Innovations in education

The world is changing rapidly and education needs to adapt. But this is not always the case. In Hemisféra, we managed to innovate the education of children independently as a business without any external founding (Punk style). Business grows and we apply innovative methods such as gamification, freedom to learn, project education, edularping, new technology, NVC, and mindfulness.

Lightning network basics and layer 3

Lightning-fast blockchain payments without worrying about block confirmation times. Security enforced by blockchain smart-contracts without creating an on-blockchain transaction for individual payments. Payment speed measured in milliseconds to seconds. Capable of millions to billions of transactions per second across the network. Capacity blowing away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude. Attaching payment per action/click possible without custodians. The emergence of use cases such as instant micropayments. Cross-chain atomic swaps occurring off-chain instantly with heterogeneous blockchain consensus rules. Julien, with the help of Alice, Bob and their friends, will present you the lightning network. How it works, why it's mind-blowing and some uses cases the will disrupt the blockchain technology itself.

Anonymous insurance and predictions markets

Every new government's regulation, restriction or embargo that makes impossible for people to trade, do business or increase their expenses, creates a demand for any market solution that helps to bypass these obstacles. The fact - how many entrepreneurs or ordinary citizens consider the given law to be unethical, willing to avoid with the least risk as possible, determines an economic feasibility of the 'avoidance' solution.
Truly anonymous cryptocurrencies (like Monero/zCash/zCoin) and anonymous web applications (using Tor hidden service) make this problem technically solvable. The solution is an anonymous insurance company.
For the first time in the history, it is feasible to achieve an anonymous economic incentive leading to fully anonymous corruption & bribes with the impossibility to identify those who corrupt as well as those who accept bribes.
The perfect corruption allows democratization of corporatism – everyone can create an anonymous economic incentive and be both bribe provider and receiver.

The future of Swiss private banking: Monero

Switzerland’s banking sector is legendary for respecting its clients’ privacy. But that privacy is only available to very wealthy clients, and it vanishes at the first request of a foreign power. Cryptocurrency is the solution, and Bitcoin seems to be a safe bet. But while Bitcoin is useful in many ways, it’s Monero that will likely become the technology of choice for the future of private banking and wealth management.

Criminal Law 101: On Cryptocurrencies and Encryption

Under the flag of national security, governmental authorities are inclined to access all communications and follow every euro that is being spent. Encrypted communication and crypto currencies greatly enhance our privacy, but they’re legally challenged by investigative authorities. Noud and Reynier are criminal defense lawyers and defend this tech in the court room. They'll tell everything you need to know about criminal law, and how to prevent (unconsciously) laundering Bitcoins.

(In)security of cryptospace

We will look at (in)secure design of various elements of cryptospace such as cryptocurrencies and their protocols and provide a short overview what went wrong and could have gone wrong this year.

FinTech vs. Traditional banking business models

A traditional banking industry faces a new challenge – disruptive innovations driven by financial technologies. A new FinTech branch of economy benefits from similar factors like non-banking financial institutions in the mid of 20th century like lower regulation, flexibility or reputation bubble. Are traditional business models going to disappear? Is FinTech industry strong enough to oppose to banking lobby? And, last but not least, is there any space for cash as a medium of exchange in the FinTech world? These questions are pillars of Ales’s contribution.

Crowdfunding as an expression of financial freedom

We can live on bitcoins, avoid bank products and freely choose the other party of your transactions. But setting up a business with significant initial costs? Ask for the banking loan or find an angel investor. Buying shares in an interesting company? Ask some investment fund to include it in its portfolio, we are too "unqualified" to do it on our own. Until last year, this had been the common situation. With blockchain-based digital tokens, this will be over soon. And the tsunami of ICO´s is just a beginning. Crowd is becoming significant financial power. And everybody has a chance to become "qualified" enough to understand the investments into to the business entities. For the first time in history.

Panel: The Future of Money

Technological advancements not only make cash vanish but also bring about new ways of recording transactions and storing value. A ​member of ​the​ Czech National Bank​ Board​, a cryptoanarchist, roboinvestment strategist and a money theorist will have their take on the future of money. How can digitalization of transactions and money better serve people and societies? How are they transforming the global financial system? Do alternative community currencies presage the end of fiat money? How can we arrive at frictionless economy?

