{"$schema": "https://c3voc.de/schedule/schema.json", "generator": {"name": "pretalx", "version": "2024.3.1"}, "schedule": {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/schedule/", "version": "0.6", "base_url": "https://cfp.twed.org", "conference": {"acronym": "mk6", "title": "MoneroKon 6", "start": "2026-06-05", "end": "2026-06-07", "daysCount": 3, "timeslot_duration": "00:05", "time_zone_name": "Europe/Warsaw", "colors": {"primary": "#000a16"}, "rooms": [{"name": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "guid": "61714988-30a0-5bde-a3da-1996a418b4ce", "description": "On MoneroKon's side, walk down and turn LEFT", "capacity": 289}, {"name": "Hall 2 / Sala 2", "guid": "2029ed85-32e1-5493-86f8-3f9aec6bd965", "description": "On MoneroKon's side, walk down and turn RIGHT", "capacity": 172}], "tracks": [{"name": "Sponsor talks", "color": "#b40000"}, {"name": "Bitcoin-friendly", "color": "#005f4e"}, {"name": "Monero-centric", "color": "#734e00"}, {"name": "Monerokon", "color": "#9b4b00"}, {"name": "Community & Culture", "color": "#026400"}, {"name": "Community & Culture [remote]", "color": "#437f42"}, {"name": "Tools & Technology", "color": "#003464"}, {"name": "Tools & Technology [remote]", "color": "#42627f"}, {"name": "Research & Development", "color": "#620064"}, {"name": "Research & Development [remote]", "color": "#7d427f"}], "days": [{"index": 1, "date": "2026-06-05", "day_start": "2026-06-05T04:00:00+02:00", "day_end": "2026-06-06T03:59:00+02:00", "rooms": {"Hall 1 / Sala 1": [{"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/ZP8M9M/", "id": 90, "guid": "1b8df54f-33ed-510d-8490-f34d0b5be9b6", "date": "2026-06-05T10:00:00+02:00", "start": "10:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-90-opening-talk", "title": "Opening talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Opening talk by anhdres", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/PCVMXZ/", "id": 87, "guid": "19f4e028-070e-5424-8b0e-b623a870d001", "date": "2026-06-05T10:30:00+02:00", "start": "10:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-87-how-to-bring-crypto-into-meatspace", "title": "How to Bring Crypto into Meatspace", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "How do we bring permissionless digital cash from our wallets into everyday life \u2013 into supermarkets, caf\u00e9s, and corner shops? For more than a decade, crypto has lived mostly on screens:  on centralized exchanges, inside speculative narratives and in online shops. Although the conventional payment methods used in physical retail have evolved to become more digital, traceable, still relying on middlemen and have significant consequences for human rights, privacy, and dignity.\r\n\r\nWe'll talk about what it means to create \u201cbirth helpers\u201d for crypto in the meat space \u2014 companies that lay the groundwork for a crypto-based circular economy.\u00a0We'll look at what's wrong with today's crypto processors and what changes when these birth helpers are designed from a human\u2011first, freedom\u2011respecting perspective.\r\nThe vision is to take cryptocurrencies out of their digital niche and make them a normal option to pay in real life.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "accaeae0-fcbe-52b6-adbe-68e3b62647e5", "id": 71, "code": "YJ77GP", "public_name": "Andy Fichte", "avatar": null, "biography": "", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/AXQEMP/", "id": 81, "guid": "e20705c0-6ee5-5676-b30b-7369a95be8d9", "date": "2026-06-05T11:15:00+02:00", "start": "11:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-81-monero-adoption-venezuela-onboarding-universities-and-local-commerce-under-hyperinflation", "title": "Monero Adoption Venezuela: Onboarding Universities and Local Commerce Under Hyperinflation", "subtitle": "", "track": "Monero-centric", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Since 2023, I have been doing grassroots Monero onboarding in Caracas, Venezuela \u2014 a country with hyperinflation, capital controls, and government surveillance of financial transactions. This presentation share real findings from three years of field work: onboarding 50 to 100 individuals and integrating more than 15 local merchants accepting XMR.\r\n\r\nI cover three areas. First, the methodology for introducing Monero to university students and merchants who never use crypto before, in a context of limited internet and deep distrust of financial systems. Second, why Monero privacy features are not abstract in Venezuela \u2014 they are a direct response to real government financial surveillance. Third, the honest challenges: merchant attrition, liquidity barriers for XMR-to-local-currency conversion, wallet UX problems in low-bandwidth environments, and social stigma around cryptocurrency.