Topic: EUROPEAN BITCOIN CONFERENCE 2011, PRAGUE NOV 25-27 - page 14. (Read 94478 times)

Thanks to radiobitcoin.pl/radio-bitcoin for sponsoring the European Bitcoin Conference, Prague 2011
They will be broadcasting from the event in German, Polish and English.

Confirmed Speaker: David Birch
http://digitaldebateblogs.typepad.com/digital_money/

Looking forward to this one.

I'm really looking for paying beer in bitcoins! Good job :-)

http://conference.bitgroups.org/officialprogram.pdf

We have got the preliminary program finished, now we are just waiting on the details of speakers and their talk durations before we lock in the Saturday schedule. Plus we have more speakers to add.

We are still open to suggestions on ideas to enrich the conference so dont hold back.

Time to get to the site and register, we are recommending a hotel near the conference centre that is around 60€ a night so hold off your accommodation bookings until we get details on how to book.

Ill be hanging out here if anyone would like to discuss ideas.

We have a confirmed venue, Blue Hall ECM centre.  Preliminary conference program coming out tomorrow.

Come discuss in Freenode #bitcoin-prague

We received your mail and had you down for a potential speaker already.  
Just getting together the official program for your Institution.  
This thread has all the information in it and is the main place for communication.

It will be a great conference and Im looking forward to meeting you there, will be replying with more info.

You got email. 

Where could that information have been obtained earlier ?   

I would have been in touch earlier if I had had a chance to know more details about this organizational process in advance. Moreover, there would have been more contributions and more participants. Sad that this chance now remains unused. Maybe we should discuss how in the next event an approach can be used which is also adapted to the boundary conditions under which academic and research people have to function. 

I am not completely aware of the process / workflow you are using for this. and how suggestions get selected . From my personal point of view I would be ready to offer some topics myself.

Bitcoin - How I understand it: My high-level conceptual understanding of the Bitcoin mechanism after having read and documented the entire reference client code for myself. 45 minutes, tutorial style.

An Analysis of Bitcoin Anonymity: To which degree is Bitcoin really anonymous? How do Bitcoin usage patterns affect anonymity? What can be done to improve Bitcoin anonymity? How can Bitcoin payment flows can be traced? 30 minutes, talk, describes work-in-progress (and will contain first results when applying our analysis algorithm to the current block chain).

Improving Bitcoin Wallet Security: How can we split the authorization phase in the Bitcoin mechanisms to two machines in such a manner that compromising ONE machine does not result in money being stolen? Which crypto possibilities are there? Which solution are we in the process of implementing? 30 minutes, talk, describes work-in-progress (currently at the stage of starting to work on the selected embedded hardware)

Bitcoin Todo List: Critical remarks on the state of development in Bitcoin. What must be done (and at which level or priority) if Bitcoin shall become a success any time soon. 20 - 30 minutes, could be part of a brainstorming session or panel discussion.

I am not sure what fits the conference mode best and how things get organized there - as I am more used to the traditional ol' style of "over"organized conferences with submission deadlines and schedules and stuff. Just post what suits you best.

To give you an idea on myself: I have been regularly lecturing in class and giving industry talks for the last twenty years or so. Currently I am hacking on a forked version of the reference client to which I added some 1.000 lines of code and I am supervising two students working on Bitcoin related topics.

I am dependent on the precise schedule of the program, because I have to match some time & travelling constraints. "Just come and see" will not work for myself (besides being detrimental to the possibility of preparing something).

I can provide more details on my suggestions above.

Update:

Confirmed Speaker:
Stefan Thomas

We are putting together the program now, its looking strong.

Sarcasm to cover for my mistake regarding the two Vladimir Marchenkos.

Thanks for the feedback guys, will be replying soon. 
Things are getting busy around here.

lawl, oops... I just bought this account from someone on ebay.  My apologies.

Not only that, it's just plain wrong.


The Pirate Party, neither the Swedish nor the international movement, aren't affiliated with The Pirate Bay anymore than your regular Green party is affiliated with Greenpeace. On that note, one of the founders of TPB votes green and not pirate.

+1
expecting the true vladimir to speak

btw nice preview of his talk can be found as video recording from the london's hackerspace talks on bitcoin

full/raw footage part 1 here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bitcoin-weekend
and part two: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/bitcoinweekend
is set on autoplay, might want to mute or correct speaker loudness before following any of those links
part 2 skip first 10 minutes (no talk ongoing). further spoiler on talk hosts, topics covered and time stamps for direct jumping to talk starts available upon request.

as for vladimir's talk it starts on video 'part 1' around 02:07:00
cake is mentioned also in 'part 1' around 1:50:00

I think you got the wrong Vladimir

That's not him:


Here's our good old Vladimir:


You're not new here so you surely remember him - don't fall for that 89 year old imposter

This is offtopic, but I wanted to reference it here because Rick Falkvinge (affiliated with The Pirate Bay in some fashion) will be attending, and I recently experienced a bit of obnoxious bannage from The Pirate Bay crew both at http://thepiratebay.org/ and in their irc channel in relation to uploading bitcoin-related content to http://thepiratebay.org.  However, noticeably there still exists other bitcoin-related content at http://thepiratebay.org/ with the 'bitcoin' tag and therefore I am not entirely confident of their reasoning of banning my account because bitcoin is "ponzi scheme" (also disregarding that bitcoin isn't a ponzi scheme) to be accurate since the other bitcoin-related torrents have not been removed or affiliated accounts banned.

I do not intend to hijack this thread, so instead direct all responses to https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/thepiratebayorg-banned-bitcoinmarkets-account-due-to-bitcoin-is-ponzi-scheme-46751