El Salvador, October 2021. In recent days the organizers of LABITCONF (Latin American Bitcoin & Blockchain Conference) announced that they would hold its ninth edition from november 15 to november 20 in El Salvador. This version, which resumes face-to-face, expects to bring together more than 2,000 Salvadorans and international attendees to enjoy more than 40 educational talks about the potential future and usefulness of Bitcoin.
In the framework of this event, today were revealed some of the more than 50 world-renowned speakers who will be participating on the stage of this conference on Bitcoin, which is the most important in the region and the oldest in the world.
Max Keiser, American reporter, filmmaker, and former stockbroker. He is currently one of the most famous figures in Bitcoin, thanks to his critical and acidic perspective on the financial status quo. Together with Stacy Herbert, who will also participate in the schedule, they present the podcast “Bitcoin Orange Pill Pod” and the Keiser Report program. In addition, this expert will participate in the agenda on Thursday 18 with his talk “Unlimited Printing, Unlimited Debt, Unlimited Power. Hello Bitcoin”.
Jameson Lopp is one of the most influential figures in the ecosystem. He is noted for his in-depth analysis and development of all kinds of tools in this industry. Lopp is the founder of Mensa’s Bitcoin Special Interest Group, several open-source Bitcoin projects, and CASA, which allows people to manage Bitcoins securely. His participation will take place on Friday, November 19, with his talk “The Challenging Road to Privacy in Bitcoin.“
Also in attendance will be Stephan Livera, CEO of Swan Bitcoin International, a platform focusing on the user and business education. This expert is also the host of Stephan Livera Podcast, one of the most respected Bitcoin podcasts in the industry.
Anita Posch, renowned author of the book “(L)earn Bitcoin”, host of the Anita Posch Show podcast, and board member of NPO Bitcoin Austria, will also participate. Part of the focus of her work has been to study how Bitcoin can improve the living conditions and financial freedom of millions of people. Both will have interventions as panelists and interviewers in various talks on November 18 and 19.
Matías Goldenhörn, the person responsible for Latin America at Athena, who took on the task of distributing hundreds of ATMs throughout the country in just two months, will also participate. The expert will speak on Thursday 18 about “The challenge of developing a wallet that will go from 0 to more than 4 million users” in a few days as an example of a success story for other countries.
Similarly, exceptional speakers Giacomo Zucco, RGB ideologist, and Tadge Dryja, Bitcoin developer and researcher at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative and creator of Discrete Log Contracts, will also be on the agenda. The last speaker has stood out in the industry as the ideologist of Lightning Network, two of the most powerful tools to take Bitcoin’s utility to another level. Both international figures will arrive in El Salvador to be part of this conference on Friday, 19.
“In this edition we wanted to bring the most recognized spokespersons of the crypto world in the world. We put our efforts in convening personalities of the highest renown to educate Salvadorans and LABITCONF attendees who want to approach this currency that is revolutionizing the world. We project that this year’s conference will be an unprecedented gathering, focusing the eyes of the world on the Salvadoran crypto industry to boost global investment and business opportunities in this country and the region,” said Rodolfo Andragnes, general organizer of the conference.
Other personalities that will accompany the agenda are John Newbery, founder and director of Bitcoin Brink; Hong Fang, CEO of OKCoin, one of the most essential cryptocurrency exchanges based in China; Bruce Fenton, Bitcoin activist and CEO at Chainstone Labs/Atlantic Financial; Juan Llanos, an AML and KYC specialist, David Gan of OPCrypto, Andrew Durgee of Republic and Maggie Wu of Krypital Group, among many others.
In addition to the aforementioned guests, LABITCONF El Salvador 2021 will feature different activities that will take place at different locations:
- On November 15 and 16, the Hackathon will be held at the Club Circulo Militar.
- On November 17, the conference “All about Bitcoin” will be held at the Teatro Presidente. In addition, the Legal Clinic, the NFT Workshop for artists, and the Craft Fair will be held at the Museo Marte on the same day.
- On November 18 and 19, the global conference will be held at the Teatro Presidente, with top-level speakers discussing crypto philosophy.
Thus, LABITCONF 2021 arrives in El Salvador to become a space where those interested in Bitcoin can keep up to date, with global experts, in the bitcoin and blockchain ecosystem in Latin America. Thus, the event hopes to accompany the Salvadoran pioneers on their way to becoming the first country in the world to accept Bitcoin as legal tender and transform this experience into an inspiration for other countries.
