Adopting Bitcoin 2022

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08:45
08:45
15min
Welcome to Bitcoin Country
Chris Hunter

Opening Remarks by Chris Hunter (Bitcoin Beach Wallet)

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
09:00
09:00
15min
Looking back to move forward
Gerson Martinez

Gerson Martinez is a Salvadoran living in the USA. His story and background represent the millions of Salvadorans fleeing in the 1990s, only to find hope again in their country's future in 2021.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
09:20
09:20
25min
Identity is the problem
Adam Gibson

Keynote by Adam Gibson (Joinmarket)

DEV
Galoy Stage
09:20
09:20
40min
Adoption Progress In El Salvador
Peter Young, Guillermo Contreras, Stina Liland, Tristan Thoma, Will Hernandez

What are some key learnings of El Salvador's bitcoin adoption journey? What happened in a year, looking back what should have been done better or differently?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
09:50
09:50
30min
State of the Lightning Network
Jeff Gallas, Alexandre Bussutil, Johns Beharry, Roy Sheinfeld

Panel by Jeff Gallas (Fulmo) hosting Alexandre Bussutil (Bolt Observer), Johns Beharry (Peak Shift) & Roy Sheinfeld (Breez)

DEV
Galoy Stage
10:05
10:05
15min
Financial Freedom
Paolo Ardoino

Keynote by Paolo Ardoino (Bitfinex)

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
10:25
10:25
20min
Blinding custodians with Cashu
Calle

Bitcoin banks are great catalysts for adoption and financial inclusion. Now it's time to blind them.

DEV
Galoy Stage
10:25
25min
The Theory of Bitcoin Intermediaries
Eric Yakes

A discussion on the theory and practice of prospective bitcoin banking systems.
[bitcoin banking systems full reserve vs free banking] (https://yakes.io/bitcoin-banking-systems-full-reserve-vs-free-banking/)

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
10:55
10:55
25min
Empowering communities with federations
Eric Sirion

Fedimint update and what else we could do with federations in the future to empower communities.

DEV
Galoy Stage
10:55
30min
Stablecoins - Danger, distraction or intermediate step to embracing bitcoin the asset
Nicolas Burtey, Sam Abbassi, Paolo Ardoino, Shinobi

Are stablecoins a bitcoin gateway, or a distraction?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
11:25
11:25
30min
Pricing liquidity for Lightning wallets
Jose I. Rojas Echenique

Bitcoin banks that interoperate on the Lightning network are the most developed path to scaling Bitcoin for mass adoption. One problem faced by these banks is the implementation of fees for transactions that incur protocol fees on the Bitcoin and Lightning networks. This problem is particularly important in the context of providing both onchain and offchain liquidity, since different usage patterns can incur dramatically different protocol fees. We argue that the possibility of liquidity arbitrage on the Lightning network sets a market rate for inbound liquidity, and use an estimate of this market rate to develop new fee structures that properly price liquidity without overcharging everyday users. Furthermore, we perform simulations using historical transaction data from users of the Bitcoin Beach Wallet, and show that the new fee structures are able to account for different usage patterns under realistic conditions.

DEV
Galoy Stage
11:40
11:40
20min
The Bitcoin Beach Whitepaper
Mike Peterson

The Bitcoin Beach White Paper is the guide that will allow anyone to replicate a sustainable Bitcoin Economic ecosystem like the one that started in El Zonte in 2019.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
12:00
12:00
20min
Taro
Leo Weese

Taro is a new Taproot-powered protocol for issuing assets on the bitcoin blockchain that can be transferred over the Lightning Network for instant, high volume, low fee transactions. Lightning Labs sees Taro as an important step in bitcoinizing the dollar, getting the best of both worlds by 1) issuing assets like stablecoins on the most decentralized and secure blockchain, bitcoin and 2) allowing users to transact on the fastest global payments network with the lowest fees, Lightning.

DEV
Galoy Stage
12:05
12:05
10min
Building a Bitcoin Economy in a South African Township
Hermann Buhr Vivier

Bitcoin Ekasi, a nonprofit organization, seeking to establish a bitcoin economy in Mossel Bay, South Africa, has opened the Bitcoin Ekasi Center. The center will provide financial literacy education to residents, focusing on the area’s younger generation and business community.

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Bitfinex Stage
12:20
12:20
30min
Meatspace merchant adoption - Learnings from Bitcoin Jungle in Costa Rica
Francis Pouliot, Lee Salminen, Rich Scotford

Bitcoin Jungle managed to onboard many merchants to bitcoin in just a few weeks! This panel will discuss how they went about it, and the impact it has on bitcoiners living in Costa Rica.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
12:25
12:25
20min
You can do "what" with stablesats?
Arvin

One problem that persists for people in a Bitcoin economy is the short-term volatility of the bitcoin exchange rate. When the bitcoin price drops, it can lessen the purchasing power of sats and make it harder to pay for dollar-priced goods and services. This creates friction and uncertainty, causing merchants and consumers to frequently consider selling bitcoin for dollars to ensure they can meet their financial obligations. This problem led Galoy to create a feature called Stablesats, a USD account that people can use to hold “dollar equivalent” balances in their Lightning wallet, thus protect themselves from fluctuations in the bitcoin exchange rate while preserving their ability to transact over Lightning.

DEV
Galoy Stage
12:50
12:50
40min
General Assembly of the Unconference
Jeff Gallas, Johns Beharry, Ben Arc, Lightrider

The general assembly will kick off the unconference where participant-driven workshops in focused groups will take place with both, scheduled and impromptu sessions.

