Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis 2017
2017-10-06..2017-10-08
Prague, Czechia
who it's for
hardware wallet vendors, cryptocurrency developers, privacy researchers, bitcoin merchants, payment hardware engineers, blockchain entrepreneurs, event organisers
topics
Zcash zk-SNARKs; trusted setup ceremony; Trezor Ledger Digital Bitbox; NFC payment cards; crypto ATM and POS modules; two-way ATM firmware; bitcoin-only cafe payments; BIP39 seed engraving; forks and airdrops economics; developer-first decentralized frameworks in Liechtenstein
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction | Thomas Hunt, Theo Goodman | 29m |
Live remote from Paralelní Polis in Prague with a visible Google Earth backdrop and a cryptoHW/Trezor/Ledger demo, the show documents a cafe running a real… | ||
| Interview | Gideon Gallasch | 05m |
A small but successful pilot conference in Essen serves as a marketing step and tests formats; attendance is “okay,” videos and a livestream are being… | ||
| Interview | Joseph Wang | 06m |
Runs a four to five person shop that aggregates hardware wallets — Trezor, Ledger Blue, Digital Bitbox — and sells custom genuine leather cases made for Trezor… | ||
| Interview | Paige Peterson, Theo Goodman, Thomas Hunt | 19m |
Explains how Zcash uses ZK-SNARKs to hide transaction details while nodes verify commitments and nullifiers so coins aren’t double spent, and how shielded… | ||
| Interview | Paige Peterson, Ksenya Bellman, Thomas Hunt | 14m |
Describes concrete work: collaboration to import zk-SNARKs into Ethereum Metropolis and ongoing Zcash research focused on zero‑knowledge proofs; notes forks… | ||
| Interview | Derrick J. Freeman, Paige Peterson, Ksenya Bellman, Thomas Hunt | 09m |
Demo of physical NFC payment cards that store private keys and tap to pay at terminals or phones with warning that a phone can steal funds unless a protective… | ||
| Interview | Derrick J. Freeman, Ksenya Bellman, Thomas Hunt | 01m |
Studio-style, off-the-cuff conversation that produces atmosphere more than technical insight: rowdy audience with giant beer mugs, repeated mentions that the… | ||
| Interview | John, Derrick J. Freeman, Thomas Hunt | 03m |
A hardware engraving service produces metal keychains, bracelets and rings with QR-code keychains that show only the public address for receiving funds and… | ||
| Interview | Tone Vays, John, Derrick J. Freeman, Thomas Hunt | 09m |
Live stream attempts fail, presentations are recorded, and the Bitcoin price reads $4,383 during the session. A detailed claim: airdropped forks (BCH, B2X)… | ||
| Interview | Alena Vranova, Tone Vays | 12m |
Announces a foundation in Liechtenstein building a decentralized web with a developer-first framework; the underlying Maki tool 80% functional already has… | ||
| Interview | Whale Panda, Tone Vays | 13m |
Twitter account documents calling out Bitmain for empty blocks and a Medium post that eviscerates Ethereum ICOs and produces a follower snowball, while… | ||
| Interview | Martijn Wismeijer, Theo Goodman | 25m |
Builds plug‑in hardware: crypto ATMs, POS modules and a Red Bull vending retrofit that accepts Bitcoin and Litecoin; ships two production lines and doubled… | ||
| Interview | Joesph, Theo Goodman | 05m |
Hardware wallets keep the private key never leaving the MCU so transactions sign off-device and the key never touches the internet; recommendation is to move… | ||
| Interview | Harry Halpin, Theo Goodman | 24m |
A researcher recounts quitting W3C over DRM and building the Web Crypto API, shifts to secure messaging and mix network work, and flags Bitcoin’s scalability… | ||
| Interview | Eric Lombrozo, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 40m |
Live from October 7, 2017 in Prague: the conversation explains why SegWit activated as a SegWit activation soft fork instead of a sidechain, why Lightning and… | ||
| Interview | Smuggler, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 20m |
Argues that governments are pushing a new crypto war focused on integrity of systems, not just algorithms, and warns current anonymity tech has tiny anonymity… | ||
| Interview | Pavel Ševčík, Kenya Bellman, Thomas Hunt | 14m |
Paralelní Polis history and tactics center on applying cryptography to create a parallel civic space: conferences sell out since 2014 and organizers frame… | ||