\r\n\r\nThe presentation conclude with a replicable framework for grassroots Monero adoption in economically restricted countries of the Global South.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "31ee570b-f648-5d55-ac2d-d2cb852de761", "id": 67, "code": "7RVV7S", "public_name": "Jorge Andres", "avatar": null, "biography": "Telecommunications engineer, 38 years old, based in Latin America with active grassroots Monero adoption projects in Venezuela since 2023. My work focus on bridging the gap between privacy-preserving cryptocurrency and real-world adoption among non-technical populations in economically restricted environments. Native Spanish speaker with professional English proficiency. I have participate in cryptocurrency conferences in Caracas and organize community-driven initiatives that combine privacy education, merchant integration, and freedom technologies. My background in telecommunications give me a practical understanding of the connectivity and surveillance challenges that users in the Global South face when trying to adopt private, decentralized financial tools like Monero.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/YHURDQ/", "id": 65, "guid": "43d2a50a-6725-5305-a39b-e80079751b16", "date": "2026-06-05T11:45:00+02:00", "start": "11:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-65-selfish-mining-simulator", "title": "Selfish Mining Simulator", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Selfish mining literature has traditionally focused on MDP to probe for theoretically ideal strategies. However, these fail to integrate crucial factors like network latency, difficulty adjustment, and node/pool internal processing delays, which can significantly affect the outcome of a real-world attack. \r\n\r\nThe Monero Simulator incorporates these elements, plus discrete asynchronous agentic mining pools, into a configurable Monte-Carlo framework capable of sweeping over a broad set of input parameters. Tunable parameters include: pools/hashrate, difficulty adjustment constants, network latency/bandwidth, and pool strategies. \r\n\r\nAdditionally, we introduce a novel simplification whereby the set of selfish strategy state-diagrams can be modeled with just two, integer input parameters.\r\n\r\nPreliminary results corroborate the classic selfish mining model, while challenging the relative profitability of \"stubborn\" variants.\r\n\r\nFinally, the simulator offers a versatile environment for testing selfish mining countermeasures, and could be extended to probe other aspects of Monero's design.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "c8fa459a-ce99-5366-9d50-19c628964f60", "id": 53, "code": "U7MSBQ", "public_name": "Bawdy", "avatar": null, "biography": "Price degen cosplaying as an analyst.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/JBYHUD/", "id": 91, "guid": "d638a1f2-604e-51fd-9645-a475304b2195", "date": "2026-06-05T12:15:00+02:00", "start": "12:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:05", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-91-trocador-s-talk", "title": "Trocador's talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sponsor talks", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Trocador's talk", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/7VK3YJ/", "id": 92, "guid": "9dabcc13-4cda-54e2-8418-08e3aa64ede9", "date": "2026-06-05T13:45:00+02:00", "start": "13:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-92-cake-wallet-s-talk", "title": "Cake Wallet's talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sponsor talks", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Cake Wallet's talk", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/BF8GDX/", "id": 82, "guid": "8252d850-7585-5844-a5a3-4392b0e516ef", "date": "2026-06-05T14:15:00+02:00", "start": "14:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-82-permissionless", "title": "Permissionless", "subtitle": "", "track": "Monero-centric", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "We are facing an onslaught of intrusive regulation, especially in the digital world: age verification, chatcontrol, kill-switches in cars, and\u00a0self-incrimination thru mandatory reporting of digital assets.\r\n\r\nAll because centralised institutions can afford to \u201cboil the frog\u201d when people are sufficiently reliant on them. This power equation explains all institutional capture, including the sad corposloppification of BTC.\r\n\r\nPermissionless, sovereign, anti-fragile technology is The Way. In my talk, I will show what I found interesting and useful as of late:\r\nthe new XMR402 payment standard, TollGate routers, Framework computers, local AI, Open-Source Blueprints for\u00a0Civilization, 3D-printing, and\u00a0a few interoperable protocols.