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Friday Oct 2 Time (UTC+2) Studio 1 - La Fabrika Institute of Cryptoanarchy Paper Hub 10:00 DOORS OPEN 12:00 - 12:45 Badge Clinic: Getting Started With HCPP Badges Michael Schloh von Bennewitz + Mario Havel Personal Sovereignty Workshop 13:00 - 13:45 13:30 Opening Speech Secure Your Computer Mario Havel Personal Sovereignty Workshop 14:00 - 14:45 Artificially intelligent - role of technology in From Open Source To Open Resource My Top 30 Sovereignty Apps politics and the creation of the state Viktor Tron (remote) Pavol Luptak Sara Polak Personal Sovereignty Workshop 15:00 - 15:45 Decentralised chat and commerce on the Trustless Technologies versus Intermediaries networking break Lightning Network Thomas Nägele (remote) Ketominer 16:00 - 16:45 networking break From Figure to Ground: How humans became Browse Privately Using Firefox technology’s tools Juraj Bednar (remote) Douglas Rushkoff (remote) Personal Sovereignty Workshop 17:00 - 17:45 Interpreting COVID-19 health data networking break Decentralize Yourself And Avoid Digital Tobias “DeFi” Kaiser & Olga Ukolova Totalitarian Control Travin Keith Personal Sovereignty Workshop 18:00 - 18:45 Sovereign Individual Kit. Part I. Introduction Anarchy Online: A World of Strong Privacy Set Up Your Own Censorship Resistant Olga Ukolova David Friedman (remote) Chatroom Andrea Piana Personal Sovereignty Workshop 19:00 - 19:45 On Privacy Enhancing Currencies & Supply Build Your Own Bleskomat Lightning ATM Auditability Charlie Hill ("chill") & Carlos Garcia Ortiz & Riccardo Spagni (remote) Tomas Stary 20:00 - 21:20 Libertas Personal Sovereignty Workshop Film Premiere SCHEDULE
Saturday Oct 3 09:00 DOORS OPEN 10:00 - 10:45 How To Earn And Live Bitcoin Max Hillebrand Personal Sovereignty Workshop 11:00 - 11:45 How To Use Bitcoin Wallets Mario Havel Personal Sovereignty Workshop 12:00 - 12:45 How To Use A Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Chris Beams Personal Sovereignty Workshop 13:00 - 13:45 Death of the Old Guard Slavery to Sovereignty: How to Exit the Matrix Using Hardware Wallets for Bitcoin Alexandra Moxin Amin Rafiee (remote) Alena Vranova Personal Sovereignty Workshop 14:00 - 14:45 Teaching old cats to bark CypherHopePunk – Exploring possible future Build Your Own Hardware Wallet Jan Urban realities with an interactive SciFi Moritz Wietersheim Frank Rieger & Christiane Huetter (remote) Personal Sovereignty Workshop Set Up Multisig Wallet for Bitcoin (2-of-3) Moritz Wietersheim Personal Sovereignty Workshop 15:00 - 15:45 Information equals power equals risk Abusing the mastercard protocol to hack networking break Pavla Holcová bitcoin into FIAT payment terminals Silur (remote)
16:00 - 16:45 networking break Eric S. Raymond (remote) Applied Bitcoin Privacy Max Hillebrand Personal Sovereignty Workshop 17:00 - 17:45 Paradigmatics - Exploring New Technological networking break Using Lightning network Freedoms to Crush Old Power Structures /rootzoll Alexander Bard Personal Sovereignty Workshop
18:00 - 18:45 Smart cities or smart villages? How Machines Operate Us Running Lightning Network Privately Mark Ballandies Julia Tourianski (remote) openoms & /rootzoll Personal Sovereignty Workshop 19:00 - 19:45 Black Market Logistics - Context, Threats, Fuck Gun Control-9mm. How the internet and Set Up Your Business To Accept Bitcoin Methods, Future a 3D-printer can empower you with deadly And Lightning Payments Smuggler capabilities. Ketominer JStark1809 (remote) Personal Sovereignty Workshop 20:00 - 20:45 Gold Coin Auction SCHEDULE
Sunday Oct 4 10:00 DOORS OPEN 13:00 - 13:45 I - The Individual - Exist Civil disobedient in digital realm: the Hong Next-Generation Private Multisignature Max Hillebrand Kong way and its struggle until digital Wallets totalitarianism Alekos Filini Johnson Yeung (remote) 14:00 - 14:45 The Nym Mixnet Testnet is Live: The Fight for Exploring trust assumptions Revitalizing Usenet Digital Privacy and Autonomy Dankrad Feist (remote) Jason Evans Harry Halpin 15:00 - 15:45 networking break Optionality, uncertainty and freedom Origin and history of parallel polis Juraj Bednár (remote) Martin Leskovjan 16:00 - 16:45 I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords networking break Dissociative Identity Svarny Petr Josef
17:00 - 17:45 Panel: The European crypto liberation Crypto Cruise Ship networking break meeting after Chad and Nadia (remote) Oskar Giese, Gideon Gallasch (remote), Frank Braun, Smuggler, Juraj Bednár (remote), Sodomak. Moderator: Pavol Luptak 18:00 - 18:45 Memetic warfare: dangerous memes & Human augmentation, AI, life-hacking… and El Caracol (The Snail) fallacies. our best methods for evading mistakes Documentary Film Frank Braun David Brin (remote) 19:00 - 19:45 Insanely Great: The Cypherpunk Totality Paul Rosenberg (remote) 20:00 Closing Speech Chad and The first Chad and Nadia became the world’s first Nadia seasteaders seasteaders when they began living in a floating home 13 nautical miles from the Elwartowski coast of Thailand in the open ocean. That is, until the Thai navy decided that their floating home was a threat to Thailand’s national sovereignty and threatened Chad and Nadia with a death sentence if caught. After escaping Thailand and moving to Panama they are moving forward with plans to build floating homes off of the Caribbean coast of Panama, in a country that actually understands the economic benefits of having a completely new industry.
Chad and Nadia Elwartowski talk about their experience as the first seasteaders in Thailand. What is seasteading and how it goes hand in hand with cryptoanarchy? What is the next step forward for Crypto Cruise Ship talk 45min seasteading? Sea homes and a crypto cruise ship, a perfect incubator for the new digital future and everything related to testing decentralized systems.
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Smuggler Cryptoanarc Cryptoanarchist for 20 years. Privacy hist and extremist and crypto absolutist. cypherpunk 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, security consultant.
The client paid for your product, and now you have to deliver - across territories and borders filled with Black Market Logistics - hostile actors that want to suppress your business and steal the goods. We'll look at the process of logistics, the threats to fullfilment and methods both old-school and cutting edge. Digital Totality or not, Context, Threats, talk 45min the future looks bright for the independent international entrepreneur - we'll consider upcoming Methods, Future technologies and that could change the world for the better (a bit). #Detection, #Intelligence, #Tracking, #PostalSystem, #BulkLogistics, #Dropgangs, #UAVs, #Parasites & #ThrowIns.
Return to schedule Paul Co-founder Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Rosenberg of Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter and the Cryptohippie co-founder of Cryptohippie. He is also the and author author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, of the Production Versus Plunder and The Breaking Freeman’s Dawn. He is a co-author of The New Age of Perspective Intelligence. newsletter
We often think of a digital totality as a dark, oppressive thing, and for obvious reasons. The digital totality of the cypherpunks, however, had a beautiful purpose: To escape the fears, manipulations and extortions of the present world order, and build a better realm apart from them. As time has gone on, and however erratically and imperfectly, cypherpunk technologies have developed, Insanely Great: The and there are far more people working on them than ever before. talk 45min Civilization is a battle between production and plunder, with our digital realm devoted to production and Cypherpunk Totality the old order’s devoted to plunder. But the battle between the two goes further than even that, and by the time this presentation is finished, you’ll see that there are massive evolutionary benefits to winning this race. Not one, but two digital totalities stand in front of us, one an Eden, the other an Abyss… and we are uniquely positioned to steer the future in one way or another.