DEV
Galoy Stage
12:55
12:55
10min
Bitcoin Lake in Guatemala
Patrick Melder

Bitcoin Lake is creating a Bitcoin circular economy and leveraging Bitcoin mining to bring economic opportunity to Guatemala.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
13:00
13:00
30min
LNBits
Ben Arc

tbd

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
13:15
13:15
10min
The mechanics of on-boarding 200+ businesses on Bitcoin Island
Bill Hill

Bitcoin Island in the Philippines is probably the fastest-growing Bitcoin community in the world! Discover this wonderful initiative of bringing Bitcoin adoption and education to Southeast Asia.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
13:30
13:30
45min
How to create Salvadoran legal corporate structures to operate from El Salvador worldwide
Daniel Leiva Fortín

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Workshop
Workshop Room 3
13:30
30min
Introduction to the Bitcoin Design Community
Stephen DeLorme

The Bitcoin Design Community is an online community formed around the goal of helping make bitcoin more intuitive and accessible. We'll cover how you can get involved in the community as well as design problems topical to the adoption of bitcoin.

Auditorium
Auditorium
13:30
60min
Let a thousand Bitcoin Beaches bloom
Andrew Begin, Kyle Murphy, Patrick Melder, Roman Martinez, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Fernando Motolese

So many communities worldwide have been inspired by Bitcoin Beach and embarked on their journey of orange pilling their community! These exciting grassroots initiatives are proving to the naysayer that it is possible for anyone, no matter what their background, to use bitcoin as money!

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Bitfinex Stage
13:30
45min
Running a bitcoin node
Oscar Lafarga

Learn about different kinds of bitcoin nodes

Workshop
Voltage Room
13:30
30min
Seedsigner
SeedSigner

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
13:30
45min
Wallets and Backups
Bitcoin Dad

A practical guide to bitcoin wallet generation and backup practices focusing on secret generation. Intermediate/Advanced

Workshop
DIGTL Room
13:35
13:35
20min
RGB Protocol
Federico Tenga

Recently there has been a growing interest around tokens on top of Bitcoin and the Lightning Network. The idea of creating tokens representing assets that can be transferred and stored with the same security and convenience that Bitcoin offers is not new, it was indeed pioneered already in 2013 by protocols such as Counterparty and OmniLayer (formerly Mastercoin), and later adopted by Ethereum and other altcoins, which is also where most of the blockchain tokens activity happens today. However, using altcoins to secure financial assets is not ideal, as they are unable to offer the same level of security and decentralisation of Bitcoin. For this reason, over the years some projects emerged trying to modernise tokens-on-Bitcoin protocols and make them compatible with the Lightning Network, in particular RGB, OmniBolt and, more recently, Taro. This presentation will be focusing on RGB with the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of how it works and what its value proposition is.

DEV
Galoy Stage
14:00
14:00
30min
Confessions of a Bitcoin Evangelist
Michael Atwood

The good, the bad, and the ugly of bringing businesses, consumers, and communities to Bitcoin.

Auditorium
Auditorium
14:00
25min
Slashtags Fixes This
John Carvalho

Slashtags is a powerful web protocol that empowers anyone to control their profiles, contacts, accounts, feeds, and data in the same ways that they manage their bitcoin. Learn how Slashtags unlocks a new web, economy, and society by combining it with Bitcoin and Lightning.

DEV
Galoy Stage
14:00
30min
Synota
Austin Mitchell

-While energy grids are becoming more decentralized and digital, energy finance is stuck in the days of vertical integration and analog. The growing disconnect between the physical and financial sides sucks time, cash and resources from the industry, and distorts the true value of energy and stifles innovation. With Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, we can move money at the speed of energy. Synota's decentralized settlement platform holds the key to unlocking an abundant energy future for all.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
14:15
14:15
45min
Hands-on SeedSigner workshop
Keith Mukai

Learn to use a SeedSigner directly from the open-source team creating the project!

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
14:15
45min
Issue NFC cards with your own node
Lightrider

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Workshop
Voltage Room
14:15
45min
Reducing friction when acquiring bitcoin
Galbitcoin

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Workshop
DIGTL Room
14:25
14:25
20min
Short history of double-spend protection
Peter Todd

tbd

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Galoy Stage
14:30
14:30
30min
How to build on Galoy - The Lightning Developer Platform
Daniel Wingen

Galoy is a Cloud Native Lightning Developer Platform for Bitcoin Companies and Financial Institutions. We are going to have look at the features and functions of the platform and how software engineers can leverage the platform to build amazing products on top.

If you always wanted to know what exactly Galoy is and how it works, you should attend this session!

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
14:30
30min
How to get your Grandma into bitcoin
Joe Hall

Easy Bitcoin education and working out those interest points

Auditorium
Auditorium
14:35
14:35
15min
A message from Fran Finney
Fran Finney

A message from Fran Finney to the Adopting Bitcoin audience

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Bitfinex Stage
14:50
14:50
30min
Bitcoin developer education
Stephan Livera, Marina Spindler, Lucas Ferreira, Dulce Villarreal

The bitcoin ecosystem is steadily growing and needs constant reinforcements by new developers. This panel dives into the different avenues that talent can take to contribute and make a living with bitcoin development.

