PITCH COMPETITION
The Expo will be hosting a startup pitch competition this year. Founders will get an opportunity to pitch their ideas in front of a panel of judges from leading companies and investment firms in the crypto space.
HACKATHON
This year’s hackathon focuses on building out the components of a blockchain stack so we can expand the technology’s usefulness and increase adoption.
About the Expo
THE 2022 MIT BITCOIN
EXPO WILL BE AT MIT ON MAY 7TH AND 8TH!
2021 has been a transformative year for Bitcoin and distributed ledger technology (DLT) as a whole. It was a year marked with many new milestones. We saw the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in the history of the world.
We had the launch of the first Bitcoin ETF to trade in the United States. We also finally experienced the activation of Taproot, Bitcoin’s long-anticipated soft-fork with a focus on enhancing the network’s privacy and security.
Speakers
Andrew Poelstra
Director of Research, Blockstream
Silvio Micali
Founder at Algorand and MIT Professor
Tess Rinearson
Twitter Crypto Lead
Jeremy Rubin
Bitcoin Contributor / CEO Judica.org
Akshi Frederici
Partner, Kraken Ventures
David Vorick
CEO, Nebulous
René Pickhardt
Researcher at NTNU
Luke Champine
Core Developer at the Sia Foundation
Joey Krug
Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pantera Capital
Gloria Zhao
Bitcoin Core Developer
Katherine Wu
Venture Partner, Archetype
Keith Grossman
President at TIME
The Schedule
Time | Title | Duration | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
8:55 AM | Welcome | 5 min | |
9:00 AM | Fireside Chat with Sam Bankman-Fried | 30 min | HYBRID |
9:30 AM | Gaming & Metaverse Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
10:15 AM | Break | 10 min | |
10:25 AM | Programming Solana's Distributed State Machine | 30 min | LIVE |
10:55 AM | DAO Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
11:40 AM | Token Economics | 30 min | LIVE |
12:10 PM | Lunch Break | 60 min | |
1:10 PM | Pitch Contest | 60 min | LIVE |
2:10 PM | Break | 5 min | |
2:15 PM | Building on Bitcoin with Stacks | 30 min | LIVE |
2:45 PM | DeFi: Lending, Tokenization and Liquidity | 45 min | LIVE |
3:30 PM | Break | 10 min | |
3:40 PM | Data & Analytics Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
4:25 PM | Interoperability Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
5:10 PM | Hackathon Awards | 45 min | LIVE |
5:55 PM | Closing Remarks | 5 min |
Time | Title | Duration | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
8:55 AM | Welcome | 5 min | LIVE |
9:00 AM | Fireside Chat with Sam Bankman-Fried | 30 min | HYBRID |
9:30 AM | Censorship on the 2020 Internet | 30 min | LIVE |
10:00 AM | Break | 10 min | |
10:10 AM | A deep dive into optimally reliable payment flows on the Lightning Network | 30 min | LIVE |
10:40 AM | WabiSabi, arbitrary amount coinjoin coordination | 30 min | VIRTUAL |
11:10 AM | Utreexo in Context | 30 min | LIVE |
11:40 AM | ETH R&D | 30 min | LIVE |
12:10 PM | Lunch Break | 60 min | |
1:10 PM | Pitch Contest | 60 min | LIVE |
2:10 PM | Break | 5 min | |
2:15 PM | Monitoring Bitcoin Mining Pool Transaction Selection | 30 min | LIVE - NO CAMERA |
2:45 PM | Mining Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
3:30 PM | Break | 10 min | |
3:40 PM | Institutional Infrastructure Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
4:25 PM | Interoperability Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
5:10 PM | Hackathon Awards | 45 min | LIVE |
5:55 PM | Closing Remarks | 5 min |
Time | Title | Duration | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
8:00 AM | Registration | ||
8:55 AM | Welcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director | 5 min | |
9:00 AM | Fireside Chat with Michael Saylor | 45 min | HYBRID |
9:45 AM | Fireside Chat with Silvio Micali of Algorand | 30 min | LIVE |
10:15 AM | DeFi Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
11:00 AM | Break | 10 min | |
11:10 AM | NFT Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
11:55 AM | Fireside Chat with Keith Grossman of TIME | 30 min | LIVE |
12:25 PM | Flyover: A repayment protocol to call RSK contracts from Bitcoin | 30 min | LIVE |
12:55 PM | Lunch Break | 65 min | |
2:00 PM | Terra Blockchain Talk | 30 min | LIVE |
2:30 PM | VC Investor Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
3:15 PM | Break | 10 min | |
3:25 PM | Crypto Adoption in Emerging Markets | 45 min | LIVE |
4:10 PM | The Importance of Privacy to Web3 | 30 min | LIVE |
4:40 PM | Break | 10 min | |
4:50 PM | Generation Bitcoin | 10 min | LIVE |
5:00 PM | Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs | 30 min | HYBRID |
5:30 PM | Fireside Chat with Tess Rinearson of Twitter Crypto | 30 min | LIVE |
6:00 PM | Closing Remarks | 5 min |
Time | Title | Duration | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
8:00 AM | Registration | 55 min | |
8:55 AM | Welcome by MIT Bitcoin Expo Director | 5 min | LIVE |
9:00 AM | Fireside Chat with Michael Saylor | 45 min | HYBRID |
9:45 AM | Fireside Chat with Silvio Micali of Algorand | 30 min | LIVE |
10:15 AM | CBDC Panel: Project Hamilton | 45 min | LIVE |
11:00 AM | Break | 10 min | |
11:10 AM | Lightning Address: The Future of Payments | 30 min | LIVE |
11:40 AM | Lightning Panel | 45 min | LIVE |
12:25 PM | Enduring Value: Post-Quantum Algorand & State Proofs | 30 min | LIVE |
12:55 PM | Lunch Break | 60 min | |
1:55 PM | Bitcoin R&D Panel | 45 min | HYBRID |
2:40 PM | Jeremy Rubin Talk | 30 min | LIVE |
3:10 PM | Long-Term Trust and Analog Computers | 30 min | LIVE |
3:40 PM | Break | 5 min | |
3:45 PM | Tradeoffs in a Permissionless System: Intro to Mempool Policy | 30 min | HYBRID |
4:15 PM | Regulation Fireside Chat with Ryne Miller of FTX | 30 min | LIVE |
4:45 PM | Break | 5 min | |
4:50 PM | Generation Bitcoin | 10 min | LIVE |
5:00 PM | Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Stark of Lightning Labs | 30 min | HYBRID |
5:30 PM | Fireside Chat with Tess Rinearson of Twitter Crypto | 30 min | LIVE |
6:00 PM | Closing Remarks | 5 min |
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