MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019

The Next Ten Years

March 9-10

Learn More About the 2019 MIT BTC Expo

2019 Expo Speakers

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

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

Leigh Cuen
Coindesk

Lindsay Lin
Legal Counsel, Interstellar & Stellar Development Foundation

Lucianna Kiffer
PhD Student, Northeastern University

Marcin Jachymiak
MIT Bitcoin Club

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
Co-Founder, Bitbridge

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 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 + James Lovejoy	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	The Cosmos Launch: Defining an MVP for a Next Generation Blockchain	Zaki Manian
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
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM	Break
11:15 AM - 11:40 AM	Zero Knowledge Proofs and Smart Contracts with Bulletproofs	Cathie Yun
3:35 PM - 4:00 PM	Non-Custodial Solutions for Centralized Exchanges	Sharon Goldberg
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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2019 Expo Team

Manasi Vora
Expo Director

Shounak Ghosh
Expo Co-Director

Hugo Uvegi
Expo Content

James Lovejoy
Expo Content

Océane Boulais
Expo Logistics

Nchinda Nchinda
Expo Logistics

Daniel Marquez
Expo Logistics

Ronald Vargas
Expo Marketing

Sacha Ghebali
Expo Marketing

Sahil Sachdev
Expo Sponsorship

Ethan Nevidomsky
MITBTC Treasurer

William Lopez-Cordero
MITBTC President

MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019

The Next Ten Years

March 9-10

Learn More About the 2019 MIT BTC Expo

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

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

Leigh Cuen Coindesk

Lindsay Lin Legal Counsel, Interstellar & Stellar Development Foundation

Lucianna Kiffer PhD Student, Northeastern University

Marcin Jachymiak MIT Bitcoin Club

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 Co-Founder, Bitbridge

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 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

10-250

Time

Description

Presenters

Moderator

34-101

Time

Description

Presenters

Moderator

10-250

Time

Description

Presenters

Moderator

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

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

Leigh Cuen
Coindesk

Lindsay Lin
Legal Counsel, Interstellar & Stellar Development Foundation

Lucianna Kiffer
PhD Student, Northeastern University

Marcin Jachymiak
MIT Bitcoin Club

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
Co-Founder, Bitbridge

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 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

Manasi Vora
Expo Director

Shounak Ghosh
Expo Co-Director

Hugo Uvegi
Expo Content

James Lovejoy
Expo Content

Océane Boulais
Expo Logistics

Nchinda Nchinda
Expo Logistics

Daniel Marquez
Expo Logistics

Ronald Vargas
Expo Marketing

Sacha Ghebali
Expo Marketing

Sahil Sachdev
Expo Sponsorship

Ethan Nevidomsky
MITBTC Treasurer

William Lopez-Cordero
MITBTC President