| Interview | Paul Rosenberg, Thomas Hunt | 12m |
CRISPR is described as a cheap, accessible genome-hacking tool that can target and cut specific DNA sequences, with claims of curing hundreds of thousands of… | ||
| Interview | Slush, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 20m |
Founder of the first mining pool (started 2010) and the Trezor team discuss a new Trezor model shipping this year with a color touchscreen, microSD slot and… | ||
| Interview | Eric Martindale, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 12m |
A protocol called Fabric claims to replace the web with a peer-to-peer information market using zero-knowledge contingent payments to broadcast computation… | ||
| Interview | Chris, Thomas Hunt | 17m |
Bisq is a desktop Java app running over Tor that implements a peer-to-peer, crypto–fiat exchange using a flood-fill gossip protocol for a distributed order… | ||
| Interview | Felix Weis, Thomas Hunt | 04m |
Plans to travel using spent only Bitcoin start as a 65‑day goal and end up spanning 17 countries, with on‑the‑ground use like weekly burger payments in Berlin… | ||
| Interview | Alexa, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 14m |
Describes a shift from one‑on‑one therapy to community‑based workshops that use guided meditation, structured questioning and a concrete plan of action for… | ||
| Interview | Peter K Todd, Thomas Hunt | 46m |
A live interview dissects JJ’s onstage exploit claim that he flooded nodes until they crashed by filling RAM, reveals Bitcoin Core’s rewrite and version 0.15… | ||
| Interview | Ryan Taylor, Thomas Hunt | 24m |
Live streaming struggles and solutions boiled down to gear and tradeoffs: using a Canon Vixia G20 ($1,500) plus an ~$800 encoder or a Blackmagic box, swapping… | ||
| Interview | Martijn Wismeijer, Thomas Hunt | 13m |
Demo of implanted NFC crypto chips leads to a working prototype in two weeks, with implants programmed for Bitcoin and Litecoin and a fallback in printed cards… | ||
| Interview | Jan Čapek, Tone Vays, Thomas Hunt | 29m |
Slush Pool runs a global Bitcoin pool with datacenters on multiple continents, adds Zcash support, and does merge-mining Namecoin while taking a 2% commission… | ||
| Hackers Congress HCPP17 Amir Taaki | Amir Taaki | 01h 23m |
Claims a plan to build an ideological tech corps: a training academy in Barcelona to produce politicized hackers, plus immediate work on free software… | ||
| World Crypto Network LIVE from Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 3 - Part 2) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 01h 59m |
A decentralized Bitcoin–fiat exchange is live as a cross‑platform desktop app plus a peer‑to‑peer protocol running as Tor hidden services, using 2‑of‑3… | ||
| World Crypto Network LIVE from Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 3) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 45m |
Live stream jumps between concrete demos and product updates: CRISPR is claimed to have edited out HIV in mice and living organisms and to work best in embryos… | ||
| WCN Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 2 - Part 3) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 01h 09m |
Live discussion of what actually works now: SegWit activation plus active Lightning interoperability tests and live micropayments, concrete expectations for… | ||
| World Crypto Network LIVE from Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 2 - Part 2) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 01h 07m |
Live discussion alternates between blunt ICO criticism and concrete hardware demos: an ATM maker explains the two-way Litecoin ATM (P ATM 3), how machines can… | ||
| World Crypto Network LIVE from Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 2) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 01h 13m |
Discussion focuses on how SegWit was pushed through with user-activated soft fork mechanics and miner signaling (bit9), why Bitcoin stays a conservative base… | ||
| World Crypto Network LIVE from Hacker Congress at Paralelní Polis (Day 1) | Thomas Hunt, Tone Vays | 01h 47m |
Live coverage from a Prague hacker conference shows a working bitcoin/litecoin payments setup at the cafe with NFC cards and an ATM for on-site purchases (live… | ||
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