Kai Landre is one of the first Cyborg Musicians in history. His first Cyborg Sense, the Cosmic Sense, captures subatomic particles created by the fall of Cosmic Rays in the atmosphere of the planet, translating them into sound and identifying each one to a musical note, which allows Kai to compose live music with them.

Kai is a member of Cyborg Foundation, founded by Neil Harbisson, focused on projects related to the creation of new senses and perceptions. His Cosmic Sense has been officially presented at Princeton University during the annual Envision Conference.

Jarrad is the thought leader and Co-Founder of Status, an open-source mobile client for the Ethereum Network that serves as a gateway to DApps, secure wallet, and more. Status raised more than $100M in less than twenty-four hours through its token sale of SNT.

Jarrad has been involved in the Blockchain technology space since 2010 and has been an active contributor to Ethereum since its inception. He possesses a strong vision to leverage the cutting edge technology of Blockchain, as well as employ crypto-economics in our society’s future, with a higher goal of pushing the movement of ‘libre software’ forward.

Jarrad established the Ethereum Amsterdam Meetup, which now has hundreds of members organizing and taking part in its events. Jarrad has also been an active contributor to OpenNARS an academic general-purpose AI project. Prior to Status, he founded several successful startups, primarily around software distribution.

Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter and the co-founder of Cryptohippie. He is also the author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Production Versus Plunder, and The Breaking Dawn. He is a co-author of The New Age of Intelligence.

Seth is a privacy educator who hosts the “Opt Out” podcast. He also contributes to the Monero project, a privacy-preserving cryptocurrency.

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Monero and the struggle for financial privacy

How we fight back with digital privacy tools like Monero as a shot back at “them”, and how financial privacy (and thus autonomy) are key to broader personal autonomy and human rights.

Paul’s research interests are related to the cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum, but increasingly oriented toward the latter. Paul arguea cryptocurrencies are best understood as forms of cultural expression with associated micro-economies. To this end, he focuses on the creativity of cryptocultures. His research is qualitative in orientation. Paul is influenced primarily by the theories of social imaginaries (Taylor) and the commons (Ostrom). He is interested in how these occur within the polycentric forms of governance (Polanyi) characteristic of cryptocurrency cultures.

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The Realpolitik of the Ethereum Ecosystem

What is the social, cultural, and political endgame of the Ethereum project? In this paper, I discuss the various answers on offer among the emergent social, cultural, and political factions within Ethereum: cypherpunks, experimental liberals, solarpunks, lunarpunks.

The non-technical endgame of Ethereum is clear: to be a decentralised World Computer. We have, therefore, an answer to the question “What is Ethereum?” But, curiously, we lack an answer to the question “What is Ethereum for?” What is the social, cultural, and political endgame of the Ethereum project? In this talk, I discuss the various answers on offer among the emergent social, cultural, and political factions within Ethereum: cypherpunks, experimental liberals, solarpunks, and lunarpunks. I try to discover a meta-narrative that unites them and find among them a common commitment to agorist practice.

The assistant professor at the University of Žilina, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology. Editor of the information and analytical website about energy – energiaweb.sk.

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Will the last shot be even digital? Energy as a tool of oppression, even renewable ones

You can decentralise yourself with renewable energy sources, but you need still allowance from them. And many renewables are anyhow visible. But how to use their narratives for more freedom in physical world. How not to even give them a chance to fire the last shot.

Along with finance, energy is one of the most necessary commodities. And like with finance, it’s actually an invisible commodity that few people understand. It has been a highly centralised commodity since the beginning of the 20th century. And several, especially more totalitarian, regimes use energy to suppress non-compliant communities. But even in EU countries, which otherwise talk about green and renewable energy, decentralised electricity production has not completely won. Can renewable energies be used centrally and to reduce freedom? And on the other hand, can RES be used to defend one’s independence?

Matthias Tarasiewicz is a developer, consultant, research designer and project coordinator. He is an enthusiast for immutable and unstoppable code and an Open Source evangelist. Focus areas: Open Source Hardware, Web3, privacy and decentralization. Director of the RIAT Institute and CSO of RIAT Labs.

Radim is attorney-at-law and proud implementer of Paralelni Polis ideas. As a co-founder of Parallel Garden, he is primarily in charge of legal agenda – however, not only in a way you would assume. Project based on ideas of Paralelni Polis demands effort to keep the compliance with its ideas. It covers either searching for specific rules, or even creating the new ones. In 2017, Radim also co-founded Blockchain Legal, law firm focused on cryptocurrencies and digital technologies based in Prague.

