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5-Year Anniversary Conference

5-Year Anniversary Edition

We celebrated our 5-year anniversary on 4-5 July, 2018 with a full-length conference at Baut, the former Magdalena Chapel in Amsterdam.

We compressed the whole 2-day conference, actually two full days and nights (!) of workshops, presentations, panel discussions and more, into this fast-paced highlight reel of about 3 and a half minutes.  All of the speakers at the event are featured in the video.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this special event, especially:

Silvio Micali of Algorand, and professor at MIT;

Paul Sztorc, creator of the drive chain and blind merge mining;

Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP;

Liz Steininger, CEO of Least Authority;

Amir Taaki, Bitcoin pioneer and hacktivist;

Stani Kulechov, CEO of Ethlend;

Neeraj Murarka, CTO of Bluzelle Networks;

Marloes Plomp of the Dutch Blockchain Coalition;

Christian Shearer, co-founder of the Regen Network;

Lightning Network developer Cezary Dziemian;

Kenichi Kurimoto, CEO of Nayuta;

Clément Lesaege, CTO of Kleros;

Harry Halpin, lead scientist at NEXTLEAP and Panoramix;

Sam Klebanov, CEO of Cinezen;

Yuriy Blokhin, Head of Partnerships at Bitfury;

Viacheslav Zhygulin, Product Owner at Bitfury;

Ilya Smagin, Head of Smart Contract development at Waves;

Tomer Kantor, Film Maker at Proof of Work;

Jochem Wieringa, Director of CryptoCrunch;

Guy Zbarsky, founder of KeepGo;

Antoine Verdon, Co-founder of Proxeus;

Simon Lelieveldt, regulatory consultant;

Michael Terpin, CEO of Transform Group; and

Justin Bons, Co-founder of Cyber Capital.

5-Year Anniversary Edition
Geoff Goodell, Researcher at University College London
Dr. Geoff Goodel

Geoff Goodellis a researcher at the Department of Computer Science at University College London and an authority on the interface between computer science, finance and public policy. His talk for Bitcoin Wednesday will cover the range of available options on the subject of financial privacy, from total surveillance as represented by traditional financial institutions to the use of cryptocurrencies and related privacy enhancing technologies.

Lyn Ulbricht, mother of Ross Ulbricht
Lyn Ulbricht

Lyn Ulbricht is the mother of Ross Ulbricht, the man sentenced to life in prison at the age of 36 for his involvement in Silk Road. The dark web marketplace has made an indelible impact on the industry.

JP Thieriot, CEO of Uphold
J.P. Thieriot

J.P. Thieriot is CEO of Uphold, a digital money platform that serves 1.7 million customers in more than 184 country and has processed almost $6 billion in transactions.

Ruben Merre, CEO of ngrave
Cold Hardware Wallets

Ruben Merreis co-founder and CEO of Ngrave, an end-to-end hardware wallet solution that tackles the what-ifs of managing digital assets and cryptocurrencies.

Patrick Dai, CEO of Qtum
Patrick Dai

Patrick Dai is CEO of Qtum. He will talk about how Qtum built a smart contract system on top of Bitcoin’s infrastructure.

Thomas Borrel, CPO of Polymath
Thomas Borrel

Thomas Borrel leads the Product Strategy, Product Management and Product Marketing teams across Polymath’s product portfolio. Prior to joining Polymath, Thomas was Director of Product Management at Extreme Networks where he led Extreme’s Software and Cloud offerings.

Micha Roon, CTO of EnergyWeb
Micha Roon

Micha Roon is the CTO of the Energy Web Foundation and the Share&Charge Foundation. He is an authority on energy grid decarbonization, electrical vehicle charging and the tokenization of renewable energy.