\r\n\r\nI will also give a glimmer of hope for the ever-coveted mass-adoption: these things have the Cool Factor long lost by most tech. Open-source modularity simply is good design, while Monero has always felt like a gem.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "082f7701-56d1-55f5-a466-f61e650258ea", "id": 22, "code": "NCYYTF", "public_name": "Robert Blinov", "avatar": null, "biography": "Product Designer, member of Monero Design Collective \r\n\r\nMoneroKon 2025 speaker, 2\u00d7 Linux Day Italy speaker", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/XFNSTV/", "id": 83, "guid": "72732bd7-d4de-52bc-a803-3d815a588eaf", "date": "2026-06-05T14:45:00+02:00", "start": "14:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-83-the-terminal-is-the-app-privacy-first-software-over-ssh", "title": "The Terminal is the App: Privacy-First Software over SSH", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "The browser won the app platform war, and with it came fingerprinting, ad tech, session replay, and an ever-growing attack surface we've quietly accepted as the cost of doing business. This talk argues for a different path \u2014 distributing apps over SSH, rendered as TUIs \u2014 and backs it up with a working example: [a cryptocurrency exchange](https://sshwap.com) where your SSH key is your account, swap history lives against your public key, and there is no web frontend to compromise. I'll cover the architecture in Go using [charmbracelet](https://charm.land/)'s Wish, Bubble Tea, and Lip Gloss; the threat model compared to a typical web deployment; and the UX tradeoffs that come with asking users to connect over ssh instead of using a browser. By the end, you'll have a template you can adapt for any app.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "4b12a50f-4961-5453-a2e1-0e5894e25209", "id": 68, "code": "RR9JEG", "public_name": "Irem Kuyucu", "avatar": null, "biography": "[Irem Kuyucu](https://posterchild.today) is a security engineer based in Vilnius and founder of [RasterSec](https://www.rastersec.com). She has reported vulnerabilities to companies including Ford, Revolut, Citrix, OpenAI, and Google, and holds CVE-2025-29331. A free software advocate, she is best known in the Monero community for [MoneroPay](https://github.com/moneropay/moneropay), a standalone payment processor, and the [Monero ATM Project](https://atm.monero.is/builds.html). She writes mostly in Go and C.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/CWW8LB/", "id": 86, "guid": "0150f572-4de6-561f-8335-ffa0cac5e7a5", "date": "2026-06-05T15:30:00+02:00", "start": "15:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-86-monero-republic-and-the-future-of-monero-scalability", "title": "Monero Republic and the Future of Monero Scalability", "subtitle": "", "track": "Monero-centric", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "This talk discusses the fundamental scalability challenges facing Monero, and demonstrates a radical upgrade pathway to address them. The approach consists of two sequential upgrades: *Republic* and *Universe*. Republic introduces a transition to a quorum-based consensus model, aiming to significantly improve throughput and stability. Building on this, Universe represents a more theoretical second stage, designed to enable effectively unbounded (ad infinitum) scalability via the implementation of a demand-based chain splitting and merging mechanism.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "54d34e1d-9bb9-5547-86ed-e6a33c97b90c", "id": 70, "code": "JZAYKF", "public_name": "preland", "avatar": null, "biography": "I am an undergraduate student studying computer science with an emphasis in machine learning. My contributions to Monero include bounty work on Haveno, discussions in the community chatrooms, and work on the ill-fated I2P monero-gui bounty.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/377F8E/", "id": 89, "guid": "5e253ff7-7925-5630-b1ed-e922100eb5b0", "date": "2026-06-05T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-89-privacy-in-monero-and-lightning-what-it-actually-is", "title": "Privacy in Monero and Lightning: what it actually is", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "We are used to think about Monero as privacy-oriented technology, but what it actually means? Let's briefly recap how Monero works nowadays and what is actually visible for external observer. Then let's take a look on Lightning (a Bitcoin layer), how it works and what kind of privacy it provides.\r\n\r\nThe goal of this talk is to have a quick overview of those two technologies and to compare them from privacy point of view.