Daniela is a Bitcoin developer working mainly on wallets – she is now dedicated full time to BDK, a library for seamlessly building highly-customizable Bitcoin wallets, while in the past she spent time working on Blockstream Green, BraiinsOS, Stratum V2, revaultd, and revault-gui.

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Life is short, Bitcoin is forever

What would happen to your coins if you were to die in the next three hours? Would they be lost forever? Would your relatives be able to recover them?Descriptors, timelocks, taproot. 0% custodians.

# The premise

We don’t like custodians. Not your keys, not your coins.

# The problem

Self custody of Bitcoin is hard. Making sure that your relatives can access your coin after your death, but can’t steal them before your death, is even harder.

# The solution

…You’ll have to listen to my talk to find out. Sorry, no spoilers!

Cryptoanarchist for 20 years. Privacy extremist and crypto absolutist. Founder of anarplex.net, co-founder of TAZ0, and co-host of Cypherpunk Bitstream Podcast. Author: Second Realm – Book on Strategy, Dropgangs – future of darknet markets, Aristocracy of Action, The Treasure that is Privacy, The New Age of Intelligence. Operator of anonymous remailers, darknet hangouts, and the longest-running darknet IRC. Developer of privacy-enhancing technologies. Covert communications specialist, a security consultant.

Mário is a hacker and researcher focused on making the crypto ecosystem more efficient and anonymous. As a member of Paralelní Polis, co-founder of Bordel Hackerspace, and the driving force behind Pizza Day Prague, Mário educates about tools of cryptoanarchy in local communities with a focus on onboarding via Lightning and p2p exchange. He is a vast enjoyer of FOSS, parallel economy, and trolling bitcoiners.

Jindřich is a Senior Cyber Threat Researcher working for Trend Micro. Also, a security data scientist known as 4n6strider.

The main focus of his research is the domain of cognitive warfare, (cyber) espionage, and advanced persistent threats and manipulators.

In his work, he often analyses huge piles of data to deduce the Ontology of the security issue to enable the machines to detect the threat in scale.

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Counter inteligence: Defending against the cognitive warfare

The talk will be brief overview of cognitive threats we are facing these days. Methods for detection and measurement will be disclosed. With help of ML it is possible not only detect the manipulation but also monitor the perpetrator and produce the antidote!

We all have brains, that ingest and process everything we see and hear regardless we want to. This fact is abused in what is now called the cognitive warfare. Aim of this talk is to present the most often routes to our brains, used by so called “Advanced persistent manipulators” and the ideas how to measure the “psy ops” in digital world.

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Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a core dev at lunarpunk layer 1, DarkFi. She is also co-editor of the philosophy journal Agorism in the 21st Century. As a writer she has published in egirlcapital, CoinDesk, Defiant, Wired and elsewhere under anonymous accounts. She believes privacy is necessary for communities to define their own destinies.

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A Lunarpunk Primer

Blockchains have become a surveillance nightmare; the lunarpunk movement, inspired by science fiction and empowered by zero-knowledge cryptography, redefines cryptocurrency as an encrypted dark forest that protects participants instead of exposing them.​

Lunarpunk is revolutionary science-fiction. This talk will attempt to give an overview of lunarpunk and its philosophical roots. It will discuss the basis of lunarpunk in agorism and anarchist philosophy and outline its vision of technology.

Juraj Bednár is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Progressbar, Paralelná Polis, and Hacktrophy. He wrote several books, his latest one being “Cryptocurrencies – hack your way to a better life”. He creates on-line courses and content about privacy, crypto and entrepreneurship.

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Bitcoin’s last shot: The peer to peer economy

The meaning of words is distorted. “Inflation”, “unhosted wallets”, “virtual assets”. And also, Bitcoin – represented by account balances in centralized custodians. What are the different forms of Bitcoin, what are their features and what will be it’s last shot?

Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software package. Originally designed as a human rights tool, PGP was published for free on the Internet in 1991. This made Zimmermann the target of a three-year criminal investigation, because the government held that US export restrictions for cryptographic software were violated when PGP spread worldwide. Despite the lack of funding, the lack of any paid staff, the lack of a company to stand behind it, and despite government persecution, PGP nonetheless became the most widely used email encryption software in the world. After the government dropped its case in early 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. That company was acquired by Network Associates Inc (NAI) in 1997. In 2002 PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation, where Zimmermann served as special advisor and consultant until its acquisition by Symantec in 2010. Since 2004, his focus has been on secure telephony for the Internet, developing the ZRTP protocol and creating products that use it, including Silent Phone and Zfone. Zimmermann is Co-founder of Silent Circle, a provider of secure communications services.