DEV
Galoy Stage
14:55
14:55
15min
Growing up in a bitcoin world
Samantha de Waal

Samantha has been a Bitcoiner for 11 years. She's also 11 years old. A part of the first generation to grow up with Bitcoin in their lives, Sam sees the world from a different perspective to those of us who grew up learning about how money works in the fiat world.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
15:00
15:00
30min
Building LN-based IoT
JayDeLux

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Workshop
Voltage Room
15:00
30min
Coinos and Bitcoin Adoption in Vancouver
Adam Soltys

I'll be talking about coinos, how it works, an exciting new feature, some history of retail bitcoin adoption in Vancouver, thoughts on how it's going and how it can improve.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
15:00
45min
Current hardware recommendations to scale up a lightning node
Openoms

tbd

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
15:00
30min
Reaching new demographics and markets
Desiree Dickerson

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Auditorium
Auditorium
15:00
45min
Script and Simplicity
Burak Keceli

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Workshop
DIGTL Room
15:15
15:15
25min
From Crypto to Bitcoin
Stacy Herbert, Carol Souza

There is no second best. People come to that conclusion sooner or later, but what made Carol Souza shift all her focus and efforts to Bitcoin and rebrand her educational platform to Area Bitcoin?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
15:30
15:30
30min
Azteco
Akin Fernandez

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
15:30
30min
Bitcoin mining in El Salvador
Gerson Martinez

tbd

Auditorium
Auditorium
15:45
15:45
45min
Bitcoin Covenants
Marco Argentieri

How Bitcoin "dapp" development might look in the future, if and when covenants will be activated. Elements, the fork of Bitcoin core that powers Liquid Network, has already opcodes that allow you to make covenants now in mainnet, discover how to build your first stateless smart contract and deploy it on Liquid Network

Workshop
DIGTL Room
15:45
40min
Bitcoin is Financial Inclusion Technology
Rodrigo Gomez, Francis Pouliot, Prince Philip of Serbia and Yugoslavia, MIlena Mayorga

El Salvador's move to adopt Bitcoin sprang the realization that it is indeed the most incredible tool we have at our disposal to bank the unbanked. This panel will explore other countries' challenges in making the same bold move.

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Bitfinex Stage
15:45
45min
Building a Lightning mobile app with React Native
Christopher David

Learn how to build your first Lightning mobile app using React Native. Bring your laptop and follow along as we build a mobile app by just coding in a web browser. No previous experience needed. By the end of the workshop, you'll have a simple Lightning wallet app you can run on your Android or iOS device.

Workshop
Voltage Room
15:45
45min
Trading bitcoin peer-to-peer with Robosats
Openoms

Live demonstration of Robosats - A Simple and Private Lightning P2P Exchange
Find more details at https://learn.robosats.com

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
15:50
15:50
20min
Pricing optionality in cross-asset lightning network payments
Pierre Berthet

Bitcoin's lightning network is becoming more multi-asset, at the edges.
The payer of a lightning invoice can decide whether to make the payment or not, and the receiver of a lightning payment can decide whether to settle the payment or not. In a multi-asset network, this optionality, if left unpriced, could be abused to profit on the exchange rate volatility at the expense of market makers.
In this talk, we discuss the problem of unpriced optionality from the perspective of market makers on a multi-asset lightning network. We review mitigation strategies and option pricing models and discuss their effects on user experience, implementation complexity, and risk for market makers.

DEV
Galoy Stage
16:00
16:00
30min
Bitcoin Beach Wallet
Chris Hunter

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
16:00
30min
Using alternative p2p networks (I2P, CJDNS) with your Bitcoin Core node for improved connectivity and robustness (and more!)
Jon Atack

We'll discuss how to easily use alternative peer-to-peer networks (I2P, CJDNS) with your Bitcoin Core node for improved network connectivity and robustness -- and lots more good stuff. This will be an interactive chat without slides or recordings, to encourage everyone to participate. We'll start with the basics and go from there!

Auditorium
Auditorium
16:15
16:15
30min
Adoption technologies: benefits and trade-offs
Obi Nwosu, Nicolas Burtey, Shinobi

Which technology stack is the right one for adopting bitcoin?

DEV
Galoy Stage
16:30
16:30
45min
Bitcoin UI Kit and Bitcoin Icons to move faster with developing Lightning products and services
Stephen DeLorme

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Workshop
Workshop Room 3
16:30
20min
Bitcoin, Currency of Love that Inspires Action for Peace
Nozomi Hayase

From resistance against war to a social justice movement, activists have been engaged in brutal fights. Their vigorous efforts, rather than positive outcomes, seem to keep them in perpetual struggle. Now, a breakthrough in computer science has created a game changer. Bitcoin, by empowering individuals, has begun to disrupt the world. I will show how Bitcoin is a currency of love and inspires creative action in ordinary people to promote peace.

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Bitfinex Stage
16:30
45min
Building a Lightning ⚡ Jukebox
Mathias Linkerhand

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron’s selection from self-contained media. The Lightning ⚡️ Jukebox 📻 operates with Bitcoin ₿ Lightning ⚡️ instead of traditional coins 🪙 of fiat money. Have a look at https://jb.btc-ln.net/ for a working implementation located at the #1 Bitcoin ₿ hotel in Germany.

In this workshop we will show you how to build your own Lightning ⚡️ Jukebox 📻 using a jukebox speaker (or Bluetooth box) and a Raspberry Pi powered by Raspberry Pi OS, Music Player Daemon (MPD), Python-Flask and LNbits. Please bring your own hardware.

We will also encourage you to use different hardware (i. e. ESP32 for a very low cost and low energy version) or to implement a completely offline variant using offline Lightning ⚡️ payments via LNURLPoS.

Workshop
Voltage Room
16:30
45min
Launching a bitcoin business - all the admin stuff you didnt know you need to take care of
Rob Valdez

Bitcoin startups have many similar operational needs. The more you grow, the more important it is to be strategic about incorporation, banking, finance and accounting, insurance, hiring, compliance, and reporting. This workshop will provide an overview of issues and solutions common to Bitcoin startups and fintechs.

