Bitcoin Amsterdam puts self-custody and institutional finance on the same agenda
The November 6 programme at SugarFactory paired Jack Mallers with custody specialists, Bitcoin Core contributors and institutional investors.
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Bitcoin Amsterdam's November 6 programme brought two different approaches to bitcoin onto the same schedule: individuals taking control of their own coins and institutions building investment businesses around them. The organizers' agenda placed custody, software development and treasury strategy alongside a headline appearance by Strike founder Jack Mallers.
The event was scheduled for November 5–6, 2026, at SugarFactory in Amsterdam. With those dates now past, the published listings provide a record of what organizers planned. They do not, on their own, establish what every speaker ultimately said or whether every session proceeded as scheduled.
Mallers anchors the finance programme
Mallers's keynote was listed for 16:15–16:45 CET on the Treasury Stage. The official session page identified him as Strike's founder and chief executive. It also listed a separate conversation with Robert Breedlove at 13:00 on The Deep, with Whale Pass access required.
The distinction between stages and access levels matters for understanding the programme. A headline speaker appearing in more than one listing does not mean each appearance was available under the same ticket conditions.
Institutional investment featured elsewhere on the Treasury Stage. The organizers announced a panel involving Strive Chief Investment Officer Ben Werkman and StoneX Digital International's Cormac Dinan, moderated by TD Cowen's Lance Vitanza. That placed corporate and professional investment questions beside the event's payments discussion.
Custody and software share the platform
A midday self-custody panel was scheduled with Francesco Madonna of BitVault, Douglas Bakkum of BitBox and Moti Joseph of Wesatoshis Labs. Its inclusion emphasized a practical issue for individual users: who controls the keys needed to move bitcoin.
The technical programme also listed a Bitcoin Core 32 session with Sjors Provoost and Aaron van Wirdum on the Proof-of-Work Stage. Taken together, the listings showed an event addressing the software and security practices beneath bitcoin's financial applications, as well as the businesses built around them.
That combination is relevant because custody arrangements and investment access answer different needs. A discussion of an institutional product does not resolve how an individual stores keys, and a custody workshop does not establish the terms of a professional investment service.
A programme rather than a transcript
The available material is the organizers' schedule and announcement. It supports the dates, named participants and planned topics, while leaving the substance of completed discussions to recordings, transcripts or later participant accounts.
The agenda nevertheless captures the event's chosen emphasis: payments, independent control of assets and institutional participation were presented as parallel parts of the bitcoin economy. Any assessment of the ideas discussed needs to follow the evidence of the sessions themselves rather than assume conclusions from the speaker list.
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