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As the world's largest Bitcoin-only event, Bitcoin 2025 brings together over 35,000 attendees, including developers, miners, entrepreneurs, institutional investors, and everyday Bitcoin enthusiasts. The conference features more than 300 speakers and 300 exhibitors, offering a comprehensive program that delves into topics such as Bitcoin adoption, mining innovations, Layer 2 solutions, decentralized finance, and the broader impact of Bitcoin on the global financial system.
Attendees can look forward to a variety of experiences, including the Bitcoin 2025 Expo Hall, which showcases cutting-edge technologies and vibrant Bitcoin culture. Highlights include the Mining Village & Mining Stage, the Bitcoin Bazaar marketplace, the Bitcoin Art Gallery, and various networking lounges. The event also offers exclusive VIP experiences, such as access to the Whale VIP Lounge, premium food and beverages, and entry to official after-parties at top-tier Las Vegas venues.
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM - Opening Remarks - David Bailey
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM - The Next Golden Age of America - Faryar Shirzad, Rosie Rios, Chris LaCivita
11:30 AM - 12:00 AM - The First Bitcoiner In Space: Backstory - Rizzo, Chun Wang
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Bo Hines: Making America The Global Bitcoin Superpower - Miles Jennings, Bo Hines
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - How Do We Fund The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve? - Alex Thorn, Matthew Sigel, Matthew Pines, Fred Thiel
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Building The Future Financial Products of America - Kevin Kelly, Jan van Eck, Robert Mitchnick, Hunter Horsley
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Financial Inclusion With Open Monetary Networks - Ali Tager, Felipe Servin, Tony Högqvist, Jeremy Almond
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Bitcoin Business Innovation in Latin America - Lynne Bairstow, Christian Ribeiro, Felipe Servin
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Success and Challenges with Bitcoin Circular Economies - Brian De Mint, Hermann Vivier, Isabella Santos, Roman Martinez
12:00 AM - 12:30 AM - India’s Bitcoin Moment - Sagun Garg, Bank Julius Baer, Abhay Agarwal, GetBit, Siddarth Bharwani, Jetking, Smeet Bhatt, Theya Inc.
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - Marketing Bitcoin to the Masses - Susie Violet Ward, Neil Jacobs, Brian De Mint, Anil Patel
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Bitcoin as a Digital 1776 - GMONEY, Erik Cason, CJ Konstantinos, Nico Moran
1:30 PM - 1:30 PM - Bretton Woods 2.0: The Bitcoin Monetary Order - Cedric Youngelman, Efrat Fenigson, Ben Samocha, Roger Huang
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Building on Bitcoin Without Changing The Protocol: Metaprotocols & Sidechains - Isabel Foxen Duke, Spencer Yang, Brian Laughlan, Alec Taggart
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - Bitcoin L2s: The Search for Native Yield - Michael Terpin, David Tse, Rich Rines
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Revitalizing Rural America with Bitcoin Mining - Mario Gutierrez, Russell Cann, Matt Schultz
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - How Virtualized Mining is Reshaping the Bitcoin Landscape - Colin Harper, Charley Brady, Andy Wang
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Bitcoin Mining is for Closers: Miners Vertically Integrating Hardware & Generation - Nishant Sharma, Duncan Dickerson, Rachel Silverstein
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Ancillary Services for Miners: Custody & Insurance - Charlotte Goldman, Rachel Nixon, Nick Neuman, Emma Rose Bienvenu
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Hashrate and Headaches: Bitcoin Mining Tax Challenges & Opportunities - Tim Savage, Rob Massey
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Tokenizing Hashrate: Derivatives & Securities for Institutional Adoption - Mike Cohen, Emmanuel Montero, Arnab Naskar, Matt Williams
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Restoring Power & Democracy in the Energy Sector - Neil Chatterjee, Fred Thiel
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM- Strategies for Sourcing Hardware in a World of Hashrate Expansion - Alex Bodromian, Alan Martinez, Artem Bespaloff