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "b93545fa-07de-5b16-bdf6-5fdd65c28232", "id": 51, "code": "BXUHTT", "public_name": "Vasilii Rogin", "avatar": null, "biography": "I am software developer who is interested in cryptotechnologies. I love consistency of rules in cryptocurrencies - once defined forever followed.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/UDA8RZ/", "id": 80, "guid": "4fa27bf0-3fb2-5436-bedd-848cf7fa83af", "date": "2026-06-05T16:30:00+02:00", "start": "16:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-80-lightning-versus-monero", "title": "Lightning versus Monero", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "I outline several privacy flaws in monero that have resulted in successful prosecution of monero users. I also show how these flaws could have been addressed if the targets had used the lightning network instead.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "d39f54fa-56eb-5b5b-a8f4-79b79382a288", "id": 65, "code": "TN9VKH", "public_name": "Super Testnet", "avatar": null, "biography": "I'm a freelance software developer focused on making bitcoin faster, cheaper, more private, and more reliable for merchants and users, particularly by researching and developing prototypes of innovative ideas. In search of the privacy focus, I sometimes research and develop privacy tools, including in the monero versus lightning space.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}]}}, {"index": 2, "date": "2026-06-06", "day_start": "2026-06-06T04:00:00+02:00", "day_end": "2026-06-07T03:59:00+02:00", "rooms": {"Hall 1 / Sala 1": [{"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/ZNVYEM/", "id": 85, "guid": "c15e7850-1542-5381-91a5-011b0bb8ba78", "date": "2026-06-06T10:00:00+02:00", "start": "10:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-85-monero-scaling-and-security-the-priced-adaptive-blocksize-fee-market", "title": "Monero Scaling, and Security. The Priced Adaptive Blocksize Fee Market", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Monero combines a priced adaptive block weight based upon the CryptoNote excess size penalty with a constant block reward or tail emission.of 0.6 XMR per block. This leads to a unique fee market that can provide insight into the fee markets found in Bitcoin like crypto currencies with small blocks, big blocks and adaptive blocks.  We will use the the proposed Full Chain Membership Proofs++, FCMP++, Monero scaling parameters to illustrate this fee market. We will consider the inpact of pricing, and a block reward vs the lack of a block reward on this fee market. We will discuss the overall implications of different fee markets on spam mitigation, and proof of work security.  We will also discuss the impact of significant transaction size and verification time  increases on scalability in the light of technological change including quantum computers.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "6b601054-fb6f-53a1-8bfd-95a761079e68", "id": 20, "code": "READRW", "public_name": "Francisco \"ArticMine\" Cabanas", "avatar": null, "biography": "Francisco  Caba\u00f1as (articmine@getmonero.org): Based in Canada, Francisco holds a PhD and MSc in Physics, a BSc in Physics and Mathematics, and has extensive business and non-profit experience. He has actively researched and invested in cryptocurrencies, since 2011, and focuses on the economic, social, regulatory and long-term economic viability aspects of cryptocurrencies. Francisco has researched and studied scaling. POW security, spam mitigation, fees, fee markets and the adaptive block weight in Monero since 2014. He also has been a Core Team Member of the Monero Project, https://getmonero.org/, since 2016.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/Q7FDGF/", "id": 63, "guid": "ae029f31-43e9-5de4-a9c9-366246eb82c2", "date": "2026-06-06T10:30:00+02:00", "start": "10:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-63-state-of-evm-xmr-atomic-swaps", "title": "State of EVM-XMR atomic swaps", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Since the announcement of a rewrite of EVM-XMR atomic swaps at MoneroKon 5 the project has progressed quite a lot. This talk aims at updating the audience on the current state of the project, it will cover the following items:\r\n\r\n- How swaps work, deposits, funding requests, seeds, ...\r\n- Web GUI tour - This was made possible thanks to the community who supported a CCS\r\n- Price feed and oracle bot\r\n- Maker bot\r\n- Deployment on a new EVM chain\r\n\r\nThe project will be completed by the time MoneroKon 6 is held and will be fully usable, the audience will therefore be able to do atomic swaps with stable coins or any EVM native currency after the talk.