Workshop
DIGTL Room
16:30
30min
Live Bitcoin Core review and interactive chat
Jon Atack

We'll be talking about the primordial role of reviewing and testing in Bitcoin Core and go through the process of doing a live review together.

Auditorium
Auditorium
16:30
30min
Oshi
Michael Atwood

Oshi is a tool to bootstrap and nurture bitcoin economies all over the world.

-Onboard businesses to Bitcoin through unique value propositions

-Reward and encourage the average consumer to participate in the Bitcoin economy

-Empower individuals to get involved in their community and help bring Bitcoin to billions

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
16:55
16:55
30min
Africa: Independence through bitcoin
Renata Rodrigues, Kgothatso Ngako, Hermann Buhr Vivier, Bernard Parah, Yamb Ntimba

With Africa's youth wanting more independence and connectivity to the world, Bitcoin is the beacon of hope that allows them to break their dependence on the west. Learn about the tools, programs, and grassroots efforts helping to turn the continent orange.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
16:55
20min
Splicing
Dusty Daemon

Lightning channel sizes have been fixed as of now. Splicing changes this.

DEV
Galoy Stage
17:00
17:00
30min
Lightning routing and the price of anarchy
Anthony Potdevin

As the Lightning Network grows and routing payments becomes more complex, sophisticated and competitive, can we continue using a selfish routing model or do we need an alternative?

Auditorium
Auditorium
17:00
30min
PlebLab_ an accelerator for the Bitcoin Era
Kyle Murphy

PlebLab is an accelerator program for Bitcoiners by Bitcoiners, it's team of misfit hackers and wizards on the spectrum.

It's a place for daily compounding PoW.

Nothing fancy... after all, it's Pleb Lab, not fancy lab.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
17:15
17:15
45min
Deploying Watchtowers
Sergi Delgado Segura

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Workshop
Voltage Room
17:15
45min
How to set up your own federation
Eric Sirion

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Workshop
DIGTL Room
17:15
45min
Stablecoins
Sifr

Our bitcoin company provides remittance to countries with low/no/predatory western union coverage, bitcoin and stablecoins provide instant and high conversion rate to customers.

There also so some dangers to stablecoins we encounter in our service.

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
17:20
17:20
20min
Trade-offs in mobile wallets architecture design with LApps connection
Kenichi Kurimoto

There exist various trade-offs in mobile wallet architecture design. Nayuta designed a non-custodial wallet with Lapps environment. In this session, He enumerates various trade-offs in architecture design so listeners can know the current lightning network wallet status.

DEV
Galoy Stage
17:30
17:30
25min
Escape to El Salvador
Jeremy

What makes El Salvador a great place to live? Jeremy from Escape to El Salvador has been working with Bitcoiners from around the world, helping them relocate to El Salvador and will walk you through the benefits of establishing legal residency and how to start your journey in this beautiful country!

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
17:30
30min
Hoseki
Sam Abbassi

Hoseki is a proof of reserves company dedicated to empowering Bitcoiners through their Bitcoin ownership. Hoseki CEO Sam Abbassi will be presenting Hoseki the idea, the company, and will be presenting a demo of their first product. Find more information at www.hoseki.app

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
17:30
30min
Value 4 Value streams
Michael Bumann

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Auditorium
Auditorium
17:45
17:45
40min
Everything you always wanted to learn about bitcoin mining (but never knew who to ask)
Gerson Martinez, Ryan MacLeod, Josue Lopez

From home mining to nuclear mining with small modular reactors, everything you always wanted to learn about bitcoin mining.

DEV
Galoy Stage
18:00
18:00
21min
Closing Remarks Day 1

Closing Remarks

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Bitfinex Stage
18:00
30min
Crowdhealth
Andy Schoonover

How can we utilize BTC to fix healthcare. Health insurance companies hold large pools of capital in a centralized account to ensure that bills get paid. Its expensive and inefficient especially in an inflationary environment. CrowdHealth enables its members to hold those "reserves" in BTC in their own accounts. We will be talking about the brokenness of healthcare and the many ways it mirrors the perverse incentives of the monetary system.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
18:00
30min
There is no universal truth
Yves Bennaim

Everyone's background and journey are unique and personal. Newcomers are being told "you MUST use a hardware wallet" or "you MUST run a node". Everyone is falling down the Bitcoin rabbit hole at their own pace.

Auditorium
Auditorium
18:25
18:25
30min
Bitcoin Dedication
Roger 9000

https://www.roger9000.com/

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
19:00
19:00
30min
Comeback Country - Movie Screening and Q&A
Bitcoin Shooter

Learn the brutal and beautiful history of El Salvador in just 11 minutes and you'll understand why it's the comeback story of a lifetime!

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
19:30
19:30
80min
Dare to Dream: A Story From El Salvador (Documentary film)
Graham Rittener

First screening (english version) of the documentary film about Bitcoin Beach and the path to bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador:

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8CMA28efRQ

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
21:00
21:00
60min
DJ Valerie B Love rocking the Crowne's terrace
DJ Valerie B Love

Bitcoin Party!

Workshop
Bitfinex Stage
09:00
09:00
20min
Bitcoin is Speech
Akin Fernandez

While most argue that Bitcoin is a medium of exchange or a store of value, Akin Fernandez thinks that Bitcoin is speech that can be used to extend the possible range of human expression.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
09:20
09:20
25min
Keynote
Giacomo Zucco

Keynote by Giacomo Zucco

DEV
Galoy Stage
09:25
09:25
20min
Sovereign Adoption of Bitcoin: a probability based approach
Matthew Sigel

Along with VanEck's emerging market debt team, we analyze a country's probability of adopting bitcoin as a legal tender.