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Managing Investor Expectations for Public Mining Companies - Samuel Dergel, Rob Samuels, Jon Charbonneau, Tracy Krumme
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - Capital Strategy: Mining in 2025 - Brett Knoblauch, Gary Vecchiarelli, Phil McPherson
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Bitcoin Mining Origin Story - Susie Violet Ward, Ben Gagnon, Taylor Monnig, Kevin Zhang
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - CLE: Trump Administration's Bitcoin Policies - Cody Carbone, Margeaux Plaisted, Brian Morgenstern, Zack Shapiro
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM - CLE: Bitcoin’s Regulatory Environment and Proposed Changes - Kristin Stroud, Anne Peetz, Stephen Palley
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Mining Masterclass: So You Want To Mine Bitcoin? - Will Foxley, Tommy Walker, Chuck L'Ecuyer, Rami Alsridi
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Luxor Keynote - Nick Hansen
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM - Cormint Keynote - Jamie McAvity
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Power, Payoff & Longevity: Comparing Mining Cooling Systems - Nico Smid, Darren Burgess
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Mastering Treasury Management: How to Accumulate As Much Bitcoin As Possible - Will Foxley, Jeff Lucas, Drew Armstrong, Salman Khan
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Improving Mine Management Efficiency With AI, Demand Response & Heat Reuse - Anthony Power, Andrii Garanin, Dan Lawrence, Jolie Kahn
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - ****Building Data Centers With Bitcoin Mining & AI In Mind - Taylor Monnig, Alex Brammer, Chris Totin, Kent Draper
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - ****Built to Last: Engineering Robust Bitcoin Mining Infrastructure - Chuck L'Ecuyer, Matt Lohstroh, Scot Johnson
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - The Hardware Arms Race in Bitcoin Mining - Nishant Sharma, Peng Li, Wright Wang, Christopher Crowell
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - The Impacts of Tariffs on Mining Supply Chains: When 1 Zetahash? - Brandon Bailey, Matt Lohstroh, Shanon Squires, Ghazaleh Barman
2:30 PM - 2:50 PM - Bitmain Keynote
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Nation-State Game Theory of Hashrate & Blockspace - Mags Gronowska, Kevin Zhang
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Bitcoin Made in America: Mining Policy Advancements - Colin Crossman, Brian Morgenstern, Will Paul
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM - Understanding The Great Consensus Cleanup As A Non-Technical Bitcoiner - Antoine Poinsot
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Proof of Redemption: From (Prison) Bars to Bitcoin - Jill Ford, Justin Rhedrick
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Privacy is Not a Crime: Free Roman Sterlingov
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Maximize Your Bitcoin Gains With Tax-Advantaged Strategies - Kristin Stroud, Andrew Gordon, Jessy Gilger
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - The State of Bitcoin & How We Got Here - Matt Corallo
12:30 PM - 12:50 PM - Power to the Nodes - Matt Hill
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM - QBTC: Announcing a Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Proof-of-Work Rollup - Christian Papathanasiou
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Tailoring Your Business For Bitcoiners - Bobby Shell, Ben Justman, Paul DeJoe, Rick Vanderhulst
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - How Bitcoin Ends the State's Monopoly on Violence - Aaron Daniel, Avik Roy, Josh Hendrickson, Leopoldo Bebchuk
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - Building the Tools For Merchant Adoption - Rockstar Dev, Stephen Cole, Bobby Shell, Lyle Pratt
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM - Liquidium Announcement - Robin Obermaier
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM - exSat keynote - Tristan Dickinson
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Building the Bitcoin Economy: Expanding Utility With DeFi & Infrastructure - Alisia Painter, Matt Luongo, Muneeb Ali
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Using Bitcoin to Secure The Ballot in Georgia - Carlos Toriello, Stacy Scott
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Are Bitcoiners Becoming Sycophants of The State? - Danny Knowles, Bruce Fenton, Erik Cason, American HODL, Casey Rodarmor