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Frank Braun Cryptoanarc Cypherpunk, cryptoanarchist, co-host of hist and Cypherpunk Bitstream, co-founder of TAZ 0 cypherpunk in Berlin. He is interested in technologies that can lead to more personal freedoms in our lifetimes.
We live in times of memetic warfare. Mechanisms like authority and popularity bias, which might have been useful in earlier times, have been amplified by social media to a degree which resembles a war zone. People split into different "communities" which often live in completely different realities (e.g., in regards to COVID-19), interacting with each other not via discourse but with memetic warfare. Memetic warfare: This presentations looks at the phenomenon of memetic warfare on the meta level and looks at some dangerous memes and fallacies in detail. Some meta questions: - What is memetic warfare? - What does dangerous memes & talk 45min it mean for society at large and ones personal life? - How to stay sane in an insane world? Some concrete fallacies. examples of memes in the "scene" we look at: - Everything has to be decentralized - The Internet will route around censorship - The market will fix it. - Bitcoin fixes this. - Just use a smart contract. - Linus's law: "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". We also try to classify these dangerous memes and fallacies into classes to make them easier recognizable and to develop strategies for memetic immunization.
Return to schedule Pavol Luptak Cryptoanarchist, CEO Pavol Luptak is a cryptoanarchist and voluntaryist focused on of Nethemba and technology and society hacking. He started his career as a computer Certified IT Security hacker with many prestigious IT security certifications. He is responsible Professional for many security projects and companies: Nethemba focused penetration tests & ethical hacking, a bug bounty company Hacktrophy and public projects (e.g. Mifare Classic cards cracking, hacking of public SMS transport/parking tickets, hack of e-Kasa). He co-founded Progressbar hackerspace in Bratislava and Parallel Polis in Prague and Bratislava. He has started the initiative ‘We do not work for the government’ for businesses that have decided not to work for the government and state institutions because of ethical or economic reasons. In addition to technologies, Pavol loves contemporary art as well. He is a member of the Czech contemporary art group Ztohoven which is responsible for many hacktivist projects and also started a digital art company Satori. With the development of Parallel Polis, Pavol decided to achieve his vision – completely opt-out of the system. He gave up his permanent residency, switched from bank accounts to crypto-currencies, started to use global services, becoming a global citizen.
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Apps that can make your life more independent, private and secure. In this demo session, we will fly over the best two factor authenticators, privacy browsers, decentralized and encrypted messengers, password managers, opensource privacy-aware Facebook and Twitter front-ends, alternative opensource repository, My Top 30 Sovereignty Demo Session anonymous number service provider for crypto, anonymization networks, anonymous crypto mixers, 45min Apps privacy aware crypto wallets, secure video calls, SSH and VPN services, privacy enhancers, offline OpenStreetMaps, secure firewall, secure YouTube frontend, opensource Google services alternatives, secure email client with PGP and S/MIME support Return to schedule
Juraj Bednár Hacker and Juraj Bednár is a co-founder of Paralelní entrepreneur Polis and Paralelná Polis Bratislava. He is interested in hacking everything. He founded several companies, mainly in IT security. He hacks his brain, biology and the world by creating parallel societies.
Optionality, uncertainty Is it possible to make smart decision in time of uncertainty? Is volatility of the environment the enemy? talk 45min Could we perhaps utilize freedom as a way to avoid digital totality? If yes, how do we measure it and how and freedom do we make sure we are prepared in advance, not reacting to what's already happening?
The Internet – and especially the web – is a place where people are used to the fact that almost everything is free. Thanks to this, internet services monetize something else – our attention. In order to do it effectively, they are constantly watching us to know what content to show us – whether it should be Browse Privately Using Workshop - an advertisement for a hair shampoo or a luxury car. Using the Internet without being tracked is not easy, Lecture 45min Firefox but it starts by tuning your browser. In this workshop, we’ll walk you through installing and configuring Firefox extensions for better security and privacy.
Return to schedule Frank Rieger Hacker, entrepreneur, Frank Rieger, is an hacker, entrepreneur, consultant and author. consultant and Professionally he has co-founded successful startups in the fields of of author mobile navigation, maps, information security and practical cryptography. He works as CTO of a leading supplier of encrypted communication devices and mobile network security systems. He serves as a spokesperson for the german Chaos Computer Club. His texts on the impact of technology on the society, digital freedom rights and privacy as well as the future of work and cyberwar are regularly published in german and international media. Together with Constanze Kurz he has published three german bestseller books on the future of privacy ("Die Datenfresser", S. Fischer 2011), the future of work in a world of machines and artificial intelligence ("Arbeitsfrei", Random House 2013) and "Cyberwar" (C. Bertelsmann, 2018). Together with Christiane Hütter he wrote the interactive Cypher-HopePunk polyplot novel Gefährliche Menschen (=Hazardous Humans).
Christiane Huetter World builder, writer, Christiane Hütter is a world builder. She explores, questions and psychologist (re)invents systems with the means of art, game design and storytelling. Her works cover a wide range of formats from hybrid and urban games, fictive organisations, revitalising festivals and playful settings for urban participation on all continents except Antarctica. She co-built the artist collective Invisible Playground and is the owner of the interactive literature platform polyplot. Together with Frank Rieger she wrote the interactive Cypher-HopePunk polyplot novel Gefährliche Menschen (=Hazardous Humans). Christiane regularly teaches at art universities and consults institutions concerning organisation, participation and playful speculation.
The world has changed quickly. States and MegaCorps have merged into The Complex, an opaque power structure that rules over ever more aspects of everyday life. Declaring people with abilities above the norm as “hazardous”. These hazardous humans, who possess the rare combination of above-average skills, high initiative and energy, have only two options:
To prove conformity by hiring themselves out to the state or the MegaCorporations, under constant surveillance. Or to be denied all opportunities in life by The Complex, be the victim of a succession of failures, failed startup financing, constant tax audits, denied visa applications and futile attempts to acquire interesting materials and equipment.
Or to make a completely different choice: A life parallel to the official society without ever revealing your name, ancestry or even gender to The Complex. In these shadows a thriving parallel society of tribes has CypherHopePunk – formed that follow their own rules and principles, with parallel economies built on anonymous digital Exploring possible cash. talk 45min future realities with an interactive SciFi “Hazardous Humans” tells the story of Taktuq, who lives in this underworld, always on the run, specializing in unorthodox trades and services to make a living. The story is not linear, it is full of choices and options that the reader needs to take. An unusual job offer throws Taktuq into the middle of a large conflict, and the readers’ choices can lead to very different outcomes – from even deeper dystopia to a bright future.
This talk is both about SciFi as a way to explore possible futures and about breaking traditional linear narrative structures by giving the reader the power to make a difference by choosing how the story develops. We will read some bits from the book, show how interactive storytelling works and also talk about the future that Taktuq lives in – which very well could be our own future.
“Hazardous Humans” has already been released in German and will be also published in English soon at https://polyplot.io.
Return to schedule Douglas Rushkoff Media theorist, Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas author Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Team Human, based on his podcast, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media,” “screenagers,” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. He is a columnist for Medium, and his novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen.
Digital technology is being developed with little or no awareness of the underlying operating system: corporate capitalism. New technologies are developed purely for their ability to extract value from people and places, instead of providing human beings with the capabilities they need to create and exchange value for themselves. As a result, we now live in a media environment where technologies use people From Figure to Ground: more than people use technology. One of the greatest promises of new media technologies was to unlock closed-ended narratives, and How humans became talk 45min offer people the opportunity to participate, actively, in the creation of a new human story. In this talk, technology’s tools media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff will use the lens of critical economic analysis to explain how this potential renaissance for human connection and flourishing was leveraged instead to amplify the most predictable, extractive and dehumanizing aspects of the market. He will also offer a path for digital, transmedia, and other post-linear creators to retrieve the human values driving our work by restoring the cultural alchemy at its core. Return to schedule
Riccardo Spagni Co-founder at Tari Riccardo is a co-founder at Tari Labs, a major contributor to the Tari Labs & maintainer at protocol, but is most wellknown for being a member of Monero Core the Monero project Team, the stewards of the Monero Project. With an academic background in informatics and logistics, Riccardo spent many years in software development, before starting a business in the import / export industry with his wife. Due to the success of that business, he had enough freedom to start tinkering with Bitcoin early in 2011. In 2012, he became involved in various cryptocurrency-related projects. In 2017 he launched GloBee, a successful multi-currency payment processor, and in 2018 began working on Tari, a decentralised assets protocol. Riccardo and his wife live along the Garden Route on the coast of South Africa, where he spends weekends pack rafting, hanging out with their dogs, flying drones, and playing with LEGO.
