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Full Program | MIT Bitcoin Expo 2026

Preliminary agenda — subject to change.

8:00 AMRegistration and Breakfast
9:30 AMWelcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director
9:40 AM
Keynote
Freedom Activist

Roya Mahboob

10:10 AM
Talk
Accelerating IBD with SwiftSync

Rob Netzke

10:40 AM
Talk
Cashu & Bitchat Developer

Calle

11:10 AMBreak
11:20 AM
Talk
Bitcoin Security Researcher

Ethan Heilman

11:50 AM
Panel
Inside Bitcoin Core: Building and Maintaining the Network

Antoine Poinsot, Furszy, Ava Chow, Cory Fields

12:30 PM
Talk
Transaction Introspection without Consensus Changes

Robin Linus

1:00 PMLunch Break
2:00 PM
Keynote
Fireside Chat with Hester Peirce

Hester Peirce

Mod: Namnueng

2:30 PM
Talk
More Efficient Garbled Circuits for Better BitVM Bridges

Liam Eagen

3:00 PM
Panel
Bitcoin Beyond the Base Layer: The Rise of L2s

Jeremy Rubin, Ekrem BAL, Andrew Camilleri, David Seroy

3:40 PMBreak
3:50 PM
Talk
Free IBD with Proofless Utreexo

Tadge Dryja

4:20 PM
Talk
DCI Research
4:50 PM
Panel
Crypto Infrastructure: Scaling the Stack

Austin Federa, Muriel Médard

5:30 PMClosing Remarks

Additional Programming

2:30 PM–4:30 PM
Workshop
DCI Global Workshop
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