​Speakers:​
Oldřich Dědek, member of the CNB Bank Board
Aleš Michl, ​​owner, Quant Investment Fund
Jakub Jedlinský, assistant professor, University of Economics in Prague
Jan Hubík, Hackerspace, Parallel Polis

Chair: Maria Staszkiewicz, Czech Fintech Association

How to bootstrap a DAO

We’ve heard a lot about decentralized autonomous organizations over the last several years, but thus far few have become fully operational. In this talk we’ll look at the practical considerations of designing and building a real-world DAO, using the Bisq exchange and its forthcoming DAO as a case study.

Particl: A Private and Decentralized Marketplace

A technical presentation on how we plan to build a decentralized marketplace with a focus on privacy. Particl is a platform that features an anonymous cryptocurrency (CT, RingCT) and a BitMessage-style messaging system. We are in the process of designing a protocol (Open Market Protocol) for interactions between sellers and buyers.

Bitcoin: political attack vectors and common misconceptions

The blockchain technology was not brought about to improve past technologies, instead, its roots are exclusively political. The idea behind its development, started by the internet cypherpunks and then continued by Satoshi Nakamoto, is the creation of a monetary tool able to defy government censorship and to protect user’s privacy. In this speech, Giacomo Zucco will dispel myths about improbable uses of the blockchain, especially in the financial/banking world, and he will outline the true challenges behind Bitcoin. Part of those challenges are also political in nature: In the last months, we have seen interesting developments with the proposals of various contentious and not technically-motivated hard-forks, one of which was enacted (Bitcoin Cash). Those splits can be seen as a new kind of political attack vector against the decentralised and censorship-resistant nature of Bitcoin. To understand the absence of true technical motives behind those kind of consensus changes you have to understand the fundamental difference between the necessity of a dynamic, versatile and competitive system, following the Schumpeter’s definition of “Creative destruction”, able to disrupt and replace the current financial and monetary system, and the absolute importance of a resilient immutable base protocol. Protocols like the TCP/IP are very difficult to upgrade because they are base level network architectures, Bitcoin more-so needs to be static to withstand every kind of attack: strong foundations to build on. On the other hand, some changes are still deemed to be necessary and desirable before the eventual crystallisation of the protocol: one example is Segwit that was finally activated at the end of August 2017.

We Gotta Take the Money Back!

How to Beat Fiat in a Not so Free Competition – meditations on proposed restrictions on product of the current monopoly money producers followed by an evaluation of private alternatives like gold, social networks money or cryptocurrencies. Speculations about their viability as fiat money contenders.

Privacy, fungibility & scale in Bitcoin

Join this session to hear why the current and upcoming features in Bitcoin enable more financial and economic freedom than ever before.

Taking Back The Web: Information Markets and Sociotechnical Systems

The World Wide Web that we know today has powered both positive and negative change for society. What does the next web look like? We explore how it might operate without compromising the freedom, privacy, or security of its users, ensuring the alignment of fair economic incentives for its participants - the Internet users.

How to Nap the Most

Bitcoin is a terrifying place full of ridiculous emotions. It is intelligent to prioritize naps in your investment decisions. This talk is about how to make investment decisions in the Bitcoin world that will let you sleep a lot and not drive yourself insane.

Dehumanizing Technology

Investigating the dangers of technological biases, path dependencies, addictive systems, totalitarian technology, and the resulting dehumanizing technology. Discussion about the ethics of technology in the light of blockchains and smart contracts. A critique of technological constructivism and the tech echo chamber.

Fashion STL

A new beginning of fashion.stl which started as a 3D printed fashion show at HCPP 2015. Now Bet Moreno with Ivana Kanovska and Oldrich Vojta are finding more innovative ways how to put together fashion and technology. How FashTech can change our future of clothing. How to use 3D print and scanners to have customized clothes. How we incorporate sensors and chips so our clothes become interactive. Let´s communicate via our clothing!