On Privacy Enhancing Privacy-enhancing have long been the subject of criticism around supply auditability. What are the Currencies & Supply talk 45min trade-offs? What are the risks? And is this an insurmountable problem for the future? Auditability
Return to schedule Martin Paralelní Paralelní Polis co-founder, InfoSec Leskovjan Polis professional, lawyer, literature geek, and wild co-founder, water lover. InfoSec professional, lawyer,
In 1978 Václav Benda critically reflected Charter 77 - one of the most significant acts of the Czechoslovak Origin and history of dissident movement. His essay gave a name to once and future strategy to elude institutional oppression talk 45min parallel polis but also create a new environment free from state authority. Where does the need to create parallel structures come from and how has this strategy evolved into Parallel Polis?
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Amin Rafiee Founder of Netexplo UNESCO Grand Prix award winner, Amin Rafiee, a Bittopia regular speaker at Bitcoin and decentralization conferences University. Lover throughout Europe, including The UNESCO House in Paris, of privacy and The European Commission in Brussels, The Swiss Re Centre decentralization. for Global Dialogue, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Paralelni Polis in Prague, as well as other locations throughout America and Australia.
Amin is currently building the world's first Decentralized Autonomous University: Bittopia University. You can learn more about this project at: https://bittopia.org
There is a game of musical chairs being played on a global scale. The music is about to stop, and those who have chosen ignorance over truth, exchanging liberty for a false sense of security, so that they can continue consuming, will be left without a seat.
Preparation did not start today, but decades ago, when legends like Timothy C. May and novels such as George Orwell's 1948 warned us of what was to come. The scenarios depicted by such legends are unfolding before our very eyes. Though there is light within darkness, and many people and organizations Slavery to Sovereignty: such as Paralelni Polis have been working tirelessly to help us secure a seat. As mentioned by Margaret talk 45min How to Exit the Matrix Mead:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has."
With that in mind, join me for my sixth year and learn how you can exit the Matrix with tools and ideas envisioned by those working hard, preparing for this day. Learn how to emancipate your mind, your body, and your world from slavery. Return to schedule Eric S. Internet Eric S. Raymond is an observer-participant Raymond developer anthropologist in the Internet hacker culture. and writer His research has helped explain the decentralized open-source model of software development that has proven so effective in the evolution of the Internet. Mr. Raymond is also a science fiction fan, a musician, an activist for the First and Second Amendments, and a martial artist with a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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Josef Bordeliér Josef's life can be best described by a single word: 'failure'. His parents abandoned him when he was just 6 year old, as shortly after he was enrolled in elementary school it became dead obvious that his mere presence is an unbearable burden for the entire family, neither he isn't not going to make them rich unless he accidentally gets involved in a class action lawsuit against an unnamed microwave manufacturer. As a genuine wonder-child he followed the path of many successful entrepreneurs and decided to drop from the University of Life about 6 months before his graduation to pursue his true passion, internet memes. In his mid 20's he attempted several times to get himself posted on 9gag, which finally materialized in 2018. Josef has been struggling to become viral ever since. Despite his numerous attempts, in early 2020 he finally succeeded in achieving the named goal, although literally, by becoming a covid-19 patient zero in a local nursing home.
What does define a personal identity? What are the hard and easy ways to build one? Is a digital identity worth protecting or is having one a surrender to surveillance? The talk will contain an overview of how Dissociative Identity talk 45min personal identity is approached in the digital age followed by a thesis on where the new web paradigm will lead the identity space overall. We'll chat about reputation systems, GDPR/KYC, DIDs and identity standards.
Return to schedule Alexandra Moxin Cypherpunk, CEO Cypherpunk, CEO and founder of Advance Tech Media, and founder of Alexandra interviews founders, leaders and developers from Advance Tech around the globe on the Advance Tech Podcast. She has a solid Media understanding of emerging technologies including Bitcoin, synthetic intelligence/machine learning (AI) and has a background in analytics, business development and digital transformation. She believes in critical thinking and peacefully building the future one step at a time
The new world order isn't a bunch of crusty old dudes plotting total world domination together in a Death of the Old Guard talk 45min military bunker. It's us. The predatory systems we've seen collapse in our lifetime are in ruin but from the ashes we rise. Satoshi gave us strong money, now it's up to us.
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Silur Hacker and Silur started as a pentester and malware analyst. He got biased Cryptoanarchist towards cryptography later and joined Ethereum Foundation as a researcher and developer (no longer a member). Since then he is contributing to various blockchain research labs (MRL, Casper labs, QAN research among others) where he implements PoCs of ideas they come up with. Silur opened a consulting company where he advises many projects on blockchains and cryptography. Later he joined the Wigner Research Center of Physics as a cryptographer.
Abusing the mastercard Hardware (card) wallets used today are very far from being backward-compatible. Every bitcoin card protocol to hack bitcoin wallet needs their own app, in some cases their own reading device. In this talk we explore how the EMV talk 45min protocol used in our (fiat) credit cards could be abused to complete the signature of a BTC transaction into FIAT payment while hiding the crypto-specific stuff from the reader so we can accept crypto payments using the terminals payment terminals out in the shops today.
Return to schedule David Friedman Economist, Author David Friedman is an academic economist with a doctorate in physics recently and Legal Scholar retired from spending the past twenty-three years teaching in a law school. His first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973 and includes a description of how a society with property rights and without government might function. There as elsewhere, he offers a consequentialist defense of libertarianism. His most recent non-fiction book is Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, covering systems from Periclean Athens through modern Amish and Romany. He is also the author of three novels, one commercially published and two self-published, and, with his wife, a self-published medieval and renaissance cookbook and a larger self-published book related to their hobby of historical recreation. Much of his published work, including journal articles, essays, drafts of forthcoming work and the full text of several books, can be read on his web page: www.daviddfriedman.com.
Public key encryption makes possible a world where much of human interaction is unobservable to anyone but the parties involved and those they choose to reveal it to. One consequence could be to put everything online out of the power of government to control — what you cannot see, you cannot tax or regulate. Whether that is a bug or a feature depends on how well non-governmental mechanisms can replace the useful functions of government, in particular law and contract enforcement. Fortunately, the same technologies that make strong privacy possible also enable mechanisms to enforce agreements based on reputation.
Reputational enforcement of a contract depends on interested third parties being able to know, at low cost, who violated the contract, in order that it will then be in their interest not in the future to trust the violator. If the information of which Anarchy Online: A World party is guilty is too costly, third parties will instead conclude that one of the two parties cannot be trusted but they do talk 45min of Strong Privacy not know which so should avoid both, making it no longer in the interest of the victim of contractual breach to complain about it.
Digital signatures make it easy to prove to any interested third party that a contract was signed, that it specified an arbitrator, and how the arbitrator ruled. Combine that with a policy of designing contracts to put the opportunity to profit by default on the party with the greatest interest in maintaining his reputation, for instance by terms such as whether payment is made in advance or on performance. If neither party has a reputation to lose, leverage the reputation of someone who does by having each party post a bond in digital cash with a trusted third party.
