Dark Prague 2025 is a three-day international conference on decentralized futures & the anatomy of control, taking place on October 3-5 at Second Culture.
Technology is the battlefield. Biology is the frontier. Networks are the lifeblood. This is where we examine systems to dismantle them, fork them, or remake them.
In the flicker between freedom and control, shadows move. They are thinkers, builders, breakers, not invited, not waiting.
This is not a conference. This is a signal — low-res, high-risk, peer-to-peer.
The first of many to start the next chapter, a successor to the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis core, now fed by the roots of life, the edge of science, and the code of exile.
Speakers include:
- Gavin Wood, Ethereum co-founder & Polkadot creator
- ThatOnePrivacyGirl, privacy researcher & investigative journalist
- Cody Wilson, gun rights activist & cryptoanarchist
- Amir Taaki, DarkFi cryptography
- Joao Pedro Magalhaes, longevity scientist & genome researcher
- Ann Brody, DAO & political futures researcher
- Rachel-Rose O’Leary, DarkFi core dev & writer
- Maxim Orlovsky, cypherpunk, posthumanist, computer & neuro-scientist
- Zoe Cormier, author, journalist & science writer
- Pavol Lupták, global opportunist, cryptoanarchist & hacker
- Jarrad Hope, co-founder of Status.im and Logos
- Frank Braun, cryptoanarchist & cypherpunk
- Elsirion, cryptoanarchist & aspiring cypherpunk
- Olga Ukolova, CEO & founder of Pandora Prime
- Juraj Bednar, educator, author, coder & cryptoanarchist
- Harry Halpin, CEO of NYM
- Tomasz Mentzen, libertarian economist & Bitomat founder
- Ryan Lackey, cypherpunk & security entrepreneur
- Bill Laboon, VP of ecosystems at Web3 Foundation & author
- Pavel Kubu, researcher & developer of New Care Methods
- Elena Grozdanovska, Ethereum network states researcher
- Ray Youssef, CEO at Noones App & Pro Human Monotheist
- Darko, advocate of sovereignty & privacy-preserving tools
- Ferenc Kovacs, Bitcoiner, hotelier & concrete boss
- Shirly Valge, blockchain strategist & privacy advocate
- Polto, Bitcoin advocate & open-source enthusiast
- Robin Thatcher, Bitcoiner, accountant & crypto tax specialist
- Shadowshield, software dev & surveillance expert
- Tomas Studenik, radical innovator, founder, author & investor
- Jan, software engineer & Dash veteran
- Kris, open-source & privacy advocate
- J. Gdanski, privacy, security & risk-management expert
- Tomas S, freedom maximalist building parallel universes
- Silke Noa, activist lawyer, researcher & mathematician
- Karo Zagorus, Bitcoiner & privacy advocate
- Eshel, apprentice cypherpunk & FHE builder
- Casey Carr, Prague-based writer & builder of resilient tech
- Grace Rachmany, blockchain governance & systems change strategist
- Michal Kodnar, yogi, nomad & biohacker
- Rene Malmgren, security researcher & developer
- Josh Datko, poet, artist & hardware hacker
- Bob Summerwill, crypto veteran
- ketominer, full-stack builder & cryptoanarchist
- Bogomil Shapov, human, artist, hacker, F/LOSS & tech advocate
- exiledsurfer, open resourcerer
- Dave Stann, crypto-anarchist & privacy maximalist
- Naomiii, writer, marketer & web3 enthusiast
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