Bitcoin Custody

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Session 1: Bitcoin Custody

Session 2: Bitcoin is ESG

Session 3: Bitcoin and IP

As the wave of interest from institutions continues to increase, Bitcoin faces an interesting tradeoff. Will the institutionalization of Bitcoin come at the expense of preserving Bitcoin’s primary value propositions? In this track, our speakers discuss how to preserve the Bitcoin ethos.

Speakers on this Track

Jameson Lopp Bitcoin Custody

A Cypherpunk whose goal is to build technology that empowers individuals, Jameson has been building multisignature bitcoin wallets since 2015. Prior to founding Casa, he was the lead infrastructure engineer at BitGo. He is the founder of Mensa's Bitcoin Special Interest Group, the Triangle Blockchain & Business meetup, and several open source Bitcoin projects. Throughout this time he has worked to educate others about what he has learned the hard way while writing robust software that can withstand both adversaries and unsophisticated end users.

Dhruv Bansal Bitcoin Custody

Dhruv is a physicist turned serial entrepreneur. Formerly in big data, he currently is building bitcoin native financial services at Unchained Captial.

Wiz Bitcoin Custody

Operator of an ISP that hosts various infrastructure for Bitcoin open-source projects.

Matt Odell Bitcoin Custody (Moderator)

Matt is an Independent Bitcoin and Privacy Advocate

Kirupa Pushparaj Bitcoin and IP

Kirupa leads teams responsible for all aspects of Square’s intellectual property

Jerry Brito Bitcoin and IP (Moderator)

Jerry Brito is executive director of Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies like Bitcoin. Jerry has testified several times before Congress and state legislatures about cryptocurrencies, and regularly holds briefings for and consultations with policy makers. He has presented on cryptocurrencies at the the CFTC, SEC, Treasury Department, State Department, and the White House, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. He is the coauthor of Bitcoin: A Primer for Policymakers, as well as other scholarly work on the regulation of cryptocurrencies. Jerry is a recipient of the Public Knowledge IP3 Award and was named one of Washington's 100 top tech leaders by Washingtonian magazine and to the POLITICO 50 list of D.C. influencers. His op-eds have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and elsewhere.

Brett Winton Bitcoin is ESG

Brett joined ARK in February 2014 and has worked alongside Cathie Wood for almost 15 years since their time at AllianceBernstein. As Director of Research, Brett guides and manages the proprietary research of ARK’s investment team. The team recognizes that disruptive innovation demands a dynamic and universal approach. By researching across sectors, industries and markets, ARK’s investment team seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the convergence and market potential of disruptive innovations, and thus size investment opportunities more appropriately.

Alex Gladstein Bitcoin is ESG

Alex Gladstein is Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. He has also served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum since its inception in 2009. In his work Alex has connected hundreds of dissidents and civil society groups with business leaders, technologists, journalists, philanthropists, policymakers, and artists to promote free and open societies. Alex's writing and views on human rights and technology have appeared in media outlets across the world including The Atlantic, BBC, CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, NPR, TIME, The Washington Post, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal. He has spoken at universities ranging from MIT to Stanford, briefed the European Parliament and US State Department, and serves as faculty at Singularity University and as an advisor to Blockchain Capital, a leading venture firm in the fintech industry. He frequently speaks and writes about why Bitcoin matters for freedom, and co-authored "The Little Bitcoin Book" in 2019.

Sam Korus Bitcoin is ESG (Moderator)

Sam joined ARK in July 2015. As an Analyst for ARK’s Autonomous Technology and Robotics strategy, Sam focuses on automation, robotics, energy storage, alternate energy, and space exploration. Prior to ARK, Sam was a business development intern at Graphiq, a knowledge graph and visualization company. Prior to Graphiq, Sam worked as a captain for Sail Caribbean. Sam graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he studied Cognitive Science with a concentration in Computation and Cognition. Sam has appeared on CNBC, BNN and Cheddar TV, and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

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