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Olga Ukolova Co-Founder at Olga Ukolova, MD, is a Co-Founder and COO at Pandora Core, the Pandora Core and company building privacy-focused Layer 2 and 3 technologies on top Co-creator of The of Bitcoin, and is one of the creators of the FreeAI Manifesto. FreeAI Manifesto. Combining the development of censorship-resistant technologies (RGB, Prometheus) with biohacking and neuroscientific activities, Olga has spent last 8+ years working with academia, geeks, cypherpunks and developers in order to bring privacy, self-sovereignty and decentralisation to the highest priority of today and tomorrow.
In order to become a Sovereign individual we need to first answer 3 questions: - who is an individual? - what is freedom? - what is sovereignty? As simple as they seem, these questions gave birth to many misleading conceptions, eventually Sovereign Individual establishing the world of fear, confusion and total obedience around us. The world, where no one can talk 45min Kit. Part I. Introduction longer be sure where mass hysteria ends and common sense begins. The world, where one is forced to surrender his own will for the sake of someone else’s fear.
During my talk, I will introduce the concept of Sovereign Individual Kit - a set of skills, knowledge and tools that would help one to answer those questions and to be able to drop the fear and rise against #DigitalTotality.
Return to schedule Alexander Bard Cyberphilosopher Alexander Bard is a philosopher, futurologist, and political and spiritual activist, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the author of five books: "The Netocrats, "The Global Empire", "The Body Machines", "Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age" and "Digital Libido - Sex, Power and Violence in The Network Society" with his co-writer Jan Söderqvist. Bard is a radical process philosopher, merging Hegel and Nietzsche with Whitehead and Deleuze, using humanity as the constant and technology as the variable while working toward the deepest possible understanding of human history, contemporary society, and the intensely technology-driven future that humanity is facing. Bard has also enjoyed a highly successful 25-year-career as a producer and artist in the international music industry, followed by ten years as a tough love, reality-checking judge on TV shows "Swedish Idol" and "Sweden's Got Talent", and is an outspoken and provocative You Tube and Twitter celebrity.
Paradigmatics - Paradigmatics is the agreed term among cyberphilosophers for understanding the fundamentals of a Exploring New new paradigm. What exactly is informationalism? What exactly is interactivity? What exactly is cryptography? What exactly is encryption? What exactly is a netocracy? What exactly is a sensocracy? Technological Freedoms talk 45min What exactly is protopianism? Et cetera. So that we can eliminate old perceptions from a previous to Crush Old Power paradigm and replace them with a new understanding of the genuinely new world we have literally Structures entered.
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Jan Urban Journalist, war Active in dissident movement and human rights defence under reporter, author and Comunist regime, Co-founder of illegal Lidové noviny newspaper New York University and Eastern European Information Agency, led Civic Forum
Prague teacher movment in the first free elections in 1990 and resigned from politics one day after winning it. Journalist, war reporter, author and New York University Prague teacher.
Confrontation between the state governments and free minded citizen is a neverending story. Since the industrial revolution and formation of modern nation states in the 19th century it is a core principle for every government to increase level of control over their citizen. The speed of technical innovation since then is gradually increasing, but only since early nineties of the 20th century we can talk about the new quality - this time of digital revolution. Dreams of improvement of human society connected to these two „revolutions“ are equally naive and false. It is said that you cannot teach new tricks to old dogs. Digital revolution nevertheless requests impossible from the very start – we as if need to teach our governments´old cats to bark – to understand and use qualitatively new ways of thinking, communicating with their citizen, intervene in finacial sphere, economy and culture. talk 45min Teaching old cats to bark No dictatorship of the past had so much information and control over individual citizen´s life as digital age governments – elected or not. At the same time digital revolution breaks through many constitutive barriers of modern nation state and allows growth of no-national and non-state civic interest groups or cross border virtual communities. So, it is just another new version of the same old game. Lesson that digital dissidents of today are trying not to forget is that every rebellion is always most dangerous to the rebels themselves. Because – as always – it is not enough to stand up against somebody. It is much more effective to stand for something. Creating factual example of working independent on the state systems proving the government control innefective and costly would seem to be the best available strategy for all.
Return to schedule Viktor Tron Swarm, Founder, Viktor Tron is team lead for the Swarm project and has worked Architect for the Ethereum Foundation since the start. Currently he is president of the Swarm Association. Viktor is committed to the ideal of a free voluntary society, he has a keen interest in decentralisation, cryptography, networking, data structures and algorithms and believes in technology and innovation as the conduit for peaceful social change. As part of the grander vision he is currently working on Swarm, the storage and communication infrastructure for self sovereign digital society, i.e. on the backend of the decentralized web.
In this talk we explore the historical context of emerging decentralized technologies and elaborate on the non-trivial thesis that making application deployment environment a public good has far-reaching consequences on social change.
Swarm rebuilds the skeleton of the web as a world wide cloud computer emerging from the interaction of its decentralised network of nodes, incentivised to allocate bandwidth and storage resources optimally. Swarm provides base layer infrastructure including storage and communication that completes the Ethereum vision.
The world wide web brought unprecedented efficiency to Open Source, leveraging a global developer community to improve stability, security and service quality of software. However, upfront infrastructure costs of application From Open Source To deployment still proves a bottleneck for a truly agile and adaptive evolution of applications. talk 45min Open Resource Swarm's incentive system smoothly transfers the cost of access, hosting and execution to users and thus opens the door to near zero cost deployment. Swarm enables the next generation of cloud, leveraging a global environment for not only permissionless forking but secure execution, quick testing and scalable deployment of application code. With Open Resource, the new paradigm where Github meets AWS, forking an application is just as easy as forking code. Swarm heralds a similarly unprecedented explosion of adaptive applications. We discuss the ways in which this enables a global supply chain economy.
As a platform for permissionless publication and anonymous access, the system caters for the growing demand for privacy and security. Whereas applications can run autonomously yet securely due to content addressing, users remain sovereign owners of their personal data in alignment with fair data principles.
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Dankrad Feist Researcher at Dankrad Feist finished his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2019. Since Ethereum then, he has been working in the technology sector. He co-founded Foundation the startup Cara Care in 2016. Currently he is working as a Researcher for the Ethereum Foundation, focusing on Applied Cryptography.
Who you trust is essential in the decentralized blockchain setting. Traditionally we have been accustomed to trusting a majority of the consensus forming nodes (e.g. miners) to be honest. In many cases, we can Exploring Trust however get much stronger assumptions: Invalid state transitions can be impossible even if all miners talk 45min are byzantine, as long as there is one honest full node. This "one out of n" trust assumption appears in Assumptions many other contexts and properly understanding it can help us to build stronger systems, and in fact further applications of it reveal many deeper levels of trust in blockchain, and indeed all, computer systems.
Return to schedule Jason Evans Training Engineer / Jason is a training engineer with SUSE Linux in Prague. He Co-Chairperson specializes in writing training materials for container-based Big-8 Management applications including Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. He Board is also deeply interested in keeping speech free even in places where it is illegal and providing de-centralizing communications to those who are need it.
The Big-8 newsgroups are those that begin with comp., misc., news., rec., sci., soc., talk., and humanities. They have been the backbone of much of the Usenet since the 1980’s. These newsgroups are maintained by the Big-8 Management Board. In 2015, a new board was voted in. The term for a board member is 18 months. By late 2017 the entire board had either resigned or let their terms expire. Since then, no new news groups have been created, no abandoned newsgroups have been removed, and no other maintenance have been done. Revitalizing Usenet talk 45min This was surely a sign that Usenet, the once home to Cypherpunks and the place of the birth of Linux is dying. In late 2019, three people came together on Reddit and began working with the former board members to put in a new board and to draw attention again to the benefits of Usenet. There is no reason for it to die. In fact, it should be protected as one of the most important living artifacts of Internet history. Not in a museum, but a living active organ of the internet. This is our story to bring back the Big-8 Management Board and to breath new life into Usenet.
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Ketominer General Ass-Kicker "Full stack" person (electronics to code to networks). Started by electronics and programming at age 7, moved to networking when Internet became mainstream. Built several hosting companies and now applying accumulated knowledge in the Bitcoin space after discovering myself being a crypto anarchist at HCPP17.
