryptographic Engineering at Lightning Labs.
Introducing P2P Community Track
Artur Schaback, COO of Paxful.
Bitcoin by the Numbers & Global User Adoption
Spencer Bogart, General Partner at Blockchain Capital; Dovey Wan, Founding Partner at Primitive Ventures; Leonhard Weese, President at the Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong; Christie Harkin, Managing Editor of Bitcoin Magazine.
Global Regulations and Its Limitations
Hailey Lennon, Head of Legal and Regulatory Affairs at BitFlyer; Tom Robinson, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder at Elliptic; Steve Jain, Contributor at Bisq; and Lana Schwartzman, CCO at Paxful.
Destroying Bitcoin
Samson Mow, Blockstream; Dan Held, Interchange; and Aaron van Wirdum, Bitcoin Magazine.
Venezuela and the Death of Analog Money
Randy Brito, Founder of BTC Venezuela; Diana Aguilar, Journalist at CoinDesk; Jamaal Montasser, Co-Founder of Open Money Initiative; and Colin Harper, Associate Editor at Bitcoin Magazine.
Bitcoin Rationalism
Lily Liu, Co-Founder at Earn.com; Aaron Voisine, Co-Founder and President of BRD; Arjun Balaji, Paradigm; and Charlie Shrem, Untold Stories Podcast.
The Ultimate Bull Case for Bitcoin
Tuur Demeester, Founding Partner of Adamant Capital; Jimmy Song, Instructor at Programming Blockchain; and Max Keiser, Co-Host of Keiser Report.
Fireside Chat
Adam Back, Blockstream; Naomi Brockwell; and W. Scott Stornetta, Yugen Partners.
Interactive Stage
Destroying Bitcoin
Samson Mow, Blockstream; Dan Held, Interchange; and Aaron van Wirdum, Bitcoin Magazine.
Venezuela and the Death of Analog Money
Randy Brito, Founder of BTC Venezuela; Diana Aguilar, Journalist at CoinDesk; Jamaal Montasser, Co-Founder of Open Money Initiative; and Colin Harper, Associate Editor at Bitcoin Magazine.
Bitcoin Rationalism
Lily Liu, Co-Founder at Earn.com; Aaron Voisine, Co-Founder and President of BRD; Arjun Balaji, Paradigm; and Charlie Shrem, Untold Stories Podcast.
Coming Soon: Interactive Peer-to-Peer Stage Recap Videos
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TUESDAY, JUNE 25
10:05am | Kiara Robles - "Bitcoin Clarity"
10:25am | Taylor Pearson - "Markets Are Eating the World"
10:40am | Tom Robinson - "Illicit Use of Cryptocurrencies and the Global Regulatory Response"
10:55am | Alex Adelman - "Trends at the Forefront of BTC Consumer Adoption"
11:10am | Warren Togami - "Nonprofit Spotlight: ReadingBitcoin.org"
11:25am | Jeremy Musighi - "Bitcoin: Blueprint for a Borderless World"
11:40am | Cory Klippsten - "Give the Gift of Bitcoin"
11:50am | Mike Olthoff - "Special Announcement: Coincards.com"
12:00pm | Bitcoin Games - "Lightning Hack Winning Presentation"
12:15pm | Bitcoin Games - "Liquid Hack Winning Presentation"
1:15pm | Borun Li - "8btc"
1:20pm | Bo Song - "The Future of Cooperation Between Mining Industry and Digital Funds"
1:40pm | Jane Hu - "BTC.com"
1:55pm | Celine Lu - "BitDeer: The New Driving Force Behind Bitcoin"
2:10pm | Alex Ao - "What If China Stopped Mining"
2:30pm | Nik Bhatia - "Time Value of BTC"
2:45pm | Ariel Muslera - "RSK Innovation Studio and Ecosystem Fund"
3:00pm | Rob Odell - "Designing the 'Killer App' for Bitcoin"
3:20pm | Allan Stevo - "Satoshi Nakamoto Was an Austrian"
3:35pm | Justin Dhingra - "How We Did the First P2P Derivative Transaction With Blockstream"
3:50pm | Mark Erhardt - "The UTXO Set, the Mempool & You"
4:05pm | Tatiana Moroz Presents
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26
10:05am | Nozomi Hayase - "Bitcoin, Native Currency of the Internet, Restores the Law of Nature"
10:25am | Jan Čapek - "Establishing Open Source Firmware for Miners"
10:40am | Justin O'Connell - "Batching Transactions & the Folly of Ethereum"
10:55am | Tone Vays - "Bitcoin's Value Proposition"
11:10am | Dávid Molnár - "Recent Privacy Trends & Wasabi Wallet"
11:30am | Stepan Snigirev - "Trustless Hardware Wallets"
11:40am | Scott Sigel - "Why Noncustodial Trading Will Play a Significant Role in Institutional Adoption"
11:55am | Lyn Ulbricht - "Free Ross"
12:15pm | Brandon Quittem - "Bitcoin Is a Decentralized Organism"
1:00pm | Pavan Katepalli - "Constructing a Bitcoin Transaction Using Python"
1:40pm | Alon Muroch - "Blox.io"
2:00pm | Mao Yifeng - "BitLeague"
2:15pm | Rui Gomes - "OpenNode"
2:25pm | Dr. Uri Klarman - "Scaling Blockchains at Layer Zero"
2:45pm | Gustavo Grillasca - "ArtOlin"
2:55pm | Max Keidun - "Bitcoin Multisig Is Good, and You Should Feel Good About It"
3:10pm | Manana Samuseva, Masha Prusakova - "Women in Bitcoin"
3:40pm | Naomi Brockwell - "Live Quiz Show With Special Guests"
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