The hArk Round Signing Ceremony
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§01 · EVENT BADGES
10 editions attended.
🍎
’26
Seoul
privacy edition
📜
’26
Toronto
consensus edition
🦒
’26
Nairobi
open source edtion
🏛️
’26
Vienna
economics edition
🦫
’26
Vegas
villain edition
🔑
’26
Floripa
exploits edition
🌉
’25
Istanbul
scaling edition
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’25
Riga
privacy edition
👙
’25
Austin
mempool edition
🌴
’25
Floripa
hack+play edition
§02 · TALKS & PANELS
On stage.
Conference Kickoff
We’re kicking off the conference!
Anatomy of a Bark VTXO
We dissect the sqlite.db to see how Bark VTXOs really appear on disk.
Is Bitcoin the Austrian School’s Future?
Francis Pouliot of Bull Bitcoin once said: “The Libertarian movement died with Bitcoin”. In this discussion we invite Rahim Taghizadegan and Adam Bartha to explore the current state of the Austro-libertarian movement and what is Bitcoin’s role in it today.
Covenants make Bitcoin Better Money
How would the Austrians consider covenants, the proposal to make bitcoin more introspective? In this conversation, Matthew Vuk a Researcher at Second walks us through the philosophical argument for covenants
ARK in its essence
Matthew Vuk, researcher at Second, takes us on a journey to understand the essence of the Ark protocol, through the lens of Jan Sholten’s homeopathy.
Exploiting Bitcoin
Discussion on the landscape of exploiting bitcoin
Oxford Debate: Rollups Are Essential
Matthew Vuk, Researcher at Second and Jose Starpoli, core developer at Alpen Labs, square off in an Oxford style debate. Who will persuade more people to their point? ”Rollups will be essential for bitcoin's longterm success”
Scaling User Experiences
One common complaint for Lightning, the OG layer-2 scaling solution for Bitcoin, is how complicated and difficult the onboarding experience is for new users. How do new protocols and ways of scaling improve the user experience, while maintaining guarantees for self-custody?
