BTC Miami Program Preview 4

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WELCOME TOBITCOIN MIAMI

Right now is a critical moment for bitcoin.

The worlds most independent currency has

just turned ve and is entering a crucial

phase in its development.

In the last six months the currency has

dramatically increased in visibility and

experienced both the good and bad sides of

the limelight: rising acceptance with vendors

and shoppers, alongside more regulatory

scrutiny, and wild uctuations in value.

Its at this time, more than ever before, that

the bitcoin community is needed to ensure

a prosperous and well-balanced future for

the currency. The NABC has been created to

draw this community together, now

ranging from enthusiasts to nancial

institutions, and to provide an open and

hard-hitting forum for moving the currency

forward.

WELCOME 1

AGENDA 2

THE SPEAKERS 5

NOTES 10

SPONSORS 11

During the conferences short, but action

packed two-day agenda, you will meet and

hear from the biggest names in the

industry and powerful newcomers like

regulators and bankers. Be sure to take

advantage of the unique opportunity to

make new friends, grow your network and

seek out synergies. And last, but not least,

make your voice heard.

Yours sincerely,

Moe [email protected]

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OVERVIEW

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

FRIDAY NIGHT

7:00 - 8:30

Exhibitor Setup

8:30 - 9:00

Registration

Pre-party reception at theClevelander Hotel

1020 Ocean Dr, Miami Beach

12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH12:30 - 13:30

LUNCH

9:00 - 12:30

Speakers & Panels inHalls 1 & 2

15:00 - 16:30

Speakers & Panels inHalls 1 & 2

15:00 - 16:30

Hall 2: Speakers

13:30 - 14:30

Speakers in Halls 1 & 2

14:30 - 15:00

NETWORKING BREAK14:30 - 15:00NETWORKING BREAK

16:30 until Late

Reception

8:30 - 9:20

Registration

9:20 - 9:30

Hall 2: Opening Address

13:30 - 14:30

Hall 2: Speakers & Panels

9:30 - 12:30

Hall 2: Speakers

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AGENDA Saturday

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Hall Hall

Merchant Vendor

Workshopsby

8:30 - 9:30Ken Metral

10:30 - 11:00Chris Odom

11:05 - 11:30Alan Safahi

13:30 - 13:50

Jacob Farber

15:30 - 15:50Bitcoin Startup Panel:Wendell Davis, Steve Beauregard,Dan Held, Oleh Zadoretskyy,Paul Vernon. Mod: Paul Buitink

14:00 - 14:20Jeffrey Tucker

16:00 - 16:20

George Papageorgiou

14:30 - 14:50Anthony Gallippi

16:30 - 16:50Roger Ver

11:35 - 12:30Venture Capitalist Panel:Roger Ver, Marc van der Chijs,Matthew Roszak, Brock Pierce &Rik Willard.Mod: Michael Terpin

9:50 - 10:20David Aylor

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AGENDA Sunday

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Hall Hall

Ryan Charleston

Xavier Hawk

Joseph Vaughn Perling

Jason King

Wendell Davis

Malcolm Cassalle

Brock Pierce

Nicolas Cary

Special Guest Speaker

Bill Still

Regulation Panel

Vitalik Buterin

Eric Spano

Carlos Tapang

Elizabeth Polshay

Charlie Lee

Charlie Schrem

Adrian Wyllie

Latin American Panel

Andres Bzurovski, Gabriel Miron,Andres Junge, Joaquin Moreno

Mod: Saul Lustarten

Mystery Speaker

Charles Evans

9:00 - 9:25

9:55 - 10:20

10:30 - 10:55

11:00 - 11:25

13:30 - 13:50

15:00 - 15:25

15:30 - 16:30 15:30 - 15:55

16:00 - 16:25

16:30 - 16:55

13:55 - 14:20

11:30 - 12:30

Carol van Cleef, Jacob Farber,David Aylor, Gabriel Caballero, Jumio

9:30 - 9:50


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SPEAKERS

Charlie Shrem

Marc van der Chijs

Michael Terpin

Matthew Roszak

Charlie Shrem is co-founder and vice chairman of BitcoinFoundation and CEO and co-founder of BitInstant, one of the worldslargest alternative payment companies. Drawing on his experiences in

the old banking world, as well as in the new alternative currency world, Shrem pavedthe way for the Bitcoin economy when he found the need for a more secure, fast, andconvenient way of transferring funds between and within payment networks aroundthe world.

