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Bitcoin 2026 Day 3: Who’s Speaking At The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Event On April 29

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The end of Bitcoin 2026 is nigh, and you definitely don’t want to miss Day 3 of the world’s largest cryptocurrency conference because you got high. Hip-hop legend Afroman is set to light up the premier Nakamoto stage in a very on-brand 4:20 timeslot. While best known for his hazy 2000 hit “Because I Got High,” the star spangled suit-donning rapper has been heralded as a free speech champion in the wake of a years-long battle with Ohio sheriff’s deputies, who raided his home, found nothing, and unsuccessfully sued him after he cut security footage of the raid into viral music videos. Whale (VIP) passholders also have the exclusive opportunity to catch the Freedom of Speech artist’s fireside chat with Tracy Hoyos-Lopez, Head of Strategic Initiatives for crypto trading platform Kraken.

Twitter and Block Inc. (formerly Square) founder Jack Dorsey—one of the most buzzed-about speakers at Bitcoin 2026—will take the Nakamoto stage alongside filmmaker Eugene Jarecki a couple of hours prior to Afroman’s performance to discuss The Six Billion Dollar Man. The lauded documentary on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, which won the first-ever Golden Globe Prize for Documentary, is being distributed exclusively to Bitcoiners. Dorsey’s Block point-of-sale system recently gave merchants the ability to accept Bitcoin without any service fees and, just this week, acquired 114 BTC to bring its corporate treasury holdings to 9,000 BTC (worth about $691 million).

Eric Trump, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of American Bitcoin, hits the Nakamoto stage at noon for a panel titled “From American Hashrate to Wall Street: How Bitcoin Benefits the U.S.,” joined by Calamos Investments President and CEO John Koudounis and moderated by Bloomberg Intelligence Senior ETF Analyst Eric Balchunas. Trump arrives with fresh momentum: American Bitcoin recently completed the deployment of nearly 11,300 new mining rigs at its Drumheller, Alberta site, expanding its fleet to roughly 89,000 ASIC miners.

See the full Bitcoin 2026 Day 3 agenda below:

Bitcoin 2026 Schedule | Wednesday, April 29

10:00–10:30 AM | Strategies for Bitcoin Personal Finance | Nakamoto Stage

10:00–10:30 AM | The Network Effect of Bitcoin Education | Genesis Stage

10:00–10:30 AM | The Corporate Bitcoin Journey: Lessons from Early Allocators | Enterprise Stage

10:00–10:30 AM | Claws and Coffee | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

10:15–10:30 AM | You’re Wrong About L2s: Economic vs Technical Scaling | Open Source Stage

10:15–10:45 AM | Bitcoin’s Return to Its Roots: Why Home Mining is Making a Comeback | Energy Stage

10:30–11:00 AM | Protocol vs Platform: Nostr’s Utility Beyond Social Media | Open Source Stage

10:30–11:00 AM | Battle-Tested Strategies of Holding Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet | Enterprise Stage

10:30–11:00 AM | From HODL to Home: Bitcoin-Backed Loans Meet Mortgages | Nakamoto Stage

10:30–11:30 AM | Isabella Santos and Friends | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

10:30–11:00 AM | Making Bitcoin Babies: Sovereignty Starts in the Womb | Genesis Stage

10:45–11:30 AM | Workshop: Solo Miners | Workshop & 101 Area

10:45–11:00 AM | Hashrate is Not What You Think It Is | Energy Stage

11:00–11:15 AM | The Bitcoin Developer Ecosystem | Open Source Stage

11:00–11:30 AM | Zoomer to Boomer: Why Each Generation Needs Bitcoin | Genesis Stage

11:00–11:15 AM | The Trillion-Dollar Bridge: How Bond Markets Will Fuel the Bitcoin Credit Revolution | Nakamoto Stage

11:00–11:30 AM | Building Bitcoin Wealth Through Trusts, Insurance & Inheritance | Enterprise Stage

11:00–11:30 AM | Developing Data Centers from the Ground Up | Energy Stage

11:15–11:50 AM | Spark & Ark: The Next Generation of Layer Two | Open Source Stage

11:15–11:25 AM | Keynote: Steak ‘n Shake | Nakamoto Stage

11:25–11:40 AM | Keynote: Bitmain | Nakamoto Stage

11:30 AM–12:10 PM | Allocating Scarce Assets: Energy, Compute, & Bitcoin | Energy Stage

11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Teaching Private Credit: How to Value Bitcoin Companies | Enterprise Stage

11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Bitcoin: Did It Change You, or Did You Find It at the Right Time? | The Deep VIP Lounge

11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Why You Need to Start a Podcast | Genesis Stage

11:30 AM–12:00 PM | Protecting Free Speech with Nostr | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

11:40 AM–12:00 PM | Through the Eyes of a Cypherpunk Legend: Hyperbitcoinization = HyperAmericanization | Nakamoto Stage

11:50 AM–12:30 PM | An Explanation of Post-Quantum Signature Schemes | Open Source Stage

12:00–12:45 PM | Spaces Protocol: Sovereign Bitcoin Identity | Workshop & 101 Area

12:00–12:30 PM | Documenting the Rise of Bitcoin Through Filmmaking | Genesis Stage

12:00–12:30 PM | Corporate Bitcoin in Europe: Regulation, Challenges & Opportunities | Enterprise Stage

