There’s nothing like a market crash & global pandemic to expose the weak points of legacy financial systems.

Some topics for discussion are: Why Bitcoin’s Decentralized Financial System Is Important For Human Rights; Operating LocalBitcoins: Learnings From Providing Peer-To-Peer Access In 150+ Countries; Trends In Bitcoin Development: A Quick Overview With A BTC Dev; Blockstack’s Proof Of Transfer Mining: Payout In $BTC; How Key Management Works In CASA’s BTC Inheritence; DeFi’s hyperbitcoinization: Bringing Bitcoin to Ethereum with Cross-Chain Bridges; The Internet of Finance by DeFi Pulse; What the Fi is DeFi: Terminology & Concepts; What’s Possible With EigenTrust For DeFi: lightweight credit scores, under-collateralized loans, etc.; Poking Around The ETH Playground: Let’s Prototype DeFi Apps!; Using Money Legos: DeFi Composability With A Focus On Safety and many other.

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SPEAKERS
Alex Gladstein
Alex Gladstein

Chief Strategy Office, Human Rights Foundation

Alex Bosworth
Alex Bosworth

Lightning Infrastructure Lead

Alejandro Machado
Alejandro Machado

Co-Founder, Open Money Initiative

James   Prestwich
James Prestwich

Founder, Summa; Bitcoin Dev

Sep Kamvar
Sep Kamvar

Co-Inventor, EigenTrust; Co-Founder, cLabs

Luke  Youngblood
Luke Youngblood

Exec, Coinbase Custody; CEO, Blockscale

Austin  Griffith
Austin Griffith

Ethereum Foundation; Creator, Burner Wallet & ETH.BUILD

Taylor Monahan
Taylor Monahan

Founder & CEO, MyCrypto

Gavin   McDermott
Gavin McDermott

Engineering & Research, IDEO Co-Lab; Founding Engineer, Bitgo

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