Marc van der Chijs is a partner at CrossPacic Capital in Vancouver(xpcp.ca), where he focuses on Financial and Health Tech investments..His latest investment was in white-label exchange Bex.io where he led

the round. Before becoming a VC Marc was a serial entrepreneur in China where heamong others co-founded online videosite Tudou.com (the Youtube of China, listed onthe NYSE) and where he set up the Asian operations for game company Spil Games.

Michael Terpin co-founded BitAngels (www.bitangels.co), the worldsrst angel network for digital currency startups, in May, 2013, with

Engine CEO David Johnston and four other founding members. The

Mr. Roszak is co-founder and vice chairman of SilkRoad Equity, a globalprivate investment rm. Mr. Roszak has spent over 18 years in private

equity and venture capital and invested in excess of $1 billion ofcapital in a broad range of industries, with experience in executing a broad scope

of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; corporate andtransactional nancing, including private equity, venture capital, mezzanine and

conventional nancings; public offerings, private placements and nancialrestructurings.

distributed angel network currently has more than 300 members, and it hasmade more than a dozen investments in bitcoin and cryptocurrency

companies in its rst six months.


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Jeffrey Tucker

Carol Van Cleef

Charles Evans

Jacob S Farber

Jeffrey Tucker is founder and CEO of Liberty.me, distinguished fellowof the Foundation for Economic Education, Executive Editor of LaissezFaire Books, and research fellow of the Acton Institute. He is the

founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, serves as economic consultant Lets TalkBitcoin, and writes a fortnightly column for The Freeman and Crisis Magazine.

Carol Van Cleef represents nancial services companies and otherclients in federal and state regulatory, compliance, and enforcementmatters, including anti-money laundering (AML), electronic payments,

Dr. Evans is Co-Organizer of Miami International Bitcoin, where headvises several Bitcoin startups based in South Florida, and CFO ofBitcountant, an accounting and compliance practice that focuses on

federal deposit insurance, and other bank regulatory issues. She counsels bankingorganizations, credit unions, securities rms, insurance companies, nance

companies, money service businesses (MSB), and hedge funds, among others.

Jacob is a senior counsel at the Washington, D.C. ofce of Perkins Coieand a member of the Technology Transactions & Privacy practice. Jacobrepresents clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 20 companies in a

Bitcoin startups. He has been teaching Finance and Economics for more than adecade, and has been involved with virtual currencies since the rst wave ofmoneypunk projects during the 1990s Dot.Com Era.

wide variety of IT and technology-focused transactional and counseling matters.


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Jason King

Anthony Gallipi

Bill Still

Gabriel Caballero

Roger Ver

Jason King is a homeless advocate from Pensacola, Fl. He is bestknown as the founder of Seans Outpost/Satoshi Forest(seansoutpost.com) and feeding tens of thousands of meals to the

homeless all paid for with Crypto-Currency.

Anthony Gallippi saw a need for bitcoin payment processing andfounded BitPay in 2011. As a start-up, Mr. Gallippi is involved in all of theday-to-day operations including new business development, marketing,

Still is the director, narrator, and producer of the documentary lms TheMoney Masters and The Secret of Oz, both of which critique the systemof monetary control by the U.S. Federal Reserve.

and customer service. Mr. Gallippi has 15 years of experience in sales and marketing

working in the Robotics industry.

Gabriel has been an associate at Gunster Law since 2011. Prior tojoining Gunster, Gabriel served as Associate General Counsel of Banco

Santander International, a subsidiary of one of the worlds largestbanks by market capitalization. His practice areas include Banking and Financial

Services, Licensing, Regulatory and Compliance Matters and Bank Secrecy Act/

Anti-Money Laundering/Ofce of Foreign Assets Control .

Roger has served as the full time CEO of MemoryDealers.com, directlyemploying about 30 people, and serving happy customers around theworld. Over the last decade, under Rogers leadership, Memory Dealers

has grown to become a world leader in the used Cisco memory and networking

equipment industry. In early 2011 Roger discovered Bitcoin, the most importantinvention in the history of the world since the internet. MemoryDealers became therst mainstream business to accept bitcoins as payment, and Roger has since become

the most prolic Bitcoin related startup investor.


