Allan Stevo
Co-Founder, Bitcoin NYC & Business Development, Kraken
Amanda Fabiano
Senior Program Manager, Fidelity Center for Applied Technology
Amber Baldet
Co-Founder & CEO, Clovyr
Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream
Arjun Balaji
Independent Investor & Cryptocurrency Researcher
Ash Egan
Principal, Accomplice VC
Bill Barhydt
Founder & CEO, Abra
Bjorn Wagner
Co-Founder, Parity Technologies & Polkadot Network
Boyma Fahnbulleh
Contributor, Handshake
Bruce Fenton
Founder, Chainstone Labs
Caitlin Long
Co-Founder, Wyoming Blockchain Coalition
Carl Dong
Software Engineer, Chaincode Labs
Cathie Yun
Cryptographer, Interstellar
Charles Guillemet
Chief Security Officer, Ledger
Christian Decker
Software Engineer & Researcher, Blockstream
Cory Fields
Developer, Bitcoin Core, MIT DCI
David Molnar
Developer, Wasabi Wallet
David Vorick
CEO, Nebulous & Co-founder, Sia
Elaine Shi
Associate Professor, Cornell University
Erick Pinos
President & CEO, Blockchain Education Network
Fabrice Drouin
Founder & CTO, ACINQ
Frank Chaparro
Senior Correspondent, The Block
Gary Gensler
Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan & Former Chairman, CFTC
Georgios Konstantopoulos
Lead Researcher, Loom Network
Giulia Fanti
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Hester Peirce
Commissioner, SEC
Jack Mallers
Creater, Zap Wallet
James Prestwich
Founder, Summa
Jamiel Sheikh
Founder & CEO, Chainhaus
Jed Breed
Senior Product Manager, Crypto at Circle
Jeremy Welch
Founder, Casa
Josh Cincinnati
Executive Director, Zcash Foundation
Justin Moon
buidlbootcamp
Katherine Wu
Director of Business Development, Messari
Kristen Ragusin
Blockchain Enthusiast & Financial Investment Professional
Leigh Cuen
Coindesk
Lindsay Lin
Legal Counsel, Interstellar & Stellar Development Foundation
Lucianna Kiffer
PhD Student, Northeastern University
Marcin Jachymiak
MIT Bitcoin Club
Mark Nesbitt
Security Engineer, Coinbase
Matt Koskinen
Zcoin Ambassador to Boston
Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares
Nadav Hollander
Founder, Dharma Protocol
Naveed Ihsanullah
Head of Engineering, Algorand
Neha Narula
Director, MIT DCI
Nic Carter
Founder, Coin Metrics & Partner, Castle Island Ventures
Nima Vaziri
Contributor, Counterfactual
Niraj Pant
Partner, Polychain Capital
Paige Peterson
User Education, ZCash Company
Parker Hao
Partner, Bitbridge LP
Peter Todd
Applied Cryptography Consultant & Bitcoin Engineer
Peter Van Valkenburgh
Director of Research, Coin Center
Pierre Rochard
Founder, Lightning Power Users
Rebekah Mercer
Protocol Researcher, Coda Protocol, O(1) Labs
Rhys Lindmark
Head of Community and Long-Term Societal Impact, MIT DCI
Richard Burton
CEO, Balanced Software
Richard Myers
Decentralized Applications Engineer, goTenna
Rune Christensen
Co-Founder & CEO, MakerDAO
Ryan R. Fox
Development Coordinator, BitShares
Sharon Goldberg
Co-Founder & CEO, Arwen (formerly Commonwealth Crypto)
Steve Jain
Contributor, Bisq Network
Stuart Haber
Cryptographer
Tadge Dryja
Thought Leader, MIT DCI
Todd Lippiatt
Co-Founder & CEO, Factora
Zaki Manian
Advisor, Cosmos
2019 Expo Schedule Day 1
10-250
Time |
Description |
Presenters |
Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration | ||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director and Expo Committee Members | Manasi Vora | |
| 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Schnorr, MuSig, Thresholds and More for Bitcoin: A History | Andrew Poelstra | |
| 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Utreexo: Reducing Bitcoin Nodes to 1 Kilobyte | Tadge Dryja | |
| 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM | Blockchain Attack Vectors and Ecosystem Security | Cory Fields + Carl Dong | Sharon Goldberg |
| 10:50 AM - 11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | Wasabi Wallet: Unfairly Private | David Molnar | |
| 11:25 AM - 11:50 AM | 10 years of Bitcoin: Evaluating its Performance as a Monetary System | Nic Carter | |
| 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM | Decentralized Exchanges: Self-Custodying Your Assets | Steve Jain + Ryan Fox + Ethan Fast | Leigh Cuen |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM | Taming the Wild West: Effectively Regulating the Blockchain Space | Gary Gensler + Hester Peirce | |
| 2:10 PM - 2:35 PM | Non-Atomic Swaps | James Prestwich | |
| 2:35 PM - 3:00 PM | Zcash Governance: The Road Toward 2-of-2 Multisig | Josh Cincinnati | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM | Break | ||