Introduction: the encounter Part 1: The Tech - Sending payments without invoices - The early days - Running lnd farms at scale Decentralised Chat And - Current feature set - Lumo Commerce On The talk 45min - Challenges yet to overcome Lightning Network Part 2: The big Why - Why do that - Stakwork - Selling (soon to be) censored goods - Privacy Start accepting bitcoin and lightning payments in a trustless way and just a few simple steps. Set Up Your Business To Accept Bitcoin workshop 45min In this workshop, you will learn how to setup bitcoin payments for your physical and/or online business And Lightning Payments using a hosted BTCPayServer instance, such as the ones provided by Nodl Cloud. Each participant will receive a free trial for the service to use and experiment with. Return to schedule JStark1809 DIY firearms JStark1809 is the designer of the partially 3D-printed homemade firearm that designer, founder of he named FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9mm) and is responsible for the Deterrence formation of Deterrence Dispensed, a decentralized group of online DIY Dispensed and firearm designers inspired by Cody Wilsons Defense Distributed. advocate of civilian ownership of With the FGC-9 JStark unleashed a reliable partially 3D-printable firearms. semi-automatic 9x19mm gun design into the world, along with the documentation, to enable his fellow Europeans to build themselves a lethal firearm at home with affordable tools and no need of prior gunsmithing experience.
His associates and him are continuing to work towards the goal of enabling the average person to build their own firearms and make their own ammunition with affordable means regardless of gun control regulations.
In the spirit of the American revolution and of the opinion that the right to bear arms is a natural human right, JStark1809 lives by the motto: Live Free or Die
The FGC-9 is a 9x19mm pistol caliber carbine that is mostly 3D-printed and designed to be easily made by the average person that lives in places that restrict firearms severely, such as Europe. During my talk I will go over what motivated me to design this firearm, how this process went and how the internet and the novel technology of affordable 3D-printing enabled me to do all that. To give you a better understanding on why the FGC-9 is a significant thing in the context of circumventing firearms Fuck Gun Control-9mm. restrictions. I will shortly go over what is actually needed to make a firearm work reliably and how the How the internet and a FGC-9 addresses the restrictions that are put on place by gun laws that are regulating pressure bearing 3D-printer can empower talk 45min parts. To put the FGC-9 into a historical context previous attempts at putting DIY gun designs out in the you with deadly world will be presented. The various features and functionality of the FGC-9 as well as the upcoming capabilities. second version, the FGC-9 MkII will be presented to show you what is possible with current DIY / 3D-printing technology. Surrounding the actual firearm design there are things that need to be taking into consideration to enable people to safely and easily follow the steps to successfully build the FGC-9. The lessons learned by me while designing the FGC-9 will be mentioned and what this development means for the average citizen out in the world. Finally I will leave you with some promising future developments that are on the horizon. Return to schedule
Pavla investigative Pavla Holcová is award winning investigative Holcová reporter reporter and the founder of investigace.cz. She has investigated cases concerning Serbian organized crime figures, Macedonian secret service investments in Prague, money laundering, links between Italian mafia and Slovak government or Panama Papers. She is regional editor of Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting project, covering Czech Republic and Slovakia.
It all started with a murder of a colleague. We did not trust the system, so we decided to investigate Information equals ourselves. Over a year and a half we have collected 74TB of data and we are still counting. Those data talk 45min are incriminating powerful people including corrupt judges, policemen, mafia members and oligarchs. power equals risk If the state is corrupt to an extent it kills journalists doing their jobs, journalists need to fight back. So we did. Here is how.
Return to schedule Thomas Nägele Founder and Thomas Nägele founded NÄGELE Attorneys at Law in December Managing Partner 2015 as a IT law boutique with a strong focus on technology and of NÄGELE finance law. He also serves as a founder and president of the Attorneys at Law Crypto Country Association, as well as a founding member of the LLC thinkBLOCKtank in Luxembourg. Furthermore he was a member of the government workgroup of Liechtenstein drafting the Liechtenstein Blockchain Act. In addition, he regularly teaches at several Universities.
With the central theme within the presentation being trust, the presentation will seek to elucidate, when and why an intermediary role is required. The “old” world, structured around intermediaries, might soon be replaced by a trustless “new” economy with less or no intermediaries. However, there are still situations in which an intermediary has a role to play. Through an introduction to the Blockchain Act (TVTG) in Liechtenstein, its drafting process, and the roles defined therein, the approach in addressing these points will be considered. The Blockchain Act does not seek to regulate a blockchain ecosystem built around “trustless” transactions and systems. Instead, it considers specific scenarios in which intermediaries Trustless Technologies have a role to play, and ensures that these intermediaries do not misuse the trustless system. The talk 45min Blockchain Act thus guarantees that the ecosystem can continue operating on the basis of trust in every versus Intermediaries situation. This can be based on the trust deriving from its decentralized nature, or from the trust derived from the regulation of intermediaries in situations in which an intermediary has a role to play. The legislation represents an alternative, and an option, for individuals to transact in a system which provides legal certainty, and introduces trust in situations. Specific service providers, such as the Physical Validator, will be considered, in order to exemplify the need for the bridge to a real-world asset. This will further show that some parts of this new world remain untouched and unregulated. Finally, the presentation will also consider, whether exposure to financial surveillance remains relevant, and the impact which the legal framework has had.
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Julia Tourianski Youtuber Julia was one of the first Bitcoin evangelists and is the author of “The Declaration of Bitcoin’s Independence.” She runs the YouTube channel Brave The World where she talks Guns, God, Government, and everything in-between.
I like to say "I write State with a capital "S" because it has become our God." But Technology, the very tool How Machines Operate that has the potential to empower us against abusive ruling structures, is claiming us as its subjects. Its talk 45min onset was too fast and promised too much. It is blinding, as we have trouble distinguishing between us Us and it. The digital totality is indeed upon us, but we must remember that with every extension, there's an amputation.
Return to schedule Harry Halpin CEO of Nym Harry Halpin is the CEO of Nym Technologies, a start-up creating an Technologies and incentived mix-net with anonymous authentication credentials. anarchist Previously, he led research projects against surveillance like at Inria like PANORAMIX and the W3C Web Cryptography standardization effort. He has also been the target of undercover cops across multiple countries, including the infamous Mark Kennedy.
What is at stake in the development of the Nym mixnet is not mere individual privacy, but our very autonomy. We will overview the rise of surveillance as a technique of control, the real limitations faced by network level privacy tools like VPNs and Tor and how they impact cryptocurrencies, and then we'll demonstrate how to integrate a new cryptocurrency wallet of your choice, like Monero, with the Nym mixnet.
Why are we building Nym? Every human evolves today in an intertwiined physical and digital environment. The Nym Mixnet Testnet If each individual is to keep their individuality and autonomy in its daily choices, it must be protected and is Live: The Fight for given effective tools to defend its own autonomy. Yet digital only accelerated with the advent of COVID talk 45min where the digital world increasingly subsumes our physical reality. Nym is one tool that lets us defend our Digital Privacy and own and each other's autonomy. Autonomy While last year we described how Nym mixnet could prevent mass surveillance of network traffic, now we have build the first working version of the mixnet in Rust where mixnet node operators can be paid in Bitcoin for mixing user traffic and making it more private. The Nym mixnet currently has over 350 nodes spread throughout the world. With the addition of SOCKS5 proxy in our latest version we can now integrate Nym against wallets like Electrum and even Monero full nodes in order to provide the fist glimpse of a digital world where mass surveillance is not only illegal, but a technical impossibility using the power of cryptography.
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Svarny Petr Roboticist Currently a PhD student at the Cybernetics department at the Czech Technical University where he deals with industrial robotics safety and human-robot collaboration.
A digital totality would not be complete without also having a physical dimension - robots. While the I, for one, welcome our public perception of robots seems to split between bloodthirsty killing robots and a robot servant at talk 45min home, the actual robot landscape is far more interesting. This talk outlines the obstacles on these paths new robot overlords to robot-based digital totalities by pointing towards state-of-the-art research or industrial practice. And it does this with the use of a few SMBC strips and one XKCD quote.