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - Bitcoin Under The Hood for Mass Adoption - Alekos Filini
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM - The Current State of Open Source Funding: Report - Mas Nakachi, Dan O'Prey
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM - Neha Keynote - Neha Narula
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Comparing Trust Assumptions and Security Models Across Layer 2s
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Covenants: Which Opcode(s) Do Developers Want & Why? - Brandon Black, Salvatore Ingala, Ben Carman, Keagan McClelland
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - State, Settlement & Scaling: Does Bitcoin Need Optimization? - Neha Narula, Alex Bergeron, Keagan McClelland, Peter Todd
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - The OP_CAT's Out of The Bag: Will This Introduce MEV on Bitcoin? - Weikeng Chen, Andrew Poelstra, Rijndael
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM - LayerTwo Labs Keynote - Paul Sztorc
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - Amplifying Open Source Development with AI - Sagun Garg, Bootoshi B, Jordi Montes
12:50 PM - 1:00 PM- Bitcoin Games Hackathon Award Ceremony - Alex Lewin
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM - BitDevs2h - Murch, Matt Corallo, Stephen DeLorme
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM - Block Keynote - Miles Suter
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM - Exodus keynote: Bitcoin’s Role in The New Economy & Payment Solutions - JP Richardson
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM - Keynote - Arthur Hayes
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Retail Bitcoin Investors & The Front Running of Wall Street - Aaron Arnold, Yoni Assia, Johann Kerbrat, Seamus Rocca
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - One Year After the Halving: Diversifying The Infrastructure of Bitcoin - Brandon Bailey, Jason Les, Nazar Khan
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM - One Year After The Halving: Capitalization & Scaling - Eleanor Terrett, Zachary Bradford, Ben Gagnon
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM - The Policy Path for Bitcoin in Hong Kong - John Riggins, Eric Yip, Dr. Hon Johnny NG
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - How Bitcoin Can Break the Chains of Economic Imperialism - Daniel Batten, John Perkins
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Bitcoin As a Neutral Reserve Asset & The End of The Triffin Dilemma - Jordan Schachtel, James Lavish, Bill Miller IV, Mark Moss
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - BitBonds: As American as Apple Pie - Tyler Evans, Andrew Hohns, Pierre Rochard, Matt Cole
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Two Goldbugs on Both Sides of The (Bit)coin - Natalie Brunell, Peter Schiff, Trace Mayer
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - How Institutional Adoption Impacts On-Chain Data - Matt Crosby, Chris Kuiper, Ben Cowen
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - What The FIRE Movement Gets Wrong About Bitcoin - Trey Sellers, Morgen Rochard, Brian Harrington, Jim Crider
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Wealth Management & Estate Planning With Bitcoin as a Unit of Account - Loren Asmus, Zac Townsend, Shawn Owen, Sagun Garg
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - From Golden State to Orange State: California Embraces Bitcoin - Mags Gronowska, Joe Carlasare, Lana Negrete, Dom Bei
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM- A New Wave of Bitcoin Lending Products - Dhruv Patel, Pete Janney
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - Debunking Personal Finance Myths: A Seed Phrase Isn't a Financial Plan - Morgen Rochard, Pierre Rochard
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Bitcoin Banking: Legacy Integration or a Brand New Model? - Julia Duzon, Miles Paschini, Jody Mettler, Christian Ribeiro
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM - Blockstream CIO Keynote - Sean Bill
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM - BitGo Announcement - Nuri Chang
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM - Merging Opportunities With Bitcoin & Real Estate To Store Value Longterm - Erik LaPaglia, Smeet Bhatt, Daniel Kodsi, Austin Alexander
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Bitcoin As The Hurdle Rate For Investing - Richard Byworth, Mason Carter, Marc Syz, Borja Martel Seward