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "94f4b18d-f7c1-51cb-9814-15173cad2eb7", "id": 6, "code": "SUKNSZ", "public_name": "hbs", "avatar": null, "biography": "Atomic Cypherpunk", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/MRSBDB/", "id": 70, "guid": "849f8ef0-4126-57da-98eb-1028fb473311", "date": "2026-06-06T11:15:00+02:00", "start": "11:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-70-liberland-sovereignty-privacy-and-governance-beyond-the-state", "title": "Liberland: Sovereignty, Privacy, and Governance Beyond the State", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Liberland is a sovereign country advancing voluntary governance, contribution based meritocracy, and crypto native public infrastructure, where influence is earned through participation rather than assigned by status. This talk explores how decentralized technologies support governance, voting, and public services while reducing bureaucracy and strengthening individual sovereignty, with a strong emphasis on privacy, self custody, and permissionless systems aligned with cypherpunk values. President V\u00edt Jedli\u010dka will share how these principles are implemented in practice and invite collaboration from builders, researchers, and privacy advocates interested in developing real world alternatives to legacy state systems.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "33d0060d-5a2d-58d0-9d78-7be473580c2f", "id": 57, "code": "S8P77G", "public_name": "Vit Jedlicka", "avatar": null, "biography": "V\u00edt Jedli\u010dka is the Founder and President of the Free Republic of Liberland, established on April 13, 2015. A graduate of the University of Economics in Prague and the CEVRO Institute, he has been a passionate advocate for liberty since his youth, inspired by thinkers like Bastiat and Rothbard. Under his leadership, Liberland has grown into a global movement with over 800,000+ people registered for citizenship in just eleven years. V\u00edt has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, USA Today, and on Fox Business Network, and has spoken at major events including Bitcoin Miami, TEDx, ALEC, and the St. Gallen Symposium. In 2023, he was honored with the prestigious Humanitarian Award at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, recognizing his contributions to human rights, innovation in governance, and service to humanity. His mission is to build the freest country on Earth, where voluntary cooperation, limited government, and blockchain-based governance enable honest people to thrive without unnecessary interference.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/7PMV7V/", "id": 71, "guid": "10aad44f-18bc-54ee-b93a-1fb2eee928c5", "date": "2026-06-06T11:45:00+02:00", "start": "11:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-71-threat-modelling-a-state-sponsored-attack", "title": "Threat Modelling a State Sponsored Attack", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "In this presentation, I will explore the security assumptions of PoW networks and why only nation-states pose a risk. We will discuss the impact of a 51% attack, how it would be carried out, and the incentives/disincentives to do so.\r\n\r\n- PoW's economic security model, blockspace as a free market, and censorship resistance.\r\n- Mining pool architecture, attack vectors, and decentralized mining incentives.\r\n\r\nWe will also explore what honest network participants can do in response to such an attack and how to mitigate the risks. Finally, we will highlight Monero's base layer privacy, ASIC-resistance, tail emissions, and how they play a unique role in resisting a 51% attack.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "8baaf80b-9386-53c8-a0c3-a24c30fe692c", "id": 58, "code": "XMGHBE", "public_name": "aeon", "avatar": null, "biography": "Long time Bitcoin and Monero user with a focus on research, security incentives, and game theory.\r\nMainly I build in the Bitcoin ecosystem but there is a lot of crossover when discussing PoW threat models.\r\n\r\nWebsite: https://censorshipresistant.com/\r\nGitHub: https://github.com/aeonBTC\r\nX/Twitter: @aeonBTC", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/SNEDB8/", "id": 94, "guid": "7911eba9-58cc-5574-a4ca-baed738cd5d7", "date": "2026-06-06T12:15:00+02:00", "start": "12:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-94-beldex-s-talk", "title": "Beldex's talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sponsor talks", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Beldex's talk", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/WCHNHT/", "id": 96, "guid": "7933da1c-6b0d-551d-b927-fb933a18d4cd", "date": "2026-06-06T13:45:00+02:00", "start": "13:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-96-exolix-s-talk", "title": "Exolix's talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sponsor talks", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Exolix's talk", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/ZGGEPB/", "id": 79, "guid": "073f88c9-900a-5f5c-b6d8-60860694d524", "date": "2026-06-06T14:15:00+02:00", "start": "14:15", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-79-liquidity-fragmentation-in-non-custodial-xmr-markets", "title": "Liquidity Fragmentation in Non-Custodial XMR Markets", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Non-custodial swap aggregators show users the best single-exchange rate, but is that actually optimal execution? This talk presents empirical findings from a live BTC\u2192XMR aggregator across 23+ exchanges, examining whether splitting trades can improve outcomes.