Now that North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran are making the headlines, don't you wish you had begun using my idea, Assassination Politics, years ago?

In 1995, I thought of an idea, which I wrote into an essay called "Assassination Politics", which I asserted (and genuinely believe and believed, then and now) would eliminate the need and even the possibility of war, armies, and oppressive governments. I put it out there for everyone to consider and debate. Everyone had the ability to find the flaws if any were present. Yet, subsequent years went by, and the world continued to have war and trillions of dollars spent on militaries. Governments continued to oppress. And the public did, essentially, nothing. We are all subject to that abuse, today. There is an old joke about a religious man who is caught in his house in a flood. As the water rises higher, he is visited by two rescue boats. Each time they offer to rescue him; he responds by saying, "Go away. The Lord will save me!" Eventually, the water continued to rise, he's on the chimney, water all around, and a rescue helicopter appears, offering assistance. He says, "Go away. The Lord will save me!". The helicopter leaves. The water rose, higher, the man drowns. In Heaven, he asks St. Peter, "Why did God not rescue me"? St. Peter answered, "He sent two boats and a helicopter; what more did you want?" Well, I, Jim Bell, sent the world my Assassination Politics essay. What more do YOU want?!?

First steps to educational emancipation

First steps to educational emancipation: an extraordinary revolution is occurring in the developing world. Low-cost private schools are replacing government provision, bringing the first steps towards educational freedom. But governments still regulate the framework of education – curriculum, assessment, etc. The next phase of liberation must address this too.

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Storing value in cryptos without fortune telling

A lot of people in crypto space are real-world gamblers. They play a sophisticated version of roulette on crypto-exchanges. This is not the only way how to store value in cryptocurrencies. You can use strategies that have reasonable premises. They are easy enough to implement without fortune telling. And they have been used and tested here in Paralelní Polis.

Comparing trade-offs of cryptocurrencies

When Bitcoin was created, it was widely believed to be anonymous currency. This was proven to be inaccurate in practice and that incentivized people to search for other solutions. This talk will compare Bitcoin, Monero and Zcash to provide information about not just their anonymity but also other properties. The talk is meant even for non-technical people, so yes, you will understand it!

Lightning talks

Pavel Travnik: New concept of decentralized reputation system
1. How the state benefits from one-way transparency system
Today's legal system is dependent on the anonymity of state officers, while business owners have to act publicly and transparent. This one-way transparency can bring a dominance of the current state organization over the market. The non-equal position of two parties allows sanctions and other forms of punishments based on legal but not a moral basis.
2. How to transfer data from real world and create metadata in virtual world
I propose a system, where everybody needs to have a reputation to create a contract which binds parties and verification of the truth is based on participants of the system and also on their reputation.
The actual problem is the interpretation between official authority (which can be even private) and the network. This system provides secure transformation of information from the real world to machine readable format based on human effort.
3. Liability and network effect of interpersonal liability (Whitelist)
I propose also a system "Whitelist", where reputation is interconnected between pseudo-identities. Person use fraction of its property to ensure. It is possible, by networking effect, to create liability system based on shared interconnected liability based on real connections and trust. It involves "skin in the game" and discrimination of statist.

Harry Halpin

Felix Weis

+ one secret talk

Anonymous locking boxes for everybody

Ethereum blockchain in locking systems. Locking system architecture. CryptoComb - open source modular system of anonymous boxes, design, construction, development, prototype demonstration. Possible applications for shared garages, hotel rooms, 3D printers, CNC machines or even drones...

Freedom of transaction

Why freedom of transaction in the information age is a basic precondition for all other basic and human rights. Historically it was always given and therefore never fought for in any revolution but now that we enter a fully digitized economy it can easily be taken away. Not to have freedom of transaction would end all other freedoms effective immediately though. Freedom of transaction must always include free choice of currency and of financial technology.

If there was ever a time to defend the achievements of past centuries and to carry them into the future and strengthen them that time is now.

