2026-06-10 –, Prague West (↑ upstairs)
- Bitcoin's economic security model, the role of blockspace as a free market, and strategies for preserving censorship resistance.
- Mining pool architecture, key attack vectors, and innovative approaches to decentralized mining incentives.
- Building FOSS Bitcoin applications with AI.
- Distinctions between consensus rules and relay policies, debates around spam, and meaningful metrics for evaluating consensus changes.
Chris began his career as a materials scientist and manufacturing consultant in Germany and China before discovering his greatest passion: Bitcoin. As co-founder and CEO of seedor.io & bitsurance.io, he is a central figure in the German Bitcoin scene, particularly in the areas of custody, inheritance, and insurance of Bitcoin.
Aeon is the creator of the Ibis Wallet and Mempal, as well as the maintainer of censorshipresistant.com. He possesses a deep understanding of Bitcoin's core security model and the underlying economic incentives that make the network robust and sustainable.
He has delivered talks at several Bitcoin conferences, including Bitcoin 2025, B4E, and Bitcoin Jungle.
Erik Hersman is co-founder of Gridless, pioneering decentralized energy through bitcoin mining to electrify off-grid communities across Africa. With renewable-powered sites in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, Gridless monetizes excess energy to build a sustainable path to rural electrification for 600 million unconnected people.
He also founded Node, a Nairobi campus for AI, energy, and freedom tech, hosting a GPU cluster, solar generation, and a community building sovereign infrastructure. A two-decade builder, he co-founded Ushahidi, iHub, and BRCK.