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Chris Odom

Eric Spano

Alan Safahi

Paul Vernon

Chris Odom is Co-Founder and CTO of Monetas, the worlds rstdecentralized system for nancial and legal transactions, and thecreator of the Open-Transactions digital nance suite that Monetas is

based on. Open-Transactions features industry-leading innovations that solve criticalproblems in digital nance, and addresses urgent needs in the Bitcoin economy.

Eric holds a Bachelors in Commerce and is a public accountant at Ernst& Young LLP. He is actively involved in Canadas Bitcoin community,serving as the Treasurer of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada as well as the

Alan Safahi is the Founder and CEO of ZipZap, Inc., the worldslargest cash payment network for online nancial services and

e-commerce transactions. A serial entrepreneur with nearly 30 years of

Paul Vernon is the CEO and founder of Project Investors Inc. andCryptsy.com. Paul is a long-time veteran of technology implementation

with extensive experience in e-commerce and enterprise-leveltechnology and coding.

hands-on experience in the information technology, telecommunications, and nancialservices industries, Alan has successfully created and managed numerous high

technology and payment processing startups.

Director of Finance for the Bitcoin Embassy. In addition to overseeing the nancial

activity of these organizations, Eric is also the Founder & CEO of Bylls a web-basedservice that enables users to pay their everyday bills using Bitcoin.

George PapageorgiouGeorge is Operations Director at Neo and Bee and has a wealth oftechnology and operations management experience in a variety ofsecurity/safety/mission critical environments including a plethora of

cutting edge technology elds. He has been very actively involved in many aspects ofBitcoins economy and ecology over the last two years, and has written a researchpaper focused on Bitcoin for his MBA dissertation at the University of Greenwich.


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Ryan Charleston

Vitalik Buterin

David Aylor

Ryan Charleston is a multi-disciplinary professional with experience indigital marketing, web development, ad tech, research and webanalytics. His previous start-up Adpressive.com, a native advertising

Vitalik is Head Writer at Bitcoin Magazine. He is a computer sciencestudent at the University of Waterloo, but is currently taking time off topursue Bitcoinrelated projects in Europe. His interests are diverse,

business inspired by BuzzFeed, was successfully sold in December 2013. Ryan left hismost recent position at eBay in late 2013 to launch Bitcorati.com, a global directoryand rating system for the people and business involved in Bitcoin.

ranging from computer science to economics to linguistics, and he rmly believes inthe power of the internet, from P2P networks to social networking to Bitcoin, to lay thefoundation for a new, bottomup, 21st century information economy.

For nearly a decade David Aylor has been practicing law in Charleston,

South Carolina. David is well versed in various criminal aspects relatedto the bitcoin industry. Most recently, he has been representing theindividual alleged to be involved with what is believed to be the rst US GovernmentFederal seizure of Bitcoins. He is also the acting Prosecutor for the City of Hanahan,

and formerly served as an Assistant Solicitor for the Ninth Circuit.

Elizabeth PloshayElizabeth serves as Manager of Communications for Bitcoin Magazine

and recently got elected to serve on the Bitcoin Foundation Board ofDirectors. She additionally serves as Chair of the Bitcoin Foundation

Education Committee. Having previously served as the Scheduler and Policy Assistantfor a US Member of Congress, she has a background in public policy, grassrootsactivism, and a keen desire to promote decentralization and individual liberties.

Elizabeth is fascinated with Bitcoin and the multiple opportunities for this peer to peerdisruptive technology and movement to empower individuals around the world.

Elizabeth holds a BA in Political Science from Wheaton College (IL).


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Xavier Hawk

Oleh Zadoretskyy

Malcolm Casselle

Carlos Tapang

Xavier Hawk has cracked the code for ridiculously protable EcoDevelopments that make Biodynamic living easy, safe, affordable, andsexy. He runs an Eco Development in Western North Carolina called

Colony Earth which is basedondigitalcurrencies. Xavier envisions highlyprotable,selfsufcient, clean powered, membership basedeco developmentsaroundthe world

that runoncryptocurrencies.

