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