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - Seeding Startups To Outperform Bitcoin & Grow The Industry - Michael Jarmuz, Akshat Vaidya, Nico Lechuga
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - FROSTR Workshop: Multisig Nostr Signing - Austin Kelsay
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM - Discussing The Blocksize: Have We Found Equilibrium? - Shehzan Maredia, Brandon Black, Murch
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM - MEVil: Concern or Hyperbole? - Andrew Poelstra, Matt Corallo
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM - Continuing The Conversation: ZK Q&A - Orkun Mahir Kilic, David Seroy, Carter Feldman
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - DLCs on Bitcoin vs Smart Contracts on Alt-Chains - Shehzan Maredia, Connor O'Hara
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Hester Peirce Fireside - Hester Peirce
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Tether + Cantor Fireside - Paolo Ardoino, Brandon Lutnick
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM - EXSat Network Announcement - Yves La Rose
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Information Asymmetry: Bitcoin Edition - Nolan Bauerle, Mike Benz
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Is Panama Next? El Salvador Leading The Region For Bitcoin Adoption - Mike Peterson, Max & Stacy, Mayer Mizrachi
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM - Don't Trust, Verify: Waning Institutional Credibility & The Rise of Bitcoin - Marty Bent, Dr. Robert Malone, Luke Rudkowski
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM - The Critical Role of Funding Bitcoin Open Source Development - Stephan Livera, Dan O'Prey, Mike Schmidt, Hunter Horsley, Alex Li
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM - Corporate Treasury: Why Public Companies Aren't Worried About Bitcoin Volatility - David Bailey, Eric Semler, Dylan LeClair, Will Reeves
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Jack Mallers Keynote - Jack Mallers
03:35 PM - 04:15 PM - The Inflation No One Is Talking About: Wrench Attacks - Jameson Lopp
04:15 PM - 04:50 PM - Saylor Keynote - Michael Saylor
04:50 PM - 05:00 PM - Not Financial Advice
05:00 PM - 05:20 PM - Ross Ulbricht Keynote - Ross Ulbricht
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Bitcoin's Intersection of Health, Wealth & Sunlight - Freddie New, Andy Schoonover, Steven Lubka, Paul Keating
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM - Bitcoin Offers Hope for Survivors of Human Trafficking - DJ Valerie B LOVE, Bob McDonell, Ryan Matta, Alejandra Guajardo
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Proof of Steak: Food Systems, Diet & Bitcoin - Matthew Lysiak, Chef Pete Evans, Doug Davis, Shawn Baker
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - How The Sovereign Individual Thesis Is Currently Unfolding - Katie The Russian, Nuri Katz, Mehdi Al Malla, Professor Edward Stringham
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Raising Future Bitcoiners: No More Fiat Families - Walker America, Carla Bitcoin, Katie The Russian
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM - The Bitcoin Paradigm Shift: Impacts on Productivity, Quality of Life & Society - Brian Dixon, Wyatt O'Rourke, Bram Kanstein, Robin Seyr
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM - Will Bitcoin Adoption End Fiat Once And For All? - Joe Bryan, Rajat Soni, Nik Bhatia, Lawrence Lepard
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM - From Capital to Currency: Bitcoin’s Move to Medium of Exchange - Stephan Livera, Roy Sheinfeld, Adam Simecka, Chris Hunter
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Decentralizing Social Media - McShane, Martti Malmi, Lyn Alden
02:30 PM - 03:10 PM - Bitcoin Third Places: Creating Spaces for Community - Robert Warren, Zach Wischler, Haley Berkoe, Stephen DeLorme, Mike Germano
03:10 PM - 03:40 PM - From Cave Art to Code: Redefining Value in a World of Absolute Scarcity - Erin Redwing, Vijay Boyapati, Jesse Myers, Maxfield Mellenbruch
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM - Bitcoin Mining Machine's Innovation & Transparency is Essential to Future Growth - Peng Li
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM - Excess Power Into Profits: New Revenue Stream for Miners - Andrii Garanin
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM- Colocation For Retail Miners: Navigating Hosting Agreements and Procurement - Beau Turner, Adam Haynes, Mason Jappa, Timo Steipe