\r\nThe answer: yes, but only sometimes. Across 2,714 logged events, split routing gain scales with trade size, averaging 0.38% at 8 BTC versus 0.10% at 0.5 BTC, with a >1% tail emerging at 2 BTC and above. Zero events produced a negative outcome.\r\nThe underlying mechanism is the liquidity cliff: every exchange has a capacity ceiling beyond which their rate degrades. Traditional aggregators query at the full amount and never see it. Exploiting it requires continuously pre-sampled sub-amount rate curves, infrastructure most aggregators don't have.\r\nWe present the detection methodology, the gain distribution, and when split routing is worth surfacing and when it isn't.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "6d4d91cf-c314-56ba-9dbe-5f18a42c9414", "id": 64, "code": "RHELN8", "public_name": "4rkal", "avatar": null, "biography": "Founder of CypherGoat, a non-custodial cryptocurrency swap aggregator", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/7E3K3G/", "id": 78, "guid": "85fdb27c-a8a6-5db2-9c5a-d7b7a8fa7e07", "date": "2026-06-06T14:45:00+02:00", "start": "14:45", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-78-monero-offramps-for-the-cbdc-era-the-carbon-credit-loophole", "title": "Monero Offramps for the CBDC Era: The Carbon Credit Loophole", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "The talk will focus on how future surveillance mechanisms, such as carbon credits and the \u201cGreen Agenda,\u201d can allow Monero holders to offramp their crypto into the real economy and purchase large assets with their coins. Unfortunately, XMR has an unfair stigma attached to it when it comes to larger cash-outs, and this presentation provides a roadmap for those wishing to legally buy land, property, businesses, and other major investments in a CBDC era, without bureaucratic holdups - and without surrendering their privacy.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "e49a02d8-5da6-597e-b779-7122d895da91", "id": 28, "code": "CGTKNX", "public_name": "Martin Arness", "avatar": null, "biography": "Martin Arness is a wealth manager and the creator behind the YouTube channel Shadow Atlas, where he explores offshore tax strategies, asset protection, and how to keep more of what you make. With a background in law, his approach to finance is holistic, integrating tools not just from a legal perspective, but also accounting, investing, lending, and of course, digital privacy.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/ED7GXF/", "id": 98, "guid": "534bb26f-67ef-549e-a7c1-a30fb34be0fe", "date": "2026-06-06T15:30:00+02:00", "start": "15:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-98-liberation-travel-s-talk", "title": "Liberation.travel's talk", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sponsor talks", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Liberation.travel's talk", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/KNK8RE/", "id": 77, "guid": "abac2617-5d0e-5c48-a976-7d24f6c4b7a5", "date": "2026-06-06T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-77-a-study-of-trust-in-digital-distributed-services", "title": "A Study of Trust in Digital Distributed Services", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "This presentation outlines a sociological study and statistical analysis of user trust in digital tools. The study addresses the following questions: What factors influence user trust? How do secure and anonymous technologies affect user trust? The findings are important for positioning digital services and building user trust.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "20ed233f-6504-5326-97a4-38f003872c7e", "id": 63, "code": "9DKTAV", "public_name": "Kiryl Shcharbinin", "avatar": null, "biography": "Hello, my name is Kiryl. I am an independent researcher focusing on trust in digital environments and a content manager at diva.exchange.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/WPBQCB/", "id": 73, "guid": "9ab8d420-74df-53a9-ae68-1ba3cf76522a", "date": "2026-06-06T16:30:00+02:00", "start": "16:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-73-mapping-spy-node-dominance-in-the-monero-p2p-network", "title": "Mapping Spy Node Dominance in the Monero P2P Network", "subtitle": "", "track": "Monero-centric", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Monero's cryptographic privacy is well-established but its P2P layer is a different story.