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Bitcoin Wednesday New Year's Reception 2017

Watch the highlights from Bitcoin Wednesday’s conference to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Bitcoin’s Genesis Block. The event was held in Mindspace on the Spuistraat in Amsterdam on 2 January, 2019.

This evening featured presentations by: Karyl Fowler, CEO of Transmute; Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam; Iddo Bentov, Chief Scientist at Spacemesh; Olivier de Jong, CEO of Airwave; Adrian Biłgorajski, CEO of Ganesa Technologies and Arbitool; and Adam Ficsor (nopara72), CTO of zkSNACKS and the Wasabi Bitcoin wallet. You can also take a look at an overview of the conference program.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.