Oleh is a software developer hailing from Latvia, best known as thefounder and lead developer of BTC Robot. He has a background in the

development of algorithmic trading applications for leveraged futuresand options trading, successfully servicing several large private equity rms. Two

years ago he began development of BTC Robot - an automated Bitcoin trading robotwhich launched in 2013 to wide success.

Malcolm is serial entrepreneur and has played almost every role in atraditional startup: nance, sales, marketing, PR, legal, R&D,

production, manufacture and distribution. Over the years he has helped

Carlos C Tapang is the president of Centerus Inc, a Washington Statecorporation for the construction and marketing of condo mining

systems. A condo mining unit currently has a capacity of 15 Giga Hashesper second, and is priced at $199. Condo-style ownership means that Centerus hoststhe units, and there is a xed recurring cost of $5 per month which includes everything

(electricity and all).

raise billions of dollars for startups. His industry focus is ecommerce, internet video,wireless games, and interactive mobile content.

Nicolas Cary


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Adrian Wyllie

Rik Willard

Andrs Bzurovski

Brock Pierce

Steve Beauregard

Adrian is Florida radio personality, small business owner andLibertarian candidate for Governor of Florida. Wyllie is known as aconstitutional activist for challenges to the Real ID Act and the

Rik Willard is Co-Founder and CEO of MintCombine, a New Yorkcompany focused on incubating companies and ideas in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, working with companies in the USA, Canada,

Andres is a co-founder of Astro-pay, over the last seven years, Andrshas worked in multiple capacities: as VP of Latin Americas largest on-line casino, 888.com, as Regional President of Pocket Kings, and asan independent consultant and angel investor in companies such asPaganza.com and HomeDine.com.

Kenya and South America.

Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and as an investigative journalist.

Brock is a 15-time entrepreneur best known for pioneering the marketfor digital currency. He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of

his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Prior to his Bitcoin

For two plus decades, Steve has been a pillar of the LA startupcommunity leading innovations in Internet, mobile, social media, appdevelopment, eCommerce, and now, digital currency technologies. Now

the Founder and CEO of GoCoin, Steve is actively speaking at International Bitcoinconferences on digital currency and next generation merchant payment solutions.

activities, Pierce launched his rst of many digital and virtual currency startups in1998, which have collectively processed billions of dollars in sales. Sitting on the board

for multiple virtual currency companies, he is also BitAngels Los Angeles City Leaderand an angel investor in numerous Bitcoin related startups such as BTC China.


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Kenneth Metral

Joseph Vaughn Perling

Kenneth Metral is the Co-Founder and CEO of the popular bitcoinmarketplace Coingig.com. He is a Miami local and currently holds hisBachelor in Information Technology, Master in Management

Joseph Vaughn Perling has been involved in security, privacy, identitymanagement, forensics, law and business development spanning threedecades. His involvement in alternative currencies bridges the physical

Information Systems, and his Master in Business Administration from FloridaInternational University. He has been involved with Bitcoin for over a year now afterrst being introduced to it by a friend in the online marketing industry. Having aninfatuation with this revolutionary currency, he felt the need to open a business in thisspace and provide a platform that allows users to exchange goods and/or services withbitcoin.

and the virtual as the Managing Director the New Liberty Dollar LLC, producers ofthe New Liberty Dollar and as project lead of the Bitcoin Specie project. The BitcoinSpecie project is the effort to provide the pocket change of Bitcoin, the hard money offblock-chain mechanism for true anonymous (rather than pseudononymous) point of

sale transactions using bitcoin bullion coins.

Wendell DavisWendell is the founder and principal creative force behind Hive, an

easy-to-use Bitcoin wallet and merchant discovery platform. Beforending himself in the impassable clutches of cryptocurrency addiction,

Wendell wore the hats of both game developer and Internet entrepreneur. He ispassionate about decentralization, operational security, and, paradoxically, excellent

user experience design.

Charlie LeeCharlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative cur-rency to Bitcoin. He is a software engineer at Coinbase. Prior to joiningCoinbase, he spent 6 years at Google working on YouTube Mobile,

Chrome OS, and the Google Play Games platform. Charlie earned a Bachelors andMasters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.


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