\r\n\r\nUsing Nebula, ProbeLab's open-source network crawler, we conducted the first large-scale topological crawl of the Monero network, discovering over 29,000 nodes and successfully handshaking with more than 16,000.\r\n\r\nThe findings are stark: over 81% of reachable nodes exhibit the peer ID mismatch pattern the Monero Research Lab associates with surveillance infrastructure while every flagged node tracing back to a single provider: Spruce Creek Networks LLC. Force-directed graph analysis reveals a bifurcated overlay: a dense spy node core surrounding unprotected peers, and a self-segregated cluster of ban-list-enforcing nodes.\r\n\r\nWe present the methodology, the topology, ban list adoption rates, and outline next steps: measuring how this surveillance density impacts Dandelion++ propagation and transaction origin anonymity in practice.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "38367fba-67d1-50bd-ae49-1d168b7fbeb3", "id": 59, "code": "X93DVK", "public_name": "Yiannis Psaras", "avatar": null, "biography": "", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}], "Hall 2 / Sala 2": [{"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/8ABHND/", "id": 100, "guid": "a2d6a108-5537-5ded-9fed-262e83cc1449", "date": "2026-06-06T10:00:00+02:00", "start": "10:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 2 / Sala 2", "slug": "mk6-100-the-praxeology-of-privacy-monero-as-economic-argument", "title": "The Praxeology of Privacy: Monero as Economic Argument", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Privacy tools are usually defended on technical grounds: better cryptography, stronger anonymity sets, harder to trace. That framing concedes too much. This talk draws on The Praxeology of Privacy to make the economic case. When surveillance is cheap, control is cheap. Confidential transactions and stealth addresses impose real costs on the adversary's ability to observe and act. Mises' action axiom tells us economic calculation requires informational freedom; Voskuil's axiom of resistance tells us security is measured by the cost to compromise it. Monero operationalizes both. The talk covers the three-axiom framework, the financial surveillance stack Monero is built to defeat, and why fungibility is the property that determines whether digital money can remain sound money.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "2b77f90f-6ece-5d0d-85ee-467e773fcbf3", "id": 75, "code": "RRU89P", "public_name": "Max Hillebrand", "avatar": null, "biography": "", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/DBTDKT/", "id": 75, "guid": "a11fc465-cd36-5485-9b14-7f691188ccef", "date": "2026-06-06T10:30:00+02:00", "start": "10:30", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 2 / Sala 2", "slug": "mk6-75-privacy-prescriptions-pro-private-pecuniae", "title": "Privacy Prescriptions Pro Private Pecuniae", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "This talk analyses how the U.S. (GENIUS Act), EU (forthcoming AMLD7) and other jurisdictions are currently reshaping privacy rules in cryptocurrencies. \r\n\r\nThe GENIUS Act imposes BSA/AML/KYC duties and seizure powers on stablecoin issuers, ending de facto anonymity for USD-pegged assets. MiCA mandates licensed CASPs with full transaction tracing, while AMLD7 is prohibitive towards anonymous accounts and privacy coins. \r\n\r\nThe current state reveals a rapid shift from pseudonymity to regulated identifiability, with CASPs required to perform enhanced due diligence and real-time monitoring.  The increasing rift between compliant, traceable on-chain activity for institutional use alongside offshore or self-custodial workarounds facing heightened enforcement risk as well as the legal assessment of privacy-enhancing technologies will be discussed.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": true, "persons": [{"guid": "22950ede-1b1b-5527-b69c-7ed18a530211", "id": 61, "code": "J78BMR", "public_name": "Christian Sillaber", "avatar": null, "biography": "Christian Sillaber is a Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Bern. His research focuses on privacy and AML compliance in digital currencies, including both decentralized cryptocurrencies and centrally managed systems.