Return to schedule David Brin Scientist, Futurist, David Brin is a scientist, tech speaker/consultant, and author. His Author most recent novel, Existence, ponders our survival in the near future. A film by Kevin Costner was based on The Postman. His novels, including NY Times Bestsellers and Hugo Award winners, have been translated into more than twenty languages. Earth foreshadowed global warming, cyberwarfare and the world wide web. David appears frequently on shows such as Nova and The Universe and Life After People, speaking about science and future trends. His non-fiction book — The Transparent Society: Will Technology Make Us Choose Between Freedom and Privacy? — won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.
Human augmentation, All the good and evil possibilities or the science fiction future are now being released from Pandora’s AI, life-hacking… and our Second Box. In trying to maximize benefits and minimize the harms, shall we learn from past, tech-driven talk 45min crises? And how future speculations may give warnings? Tools to augment human strengths and best methods for overcome weaknesses loom, along with artificial super-minds. What steps can we take – here and now – evading mistakes to ensure that freedom, creativity, justice and progress shall thrive?
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Sara Polak Archaeologist in AI Sara is an Oxford-educated archaeologist and evolutionary anthropologist, who has spent the last 7 years working in technology startups in London, USA, and New Zealand. After almost a decade in the UK she returned back to her home country to work in the local startup, innovation, and artificial intelligence scene and strives to make Czech Republic into a global AI and innovation superhub. She is an Aspen Young Leader as well as a Bakala Scholar, and works on several projects the main being prg.ai, Startup Disrupt, and Czech.global, as well as numerous pro bono initiatives such as science popularisation programmes (Science To Go) and various hackathons as they happen throughout the year. Her dream is to popularise and digest big, heavy tech topics for the general public and through this achieve the bridging of the huge gap between ethereal cutting-edge technologies and the average person in the street to achieve effective adoption of innovations in society.
Artificial intelligence, digital, prediction, privacy, GDPR. All these buzzwords are being thrown around haphazardly without the public necessarily being educated about what they are and the reality behind them. One of the 'verticals' where this is particularly poignantly felt is in the case of politics - Cambridge Artificially intelligent - Analytica, Brexit, Trump and the general shakeup in the world of statehood and political structures has role of technology in drawn these two traditionally disparate topics together and begs the question; what's the future of talk 45min politics and the creation technologies in politics and the role of the state? After close to 5 years in digital politics and 40 or so of the state campaigns, Sara has seen a lot from all sides of the political spectrum, including both sides of the Brexit campaign, several US presidential campaigns, and the turmoil in various European countries. She's happy to share her hopes, delusions with the political world, as well as the future of digital and the state and the implications for privacy and the average person in the street.
Return to schedule Gideon Gallasch Co founder Co founder blockchainhotel.de blockchainhotel.de Co founder bitcoin-treff.de 1st bitcoin/shitcoin 2 way ATM in Germany 2014
Oskar Giese Bitcoin advocate & Oskar is a Germany-based entrepreneur who has managed in the Host UNCHAIN past three years to organize UNCHAIN Convention, one of Central Convention Europe’s leading Bitcoin events - "an intersection of art, blockchain, music and freedom loving people. The most thoughtful brains, the most powerful parties and the most euphoric energy combined together in a chemical reaction with unknown but amazing results.“ (quote from Theo Godmann) The latest convention just took place in August 2020 in Frankfurt, the very heart of European banksters, in conference-partnership with HCPP20.
Sodomak Cryptoanarchist & HCPP co-organizer, Paralelni Polis core member, motorbike traveller, whatever death metal singer, AC Sparta Prague Ultras member, hacker, Muay Thai serial beginner, author of digitalselfdefense.cz, host of cryptoanarchy talks Whispers and co-host of kofein.tech podcast.
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Return to schedule Alekos Filini Bitcoin Developer Alekos is the main developer behind the Magical Bitcoin project, which is aiming to build a collection of libraries designed to build safer and more robust Bitcoin wallets. Having previously worked at Blockstream he is familiar with large scale Bitcoin projects and he is now trying to use that knowledge to build better open source tools.
The talk will give an overview of the technology enabling the next generation of Bitcoin wallets, with a focus on timelocked multi-signature schemes. Today Bitcoin users are generally left facing a trade-off between more privacy-focused single-sig wallets and more secure multi-signatures wallets that are either fully custodial or depend on centralized servers.
Working with non-standard Bitcoin scripts today requires a lot of knowledge and expertise, and only a few Next-Generation Private organizations can afford the research required to successfully integrate them into their products. talk 45min Multisignature Wallets The advent of tools and libraries designed to work with descriptors and Miniscript will significantly lower the entry barrier and risk involved with handling complex spending policies, empowering developers and amateurs to build more private and safe Bitcoin wallets.
The talk will also briefly explain the "Taproot" proposal and show how it can further improve the privacy and scalability of such wallets.
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Mark Ballandies Researcher at ETH Mark C. Ballandies is a PhD candidate at the professorship of Zurich Computational Social Science (Prof. Dirk Helbing) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where he also received his BSc and MSc in computational science and engineering. He gained expertise in the fields of cryptoeconomics, machine learning, and software development in numerous scientific and industry works. He is an alumnus of the Foundation of German Business, president of the NGO Education Matters e.V., treasurer of the Club Alpbach Zurich, a member of the dcentgroup and initiator of the smarte Dörfer association. Currently, Mark researches with his colleagues on a value-sensitive feedback provision mechanism that supports organisations and society to better self-organise.
Our complex world faces challenges and problems not seen before. Mark believes, that in order to face those successfully we need to adjust our decision making processes by changing the way how information and knowledge is created and exchanged.
Technology can either be used to make centralized systems more resilient or to make decentralized systems that are inherently resilient more efficient. This is a normative decision we as society have to take.
Smart cities or smart By analyzing the trends in modern (smart) cities and comparing it (sometimes polemically) with the talk 45min mechanisms working in villages the audience will be supported in this talk to form a conscious and villages? personal opinion on this decision.
This presentation will then leverage on complex systems theory, self-organizing systems and mechanisms such as wisdom of the crowds to paint a positive picture of our society that facilitates human dignity and freedom.
Return to schedule Tobias “DeFi” Kaiser Interdisciplinary His academic background combines computer science, cognitive cryptoeconomist science and economics. In his work, he focuses on tokenomics, and journalist at decentralized business models, and DeFi. BeInCrypto Germany
While gathering health data has become an important part of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiologists can only report data and construct mathematical models of the pandemic’s progression. In the end, it is government officials who interpret these data and models, in order to justify restrictive measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mandatory masks, or in order to justify not taking action.
Another part of interpreting COVID-19 data is media coverage. Science reporters often bias their coverage to create more sensational headlines than the scientific insights gained through studies and data collection actually warrant for. They may also be biased to report scientific findings in a better light for their respective governments, especially if they are Interpreting COVID-19 state-funded, or may have an independent political agenda biasing their coverage. panel health data In result, the ordinary citizen only sees a distorted picture of the actual situation. This may lead to two outcomes. If citizens overestimate the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, they will have a higher tendency to support governmental restrictions on basic rights and overlook damages that arise as a result of lockdown policies, such as worse general medical care and elder care, as well as an economic crisis. If they underestimate the danger, they will have a higher tendency to overlook delayed governmental interventions and to indulge in more reckless behavior.
Due to this, data literacy has become a major part of maintaining a free society. In this community panel, we want to conduct a live analysis of COVID-19 health data from various countries and discuss the implications of governmental institutions influencing the perception of the pandemic in the general public.
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Max Free Cryptoanarchist building Bitcoin weapons. Hillebrand Software With an understanding of the importance of Entrepreneur sound monetary principles, he is contributing to several free open source tools to defend individual property rights. Researching and designing advanced privacy techniques and maintaining the documentation of Wasabi Wallet.