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Bitfinex Stage
09:30
09:30
45min
How to Leave Your Bitcoin Inheritance
Anthony Park

Bring your laptop and follow along as we use free online tools to create your will and bitcoin inheritance plan.

By the end of the workshop, you'll have your own pdf will, named executor, and next steps to finalize your (very basic) bitcoin inheritance plan.

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
09:30
30min
Lightning Network Observability
Aljaz Ceru

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Auditorium
Auditorium
09:30
45min
Lightning native privacy tools
Openoms

Find a reading list and tools to be discussed at https://www.lightningnode.info/privacy/resources

Workshop
Voltage Room
09:30
45min
Packaging Your Favorite Open Source Project for Start9 embassyOS
Dread, David

Service Packaging Best Practices for the Start9 embassyOS

Workshop
DIGTL Room
09:50
09:50
20min
Machankura: Bitcoin via USSD across Africa (without internet access)
Kgothatso Ngako

Machankura is a Bitcoin service that is giving people without internet connected devices the ability to send and receive Bitcoin. This is done through USSD (which works on any phone with a GSM connection through a live prompt and response session) similar to how Mobile Money digital payments are implemented. The service is now live in 9 countries and counting.

DEV
Galoy Stage
09:50
20min
Recap: Year 1 Chivo Wallet
Tristan Thoma, Alex Leishman, Ken Kruger

A deep dive into the launch of the Chivo wallet, the major updates brought to it over the year, and how they are currently managing to bring users back on board after a difficult start.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
10:00
10:00
30min
BOLT🔩FUN & #LegendsOfLightning 👊⚡️
Ed

Ed (@zapp_ed) will provide an introduction and overview of the BOLT🔩FUN community and it's first global online tournament - #LegendsOfLightning. Makers have been hacking for 6 weeks straight, accelerating their bitcoin projects in order to compete for some huge bitcoin prizes (In partnership with Fulgur Ventures & The African Bitcoin Conference).

Auditorium
Auditorium
10:00
30min
Porta
Pedro Solimano

Bitcoin adoption in Chile and building the first bitcoin only onboarding platform from Chile to LatAm.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
10:15
10:15
45min
How to build your Lightning web app
Michael Bumann, Moritz Kaminski, Kwinten DeBacker

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Workshop
Voltage Room
10:15
45min
Investing in Bitcoin Companies
Mike Jarmuz "Muzz"

Adventures in Bitcoin Venture Capital! From Plebs to Whales, anyone can invest in early-stage technology companies (not just the suits). Investing in Bitcoin companies is fun, and exciting, plus you can learn a lot. It can also be the best thing you can do to complement a HODL position. Learn about early-stage investing, and how to get involved. Tips on what to do, areas to avoid, and where to begin the journey. From equity crowdfunding to syndicates, angel investment groups to roll up vehicles. An overview of deal flow options for both accredited and non-accredited folks. Founders and operators may also find this relevant to learn more about how to fund their own projects. Let's have some fun and cover a lot ground!

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
10:15
20min
Keet
Paolo Ardoino

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DEV
Galoy Stage
10:15
45min
SeedSigner Basics: Single Signature Mobile Wallet Cold Storage with a SeedSigner
Joe Mayo

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Workshop
DIGTL Room
10:25
10:25
20min
How Bitcoin Banks Help Hyperbitcoinization
Juan Fonseca

Bitcoin represents a superior form of money, and there are several hypotheses about possible pathways to the broader adoption of bitcoin. What role can bitcoin banks play in accelerating hyperbitcoinization?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
10:30
10:30
30min
K1 - Inventing the El Salvador of the Future
Edgar Borja

K1 Technology has created the first Bitcoin ATM made in El Salvador, but this is only the first in a lineup of products designed to bring El Salvador into the future, making K1 a catalyst of the birth of the High Tech industry in the Central American country, and transforming it from a consumer of technology to an exporter of technology.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
10:30
30min
What can nontechnical people do to foster Lightning Network development
Mauricio Latinodos

Have you ever posted on social media, but never coded a bot?

Don't worry, most of the people excited about Lightning Network are NOT developers.

Attend this fun chat where we will share tips so you can start supporting the environment development from your very own corner of the graph ⚡️

THERE WILL BE GIFTS 🎁 🎉

Auditorium
Auditorium
10:45
10:45
25min
Integrating Lightning Network payments in a non-custodial Bitcoin exchange
Francis Pouliot

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DEV
Galoy Stage
10:50
10:50
15min
Bitcoin Capital Markets
Kyle Fry

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Bitfinex Stage
11:00
11:00
30min
BLIP
Rick Fisher

WHO - Anyone who values private communication away from prying eyes. BLIP is a Bitcoin only, peer-to-peer, uncensorable, untraceable communication platform. Applications include text messaging, voice over messaging, video conference comms, document transfer, voting and more.

HOW - Using Lightning and The Hexsum Encryption protocol. An obfuscation method using multi layered encrypt - decrypt plus Lighting blockchain, compiled with both Android and iOS native languages.

WHY - We created BLIP because our freedoms are being eroded everyday, the right too protected speech and freedom to assemble is at a crossroads and a solution is needed.

ADOPTION - A need exists to help drive bitcoin adoption outside the traditional model where users are primarily focused on the price of bitcoin as an asset. One of the most undervalued and misunderstood applications of Bitcoin is the network. BLIP is an application that provides a means to focus on bitcoin and specifically the lightning network as a privacy tool. Using a small denomination of value encourages the user to try bitcoin for the first time in an effort to restore their right to free speech without focusing on the PRICE of bitcoin.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
11:00
45min
How to avoid the same problems that occurred in the development of energy access between cities and remote areas to ensure the most inclusive adoption of bitcoin including users, miners and node
David Oren, Kgothatso Ngako

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Workshop
Workshop Room 3
11:00
45min
Know Your Node with Surge
Bob the Coder

We dive into lightning node data importance, new metrics we can collect, and demo this in a new product from Voltage called Surge.