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/9QKKHQ/", "id": 61, "guid": "7cf21b63-91e5-5103-bca2-68f6dc3a4a16", "date": "2026-06-06T11:15:00+02:00", "start": "11:15", "logo": null, "duration": "01:00", "room": "Hall 2 / Sala 2", "slug": "mk6-61-multisig-in-monero", "title": "Multisig in Monero", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Workshop", "language": "en", "abstract": "Let's talk about Monero multisig:\r\n - what is multisig\r\n - how it works in Monero\r\n    - Schnorr aggregation\r\n    - Key cancellation attack\r\n    - In opposite to Bitcoin no one knows that it is a multisig wallet\r\n    - Multisig with arbitrary threshold (as in Monero)\r\n - what is inside kex messages\r\n - why there are so many rounds\r\n    - why founds formula is \"Members - threshold + 2\"\r\n - why we need to do \"export_multisig\"\r\n    - what is inside this export\r\n    - when we should do export/import: periodically or before spending?\r\n - CLI and GUI for Monero multisig\r\n    - example (video/screenshots or live demo)\r\n\r\nAdditionally I would like to talk a little about real-world use cases of Monero cryptotechnologies. For example, Monero multisig can be used for PGP keys for signing or decrypting messages or Monero ring signatures can be used for secure voting.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "b93545fa-07de-5b16-bdf6-5fdd65c28232", "id": 51, "code": "BXUHTT", "public_name": "Vasilii Rogin", "avatar": null, "biography": "I am software developer who is interested in cryptotechnologies. I love consistency of rules in cryptocurrencies - once defined forever followed.", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}, {"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/YCSMBF/", "id": 69, "guid": "f40109b2-a7c5-5877-83fd-03664a7e1459", "date": "2026-06-06T13:45:00+02:00", "start": "13:45", "logo": null, "duration": "01:00", "room": "Hall 2 / Sala 2", "slug": "mk6-69-hands-on-evm-based-monero-atomic-swaps", "title": "Hands on EVM based Monero atomic swaps", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Workshop", "language": "en", "abstract": "This workshop will walk the audience through a complete atomic swap between Monero and the native currency of an EVM blockchain using the dApp funded by the Monero Community.\r\n\r\nThe workshop will cover the underlying concepts, including the security of swaps and will explain the various types of offers, fixed and dynamically priced, self funded or funded via funding requests.\r\n\r\nThe maker bot developed as part of the project will also be discussed.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "94f4b18d-f7c1-51cb-9814-15173cad2eb7", "id": 6, "code": "SUKNSZ", "public_name": "hbs", "avatar": null, "biography": "Atomic Cypherpunk", "answers": []}], "links": [], "attachments": [], "answers": []}]}}, {"index": 3, "date": "2026-06-07", "day_start": "2026-06-07T04:00:00+02:00", "day_end": "2026-06-08T03:59:00+02:00", "rooms": {"Hall 1 / Sala 1": [{"url": "https://cfp.twed.org/mk6/talk/ZDA8LR/", "id": 99, "guid": "d9818174-f441-5d93-a1f2-4322205d82db", "date": "2026-06-07T10:00:00+02:00", "start": "10:00", "logo": null, "duration": "00:20", "room": "Hall 1 / Sala 1", "slug": "mk6-99-impact-of-ai-on-cryptoanarchy", "title": "Impact of AI on cryptoanarchy", "subtitle": "", "track": "Bitcoin-friendly", "type": "Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Artificial intelligence is the most powerful surveillance and control technology ever invented \u2014 and every state that can get its hands on it will deploy it against you. CBDCs with behavioral triggers, client-side chat control, predictive pre-crime enforcement, and a handful of jurisdictionally-captured frontier labs shaping what can even be thought: this is the Four Horsemen of the AI State.\r\nBut AI is also the most powerful individual empowerment technology ever invented. The cypherpunk vision Timothy May sketched in 1988 finally has the missing computational piece. Anonymous digital cash, untraceable markets and DAOs, private AI, zero-knowledge everything \u2014 all of it is now technically feasible. 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It draws on Hayek's theory of concurrent currencies and denationalisation of money to show that Monero's privacy-by-default architecture is not merely a technical preference but a direct answer to a theoretical problem posed decades earlier. Where Rothbard, Hayek, and Friedman formulate normative postulates, Monero replaces the norm with an algorithm and law with cryptography.", "description": null, "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"guid": "49af7242-086d-534c-ac3f-0b70b429bd3f", "id": 69, "code": "9HH83G", "public_name": "Miros\u0142aw Karczmarczyk", "avatar": null, "biography": "Miros\u0142aw Karczmarczyk is an independent researcher at the intersection of monetary theory, political philosophy, and cryptocurrency. His interests focus on the ideological and structural connections between the cypherpunk movement, libertarian and anarchist traditions, and privacy-preserving technologies. 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