Lightning Talks

Speakers: Alena Vránova, Jason Evans, Bitcannery, Ketominer

Alena Vránova BIO Alena develops early stage ideas into profitable products and services. Her track record includes several successful startups in finance and technology. Alena has over 15 years experience in leadership. She founded SatoshiLabs known for Trezor, the first bitcoin hardware wallet. Today, Alena acts as Head of Strategy for Casa.

ABSTRACT The Little Bitcoin Book: Why Bitcoin Matters for your Freedom, Finances and Future

Jason Evans BIO Jason is a training engineer with SUSE Linux in Prague. He specializes in writing training materials for container-based applications including Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. He is also deeply interested in keeping speech free even in places where it is illegal and so he is also interested in how Tor can help with that goal.

ABSTRACT - Building Tor Onion Services Quickly and Securely Using Containers What is Tor? Is it merely a place for criminals to hide out on the so called "Dark Web"? Are onion services nothing more than tools to hide illegal pornography and host drug markets? We'll answer these questions as well as learn how to make simple onion services using Linux containers in my presentation. // The Crpto-Anarchist Manifesto speaks of, "the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner". The goal of my presentation is to help enable individuals with the means to do this via Tor. Currently setting up an anonymous Tor onion service is not very difficult but does it take time to understand how the pieces work together. Using the Docker container method, we can minimize complexity and allow new onion services to be brought online quickly and securely. The end result I hope to accomplish is to allow people to communicate peacefully and anonymously without fear from governments and others who will not allow the free exchange of ideas.

Bitcannery BIO Pavel is a tech advisor and entrepreneur with the special interest for the modern anti-systemic movements and frameworks. He represents an informal multinational development team.

ABSTRACT - It is all in your head: safekeeping in the digital era. Bitcannery time-locks an encrypted message on a blockchain to be auto-decrypted at a set point in time. That point in time can be continuously pushed forward by the sender. This is useful for data escrow, data leaks, last-resort backups, inheritance, insurance and data storage.

Ketominer BIO "Full stack" person (electronics to code to networks). Started by electronics and programming at age 7, moved to networking when Internet became mainstream. Built several hosting companies and now applying accumulated knowledge in the Bitcoin space after discovering myself being a crypto anarchist at HCPP17.

ABSTRACT - Selling noodles for fun and profit In this talk, I present a hypothetical noodle cooking and delivery business as an example of tools that one could use to create a business accepting only bitcoin and spending (mostly) fiat. Challenges are many, bitcoiners always helpful.

• Being blocked (and sometimes unblocked) by exchanges, prepaid cards, payments gateways, banks...
• Paying (less) customs
• Avoiding customers to pay customs (mostly)
• Shipping stuff around the world without giving sender address
• Using less regarding services to avoid limitations and KYC
• List of services still working at the time of the conference to conduct an "unbusiness" from Europe