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM - Heatbit Product Announcement: Bringing Mining Back Home - Alex Busarov
11:40 AM - 12:20 PM - Creative Strategies For Domestic Mining Heat Reuse - Tyler Stevens, Toine, Michael Schmid, Nicolas Drouin, Alex Busarov
12:20 PM - 12:30 PM - Futurebit Keynote - John Stefanopoulos
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM - Pool Payout Structures: Past, Present & Future - Billy Boone, Marko Tarman, Bitcoin Mechanic, Carson Smith
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM - Decentralizing Mining Through Hardware Manufacturing - Colin Harper, Aviral Shukla, Matt Howard, Malcolm Chen
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM - The Role of Hashrate and Pools in Decentralization & Censorship Resistance - Robert Warren, aeon, Bitcoin Mechanic
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - From Hash to Template: The Full Stack Mining Blueprint - Bart Mol, John Stefanopoulos, aeon, Matt Howard
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - Mining as a Backbone for an Abundant Future - Susie Violet Ward, Beau Turner, Troy Cross, Daniel Batten
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM - How Shielded CSV Improves Privacy - Jonas Nick
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM - Manna: Have Fun Playing Store - Adam Simecka
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - What Does Bitcoin Core Actually DO? - Stephan Livera, Murch, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Schmidt
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - UX at the Forefront: The Path to Bitcoin for The Mainstream - Conor Okus, Sahil Chaturvedi, Skyler, Pedro
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM - Securing Bitcoin: The Power of Self Custody - Adam O'Brien, Ben Kaufman, Hodl Dee, Kevin Loaec
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM - Self Custody is Hard: Should Every User Store Seed Words? - Steve Lee, Zach Herbert, Seed Signer, Max Guise
01:00 PM - 01:20 PM - Ark Labs Keynote - Alex Bergeron
01:20 PM - 01:40 PM - zkCoins: Make Bitcoin Cypherpunk Again! - Robin Linus
01:40 PM - 01:50 PM- Joltz Announcement - Stephen Dodge
01:50 PM - 02:00 PM - Harnessing Bitcoin Yield with Lightning - Jesse Shrader
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - Preserving Privacy Without Coinjoin as a Core Tool - Aaron van Wirdum, Seth For Privacy, Super Testnet, spacebear
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - Making Bitcoin UTXOs Quantum Resistant - Alex Pruden, Jonas Nick, Christian Papathanasiou
03:00 PM - 03:30 PM - Reclaiming Internet Privacy in a World of Surveillance - Rockstar Dev, Harry Halpin, Carl Dong, Blake Benthall
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - The Great Decoupling? - Lawrence Lepard, James Lavish, Mark Moss
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Accessing Capital Markets With The Bitcoinization of Finance - Christian Lopez, Constantine Karides, Jonathan Kirkwood, Jake Ornstein
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM - Breakdown: How Institutions Get Bitcoin Yield - Jeff Park, Shirish Jajodia, Dylan LeClair
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM - GoMining Keynote - GoMining
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM - Proof of Reserves: The Institutional Gold Standard - Sam Abbassi, Simon Gerovich, Julia Duzon, Jeff Park
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM - Global (Micro)Strategy Playbook - Jason Fang, John Riggins, Siddarth Bharwani, Alexandre Laizet
02:00 PM - 02:30 PM - MSTR vs. the Market: Betting the Company on Bitcoin - Richard Byworth, Jeff Walton, Ben Werkman
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM - GameStop: Leveling Up With Bitcoin - Ben Wehrman, Peruvian Bull, Ian Carroll
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Code Your Way Through The Mysteries of Bitcoin & Save Satoshi - Satsie
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM - Foolproof Multisig Backup: Two Seeds Should Be Enough - Josh Doman
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM - Privacy Deep Dive: Coinpools - Super Testnet
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM - Merkleize All The Things - Salvatore Ingala
02:45 PM - 03:15 PM - Behind The Curtain of Silent Payments - Seth For Privacy
03:15 PM - 03:45 PM - Continuing the Conversation: How Do Stable Channels work? - Tony Klausing