This, shall be the single axiom, the assumption on top of which a monumental construct can be logically deduced. The Individual is in a constant state of uneasiness, and has the creative spark to imagine multiple superior scenarios. The heroic entrepreneur acts, allocating scarce resources to manifest his I - The Individual - Exist talk 45min most wanted desires. The Sovereign Individual claims his property, and has the power to defend what is his. In the darkness of Crypto Anarchy, cypherpunks control how to selectively reveal themselves to the world, thriving in the free realm of cyberspace. No trusted third party will secure Individual liberty, One must build his own weapons, and stand strong in this onslaught of the Digital Totality. Bitcoin is unfuckwithable magical cyberspace money, obviously every individual wants to get as much of it as possible. We will elaborate how to prioritize with scarce time and allocate capital to the most profitable venture. Discovering new client demands and creating strategies on how to effectively satisfy Earn, Buy and Live Workshop - them. Discussing approaches to curate a client base who is paying for goods and services in bitcoin, and Lecture 45min Bitcoin how to arrange a supply chain with cashflow denominated in bitcoin. Entrepreneurs who understand the foundations of a sound monetary economy, excel in managing deep production stages and creating tremendous amount of value, prosperity and profit. In the Bitcoin network, individuals selectively reveal themselves under pseudonymous identities. The art of privacy is to understand and properly use the tools to manage precious bitcoin. We will explore Applied Bitcoin Privacy Workshop 45min weapons of defense for network level anonymity, private consensus synchronization, conscious coin selection, and transaction graph obfuscation. We will create transactions that strategically break surveillance heuristics, and elaborate privacy strategies for earning, hodling and spending bitcoin. Return to schedule Johnson Yeung Hong Kong human Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung, Hong Kong human rights advocate who right activist works on freedom of assembly and expression and protection to Human rights defenders. He was a Freedom Fellow at the Human Rights Foundation, and board member of Amnesty International Hong Kong. Johnson is also a labour right campaigner which promote rights of the workers in global garment supply chain, and recently works on the End Uyghur Forced Labour campaign, demand companies end their relationship with Chinese state sponsored suppliers.
Hong Kong is in turmoil in the past 14 months, rocked by police brutality and authoritarianism. In this webinar, Johnson, Ching-Yin Yeung will give his first hand account into the tactics protestors use for resistance, which created one of the largest decentralised resistance in the past decade. As the Civil disobedient in pandemic inevitable halt many protest activities, retaliation from the regime has occur in an alarming digital realm: the Hong pace. Citizens found themselves caught in a draconian national security law, which allows the government criminalise activist activities online, and implement mass surveillance program in every talk 45min Kong way and its aspect of life. Telegram was once a vibrant space where decentralised protest actions are disseminated struggle until digital and mobilised, and has become a major target by the Hong Kong secret police. The capabilities of totalitarianism government is outpacing citizens, how should we narrow the gap and resist effectively? What are the threats to resistance in digital realm, and how should we retake what is ours? The speaker has no good answer to these questions, instead he want to offer a space where we can build power together, and reclaim the freedom we entitled.
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CEST (UTC+2) 10:00 - 10:45 How To Earn And Live Bitcoin 10:00 doors open Max Hillebrand 12:00 - 12:45 Badge Clinic: Getting Started 11:00 - 11:45 How To Use A Decentralized With HCPP Badges Bitcoin Exchange Michael Schloh von Bennewitz Chris Beams + Mario Havel 12:00 - 12:45 How To Use Bitcoin Wallets 13:00 - 13:45 Secure Your Computer Mario Havel Mario Havel 13:00 - 13:45 Using Hardware Wallets for 14:00 - 14:45 My Top 30 Sovereignty Apps Bitcoin Pavol Luptak Alena Vranova 15:00 - 15:45 networking break 14:00 - 14:25 Build Your Own Hardware Wallet 16:00 - 16:45 Browse Privately Using Firefox Moritz Wietersheim Juraj Bednar (remote) 14:30 - 14:55 Set Up Multisig Wallet for 17:00 - 17:45 Decentralize Yourself And Bitcoin (2-of-3) Avoid Digital Totalitarian Moritz Wietersheim Control Travin Keith 15:00 - 15:45 networking break 18:00 - 18:45 Set Up Your Own Censorship 16:00 - 16:45 Applied Bitcoin Privacy Resistant Chatroom Max Hillebrand pending 17:00 - 17:45 Using Lightning network 19:00 - 20:45 Build Your Own Bleskomat /rootzoll Lightning ATM Charlie Hill ("chill") & Carlos 18:00 - 18:45 Running Lightning Network Garcia Ortiz & Tomas Stary Privately openoms & frennkie 19:00 - 19:45 Set Up Your Business To Accept Bitcoin And Lightning Payments Ketominer DAY 1 (OCT 2) Badge Clinic: Getting Started With HCPP Badges Michael Schloh von Bennewitz (remote) and Mario Havel
HCPP supports your creative hacker instincts by offering the Badge Clinic. Join us live to discover and push the limits of your hardware hacking ability.
The HCPP20 Electronic Badge's test points TP(num) and solderfield SF(num) labeled HACK! exist for an important reason: To foster our unique hardware hacking skills. HCPP badges from previous years will be showcased as well. Bring any of your HCPP devices to learn and explore.
Come to the Badge Clinic to explore the features of your electronic badge(s) in depth, as well as conduct experiments and modifications. Become a creative hardware hacker as a electronics instructor guides you to satisfy curiosity and creatively explore technical customisations.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your own HCPP badge (can be Friday Oct 2 HCPP18, HCPP19, HCPP20 12:00 - 12:45 CEST badge), NFC enabled phone
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Secure Your Computer
Mario Havel
Basics of digital self defense, tools and practices for digital sovereignty. We will cover topics like encryption, secure communication, secure and private internet browsing, anonymization, using containers and privacy focused operating systems. This workshop will improve your desktop and mobile security using open source technologies and best practices.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your own computer. none Friday Oct 2 13:00 - 13:45 CEST
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Pavol Luptak
Apps that can make your life more independent, private and secure. In this demo session, we will fly over the best two factor authenticators, privacy browsers, decentralized and encrypted messengers, password managers, opensource privacy-aware Facebook and Twitter front-ends, alternative opensource repository, anonymous number service provider for crypto, anonymization networks, anonymous crypto mixers, privacy aware crypto wallets, secure video calls, SSH and VPN services, privacy enhancers, offline OpenStreetMaps, secure firewall, secure YouTube frontend, opensource Google services alternatives, secure email client with PGP and S/MIME support.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your phone or computer none Friday Oct 2 15:00 - 15:45 CEST
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Browse Privately Using Firefox
Juraj Bednar
The Internet – and especially the web – is a place where people are used to the fact that almost everything is free. Thanks to this, internet services monetize something else – our attention. In order to do it effectively, they are constantly watching us to know what content to show us – whether it should be an advertisement for a hair shampoo or a luxury car. Using the Internet without being tracked is not easy, but it starts by tuning your browser.
In this workshop, we’ll walk you through installing and configuring Firefox extensions for better security and privacy.
Recommended tools Prerequisite skills 45min Your own computer none Friday Oct 2 16:00 - 16:45 CEST
Return to schedule Decentralize Yourself And Avoid Digital Totalitarian Control
Travin Keith
It’s a common misconception that all the governments around the world are in full coordination. Though there are certainly varying levels of coordination among some countries and a general trend towards the growth of that, there’s still an opportunity to make it more difficult for the invasion of privacy and the forced control over you and your data, such as by having multiple residencies, "obfuscation in plain sight", decentralizing income potential, and moving, if necessary. This presentation will go over why this is important by pointing out why this is important by using examples from documented events around the world as well as personal experiences from having lived in 8 countries around the world with a relatively weak passport (as highlighted in HCPP19) and those that have been shared with me. Additionally, some recommendations on how to accomplish this in an optimal manner while still avoiding problems in the long run will be provided in order for audiences to be better-equipped to avoid digital totality in the long run.
