‘Satoshi’s Vision’ Bitcoin Cash Conference Adds Craig Wright, Others to Speaker Lineup

January 27, 2018 by Jon Southurst 9 Comments 5310 Views

The “Satoshi’s Vision” conference on the future of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has added a number of speakers to its official lineup — including nChain chief scientist Dr. Craig Wright. The three-day event, in Tokyo from March 23rd-25th, features guests from across the BCH community to discuss both technical and adoption challenges. 

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Satoshi’s Vision Conference Latest Lineup

Satoshi’s Vision is hosted by Bitcoin Unlimited, one of the Bitcoin Cash development teams. The complete list of new additions to its speaker lineup are as follows:

• Daniel Krawisz
  Co-Founder, The Satoshi Nakamoto Institute
• Clemens Ley
  Co-founder and CTO, Yours.org
• Dr. Craig Wright
  Chief Scientist, nChain
• Emil Oldenburg
  Co-founder and CTO, Bitcoin.com
• Brian Levine
  Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Lorien Gamaroff
  CEO and co-founder, Centbee
• Brett Scott
  Author, Journalist & Consultant
• Jerry Chan
  Chief Digital Asset Solutions, SBI BITS
• Julian Smith
  Founder and CEO, Blockfreight
• Antony Zegers
  Conference Chair, Satoshi’s Vision Conference
• Ken Shishido
  Co-organizer, Tokyo Bitcoin Meetup Group
• Tomas van der Wansem
  Developer, Bitcrust
• Josh Ellithorpe
  Senior Engineer, Coinbase
• Christina Storey
  Bitcoin Anthropologist
• Boris Javier Barrera
  founder and CEO, Bitek S.A.S, Colombia.
• Nikita Zhavoronkov
  CEO, Blockchair

Roger Ver will deliver the conference’s keynote speech, and speakers already confirmed include professor Emin Gun Sirer, Bitcoin ABC lead developer Amaury Sechet, Bitcoin Unlimited’s Andrew Stone and Peter Rizun, Bitcoin XT’s Tom Harding, and Yours.org CEO Ryan X. Charles.

Adoption, Investment and Economics as well as Technical Issues

Conference chair Antony Zegers, who is speaking himself, said presenters represent a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise, including academic research, business, Bitcoin Cash community and adoption, investment and economic theory, and technical development. He added:

“The speakers and attendees at this conference are thinkers and doers. Not only is their work groundbreaking and innovative, it is also directed towards an important goal: building the future of money. By working to create sound money the whole world can use, we will bring Satoshi’s Vision to reality.”

Satoshi’s Vision is the first major conference event dedicated to Bitcoin Cash and on-chain scaling solutions. Its host city, Tokyo, has recently made a name for itself as a BCH hub — a number of merchants now accept BCH payments and it also has a monthly Bitcoin Cash meetup group.

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