12:00–12:30 PM | From American Hashrate to Wall Street: How Bitcoin Benefits the U.S. | Nakamoto Stage

12:00–12:30 PM | Activism in the Age of AI | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

12:10–12:30 PM | The Game Theory Behind Miner Centralization | Energy Stage

12:30–1:00 PM | How Real is the Quantum Threat? | Nakamoto Stage

12:30–1:00 PM | Squeezing Profit from the Margins: Uncovering Stranded Sats in Mining Operations | Energy Stage

12:30–1:00 PM | Stack Champs: East Meets West | The Deep VIP Lounge

12:30–1:30 PM | Hands-On Bitcoin Transactions | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

12:30–1:00 PM | Is More Bitcoin Per Share “True” Yield? | Enterprise Stage

12:45–1:15 PM | ZEUS Wallet Onboarding Workshop | Workshop & 101 Area

1:00–1:20 PM | Finding Signal in a Noisy World | Nakamoto Stage

1:15–2:00 PM | Vibe Coding a Bitcoin Wallet | Workshop & 101 Area

1:20–1:40 PM | The Future of Capital Allocation Is Bitcoin | Nakamoto Stage

1:30–2:00 PM | The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

1:40–2:00 PM | Creating Bitcoin’s Technical & Financial Infrastructure for Maximum Adoption | Nakamoto Stage

2:00–2:30 PM | Bitcoin Meets Conscious Living in Costa Rica | Genesis Stage

2:00–2:15 PM | The History & Roadmap of Bitcoinkernel | Open Source Stage

2:00–2:20 PM | Bitcoin as the Architecture of Time | Nakamoto Stage

2:00–2:30 PM | Decentralizing Bitcoin: The Solo Mining Movement | HRF Freedom Go Up Stage

2:15–2:30 PM | Announcement: LDK-Server Release | Open Source Stage

2:20–2:50 PM | What’s the Price of Freedom? Ask “The Six Billion Dollar Man” | Nakamoto Stage

2:30–3:00 PM | Secure & Secret: Advancing Bitcoin Privacy as the Default | Open Source Stage

2:30–3:00 PM | Have Public Markets Been a Net Positive for Bitcoin? | Enterprise Stage

2:30–3:00 PM | Breaking Out of the Fiat Music Industry | Genesis Stage

2:30–3:15 PM | Workshop: Building on Consensus with Bitcoinkernel | Workshop & 101 Area

2:30–3:00 PM | Key Things to Look for in Mining Services | Energy Stage

2:30–3:00 PM | Quantized Time: Physics Through the Bitcoin Lens | The Deep VIP Lounge

2:50–3:20 PM | Agentic Investing: Does AI Make Better Bitcoin Investors Than Humans? | Nakamoto Stage

3:00–3:30 PM | Looking at Bitcoin Art Through a Protest Lens | Genesis Stage

3:00–3:30 PM | Waste Not, Want Not: Using Stranded Energy for Mining + HPC | Energy Stage

3:00–3:30 PM | Elevating the User Experience of Self-Custody | Open Source Stage

3:00–3:30 PM | Incentives & Illusions in Prediction Markets | Enterprise Stage

3:20–3:50 PM | Modular by Design: Building Everything on Bitcoin | Nakamoto Stage

3:30–4:00 PM | OPSEC in Practice: Bitcoin vs. the Surveillance State | Genesis Stage

3:30–4:00 PM | Heating Entrepreneurs: Productizing Waste Heat | Energy Stage

3:30–4:00 PM | Preparing to Take a Bitcoin Company Public | Enterprise Stage

3:30–4:00 PM | Upgrading Wallets for Users from Now to 2140 | Open Source Stage

3:30—4:00 PM | Fireside Chat: Afroman | The Deep VIP Lounge

3:50–4:20 PM | Keynote: Jack Mallers | Nakamoto Stage

4:00–4:15 PM | Bitcoin PIPEs v2: Covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin via Witness Encryption | Open Source Stage

4:00–4:30 PM | AI + Bitcoin + Nostr = Freedom Tech Stack | Genesis Stage

4:00–4:30 PM | Self-Custody Insurance: Protecting Your Bitcoin Without Giving It Up | Enterprise Stage

4:00–4:30 PM | Comparing Lottery Mining & Pool Economics for Hashers | Energy Stage

4:15–5:00 PM | What’s the Plan for a Post-Quantum Soft-Fork? | Open Source Stage

4:20–4:40 PM | Afroman Performance | Nakamoto Stage

4:30–5:00 PM | Fix the Money, Fix the Food, Fix the World | Genesis Stage

4:30–5:00 PM | Is This the Bitcoin Supercycle or Is the Four-Year Pattern Still Intact? | Enterprise Stage

4:30–5:00 PM | Lord of the Rigs: The Future of Mining Hardware | Energy Stage

4:40–5:00 PM | Satoshi Speedway Tournament Finals | Nakamoto Stage

5:00–5:30 PM | The Bitcoin Longevity Playbook: Health, Strength, & Vitality | Genesis Stage

5:00–5:30 PM | Why Venture Capital is Broken & How Bitcoin is the Reset | Enterprise Stage

5:00–5:30 PM | What Does Bitcoin Look Like in an Agentic World? | Nakamoto Stage

5:00–5:30 PM | Covenants Are Dead, Quantum is Fake & BIP110 Was Vibe-Coded | Open Source Stage

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