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Schedule


  • 5 minutes

    Welcome & Remarks from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

    Ballroom

  • 7 minutes

    Opening Keynote (Natalie Smolenski)

    Ballroom

  • 35 minutes

    Resistance Money: A Philosophical Examination of Bitcoin

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Fireside Chat with Rep. Patrick McHenry

    Ballroom

  • 10 minutes

    What Makes Bitcoin Valuable? (Mike Brock)

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    How I Resisted Three Dictators with Bitcoin

    Ballroom

  • 10 minutes

    Why Russian Dissidents Use Bitcoin: Lessons from Navalny's Foundation

    Ballroom

  • 12 minutes

    Bitcoin Against Autocracy: A Modern Tool for Freedom

    Ballroom

  • 20 minutes

    Coffee Break


  • 20 minutes

    Mining in America: A Fireside Chat with Senator Cynthia Lummis

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Bitcoin & US Competitiveness: A Fireside Chat with Paul Thanos, ITA

    Ballroom

  • 45 minutes

    Lunch


  • 3 hours 25 minutes

    Concurrent Programming Begins


  • 15 minutes

    A Climate Scientist's Perspective on Bitcoin Mining

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Bitcoin's American Future

    Holeman Lounge

  • 15 minutes

    Bitcoin & Financial Inclusion: A Fireside Chat with Chastity Murphy, U.S. Treasury

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 20 minutes

    Convergence & The Power of Bitcoin

    Ballroom

  • 40 minutes

    State & Local Digital Asset Policy: Examining the Current Landscape

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 40 minutes

    The State of Bitcoin's Global Adoption & Technology Ecosystem

    Holeman Lounge

  • 20 minutes

    Fireside Chat with Troy Cross and Lauren Boyd, DOE

    Ballroom

  • 40 minutes

    The Political Economy of Bitcoin

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 15 minutes

    Fireside Chat with Congressman Wiley Nickel

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    How Mining Incentivizes Efficient Energy Development (Ben Gagnon)

    Holeman Lounge

  • 30 minutes

    Crypto & Illicit Finance

    Ballroom

  • 35 minutes

    Mining & Regulation

    Holeman Lounge

  • 40 minutes

    Bitcoin L2s: Policy Lessons from Ethereum?

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 30 minutes

    The Geopolitics of Bitcoin

    Ballroom

  • 35 minutes

    Power, Policy, and Progress: The Impact of Next-Gen Computing

    Holeman Lounge

  • 15 minutes

    The Role of Bitcoin in the Dollar-Based System

    Ballroom

  • 30 minutes

    Countering Digital Authoritarianism

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 15 minutes

    How Institutions Consider Bitcoin and Sustainability

    Holeman Lounge

  • 35 minutes

    The State of Bitcoin Policy

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Bitcoin & Palestine

    First Amendment Lounge

  • 15 minutes

    Bitcoin & Nuclear Energy: A Fireside Chat with Benton Arnett, NEI

    Holeman Lounge

  • 1 minute

    Concurrent Programing Ends


  • 20 minutes

    Fireside Chat with Senator Marsha Blackburn

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Using Bitcoin To Power Underground Education In Afghanistan

    Ballroom

  • 15 minutes

    Jeff Booth Keynote - The Future is Watching: The Discovery of an Honest and Open Protocol Changes Everything

    Ballroom
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