Workshop
Voltage Room
11:00
45min
Specter Desktop Installation
Kim Neunert

Specter Desktop is a highly popular Open Source Bitcoin Coordinator App built to Store your bitcoin safely with the help of your Hardware Wallets. It supports all Major Hardware wallets, Multisignature Wallets and can be deployed very flexible, ready for Business Usecases.

This talk will give an overview of Specter Desktop and its ways to install/deploy/use it.

https://specter.solutions/desktop/

Workshop
DIGTL Room
11:00
30min
The bitcoin educational layer
Rogzy

Let's build the educational layer of bitcoin together, What tools, ressources and solution should we focus on.

Auditorium
Auditorium
11:10
11:10
40min
Tokenized sovereign debt as an alternative to IMF loans
Bitcoin Dad, Samson Mow, Greg Foss, Max Keiser, Paolo Ardoino

By providing funds and loans to poor countries, The World Bank and IMF can dictate a country’s economic policies, and exert great control over its politics. Could tokenized sovereign debt be the alternative to these institutions?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
11:15
11:15
20min
Composability of Lightning
Shinobi

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DEV
Galoy Stage
11:30
11:30
30min
Bringing low cost cold storage to the world
Joe Mayo

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Auditorium
Auditorium
11:30
30min
Tatacoa BTM
Daniel Trujillo

Tatacoa Bitcoin is a Colombian-based start-up working to facilitate Bitcoin commerce. We will be presenting two of our solutions: A human-assisted BTM that allows users buy and selling Bitcoin in their local currency and our own custodial wallet.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
11:45
11:45
45min
Bitfinex Mobile - Bitcoin adoption in a dollar economy
Mark Stevenson, Efrain

10 tools from Bitfinex Mobile to support your day-to-day life in Bitcoin Country

Feedback from early, and ongoing Bitcoin adoption often cite one common theme: the need to balance dollar economy demands Vs the desire to save sats on the Bitcoin standard.

To be able to onboard and convert that next new Bitcoiner, wallets need to be fit for real life uses, beyond just LN and BTC only.

Download the Bitfinex Mobile app and follow along as we explore the top 10 tools that make adoption easy for the new Bitcoiner

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
11:45
45min
Digital Security Offerings, Listings and Trading
James Wallace, Kyle Fry

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Workshop
DIGTL Room
11:45
30min
How transactions work under the hood and how that changed with Segwit
Murch

In this interactive talk, Murch will go through the parts of a serialized legacy transaction and a segwit transaction byte-for-byte to explain them in detail. Questions welcome!

DEV
Galoy Stage
11:45
45min
Lightning for Remittances: Asia Edition
Ethan Rose

Is the Philippines the next El Salvador?! We'll highlight the current state of bitcoin/lightning adoption for remittances, in one of the world's largest remittance corridors: The Philippines. We'll have an interactive exploration focused on lightning's usability challenges for remittances and discuss potential solutions.

Workshop
Voltage Room
11:55
11:55
20min
Bitcoin is Changing Governance
Peter Young, Timothy Allen

Bitcoin is a decentralized currency and payment network that eliminates the need for trusted authorities. What impact does this have on governance at a municipality, city, or country level?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
12:00
12:00
30min
Bitcoin Product Management. Bitcoin Pre-mortem@2141
Dulce Villarreal

Let's travel to the future to 2141. Learn about PM tools than make Bitcoin products thrive.
A futuristic view that allow us to learn from our mistake even before it happens and built openness culture.

Auditorium
Auditorium
12:00
30min
Lightning Labs
Lucas Ferreira

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
12:20
12:20
30min
Is bitcoin cloud-ready?
Justin Carter

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DEV
Galoy Stage
12:20
12:20
40min
Fractional Reserve with Bitcoin
Daniel Wingen, Eric Yakes, Sam Abbassi, Alex Leishman

How to avoid the same mistakes of legacy financial institutions?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
12:30
12:30
30min
BTCMap.org
secondl1ght

Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.

Our apps and the underlying data are free and open source.

We use OpenStreetMap to properly tag places where you can spend Bitcoin and we display that data in our beautiful apps.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
12:30
45min
Bitcoin Beach Brazil – Tools for local bitcoin adoption
Fernando Motolese

Technology is scarce and banking access is limited in the remote area of Jericoacoara, Brazil. Fernando is setting out to bring education and access to the “forgotton” kids. Hear about the journey and get a hands-on demo of the point of sale machines and BOLT cards that are enabling a school store to be built on bitcoin.

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
12:30
45min
Lightning API Tatacoa Bitcoin
Leonardo

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Workshop
Voltage Room
12:30
30min
Politics in the Bitcoin space
Samantha de Waal

Not everyone is an "anarcho capitalist"; how we might have more reasonable discussions around differences of opinion and understand Bitcoin in a broader political aspect

Auditorium
Auditorium
12:30
120min
Specter Desktop (Multi-/Single-)signature Usage
Kim Neunert

Managing onchain funds needs a significant amount of knowledge. In this 2h session we'll cover everything you need from the ground up to manage significant funds. Where reasonable, we'll practice with a specter desktop wallet.

