Speakers
The European Bitcoin Conference 2011 is being held at the City Conference Center in The Blue Hall, free wireless internet connection for all participants, lunch and coffee breaks catered.
Amir Taaki is Co-Founder of the London based Bitcoin Consultancy, as well as being a developer of bitcoin. He wrote the original currency exchange software, the stock exchange client, bitcoin poker software and an end user GUI for bitcoin.
Prior to working in bitcoins, programmed video games and has 10 years of experience with open-source software. Now he's working on the Bitcoin
Consultancy's rewrite of bitcoin- libbitcoin which will enable bitcoin to scale and people to quickly start building bitcoin applications.
Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the first Pirate Party and a campaigner for next-generation civil liberties and sensible information policy. In particular, he stresses how the copyright industries work in collusion with Big Brother hawks to erode or eliminate the parts of Internet that guarantee our civil liberties.
On the end of May 2011, he announced that he was investing all his savings into bitcoins.
He was even taking a loan to buy more bitcoins. He has been listed as one of the 100 most influential people in Sweden by Fokus magazine.
Max Keiser is a TV presenter, radio host, entrepreneur, broadcaster and journalist.
He is a former Wall Street broker, the inventor of the virtual specialist technology / prediction markets, Hollywood Stock Exchange, Karmabanque, and Pirate MyFilm (PMF).
David G.W. Birch is a Director of Consult Hyperion, the IT management consultancy that specialises in electronic transactions.
Here he provides specialist consultancy support to clients around the world, including all of the leading payment brands, major telecommunications providers, governments bodies and international organisations including the OECD.
Jim Burton is the lead developer of MultiBit. For the previous ten years he has worked using Java at financial software houses including Banctec and Infor.
He now works full-time on MultiBit doing his part in bringing Bitcoin to everyone.
More than 10 years of web-development. Started as a freelancer many years ago, his hobby has grown into professional business of web-development for local customers.
During that time he also created one of the first professional freelance sites in Eastern Europe as his personal project but had to focus completely on his own business.
At this time his company is providing the development and technical support for IMCEX.COM
Clemens Cap is a professor for information and communication services at the university of Rostock.
His current research interests focus on distributed systems and their application to secure and private content dissemination.
Being particularly proud of this "the proof is more of a nerd than the students" feedback once earned in a Web 2.0 class he is currently analysing Bitcoin and other completely decentralized architectures from a technical point of view as well as with the aim to understand their impact on society.
Stefan Thomas aka justmoon is creator of the WeUseCoins.com and of BitcoinJS, a bitcoin implementation written in JavaScript.
He is a member of TruCoin and part of the WebCoin, a bitcoin client that runs in your web-browser.
Detlev S. Schlichter is an author and Austrian School Economist. His first book Paper Money Collapse – The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown was published by John Wiley & Sons in September 2011.
Mr. Schlichter has appeared as a commentator on television and radio (Sky News, Reuters TV) and his editorials have been published by The Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com and mises.org.
He is a senior fellow at the Cobden Centre, London, a free-market think tank devoted to issues of money and banking. Mr. Schlichter had a 19-year career as an investment manager in international financial markets.
Cameron Garnham is a partner at TiguSoft.pl a company focused on bringing Open Transactions infrastructure to the bitcoin economy.
He passionately believes that the centralisation of the banking and financial industry is a key reason for its ongoing failure.
Cameron is an experienced advocate for technological solutions such as Open Transactions and Bitcoin, which enable people to be in control of their own finances.
Simon Dixon is an ex Investment Banker and economist who now dedicates his time to implementing banking reform through entrepreneurship, politics and education.
As the founder of BankToTheFuture.com he will be launching an alternative way for people to fund, borrow, raise funds and invest without banks.
As a financial political reformer he works with not-for profits and UK MP's to campaign to reform our financial system. As the founder of the world's leading training company for students seeking careers in banking, he educates the next generation of bankers on the need for change from the inside.
Peter Kleissner is an independent programmer and security analyst.
He was working for an anti-virus company from 2008 to 2009 and was speaker at the Black Hat and Hacking at Random technical security conferences. His main operating fields are Windows security and analysis of new malware. Important projects include the analysis of the Sinowal banking trojan and the development of the Stoned Bootkit, a research project to subvert the Windows security model.
Abstract: Sit back, grab a six pack and relax! In this talk I will show you how to write your own BitCoin malware - and how to reverse and analyze it. In the wild there are viruses stealing your BitCoin wallets and mining on your cost. I will put them altogether. I will perform a live demonstration on the world's stealthiest BitCoin stealer that is bootkit based and ready for Windows 8. The first Windows 8 malware!
Conference topics
- Open Transactions, and how it can help the Bitcoin economy
- How entrepreneurs can beat the banking system
- Bitcoin Todo List: What Remains to be Done to Make it Succeed?
- The public domain vs. the private domain; money, property and political activism
- Next Generation Money - The Opportunities
- Bitcoin mining for beginners
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