“ARTivism: Hacking culture to defend privacy”

Bogomil Shopov - Бого; Talk

Decentralization only matters if people use it, but adoption starts with meaning, not code.

This talk starts with art as activism, showing how creative work like the theater project System Err 2052 can turn ideas like privacy and autonomy into something people can feel and relate to. It also connects to cypherpunk culture, where code, art, and resistance have always gone together to protect freedom and challenge control.

It then moves to design and technology, looking at how developers can build privacy tools that people actually want to use. With new research and real examples, it shows that usability is a form of activism, and that protecting user rights is both a technical and a creative task.

“Becoming Unregulatable”

Jedai; Talk

Modern finance runs on a quiet premise: trust the intermediaries, tolerate the friction, and accept that control lives elsewhere. Regulation did not create this structure—it accumulated around it. Each failure added more oversight, more reporting, more surveillance, while the core dependency remained intact.
This talk argues that the model is inverted. The real problem is not insufficient control, but too much hidden discretion embedded in systems the public cannot inspect. When money, identity, and access depend on opaque institutions, outcomes like debanking, censorship, and arbitrary enforcement are not anomalies—they are predictable.
“Becoming unregulatable” is not about evasion or chaos. It is about redesign. Protocol-based systems replace institutional discretion with verifiable rules. They narrow custody, reduce trust assumptions, and make enforcement explicit, mechanical, and auditable. Power shifts from rooms to code.
The session will move from diagnosis to construction:
Where control actually resides in today’s financial stack
Why compliance expansion increases fragility instead of resilience
How protocol design (cryptography, incentives, verification) changes the enforcement surface
What it means, practically, to build systems that do not require permission to function

“Pubky: Identity Without Accounts Using DHT and Public Key Routing”

Severin Bühler; Workshop

In this hands-on workshop we'll build a working application where users authenticate, publish, and own their data using only a cryptographic keypair. No accounts, no platforms, no sign-up forms. Everything runs on Pubky, an open protocol that turns public keys (Ed25519) into routable domain names.

Pubky repurposes the DNS record format and Mainline DHT, the Kademlia-based network behind BitTorrent and the largest, most decentralized network on the planet. Your key becomes your address. PKARR (Public Key Addressable Resource Records) handles publishing and discovery on the DHT, PKDNS makes it compatible with the regular web, and Homeservers store your actual data. If a server goes down or censors you, you update one record and move on.

We'll walk through the full stack: generating keypairs, publishing and resolving PKARR records on live DHT nodes, standing up a Homeserver, and wiring it all into a working app. We'll also address why this architecture is fundamentally more scalable for the decentralized web than the approaches taken by other current protocols.

“Secure your digital legacy”

Michal Altair Valasek; Talk

Congratulations, you are dead and now everything is their problem now. All your secret died with you. All your passwords, passphrases, encryption keys, bitcoin wallets... Or not? In this talk I will show you some strategies you can use to disclose all (or at least some) of those secrets to the ones you left here when you die.

“The End of the Internet - film screening”

Dylan Reibling; Film

A screening of the feature-length documentary THE END OF THE INTERNET.
A film about the invisible operating system of the modern world. From an anarchist squat in Berlin, to a futuristic landscape in Taiwan, to a remote village in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, we encounter a series of figures from the internet decentralization movement. These radicals are confronting internet infrastructure and the unexpected ways it exerts pressure on their way of life. A journey through infrastructure, power, and history with the dissidents trying to hardwire a new path forward.

“Workshop: Self-Hosted Monero Payments: Build a POS Backend + Android client”

ajs-xmr; Workshop

This workshop focuses on a hands-on deployment of a self-hosted Monero payment stack using Monero Merchant (https://moneromerchant.com). Participants will spin up the Dockerized backend, configure environment variables, and connect an Android POS client. By the end of the session, participants will execute an on-chain transaction, demonstrating the full payment flow from QR generation to detection and confirmation.

Participants should arrive with a preconfigured development environment including Docker Compose, Git, Make, and OpenSSL. An Android device is required. For those building the client from source, be sure to have Android Studio installed. A Monero wallet with a small amount of XMR is recommended for testing.