Recommended tools Prerequisite skills 45min Pen & paper none Friday Oct 2 17:00 - 17:45 CEST
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Set Up Your Own Censorship Resistant Chatroom
Andrea Maria Piana
Status is a decentralized and p2p private messenger, crypto wallet and web3 browser.
In this workshop we will go through the basics of using the Status app, how to join a public chat, send messages to your contacts and create a private group chat.
We will also guide you step by step through the process of installing and setting up a status node, in order to build your own private decentralized chatroom.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min A laptop ...... Friday Oct 2 18:00 - 18:45 CEST
Return to schedule Build Your Own Bleskomat Lightning ATM
Charlie Hill (chill), Carlos Garcia Ortiz, Tomas Stary
Come learn how to build your very own Bleskomat Lightning Network ATM with the help of the hackers who created it. There will be a high-level overview of the project, an explanation on how it works, and (most importantly) each participant will get to build their own machine.
All the hardware components and tools needed will be provided.
If you would like to take your newly built Bleskomat home with you, we ask only that you pay for the cost of parts.
The Bleskomat open-source project can be found here: https://github.com/samotari/bleskomat
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 120min A laptop on which you can install Some previous experience with Friday Oct 2 the platform CLI tool - Arduino, RaspberryPi, or similar is 19:00 - 21:00 CEST https://platformio.org/ recommended
Return to schedule DAY 2 (OCT 3) How To Earn And Live Bitcoin
Max Hillebrand
Bitcoin is unfuckwithable magical cyberspace money, obviously every individual wants to get as much of it as possible. We will elaborate how to prioritize with scarce time and allocate capital to the most profitable venture. Discovering new client demands and creating strategies on how to effectively satisfy them. Discussing approaches to curate a client base who is paying for goods and services in bitcoin, and how to arrange a supply chain with cashflow denominated in bitcoin. Entrepreneurs who understand the foundations of a sound monetary economy, excel in managing deep production stages and creating tremendous amount of value, prosperity and profit.
Recommended tools Prerequisite skills 45min Computer (free software operating none Saturday Oct 3 system recommended), Tor 10:00 - 10:45 CEST Browser (https://torproject.org)
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Mario Havel
Introduction to Bitcoin key management, basic and advanced Bitcoin desktop, mobile wallets and best practices of using them. Tips for newbies and also power users which will help you use Bitcoin in the most secure and private way possible.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your phone and or computer none Saturday Oct 3 11:00 - 11:45 CEST
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How To Use A Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Chris Beams
No matter how enthusiastic you are about Bitcoin, the fact is that we still live in a world dominated by fiat currencies. Whether you're looking to buy bitcoin or need to sell a little to pay your monthly expenses, sometimes working with fiat is a must. In this workshop, you'll learn how to use Bisq, a decentralized peer-to-peer exchange to move between the bitcoin and fiat worlds with maximum security, privacy and freedom.
In our session we will go through setting up your Bisq instance to selling and buying bitcoin on Bisq. Please check out the available list of money transfer options ahead of time https://bisq.wiki/Payment_methods#Fiat_payment_methods.
Recommended tools Prerequisite skills 45min Your phone and or computer, a Using a Bitcoin wallet Saturday Oct 3 wallets with some sats or a bank 12:00 - 12:45 CEST account.
Return to schedule Using Hardware Wallets For Bitcoin Alena Vranova Learn about the most common threats for a Bitcoiner and what does a hardware wallet protect from. why it's important to use a hardware wallet, their usual features and best practices. We will go through a setup and basic actions (send, receive, restore) of a chosen hardware wallet or two.
Alena will have a few hardware wallets for onsite participants available.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your own computer (Win, Linux, Basics of bitcoin Saturday Oct 3 Mac), one unused HW wallet 13:00 - 13:45 CEST (Trezor, Coldcard or Cobo Vault), pen & paper, USB cable, optionally: mobile wallet with a few satoshis
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Build Your Own Hardware Wallet
Moritz Wietersheim
Understand why it is good to create your own hardware wallet and build it! We will use freely available components to assemble a Specter DIY HW wallet in about 5 minutes.
For on-site participants, all the hardware components and tools needed will be provided. If you would like to take your newly built hardware wallet home, you can purchase it for the components price from Moritz.
Online participants, please check the list of hardware components in Recommended hardware.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 25min github.com/cryptoadvance/specte Using a hardware wallet Saturday Oct 3 r-diy/blob/master/docs/shopping. 14:00 - 14:25 CEST md and a laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux)
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Moritz Wietersheim
We’ll explain why multisig is important (vs single sig), introduce the top use-cases and set up a 2-of-3 multisig wallet using Specter Desktop, and two different hardware wallets.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 25min Two hardware wallets (Cobo Basics of Bitcoin and using Saturday Oct 3 Vault, Trezor, Ledger, Coldcard), bitcoin wallets 14:30 - 14:55 CEST computer and cables for the wallets
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Applied Bitcoin Privacy
Max Hillebrand
In the Bitcoin network, individuals selectively reveal themselves under pseudonymous identities. The art of privacy is to understand and properly use the tools to manage precious bitcoin. We will explore weapons of defense for network level anonymity, private consensus synchronization, conscious coin selection, and transaction graph obfuscation. We will create transactions that strategically break surveillance heuristics, and elaborate privacy strategies for earning, hodling and spending bitcoin.
Recommended hardware Your computer [free software OS] Tor (torproject.org)
Bitcoin full node (bitcoincore.org) Prerequisite skills 45min Wasabi Wallet (wasabiwallet.io) Basics of Bitcoin Joinmarket (https://github.com/ Saturday Oct 3 joinmarket-org/joinmarket-clientserver) 16:00 - 16:45 CEST Testnet bitcoin (https://testnet-faucet.mempool.co) Return to schedule Using Lightning Network
/rootzoll
Not your Node, Not your Rules. Understand how you can benefit from using Lightning Network (LN), basic concepts and where the development of the network is headed. Learn to use mobile and desktop wallets for LN. And finally, set up your own LN node using RaspiBlitz.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your own computer, mobile phone Basics of Bitcoin? Saturday Oct 3 or both, and a ready-2-go 17:00 - 17:45 CEST RaspiBlitz or all-you-need hardware set from raspiblitz.com
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Running Lightning Network Privately
openoms & /rootzoll
Running Lightning Network Privately Learn how to operate your Lightning Network node privately and offer your services from your node with IP2TOR.
Recommended hardware/tools Prerequisite skills 45min none to participate, but a Lightning Basics of Bitcoin/LN, has used a Saturday Oct 3 node (on a Raspberry Pi or other LN wallet at least. 18:00 - 18:45 CEST hardware) is needed to apply the methods discussed in practice.
Return to schedule Set Up Your Business To Accept Bitcoin And Lightning Payments Ketominer
Start accepting bitcoin and lightning payments in a trustless way and just a few simple steps.
In this workshop, you will learn how to setup bitcoin payments for your physical and/or online business using a hosted BTCPayServer instance, such as the ones provided by Nodl Cloud. Each participant will receive a free trial for the service to use and experiment with.
Recommended hardware Prerequisite skills 45min Your own computer with internet using a bitcoin wallet, basics of Saturday Oct 3 connectivity, bitcoin wallet capable Bitcoin and Lightning Network 19:00 - 19:45 CEST of exporting xpub, having a physical or online business (or the will to create one!)
Return to schedule Libertas Film Premiere Documentary film about the rise of decentralization and cryptotechnologies in Central Europe
El Caracol (The Snail) Documentary Gerardo Gonzalez Miranda is an activist, humanitarian, journalist, and musician living in the city of San Film Cristobal, located in Chiapas, a state within Mexico. Chiapas has many autonomous territories, established by the Zapatistas. This documentary explores his ideas about anarchy, ecology, capitalism, the impact of corporations such as Monsanto and Coca-Cola, and the emancipation of the local population through the Zapatista movement, one of the most successful, yet unheard about anarchist movements in modern history. A truly life-altering conversation.
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