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Schedule

8:30 – 9:00AM REGISTRATION

9:00 – 9:10AM WELCOME

George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

9:10 – 9:30AM CRYPTOCURRENCY & PUBLIC POLICY: WHERE THINGS STAND

Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center

9:30 – 10:30AM PANEL I—THE CONSUMER PROTECTION CHALLENGE

Margaret Liu, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Marco A. Santori, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop and Global Policy Counsel, Blockchain
Melanie Shapiro, PhD, CEO, Case
Dana Syracuse, Counsel, BuckleySandler, LLP, and former Associate General Counsel, New York Department of Financial Services

Moderated by Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research, Coin Center

10:30 – 10:50AM BREAK

10:50 – 11:30AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

11:30AM – 12:30PM PANEL II—THE FINANCIAL SERVICES CHALLENGE:
PERMISSIONED AND PERMISSIONLESS BLOCKCHAINS

Paul L. Chou, CEO, LedgerX
Jacob Farber, General Counsel, R3CEV
Joseph Lubin, Founder, ConsenSys and Co-founder, Ethereum Project
Ryan Zagone, Director, Regulatory Relations, Ripple

Moderated by Marc Hochstein, Editor in Chief, American Banker

12:30 – 1:20PM LUNCH

1:20 – 2:00PM LUNCHEON ADDRESS

Patrick Byrne, Founder and CEO, Overstock.com and Founder, tØ

2:00 – 3:00PM PANEL III—THE MONETARY CHALLENGE

Perianne M. Boring, Founder and President, Chamber of Digital Commerce
Eli Dourado, Research Fellow and Director, Technology Policy Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
William J. Luther, Assistant Professor of Economics, Kenyon College and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute

Moderated by George Selgin, Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

3:00 – 3:20PM BREAK

3:20 – 4:20PM PANEL IV—THE 4TH AMENDMENT CHALLENGE:
FINANCIAL PRIVACY & FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Andrea Castillo, Program Manager, Technology Policy Program, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Jim Harper, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Eric Lorber, Senior Associate, Financial Integrity Network
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Founder and CEO, Zcash

Moderated by Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center

4:20 – 5:00PM CLOSING ADDRESS

Hon. Mick Mulvaney, Vice Chairman, Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade, U.S. House of Representatives

5:00 – 6:00PM RECEPTION

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Report by dinbits staff

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