  • public & private key cryptography and transaction
  • the ledger, transaction-structure and understanding inputs & outputs
  • From the seed to your wallet - theory
  • From the mnemonic to your wallet - practice / pennytest
  • Creating a Multisignature wallet
  • Operational models

https://specter.solutions

Workshop
DIGTL Room
12:55
12:55
20min
Liquid: Smart contract layer for Lightning applications
Marco Argentieri

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DEV
Galoy Stage
13:00
13:00
30min
Bitcoin mining with Small Modular Reactors
Ryan MacLeod

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Auditorium
Auditorium
13:00
30min
Time to shed light on a thriving ecosystem
Alexandre Bussutil, Johns Beharry

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
13:05
13:05
20min
Bitcoin Energy Efficiency compared to banking & payment industries
Michel Khazzaka

Many recent studies evaluated and criticised Bitcoin’s energy consumption through its Proof of Work (PoW) consensus mechanism without evaluating its efficiency compared to the classical electronic payment system. Based on physics, information science and economics, we compute and compare the energy consumption and define what is the energy efficiency of both the current monetary payment system and Bitcoin.

Energy Efficiency of Bitcoin
https://journal-of-insurance-and-financial-management.com/index.php/JIFM/article/view/292

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
13:15
13:15
45min
Gentle orange-pilling with Lightning Tip Cards
Johannes Grill, Philipp Horwath

How do you inspire people for Bitcoin without overwhelming the other end with information?

Our idee is simple: Hand out a lightning tip card - which you have loaded with sats before. It doesn't matter to whom you give your tipcard, e.g. a waiter, a taxi driver. They produced some value for you and now you can show your appreciation by giving some sats.

The tipcards landing page gives a short introduction into Bitcoin and explains the giftee how to receive the sats. Maybe your way of saying "thank you" is the gently way of handing out the orange pill 🍊💊🧡

👉 Check it out at https://tipcards.sate.tools

Workshop
Voltage Room
13:15
45min
Nodesignal's Bitcoin Bounty Program
Jan-Paul

Introduction to the Nodesignal Bitcoin Bounty Program:
What is it?
How can you participate?
How did we set it up?

Workshop
Workshop Room 3
13:20
13:20
40min
A serious talk about NFTs
Samson Mow, Patrick Hiebert, Adam Soltys, Lunaticoin

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DEV
Galoy Stage
13:30
13:30
30min
Bitfinex Pay
Luis Pinedo

An overview on Bitfinex Pay, the leading crypto payment gateway for Merchants.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
13:30
27min
Coordinating human resources with BTC
Oscar Lafarga

Using bitcoin as savings technology is well-understood... but how might we use bitcoin to start businesses, invest in companies, or fund open-source grants in a bitcoinized world?

Auditorium
Auditorium
13:30
13:30
40min
Narrative Wars - El Salvador's bitcoin endeavor in the media
Stacy Herbert, Joe Hall, Pierre Corbin, Akin Fernandez, Mike Peterson

On September 7, 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the history of the world to adopt bitcoin, the world’s new currency. The criticism of this move has been relentless by mainstream media. Is it just FUD, or is there any truth to it?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
14:00
14:00
45min
Get a VPN via Lightning and LNAuth
Lightrider

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Workshop
Workshop Room 3
14:00
45min
How to Build an App with Lightning
Paul Miller

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Workshop
Voltage Room
14:00
30min
STARBACKR - Empowering Digital Content Creators
Egge

Digital content creators are in a tough spot right now, fighting against big revenue cuts and restrictions daily. But Bitcoin is here to save them!

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
14:00
30min
Why Film is the Best Educator + How to Make an Inspiring Bitcoin Film
Bitcoin Shooter

Learn why film and storytelling is the best vehicle for communicating and inspiring people. Learn my process and ask me any questions you have so you can produce better quality videos and films.

Auditorium
Auditorium
14:05
14:05
20min
Onboarding billions to Lightning
Burak Keceli

Lightning scales bitcoin, but how to scale Lightning? Lightning's onboarding UX sucks, and the inbound liquidity problem is a non-starter for most users.

I will talk about three new primitives that can address these issues and potentially scale bitcoin to billions; channel addresses, tapleaf channels, and factory swaps.

DEV
Galoy Stage
14:15
14:15
40min
Bitcoin Country: Competitive advantage through bitcoin-friendly regulation
Chris Hunter, Daniel Leiva Fortín, Peter Young, Francis Pouliot, Erick Chacon

Are the regulations in El Salvador Bitcoin-friendly? What are the advantages of establishing a company in El Salvador? What should regulators focus on to improve the odds of companies choosing El Salvador as a base?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
14:30
14:30
30min
Bitcoin and Malign Adoption: The Double Edge of Massive User Growth
Bitcoin Dad

Greater bitcoin adoption means more interaction with regulated financial institutions and more custodial bitcoin users. Will bitcoin buck the numerous centralizing forces of greater financial system integration or succumb to regulation and become just another financial asset?

Auditorium
Auditorium
14:30
30min
Fuji Money - Borrow bitcoin-backed stablecoins without intermediaries
Marco Argentieri

Fuji is a Lightning-enabled non-custodial synthetic asset protocol on the Liquid Network. It exploits the power of Bitcoin & Elements opcodes, Taproot, and Lightning Network submarine swaps to enable the borrowing of synthetic assets against over-collateralized Bitcoin positions, such as stablecoins, and synthetic stocks, or bonds.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
14:30
45min
Happiness Within Bitcoin
Francisco Chavarria

Identifying how we all play a role in this bitcoin world; sharing its purpose provides a reliable path to happiness, positivity, hope, freedom, and ongoing friendships.

