The Transylvania Crypto Conference 2019 is the first major crypto event organized in Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of the Transylvanian region, in west Romania. The city, also known as the European Youth Capital of 2015, is a big technology hub, deemed by some “the silicon valley of eastern Europe”. It hosts thousands of startups, several ICOs and has a rapidly growing curiosity towards Blockchain technologies.
According to the organizers, their vision is to educate people: bring them together and contribute to the already established “Smart City” status, by hosting this event, offering a variety of speakers, technical engineers, bitcoin professionals, cyber security professionals and business owners who give their perspectives on bitcoin and other blockchain technologies.
Speakers include:
- Giacommo Zucco, Bitcoin toximalist. Road minimalist. Free Speech advocate. CEO of BlockchainLabit
- Peter Todd, Applied Cryptography Consultant
- Tone Vays, Content Creator, Derivatives Trader & Consultant
- Adam Back, CEO at Blockstream
- Pierre Rochard, Founder of BitcoinAdvisory.com
- Hartej Sawhney, Co-Founder, Hosho
- Theo Goodman, Chief of Memetics @proofofwork Blog
- Nopara73, Wasabi Wallet, CTO of zkSNACKS
- Thomas ‘Madbitcoins’ Hunt, Creator of the MadBitcoins show
- Max Hillebrand, Open Source Entrepreneur
- John Carvalho, CCO at Bitrefill
- Olga Ukolova, Co-Founder at Pandora Core
- Pavol Luptak, Parallelni Polis