Before founding PGP Inc, Zimmermann was a software engineer with more than 20 years of experience, specializing in cryptography and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems. His interest in the political side of cryptography grew out of his background in military policy issues.

Janine is a privacy researcher and investigative journalist focused on Bitcoin and (counter)surveillance. Author of “This Month in Bitcoin Privacy newsletter, a board member of Open Sats, and committee member for the CryptoCurrency Cerification Consortium (C4).

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Blockchain Surveillance, Cyber Mercenaries, and Intelligence

A peek into the overlap between blockchain analysis companies, private spyware firms, and government intelligence agencies.

This presentation will explore the corner of our industry that is occupied by so-called blockchain analysis companies, who (dis)claim many guises: analysts, scientists, artists, crime-fighting detectives, and spies. Where is the line between analysis and surveillance? What is their relationship with existing techniques, infrastructure, and norms shared with private hacking and spyware businesses, as well as nation-state intelligence apparati? And what could we do about it? 

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DarkFi – The Coming Storm

Defining a new paradigm in anonymous ecosystems with free software and anonymous engineering. 

The talk will be an overview of what is happening in the world regarding crackdowns against crypto, how incompetence and having no ideology leads to broken systems, and how with free software we can be vigilant against oppressors and regain our privacy, sovereignty, and anonymity.

Miroslav Barta is a Czech archaeologist and egyptologist, author of the seven laws theory explaining how all civilisations develop through time, rise, peak, collapse, and transform.

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Seven Laws of Civilisations

The seven laws specify the nature of the so-called collapse, leap-wise development in time, the Heraclitus law, the importance of the elites, leadership and social contract, the determining role of technologies, resources and available energy to sustain or to boost complexity and finally the law of adaptation to changing environment.

elsirion is a Crypto-Anarchist and aspiring Cypherpunk developing mostly on Rust and researching cryptography and distributed systems with the goal of making Bitcoin more private and accessible at the same time. He is interested in everything that enhances personal freedom.

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Setting up a community bank with Fedimint (Workshop)

Fedimint is a new way to onboard communities to Bitcoin. The protocol provides cheap, fast and private-by-default transactions and is interoperable with Lightning.

Any group of at least 4 people can form a Fedimint federation and become the federation’s Guardians. The Guardians run the Fedimint server software and by doing so ensure the correct functioning of the system and the safety of user funds. Even if single Guardians (up to a certain threshold) go offline or become malicious the system keeps functioning correctly.

In the workshop we will help you set up Fedimint federations on a local Bitcoin regtest network and demonstrate how funds can be transferred between them. Once Fedimint becomes more stable you will be able to use that knowledge to run Fedimints in your own community or tribe.

**Please bring a laptop with Linux installed to follow along. Having Nix installed is also useful.**

Founder of the world’s first Decentralized Autonomous University: Bittopia University. An advocate for decentralization, P2P economies, privacy, and bottom-up strategies. Specialized in product development & innovation pathways. Over 10 years of experience as a product engineer and designer. Netexplo UNESCO Grand Prix award winner, Amin Rafiee, a regular speaker at Bitcoin and decentralization conferences throughout Europe, including The UNESCO House in Paris, The European Commission in Brussels, The Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Paralelni Polis in Prague, as well as other locations throughout America and Australia.

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Knowledge is Currency (Talk)

Using distributed networks to create a solutions for the growing number of victims produced by the cancel culture and institutionalized education. Furthermore, learn about my story of escaping communist Australia, and my observation of the local rebilion groups.

Since the dawn of time, we have been searching for answers, questioning our origins, purpose, and destiny. The Gutenberg press enabled people to share knowledge through books, bypassing institutions (middleman), while the Internet freed the flow of information across the planet, giving us access to lost archives and stories that were otherwise inaccessible.

Now we are faced with several new challenges, the cancel culture posining our world, limiting expressions and thoughts, and the decaying education system which has turned into indoctornation.

The traditional educational system is better aligned with selling knowledge by indebting students and creating specialized workers, thus limiting their choices in life, than it is with the notion of empowering people so that they can free themselves from compartmentalized learning and financial slavery.

This talk will cover the power of decentralized education.​​​