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In recent years, privacy and freedom have come under attack. State surveillance has intensified, financial regulations have tightened, and the anonymity of transactions has been increasingly scrutinized. Yet, in the face of these challenges, our resolve remains unbroken.
HARDCORE signifies our uncompromising commitment to defending individual autonomy against all forms of control. We reject the chains of coercion and embrace decentralization, anonymity, and cryptographic freedom.
As pioneers of a new order, we stand at the forefront of technological innovation, driving progress for a free society. The old world is crumbling, and from its chaos, we will forge a future built on freedom and innovation.
HARDCORE means challenging control, forging new paths, and continuing the fight for our rights. Let us stand united, firm and unwavering, as we rise together, guided by the indomitable spirit of freedom into the future.
This is our moment.
For the very last time, welcome to the Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis!
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Andryi Khavr
Survived
- Chernobyl 1986 explosion
- USSR empire 1991 collapse
- 1992-1996 Ukrainian hyperinflation
- 2000 dot-com crash
- 2004 Maidan
- 2007-2008 GFC
- 2013-2014 Maidan when Russia occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine
- 8 years (2014-2022) of “non-war” in Ukraine
- 3 bitcoin halvings
- 2022.02.24 having my family woken up by explosions in Boryspil airport ~15km from my house
- Mar 2022 Russian assault troops being just 5km from my house with all my family
- 1998-till today – building the first completely distributed software development company
Know the failure mode of governance structure by heart.
Praciticing freedom over life over property for 20+ years.
Bogomil Бого Shapov
Human. Artist. Hacker. I care about free and open-source software(F/LOSS), cybersecurity, ethical design, privacy, and technology. 20+ experience in technology. 40+ in being human. I encourage people to become better humans with heavy metal and technologies. I also promote technologies to be considerate of humans. Let’s see how it goes!
Charlie Shrem
Pioneering Bitcoin advocate and entrepreneur. Co-founded BitInstant and was a founding member of the Bitcoin Foundation. After facing legal challenges, he rebounded as a key figure in the crypto world, founding CryptoIQ and hosting “The Charlie Shrem Show.” Executive producer of several films, and continues to drive innovation in the cryptocurrency space.
Matthias Tarasiewicz
Matthias Tarasiewicz is a developer, consultant, research designer and project coordinator. He is an enthusiast for immutable and unstoppable code and an Open Source evangelist. Focus areas: Open Source Hardware, Web3, privacy and decentralization. Director of the RIAT Institute and CSO of RIAT Labs.
Jaromil
Jaromil is a purpose-driven software artisan and hacktivist. Author of the forkbomb virus, dubbed as the most elegant computer code ever written, he is an expert in the politics of technology and doctor in philosophy. Jaromil is the founder of Dyne.org and has a long history in developing and disseminating digital tools for freedom of speech and privacy. For more Info and publications see jaromil.dyne.org
Maxim Orlovsky
Maxim is a transhumanist and cypherpunk performing scientific, engineering, and business activities.
His primary focus is building foundations for the future – foundations, which will unlock the full potential of individuals, enabling self-sovereignty, privacy, and censorship-resistance. This is the future of vertical progress and humanity’s evolution into forms much outside of what current collectivistic society can propose or allow.
Rachel-Rose O’Leary
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a core dev at lunarpunk layer 1, DarkFi. She is also co-editor of the philosophy journal Agorism in the 21st Century. As a writer, she has published in egirlcapital, CoinDesk, Defiant, Wired, and elsewhere under anonymous accounts. She believes privacy is necessary for communities to define their own destinies.
J. Gdanski
J. Gdanski is the Founder and CEO of Evertas, where he has led Evertas’s technical development and underwriting, as well as secured multiple fund rounds from top investors; he is a security, privacy, and risk expert.
Prior to launching Evertas, he was a leader in the enterprise blockchain space and was one of the first to work on institutional custody for crypto. In this capacity, he served as an early, significant contributor to blockchain consortia including R3 and Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, of which he was a founding member. He was an integral part of the first enterprise blockchain RFP and has worked on numerous blockchain-based systems.
ThatOnePrivacyGirl
J9 / ThatOnePrivacyGirl is a privacy researcher, independent investigative journalist, and educator on topics of informational self-determination and (counter)surveillance. She is the author of ‘This Month In Bitcoin Privacy’ (TMIBP) newsletter, and a board member of Open Sats. During 2023, she was part of the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) CBDC Tracker fellowship.
exiledsurfer
As a contributor to the archaic Bitcoin Foundation, exiledsurfer has been a community builder in the ecosystem for quite some time. He is a privacy, transparency & decentralization CryptoRealist, and co-founder of Parallele Polis in Vienna.