Workshop
DIGTL Room
14:30
40min
How to get started contributing sustainably to Bitcoin Core
Jon Atack, Stephan Livera

A fireside chat with Bitcoin Core developer Jon Atack and Bitcoin podcaster Stephan Livera.

DEV
Galoy Stage
14:45
14:45
45min
Bitcoin para periodistas
Luis Esparragoza

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Workshop
Voltage Room
14:45
45min
How To Hold Bitcoin Privately Using Wasabi Wallet
Alexandra Moxin

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Workshop
Workshop Room 3
15:00
15:00
30min
Bitcoin Renaissance 2.0: Humanistic Alternative to Technological Salvation
Nozomi Hayase

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Auditorium
Auditorium
15:00
30min
Investing in Tropical Real Estate with Bitcoin and owning it as an NFT
Patrick Hiebert

EcoVillages, a freedom and sustainability oriented community creator, and MavenNFT, a hard asset NFT marketplace, have teamed up to sell the first Latin American properties with Bitcoin/Liquid and have the ownership represented as an NFT! That means secure blockchain ownership of your tropical getaway or rental revenue investment property in Latin America. Learn how incredibly easy, affordable and secure it is to buy and sell your piece of paradise!

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
15:00
30min
The Sovereign Organization
Nicolas Burtey

Many of us are familiar with The Sovereign Individual, but what about organizations? Accentuated by recent events, it's time to consider how organizations can reduce risk and complexity and improve user experience by adopting a bitcoin standard.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
15:15
15:15
20min
The Wallets we use - What could possibly go wrong?
Leo Wandersleb

We looked into more than 4000 wallet products. Almost all could - given the criminal energy to do so - take all their customer's funds all at once at any point in time. In this talk I give an overview of the market and what to look for when choosing your wallet.

DEV
Galoy Stage
15:30
15:30
30min
Is Guatemala next to adopt Bitcoin?
Piero Coen

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Auditorium
Auditorium
15:30
30min
Mi Primer Bitcoin
John Dennehy

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
15:35
15:35
40min
Orange Pilling the World's Masses
Ulf Heyden, Paco, Riccardo Giorgio Frega, Samantha de Waal, Alan Jackson

World travellers and experts share their first-hand accounts of trying to orange pill people that have never heard of Bitcoin before.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
15:40
15:40
20min
Time Value of Lightning
Jesse Shrader - Amboss Technologies

In a world of custodial yield products and counter-party risk, Lightning is providing a way to earn bitcoin income from providing payment services without sacrificing custody. In this talk, we'll share tools for this burgeoning market and early data from the marketplace.

DEV
Galoy Stage
16:00
16:00
30min
Historical high inflation problems and bitcoin adoption in Brazil
Carol Souza

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Auditorium
Auditorium
16:00
30min
Paysea
Arun Nedun

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
16:05
16:05
40min
Sidechains & layers - what's the right way to extend bitcoin functionality
Bitcoin Dad, Giacomo Zucco, Peter Todd, John Carvalho

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DEV
Galoy Stage
16:20
16:20
20min
PAX BITCOINICA - Bitcoin & Geopolitics, Redefining the Maps
Yves Bennaim

How Bitcoin is changing how nations interact with one another, and what it means for people.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
16:30
16:30
30min
Geyser Fund
MetaMick, Stelio Rammos

Lightning-native crowdfunding platform.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
16:30
30min
Prospera, Governance Innovation and Unleashing Technological Progress
Niklas Anzinger

Startup cities solve the legal base layer that holds back innovation - bad regulations. Niklas will talk from first-hand experience in Prospera.

Auditorium
Auditorium
16:45
16:45
40min
Let's make earning bitcoin the dominant way of acquiring bitcoin
Obi Nwosu, Paul Itoi, Stephan Livera

Exploring the opportunities to earn Bitcoin and making it the most dominant way to earn those valuable sats.

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
16:50
16:50
20min
Bitcoin on the Web - the potential of the Lightning Network
Michael Bumann, Moritz Kaminski

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DEV
Galoy Stage
17:00
17:00
30min
Bitcoinization of Roatan island
Dusan Matuska

We founded the first Bitcoin Education Center in Honduras - on the Roatan island in Próspera.

AmityAge Academy aims to be the place where anybody can come to learn about Bitcoin, buy it in the non-kyc ATM and spend it in our bitcoin-only Café.

I will share more insights about our journey, plans and lessons learned.

Auditorium
Auditorium
17:00
30min
How can motorsports be used to increase bitcoin adoption and tourism in El Salvador
Charlie Mackenzie, Herbert Esmahan, Andrew Mackenzie

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Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
17:15
17:15
50min
The Lightning Law - El Salvador's boost for Lightning
Desiree Dickerson, Roy Sheinfeld, Jeff Gallas, Ben Arc

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DEV
Galoy Stage
17:30
17:30
15min
Conquering Time and Space
Max Keiser

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ECON
Bitfinex Stage
17:30
30min
Volt: Lightning on Urbit
Jacob Hamilton

Volt is a Lightning node implementation built on Urbit, a clean-slate OS, peer-to-peer network, and software stack that's built to last forever and 100% owned by its users. The talk will give an overview of Urbit and the advantages of building Bitcoin and Lightning applications on it, and introduce Volt and our plans for integrating Lightning and other Bitcoin innovations like Taro with the Urbit ecosystem.

Solutions Stage
Solutions Stage
17:50
17:50
40min
Investing in Lightning Network Companies
Chris Hunter, Max Webster, Mike Jarmuz "Muzz"

What do investors look for when investing in lightning companies?

ECON
Bitfinex Stage
18:10
18:10
10min
Closing Remarks Day 2

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DEV
Galoy Stage