Brian Hirschfield
Founder, Actuarial Bitcoin Advisors
Brian Hirschfield, CFA, ASA, FRM, CQF, is the author of Bitcoin for Institutions and host of several podcasts including Rock Paper Bitcoin and Motivate the Math. An actuary and quantitative finance veteran of 30 years, he now builds bridges between Wall Street rigor and Bitcoin’s mathematical foundations. He is the creator of Magic Internet Math Academy, making the math behind Bitcoin accessible to everyone.
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Panel discussion
Defeating AI and Quantum Threats
Learn exactly how to protect your generational wealth from the high-tech predators of tomorrow.
As computing power advances, so do the threats. This high-level discussion focuses on the long-term security of the Bitcoin protocol against emerging technologies. Panelists will evaluate the realistic timelines for quantum computing threats and how Artificial Intelligence might be used both to attack and to defend the network, ensuring Bitcoin remains unhackable for generations to come.
As computing power advances, so do the threats. This high-level discussion focuses on the long-term security of the Bitcoin protocol against emerging technologies. Panelists will evaluate the realistic timelines for quantum computing threats and how Artificial Intelligence might be used both to attack and to defend the network, ensuring Bitcoin remains unhackable for generations to come.
Main stage
Thu, 12:20
Keynote
The Mathematical Layer of Bitcoin Sovereignty
You live by the “don’t trust, verify" mantra, yet you likely cannot verify that your Bitcoin is real. Not through computation, not with pen and paper, not with every computer on Earth. The existence of your private key is only knowable through the algebraic structure of the elliptic curve — whose provable properties guarantees a unique private key exists for every public key. If you don't understand this, your sovereignty stack is incomplete. You run your own node, you hold your own keys, you verify your own transactions — but beneath all of it sits a layer of mathematics you're taking on faith. Mathematical sovereignty is the foundation. Without it, you're trusting developers whose papers you can't read, the same way you used to trust bankers you couldn't audit.
Expo stage
Thu, 13:20
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