bitcoin++ Vienna 2026, economics edition
2026-05-27..2026-05-28
Vienna, Austria
as the organisers put it
Join us in Vienna where we’re exploring the intersection of free markets and protocols at our first ever economics edition in Austria.
who it's for
economists and policy analysts, Bitcoin developers, founders of Bitcoin startups, Lightning node operators, miners and pool operators, wallet and custody engineers, brokers and exchange product managers
topics
Lightning node economics and risks; Bitcoin yield mechanics from DeFi; quantum-migration and CRQC scenarios; Century Metadata longterm storage; P2Poolv2 peer-to-peer mining pool; Bitcoin hashrate derivatives design; Ark wallet virtual UTXO model; post-mortem of Bitcoin L2 experiments; integer discretized share auction; Bitcoin-backed loan products
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Lightning node economics | Michael1011 | 29m |
Running a Lightning node earns routing and channel-sale fees but is capital intensive and full of tail risks: on‑chain opens/closes and force close can wipe… | ||
| Bitcoin Yield: Lessons From DeFi | RegularMarek | 30m |
Argues that DeFi lessons map to Bitcoin Finance with concrete examples: MEV already appears (Babylon staking drove fees to 600 sats per vbyte), AMM mechanics… | ||
| The Economics of a CRQC | BlueMatt | 30m |
If a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC) appears with credible six‑month timelines, the market decides between a soft fork that disables EC and… | ||
| Century Metadata | Rusty Russell | 35m |
Century Metadata stores small encrypted blobs for a century, claiming 8KB blobs per entry tied to a writer key and reader key and a generation counter… | ||
| P2Poolv2 | Kulpreet Singh | 31m |
P2Poolv2 builds a peer‑to‑peer mining pool that replaces operators with a DAG share chain that includes uncles to cut orphan loss and a full UTXO/script layer… | ||
| Bitcoin Hashrate Derivatives | Antonie Riard | 29m |
Survey of concrete designs for native Bitcoin hashrate derivatives and why simple height/time bets fail: proposes and analyzes Bosswab (height‑vs‑time… | ||
| Next Billion Users | Alexander Brandao | 19m |
Argues that Bitcoin’s fixed supply and incentive design shift behavior toward saving and long-term planning, and that practical onboarding happens when… | ||
| Anatomy of an Ark Wallet | Steven Roose | 29m |
A Rust SDK called Bark implements the Ark protocol and ships a REST daemon, a web wallet prototype, and Rust SDK with six bindings so teams can embed Ark… | ||
| Bitcoin for printed money | Matouš Ledvina | 29m |
Claims a regulated product called Invity Turbo Buy that gives 60% extra buying power on top of regular DCA, charges a fee currently ~14% annual and negotiated… | ||
| What happened to Bitcoin L2s | Omer Talip Akalin | 47m |
A blunt post‑mortem of the 2023–2026 Bitcoin Layer‑2 season: hundreds of rollup/bridge projects raise funding and then vanish or turn into tokens, while a… | ||
| An Integer Discretized Share Auction on Bitcoin | Scott Duke Kominers, NodeMonkes | 22m |
An integer discretized share auction runs as a descending-price, block-timed clearing auction on Bitcoin using budget bids: each bidder commits a single BTC… | ||
| Is Bitcoin the Austrian School’s Future? | Rahim Taghizadegan, Adam Bartha, Matthew Vuk | 54m |
Panel debates whether Bitcoin replaces political change or complements it, citing Francis Pouliot’s claim that libertarianism “died with Bitcoin” and arguing… | ||
| Austrian Economics as a tool of thought | Rahim Taghizadegan | 39m |
Argues Austrian economics is a disciplined tool for thinking—realism, marginalism, subjectivism—used to analyze money, capital as tools, and entrepreneurship… | ||
| The Age of Corporate Nihilism | Ben Arc | 35m |
Argues that split payments (built as an LNbits extension in about 3–4 months) routes sats at point of sale so an unbanked coffee farmer in El Salvador receives… | ||
| From Volatile Bitcoin to a Stable Monetary System | Hubertus Hofkirchner | 36m |
Claims a workable dual-layer money system where Bitcredit Protocol mints bill-backed credit on Bitcoin rails to finance supply chains and close a $2.5 trillion… | ||
| The Praxeology of Privacy | Max Hillebrand | 49m |
Argues privacy theory from three concrete axioms — action, argumentation (self‑ownership → property), and the axiom of resistance — and shows how cryptographic… | ||
| Covenants make Bitcoin Better Money | Matthew Vuk | 25m |
Argues that adding forward-looking covenants to Bitcoin script lets money carry its own contracts, blocking the Rothbard-style corruption sequence (warehousing… | ||
| The Economics of Bitcoin | Chris Seedor, Knut Svanholm, BlueMatt, Marco Argentieri (tiero), Luke Devolve | 01h 08m |
Panel claims Bitcoin’s future is decided by market choices, not slogans, and flags concrete risks: mining centralization and private mempools that can censor… | ||
| Are we building the products Bitcoin deserves? | Jos Lazet | 24m |
Claims adoption is real: 106 million users and ~602,000 Bitcoin transactions per day with over $100 billion in ETF volume, but most exposure stays off‑chain. A… | ||
| The Death of the 'Middleman': Survival Strategies for the 2026 Bitcoin Broker | Thomas Jeegers... | 21m |
Claims that intermediaries vanish are wrong according to operating data: a European Bitcoin broker reports 100,000 registered users, $1.4 billion transacted… | ||
| The Case for Bitcoin: Freedom Tech, Open Society | Anita | 33m |
Firsthand field reporting from Zimbabwe shows monetary collapse as policy tool: exchange rates move from 1:28 to 1:35,000 ZWD per loaf within years, government… | ||
| Bitcoin-backed Loans with Arkade and Blockrise | Jos Lazet, Marco Argentieri (tiero), Chris Seedor | 32m |
Blockrise issues Bitcoin-backed bonds starting at €100,000 and runs a licensed EU platform that uses a MiCA license to open bank and institutional channels… | ||
| Defending Bitcoin as Critical Infrastructure | Luke de Wolf | 31m |
Argues Bitcoin meets national definitions of critical infrastructure, runs 24/7 with continuous operation since 2013, and needs industrial-grade cyber… | ||
| Does this make Bitcoin better money? | Knut Svanholm | 41m |
Central claim: Bitcoin must stay money first and nothing else, so every feature or proposal answers the question Does this make Bitcoin better money? Argues… | ||
| Economics of Protocol Design | Rene Pickhardt | 27m |
Claim: using ARC as an offchain channel factory for Lightning compresses funding transactions, saves blockspace, and directly targets Lightning’s main failure… | ||
| Kickoff | niftynei | 06m |
Kickoff summarizes Bitcoin++ history and logistics — 16th conference, first Vienna economics edition, sponsors include NYDIG, Human Rights Foundation, Stacks… | ||
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