Great idea - that way we could be pretty sure to have the real Satoshi on board! You could make a contest on Sunday, with each of them explaining why they did not invent Bitcoin and let the audience decide on who gave the least convincing speech - winning him an "I am Satoshi Nakamoto" T-shirt

On a more serious note: Vili Lehdonvirta would surely be an interesting guest for a talk or a panel discussion - I just hope that there is still enough time for each of the speakers!

I am fascinated by Bitcoin, and I also think I have something of value to contribute to the Bitcoin community. The first is that as a researcher, I have studied payment and digital currency design and user adoption issues, and I think this is an area where the Bitcoin ecosystem could do better. The second is that as a long-time member of Electronic Frontier Finland, I have spent a lot of time thinking and publically debating about privacy and digital freedom issues. I am worried that Bitcoin is a step too far as it leaves no possibility for even democratic governments to enforce their laws. This is a topic I would love to debate with the community and hear opposing views. I think the end result could be a better understanding for me, but also a better understanding for the Bitcoin community on how to live in harmony with democratic authority.

you need to find someone with free electric or very low cost electric to make this work for both partys


Jen

Fantastic speakers! Looking forward to this.
Thanks for your hard work!

Awesome!!

My rig can, right now, achieve 600-640mh/s. I'm looking to expand in the future but that's everything I've got right now.

I don't have the money for a train ticket or anything along those lines, so I was wondering if there was anyone from the Netherlands I could get a ride from...? A ticket for the conference itself has already been arranged.

I have no issue with doing something along the lines of web development and such in return (within reason)

Come discuss in Freenode #bitcoin-prague

You got email.  

Where could that information have been obtained earlier ?    

I would have been in touch earlier if I had had a chance to know more details about this organizational process in advance. Moreover, there would have been more contributions and more participants. Sad that this chance now remains unused. Maybe we should discuss how in the next event an approach can be used which is also adapted to the boundary conditions under which academic and research people have to function.  

I am not completely aware of the process / workflow you are using for this. and how suggestions get selected . From my personal point of view I would be ready to offer some topics myself.

Bitcoin - How I understand it: My high-level conceptual understanding of the Bitcoin mechanism after having read and documented the entire reference client code for myself. 45 minutes, tutorial style.

An Analysis of Bitcoin Anonymity: To which degree is Bitcoin really anonymous? How do Bitcoin usage patterns affect anonymity? What can be done to improve Bitcoin anonymity? How can Bitcoin payment flows can be traced? 30 minutes, talk, describes work-in-progress (and will contain first results when applying our analysis algorithm to the current block chain).

Improving Bitcoin Wallet Security: How can we split the authorization phase in the Bitcoin mechanisms to two machines in such a manner that compromising ONE machine does not result in money being stolen? Which crypto possibilities are there? Which solution are we in the process of implementing? 30 minutes, talk, describes work-in-progress (currently at the stage of starting to work on the selected embedded hardware)

Bitcoin Todo List: Critical remarks on the state of development in Bitcoin. What must be done (and at which level or priority) if Bitcoin shall become a success any time soon. 20 - 30 minutes, could be part of a brainstorming session or panel discussion.

I am not sure what fits the conference mode best and how things get organized there - as I am more used to the traditional ol' style of "over"organized conferences with submission deadlines and schedules and stuff. Just post what suits you best.

To give you an idea on myself: I have been regularly lecturing in class and giving industry talks for the last twenty years or so. Currently I am hacking on a forked version of the reference client to which I added some 1.000 lines of code and I am supervising two students working on Bitcoin related topics.

I am dependent on the precise schedule of the program, because I have to match some time & travelling constraints. "Just come and see" will not work for myself (besides being detrimental to the possibility of preparing something).

I can provide more details on my suggestions above.