This is Bitcoin’s Big Ideas Day: a high-voltage lineup of Bitcoin visionaries, policymakers, macro titans, and capital allocators revealing the future of money, energy, and innovation.
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📅 Nakamoto Stage – Wednesday, May 28, 2025
8:45 AM — Opening Remarks
🎤 David Bailey (BTC Inc.)
9:00 AM — JD Vance Keynote
🎤 JD Vance (The White House)
10:30 AM — Bitcoin: The Trojan Horse That’s Already Inside the Gates
🎤 JP Richardson (Exodus)
10:50 AM — Square Keynote
🎤 Miles Suter (Block)
11:10 AM — Arthur Hayes Keynote
🎤 Arthur Hayes (Maelstrom)
11:30 AM — One Year After the Halving: Capitalization & Scaling
🗣 Eleanor Terrett (Crypto in America, moderator)
🎤 Zachary Bradford (CleanSpark), Ben Gagnon (Bitfarms)
11:55 AM — Retail Bitcoin Investors & The Front Running of Wall Street
🗣 Austin Arnold (Altcoin Daily, moderator)
🎤 Johann Kerbrat (Robinhood), Seamus Rocca (Zapp Bank), Dave Ripley (Kraken), Andrew McCormick (dToro)
12:30 PM — One Year After the Halving: Diversifying the Infrastructure of Bitcoin
🗣 Brandon Bailey (Second Gate, moderator)
🎤 Jason Les (Riot), Haris Basit (Bitdeer), Nazar Khan (TeraWulf)
1:00 PM — Innovation First, Reliability Always: Redefining the Next Chapter of PoW Mining
🎤 Irene Gao (Bitmain)
1:15 PM — Lava Loans: Product Announcement
🎤 Shehzan Maredia (Lava.xyz)
1:20 PM — A New Dawn for Pakistan: History in the Making
🎤 Bilal Bin Saqib (Pakistan Crypto Council)
1:30 PM — Bitcoin as a Public Asset: The Rise of New Bitcoin Business Models
🗣 MacKenzie Sigalos (CNBC, moderator)
🎤 Eric Trump, Don Trump Jr., Mike Ho (American Bitcoin), Matt Prusak (American Bitcoin)
2:00 PM — The Future of Finance Runs on Bitcoin
🎤 Adam Back (Blockstream)
2:10 PM — Building an Onramp to Incentivize the Next Billion Bitcoiners
🎤 Olivia Santarelli (Gemini), Christian Rau (Mastercard)
2:20 PM — Bitcoin & Tether: Drinking the Dollar Milkshake
🎤 Saifedean Ammous
2:35 PM — The Revolution Will Be Bitcoinized: AI and Stablecoins
🗣 Brian Murray (Craft Ventures, moderator)
🎤 Elizabeth Stark (Lightning Labs)
3:00 PM — The Institutionalization of Bitcoin as a Macro Asset
🗣 Alex Thorn (Galaxy Digital, moderator)
🎤 Dan Morehead (Pantera), Dan Tapiero (10T), Adam Back (Blockstream)
3:30 PM — BitBonds: As American as Apple Pie
🗣 Tyler Evans (BTC Inc., moderator)
🎤 Andrew Hohns (Newmarket/Battery), Pierre Rochard (Bitcoin Bond Company), Matt Cole (Strive)
4:00 PM — Two Goldbugs on Both Sides of the (Bit)Coin
🗣 Natalie Brunell (Coin Stories, moderator)
🎤 Peter Schiff (Euro Pacific), Trace Mayer (Urim Capital)
4:30 PM — Bitcoin as a Neutral Reserve Asset & The End of the Triffin Dilemma
🗣 Jordan Schachtel (The Dossier, moderator)
🎤 James Lavish, Mark Moss, Lyn Alden
5:00 PM — Leaderless Protocol Challenges: How Are Changes Made to Bitcoin?
🗣 Steve Lee (Block, moderator)
🎤 Harry Sudock (CleanSpark), Tadge Dryja, Charlie Spears (Blockspace Media.
