Why POW? Precisely because POW is hard. What's easily created is easily destroyed, but a global algo dominant POW chain is very hard to build, hard to sustain, and thus, if you can clear those hurdles, it's brutally hard to destroy. If you care about hard money, care about POW.

Livestream link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5nLerONtw0

Speaking Schedule:

https://cfp.powsummit.com/2024/schedule/

Schedule begins at 9am Berlin (CET) time, 2am Chicago (CDT) time (there's a dropdown in the upper right hand corner of the schedule to switch between time zones to whatever is closer to you). Alternatively google is handy for converting timezones.

I'm particularly looking forward to Vlad Costea's interview with Charlie Lee Saturday afternoon, but there's a lot of cool speakers, see below.

Speakers List:

JAMESON LOPP - Professional Cypherpunk

CHARLIE LEE - Founder, Litecoin

PHIL ZIMMERMANN - Creator, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

DANIEL BATTEN - ClimateTech investor

DENNIS PORTER - CEO and Co-Founder, Satoshi Action Fund

SERGIO DEMIAN LERNER - Chief of Innovation, RootstockLabs

RENA SHAH - COO, Trust Machines

TOR EKELAND - Trial & Appellate Lawyer

FRANK HOLMES - Executive Chairman, Hive Digital Technologies

SAMANTHA DE WAAL - 13 year old lifelong Bitcoiner

JARRAD HOPE - Cofounder of Status and Logos

NICK SPANOS - Bitcoin Pioneer, Founder of Bitcoin & Blockchain Centers Worldwide

JANUSZ -CEO of Bitcoin Layers

HARALD RAUTER - Climate Positive Investor

ORKUN MAHIR KILIÇ - CEO of Chainway Labs

ALEXEI ZAMYATIN - Cofounder, BOB (Build on Bitcoin)

EDAN YAGO - Sovryn

MATTHIAS TARASIEWICZ - Head of Research at RIAT Institute

BOB SUMMERWILL - Executive Director, ETC Cooperative

FRANCISCO CABANAS - aka ArcticMine, founder

MYKOLA SIUSKO - Core Contributor at Web3Privacy Now

AYDIN KILIC - President and Chief Executive Officer, Hive Digital Technologies

J. GDANSKI - CEO of Evertas

DAVID BURKETT - MWEB Developer at Litecoin Foundation

LYUDMYLA KOZLOVSKA - President of the Open Dialogue Foundation

BOTA JARDEMAILE - Human Rights Lawyer, Refugee

KRISTIAN CSEPCSAR - Chief of Propaganda at Braiins

THEO GOODMAN - Art Chad

SAM BOURGI - Senior News Editor at Cointelegraph

PATRICK LODDER - Dogecoin Developer

AARON FEICKERT - Research Engineering Lead at Alpen Labs

CARTER FELDMAN - Founder & CEO of QED Protocol

BEN DE WAAL - Anarchist since the 1990s; Bitcoiner since 2010

VERONIKA KUETT - Researcher at Bitcoin Layers

STEFANIA BARBAGLIO - Founder, FinancialFox Podcast

WANTCLUE - Developer, Bitaxe Miner

KERRY WASHINGTON - GM Litewallet

JULIAN LEN - Researcher / Developer at Rootstock Labs

PATRICIO GALLARDO - Researcher at Rootstock Labs

David Kim - PoW Ecosystem Manager at BITMAIN

CHRIS SEEDOR - CEO of Bitsurance

MAGDALENA GRONOWSKA - Advisor, PRTI: integrated energy & bitcoin mining operation

VLAD COSTEA - Founder, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

MICHAEL PARENTI - Cryptorealist & Ecosystem Integrator, Parallelní Polis

DAVID SCHWARTZ - Strategic Partnerships Director, Litecoin Foundation

ALAN AUSTIN - Managing Director, Litecoin Foundation

DONALD MCINTYRE - Senior Editor, ETC Cooperative