What Bitcoin taught me about people

Bitcoin has had an uncanny impact in just a few years, not just on tech, economics & politics, but on individuals. We all had our own ideas about how btc can affect lives. Many "bitcoiners" had a vision of how people will use bitcoin and why. And some, including myself, had a naive view about what kind of people would be drawn to this unique innovation. Expectations and preconceptions inevitably lead to disappointments...but hopefully ones we can all learn from.

Welcome to the Recentralized World

Despite the promise of the blockchain technology to decentralize the power that current institutions and moneyed individuals wield, what we see is just a redistribution of power with the "blockchain" prefix to it. I will talk about a few examples of recentralization and actions we can take to prevent it.

Bio-Hacking - Overcoming Programmed Ideologies

Overcoming Programmed Ideologies: Re-learning through Removing Using meditation, breathing techniques and cold showers i trained myself to be fully submerged in a frozen lake for 7 minutes. I have gone 7 days without any food and dead-lift more than twice my body weight through strength training. I believe the human body is capable of many amazing things that we have forgotten. I hope to continue my last discussion and explore new possibilities that i have since explored.

A post-libertarian realpolitik

We as libertarians often maintain that the state is a fiction, sometimes a consensual one. But what if the notion of rights is equally a fiction, too? We will examine a realpolitik perspective on how individual autonomy was curtailed historically and what a posited rising marginal cost of oppression means for the future of liberty.

CRISPR & Biohacking

CRISPR is science fiction made real. It is nature's technology for splicing genes, and we've learned that it can be used for almost any application. On top of that, it's shockingly affordable. One expert on CRISPR calls it “the biggest thing since penicillin,” and that may not be an over-statement. CRISPR puts physical evolution into our hands.

Liberland state model for 21st century

Liberland is the youngest country on earth, and was formed on the 272nd birthday of Thomas Jefferson, 13th April 2015. The country was formed on 7km2 of no mans' land, sitting between Croatia and Serbia. It is the third smallest state after The Vatican and Monaco. Liberland's constitution is based on libertarian ideals and values; minimum government intervention with the maximum amount of freedom granted to its' citizens.
Liberland has attracted in excess of 450,000 applications for citizenship, and applies a concept of voluntary taxation. The state intends to be a leading role model in the 21st century, combining the best governance practices from constitutions of Switzerland and USA while implementing the latest state of the art technology such as blockchain, as well as proven concepts such as E-Residency demonstrated by Estonia.
The creation of a new country requires an extensive array of diplomatic, legal and technological challenges, which are essential for the proper development of a nation. Modern countries have in many cases become burdened with obstacles, rather than supporting the economic development of a society. Over regulation and excessive taxation are smothering the economic growth, particularly in Europe. Is the creation of a new smaller jurisdiction, with low taxation policies the correct answer to the stagnation of economic growth?
Do existing countries have the courage to allow Liberland and other "free spirit" nations to flourish? Or are we doomed to continue suffering due to the taxation policies of other countries?

What does "blockchain" actually do?

Ultimately all security software prevents things from happening. Here we'll dive into what exactly does "blockchain" tech prevent, and where that can and can't be useful.

Closing panel: Impact of cryptoanarchy and decentralization to our future

Speakers:
Frank Braun
Jim Bell
Smuggler
Amir Taaki
Joerg Platzer

Chair: Pavol Lupták

3D printing: Decentralization of manufacturing

We are living at very exciting times. You can start manufacturing right on your desktop. The future of manufacturing is going to be local again thanks to 3D printing. Imagine consumer goods manufacturers publishing spare parts for download and letting anyone to print them on their 3D printers. Think of on-demand manufacturing and digital stock of items.

Full Spectrum Sexuality and Sexual Deviancy

There are many ways to sex and be sexed. This is a talk about the wide variety of sexual preferences expressed across the globe. Healthy sexual expression leads to a sane mind. Let's find out what type of sexual deviant you are.

Blockchain and the Technological Foundations of Civilization

People think of blockchain as an edgy new technology. To some extent, this is true. But the real function of the technology is to solve a problem that dates deep into the history of the human experience. It is a new solution to the oldest problems.

Closing

Official wrap-up of #HCPP17

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