The ETC Cooperative and Litecoin Foundation have joined forces to bring the Proof-of-Work Summit 2024 to life in Frankfurt am Main, from 27-29th September.

The POW Summit aims to reinvigorate and encapsulate the spirit and ethos of cypherpunks – the instigators of the blockchain revolution.

Through this lens, the Summit is bringing together the world’s top innovators, thought-leaders and decision-makers, on subjects like ‘advancements in mining’ to ‘changes in public policy’, and everything in between.

This year’s topic is the “Bitcoin Renaissance.” The broad set of use cases becoming available on Bitcoin’s base layer and a stunning array of Layer Two projects are an exhilarating validation of POW. Join us in exploring the cypherpunk fundamentals and value propositions of the major POW chains in four thematic streams:

Proof of Scale
Join industry veterans and newcomers in discussing competing solutions for technical and economic tradeoffs in the hottest sector of development and capital investment.

Proof of Utility
Learn about the emerging protocols and diverse use cases competing for scarce block space on the base layer and L2s.

Proof of Sustainability
Discover innovative miner strategies for environmentally sustainable solutions driving technology forward in the face of hostile governments and regulators.

Proof of Human Rights
Recent prosecutorial and legislative actions in the US and Europe have made the credo “Cypherpunks write code” to secure privacy, fungibility, and autonomy more important than ever.

Speakers include:

Phil Zimmerman, Creator, Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Charlie Lee, Creator of Litecoin
Jameson Lopp, CTO, Casa, Professional Cypherpunk
Bob Summerwill, Executive Director, ETC Cooperative
Sergio Demian Lerner, Chief of Innovation, RootstockLabs
Dennis Porter, CEO and Co-Founder, Satoshi Action Fund
Daniel Batten, ClimateTech investor
Jullian Duran, Product Lead for Sidechains at MARA
Michael Parenti, Cryptorealist & Ecosystem Integrator, Parallelní Polis
Tor Ekeland, Trial & Appellate Lawyer
Vlad Costea, Founder, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
Magdalena Gronowska, Advisor, PRTI
Alan Austin, Managing Director, Litecoin Foundation
Donald McIntyre, Senior Editor, ETC Cooperative
Preston Byrne, Partner, Brown Rudnick LLP
David Schwartz, Strategic Partnerships Director, Litecoin Foundation