| 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM | Zero Knowledge Proofs and Smart Contracts with Bulletproofs | Cathie Yun | |
| 3:35 PM - 4:00 PM | Non-Custodial Solutions for Centralized Exchanges | Sharon Goldberg | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:35 PM | Let's Talk About CEX: Centralized Trading Platforms | Jed Breed + Allan Stevo | Parker Hao |
| 4:35 PM - 4:45 PM | Break | ||
| 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Livestream from 34-101 |
34-101
Time |
Description |
Presenters |
Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration | ||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director and Expo Committee Members | Manasi Vora | |
| 9:15 AM - 9:27 AM | The Technology for the Borderless Economy | Naveed Ihsanullah | |
| 9:27 AM - 9:39 AM | Blockchain Education Network: Teaching the Next Generation | Erick Pinos | |
| 9:39 AM - 9:51 AM | Defending Against Counterfeiting Attacks in Zcash | Paige Peterson | |
| 9:51 AM - 10:03 AM | Lelantus: Improving on Zerocoin | Matt Koskinen | |
| 10:03 AM - 10:15 AM | Funding Cryptocurrency Development | Arjun Balaji | |
| 10:15 AM - 10:50 AM | Landing a Node on the Moon; Does it Have to be Rocket Science? | Justin Moon + Pierre Rochard + Jack Mallers | Marcin Jachymiak |
| 10:50 AM - 11:00 AM | Break | ||
| 11:00 AM - 11:25 AM | Abra's Crypto Collateralized Contract Technology | Bill Barhydt | |
| 11:25 AM - 11:50 AM | Counterfactual: A Framework for Generalized State Channels | Nima Vaziri | |
| 11:50 AM - 12:30 PM | Lightning Implementations: A Scaling Story | Fabrice Drouin + Christian Decker + Tadge Dryja | |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM - 2:10 PM | Livestream from 10-250 | ||
| 2:10 PM - 2:35 PM | The Path to Personal Sovereignty | Jeremy Welch | |
| 2:35 PM - 3:00 PM | Incentivizing Mesh Networks with Layer 2 Micropayments | Richard Myers | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:10 PM | Break | ||
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | Handshake: An Experimental, Peer-to-Peer Root DNS | Boyma Fahnbulleh | |
| 3:30 PM - 3:50 PM | Security Analysis of PoW Consensus Protocols | Lucianna Kiffer | |
| 3:50 PM - 4:10 PM | Plasma Cash: Towards improved Plasma constructions | Georgios Konstantopoulos | |
| 4:10 PM - 4:45 PM | Investing in a Digital World: New Approaches to VC | Niraj Pant + Meltem Demirors + Ash Egan | Amanda Fabiano |
| 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | Money, Apathy, Cryptography: The Fates of Internet Societies | Amber Baldet |
2019 Expo Schedule Day 2
10-250
Time |
Description |
Presenters |
Moderator |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Registration | ||
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Welcome | ||
| 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | Zuck Bucks, Dimon's Diamonds and Bitcoin: A Debate on Permissioned vs. Permissionless Systems | Peter Todd + Jamiel Sheikh | Rhys Lindmark |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Blockchain: An Origin Story, and a Warning About its Scientific Foundation | Stuart Haber | |
| 10:30 AM - 11:05 AM | Democratizing and Decentralizing Finance | Rune Christensen + Nadav Hollander + Todd Lippiatt | Kristen Ragusin |
| 11:05 AM - 11:15 AM | Break | ||
| 11:15 AM - 11:40 AM | The Cosmos Launch: Defining an MVP for a Next Generation Blockchain | Zaki Manian | |
| 11:40 AM - 12:05 PM | Polkadot & Substrate: Supercharging Blockchain Innovation | Bjorn Wagner | |
| 12:05 PM - 1:05 PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:05 PM - 1:50 PM | Regulation and Law: Layer 2 | Peter Van Valkenburgh + Katherine Wu + Caitlin Long + Lindsay Lin | Bruce Fenton |
| 1:50 PM - 2:20 PM | Synchronous, with a Chance of Partition Tolerance | Elaine Shi | |
| 2:20 PM - 2:30 PM | Break | ||
| 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Funds are ScAFE: Security Assessment of Open Source Hardware Wallets | Charles Guillemet | |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Deconstructing the Blockchain to Approach Physical Limits | Giulia Fanti | |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Busted Setup | David Vorick | |
| 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | A Guided Tour Through the World of Snarks | Rebekah Mercer | |
| 4:30 PM - 5:15 PM | Preventing Catastrophic Cryptocurrency Attacks | Neha Narula | |
| 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
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