Texas A&M Bitcoin Conference

The Texas A&M Bitcoin Conference speaks to a broad community of students, faculty, former students, and the general public about Bitcoin. Featuring speakers from academia and industry, the conference will engage audiences at all levels – from freshman to faculty and beyond.

Discussions will organize into areas including:

economic foundations
underlying technology
business and finance
law/policy/regulatory landscape

Presented by the Mays Innovation Research Center, this conference lives into the center’s mission to understand innovation and how it benefits society, and to distribute this knowledge broadly to students, scholars, policymakers, and the public. The conference aims to host a healthy debate on the current state and future of Bitcoin.

Morning
Introduction: Korok Ray and Grant Weston
Bitcoin 101: Dan Held
Bitcoin and Corporate America: Michael Saylor
Bitcoin as an Asset Class: Ray Dalio, Joe Dowling, and Britt Harris
Crypto: Views from the Fed and Silicon Valley: Tim Draper and Rob Kaplan

Lunchtime Keynote: Nobel Laureate Eric Maskin

Afternoon
Past, Present, Future of Bitcoin: Pete Briger, Wences Casares, Michael Daffey, Bill Miller, and Chen Zhao moderated by Britt Harris
The New Venture Capital of Bitcoin: Albert Wenger, Glenn Hutchins, and James Hutchins, moderated by Britt Harris
Regulation of Bitcoin: Dawn Stump
Bitcoin Exchanges, Security, Hackathons: Cory Klippsten, Juan Garay, and Caitlin Long moderated by Anthony Pompliano

Morning
Economics of Bitcoin
Hagen Kim: Bitcoin Fundamentals and Finance.
Parker Lewis: Bitcoin and Austrian Economics

Crypto Hedge Funds
Travis Kling: Bitcoin in The Context of The Global Macro Environment
Jesse Proudman: View from Strix Leviathan

The Bitcoin Protocol
Jimmy Song: Programming Bitcoin
Michael Flaxman: MultiSig
Parker White: Lightning Pool
J. Maurice Rojas: An Introduction to Bitcoin and the Importance of Pseudo-Randomness

Afternoon
Thomas Saving: Can Crypto Currencies Successfully Compete in the Money Market?

Bitcoin Mining
Clark Moody: Mining --- A Harmony of Incentives
Brent Whitehead: Capturing Natural Gas for BTC
Gideon Powell: View from Cholla Petroleum
Rob Morris: View from Skybox Datacenters

Bitcoin Law, Policy, Taxation
Joel Revill: BTC and Wealth Management
David Kinitsky: The View from Kraken
Abraham Sutherland: Taxation of Bitcoin

Aggies in Bitcoin
Travis Kling
Clark Moody
Brent Whitehead
Matthew Lohstroh
Rob Morris

Happy Hour

Texas A&M Bitcoin Conference 2021

FEATURED SPEAKERS

RAY DALIO

Founder of Bridgewater Associates

TIM DRAPER

Founder of Draper Associates/DFJ/Draper University

GLENN HUTCHINS

Chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures and Co-founder of Silver Lake Partners

ROB KAPLAN

President and CEO at Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

BILL MILLER

Founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Miller Value Partners

PETE BRIGER

Principal and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Investment Group

MICHAEL DAFFEY

Chairman of the Global Markets at Goldman Sachs

MICHAEL SAYLOR

Chairman and CEO of MicroStrategy

DAWN STUMP

Commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission

WENCES CASARES

CEO of XAPO

ALBERT WENGER

Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures

ERIC MASKIN

Professor of Economics at Harvard and Nobel Laureate

Friday and Saturday, April 16 - 17, 2021

WHY TEXAS A&M'S BITCOIN CONFERENCE

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SCHEDULE AND AGENDA

Download the Agenda - Schedule and speakers subject to change

Friday, April 16 (All virtual) 9:00 a.m. - 5:10 p.m. Central

Saturday, April 17 (Virtual and/or In-Person) 8:50 a.m. - 5:10 p.m. Central
In-Person: Texas A&M Hotel & Conference Center

April 16 - 17, 2021