Jarrad Hope
Jarrad came to Bitcoin in early 2011 through agorism, counter-economics & crypto-anarchy, seeing that Bitcoin could operate a monetary policy in a hostile environment, he began to view public blockchains as a voluntary social order, one that didn’t depend on a monopoly of violence. From there he participated in early attempts to generalise the bitcoin script to advance institutional libertarianism, ultimately becoming an early contributor to Ethereum. While Jarrad advances privacy technologies through developing an e2e and p2p private messaging client & super app, Status, he realised that privacy technologies are not enough and now is advocating for self-sovereign crypto-networks, the realisation of a latent cypherpunk dream, the crypto-state.
Paul Rosenberg
Paul Rosenberg is the author of the Free-Man’s Perspective newsletter and the co-founder of Cryptohippie. He is also the author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Production Versus Plunder, and The Breaking Dawn. He is a co-author of The New Age of Intelligence.
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Paul J. Dylan-Ennis
Paul is a researcher whose interests lie in cryptocurrencies, particularly Bitcoin and Ethereum, with a growing focus on the latter. He believes that cryptocurrencies are best understood as cultural expressions with associated micro-economies, and his research focuses on the creativity of cryptocultures.
Paul’s research is primarily qualitative in orientation, and he draws on the theories of social imaginaries proposed by Taylor and the commons put forward by Ostrom. He is particularly interested in how these concepts manifest within the polycentric forms of governance described by Polanyi, which are characteristic of cryptocurrency cultures.
Travin Keith
Travin Keith is a former digital nomad, who was once the northernmost one while living in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. He has traveled to 45 countries and has lived in 8 of them, mostly while using one of the world’s weakest passport. On top of that, most of his movement around the world was not fully by choice, but rather driven by the need to find a new home. Now, he is involved with multiple businesses around the world with a growing interest in the food industry.
Ryan Lackey
Ryan discovered the cypherpunks mailing list as a young teenager in the early 1990s, telephoned NSA to order the NCSC Rainbow Series of books, and became a true believer in cryptoanarchy and the power of cryptography to stand up to nation-states and other oppressors. He’s worked on projects and companies involving Chaumian digital cash systems, offshore data havens in the North Sea, seasteading, uncensorable hosting technologies, remote attestation-based tamperproof cloud computing, and now cryptocurrency insurance infrastructure. He is currently the Chief Security Officer of Evertas Insurance and lives in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Juraj Bednar
Juraj is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Progressbar, Paralelná Polis, and Hacktrophy. He wrote several books, his latest one being “Cryptocurrencies – hack your way to a better life”. He creates online courses and content about privacy, crypto, and entrepreneurship.
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Pavol Luptak
Pavol is a cryptoanarchist & voluntaryists focused on technology and society hacking. IT security guy, founder of IT security hacking companies (Nethemba, Hacktrophy) & contemporary art (Satori). Co-founder of Bratislava’s and Prague’s hackerspaces (Progressbar & PP). Member of Czech contemporary anti-government artistic group Ztohoven. Responsible for many anti-government & digital privacy projects.
Amin Rafiee
Founder of the world’s first Decentralized Autonomous University: Bittopia University. An advocate for decentralization, P2P economies, privacy, and bottom-up strategies. Specialized in product development & innovation pathways. Over 10 years of experience as a product engineer and designer. Netexplo UNESCO Grand Prix award winner, Amin Rafiee, a regular speaker at Bitcoin and decentralization conferences throughout Europe, including The UNESCO House in Paris, The European Commission in Brussels, The Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Paralelni Polis in Prague, as well as other locations throughout America and Australia.a
Amir Taaki
As part of the forming Bitcoin community, Amir became an early Bitcoin developer, author of the BIP process, and the Libbitcoin implementation. With contributions to many free and open-source projects, he collaborated with Cody Wilson on launching Darkwallet and laid the foundations for OpenBazaar. Later, he spent nearly 2 years in the Rojava revolution, first for nearly 4 months fighting in the YPG and then working for the administration on economic projects. Today, Amir is focused on the DarkFi project, a network bringing anonymity to decentralized finance, and is still working towards building an agonistic revolutionary hacker movement.
Mitch Altman
Mitch is a Berlin-based hacker and inventor, best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, as a featured speaker at hacker conferences, as an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and for teaching introductory electronics workshops. He is the founder of San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge and also the Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.
VENUE & ORGANIZER
Paralelní Polis
Paralelní Polis is a one-of-a-kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, innovative thinking, and the development of society are the main underlying foundations of the project.
The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government, and most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique coworking space and the world’s first bitcoin-only cafe.
It was founded by members of a contemporary-art group Ztohoven, and Slovak and Czech hackerspaces. Its main goal is to promote economic, social, and digital freedom. We try to be a vocal voice of liberty in order to shape the public discourse and ultimately work towards a freer future.
PREVIOUS YEARS
HCPP is the flagship event of Paralelní Polis, which has been regularly attended by over 500 fans and IT experts from all over the world. HCPP is held annually in Prague on the first weekend of October.
Since 2014, our crew has brought to you a number of unforgettable events, like: