Lightning Talks

exiledsurfer BIO exiledsurfer co-founded Bitcoiners Without Borders in 2013 together with no-statist Mike Gogulski and technologist / futurist Vinay Gupta. exiledsurfer is a Privacy, Transparency & Decentralization Open-ReSourcerer whose clients have included The Bitcoin Foundation, The Trustlines Foundation, and status.im. He is a co-conspiritor at the Department of Decentralization, which produces the ETHberlin hackathon and does research at the intersection between art and cryptography. As a digital artist / activist, he has produced memetic media for the micronation State of Sabotage, Wikileaks, Anonymous, Lulzsec, Occupy Wallstreet, and the Arab Spring.

ABSTRACT - Stateless in the Panopticon exiledsurfer will trace his personal journey to statelessness when his passport was revoked by the US State Department in 2014, covering the challenges, trade-offs, and benefits of living in the parallel cypherpunk systems of finance and identity in his ongoing battle to maintain personal freedom and sovereignty under surveillance capitalism’s panopticon institutions.

Charles Hill BIO Charles is a cryptocurrency enthusiast, programmer, and researcher. He has many years of professional experience developing mobile and web applications while working for start-ups in Europe as well as the United States. He is a long-time open-source contributor and for the past few years he has been working full-time developing cryptocurrency payment systems.

ABSTRACT - Double-spending: A Practical Reality Most of the end-user applications used widely today leave their users vulnerable to being defrauded via double-spend attacks. It is no longer a theoretical possibility but a practical reality. During this presentation you will learn how various double-spend attacks work, the current state of the ecosystem as it relates to double-spend attack mitigation, and finally what you can do to protect yourself.

Mário Havel BIO Mário Havel studies informatics on CTU in Prague, he is National Coordinator of Students for Liberty and member of both Paralelní Polis and Paralelná Polis. His field of interest is information security, digital privacy and Bitcoin. He is also host of Kofein, podcast focused on technologies and security.

ABSTRACT - Life and Legacy of Aaron Swartz You may never heard of him. He was one of the brightest minds of his generation. But the life of this hacker and activist wrote a story, where we are witnessing the power of state oppression. He stood at the beginning of Reddit, organizations like Creative Commons, helped to develop RSS and spread open ideas of open information. Aaron Swartz displeased the state and died because of it’s constant pressure. His acts of hacktivism were strongly punished by the state which resulted in the death of the brilliant visionary and digital freedom fighter. In my talk I’ll explain closer Aaron’s activism, his successes and legacy which should be understood by everybody interested in hacktivism and digital freedom.

#hcpp19 #optout #paralelnipolis #instituteofcryptoanarchy