MIT Bitcoin Expo 2026
as the organisers put it
The premier Bitcoin conference and hackathon in Boston. April 11-12, 2026 at MIT Campus. Talks, workshops, and a 36-hour hackathon.
who it's for
bitcoin protocol developers, wallet engineers, layer 2 developers, cryptographers, custody and security engineers, privacy researchers, humanitarian and financial inclusion technologists
topics
Taproot virtual UTXOs (VTXOs); Ark round transactions and intents; virtual mempool and batch-once outputs; payjoin wallet fingerprinting and NS1R; post-quantum mitigations and BIP 360; pay-to-Merkle-root (P2MR) leaves; threshold Schnorr and Iceberg/FROST designs; Bitcoin-backed Liquity-style stablecoin; Bitcoin ZK rollup bridge design; BitVM BiNoHash kickoff proofs; decentralized shared sequencer (staking with burn punishments); off-chain Arcade Script programmability and connectors
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Bitcoin Self-Custody Without Explaining Lightning Liquidity to Anyone | Matthew Vuk | 13m |
Ark implements round transactions with a Taproot tree that issues virtual UTXOs tied by a cryptographic genesis chain to real blocks, letting users hold… | ||
| This Researcher Has a Plan to Put Privacy in Every Bitcoin Wallet | Armin Sabouri | 15m |
Demonstrates that wallet fingerprints let chain analysis decompose payjoin transactions and recover payment amounts (three real transactions tested), and… | ||
| 80% of Bitcoin is Quantum Vulnerable - How to Stop the Q-Day Threat | Ethan Heilman | 24m |
Claim: 80% of Bitcoin is exposed to quantum theft if public keys are revealed; recent Google research makes the attack about 20x easier by changing algorithmic… | ||
| The Bitcoin-Backed Stablecoin That Ditches US Treasuries | David Seroy | 16m |
Claims a Bitcoin-backed stablecoin built on Liquity principles plus a Bitcoin ZK rollup that avoids US Treasury backing. Uses Bitcoin as collateral with up to… | ||
| Inside Iceberg: The (Secret) Leap Forward in Bitcoin's Cryptography | Nadav Kohen | 15m |
Claims a formal proof that nested MuSig is secure, describes moving from that proof toward FROST-style threshold signatures, and introduces an upcoming scheme… | ||
| Bitchat Explained: How to Send Messages when the Internet Goes Down | Frank Corva | 15m |
Cashu has production mints and libraries that wallets are already shipping, e.g. Zeus wallet integration, letting communities run lightweight mints and users… | ||
| How Arklabs is Bringing Full Programmability to Bitcoin - Inside "Arkade" | Andrew Camilleri | 14m |
A general-purpose off-chain system that batches many users into a single on-chain transaction with one output (a batch) and issues VTXOs and a virtual mempool… | ||
| Char: The Infrastructure Bet Underneath Every Bitcoin L2 | Jeremy Rubin | 20m |
A decentralized shared sequencer for Bitcoin Layer 2s that replaces a single trusted operator with open participants, using a Bitcoin-anchored proof-of-stake… | ||
| How Afghan Women Found Freedom in Bitcoin | Roya Mahboob | 18m |
Argues Bitcoin functions as survival infrastructure where banks and regimes freeze assets after overnight changes, citing 56% of the world living fragile… | ||
| The Bitcoin Virtual Machine Breakthrough Nobody Saw Coming | Robin Linus | 24m |
A proposal called BiNoHash lets a BitVM bridge verify a single Bitcoin transaction without proving the whole chain by staging a special kickoff output and… | ||
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