Dark Prague 2026: Where Control Gets Taken Apart
Gavin Wood, Harry Halpin, Amir Taaki, and a cryptoanarchist hacker walk into a 120-year-old sewage plant. Prague is about to host the most dangerous three days in crypto.
This is the kind of gathering that makes surveillance states nervous. Dark Prague returns October 2-4, and it’s not interested in your panel-discussion version of “decentralization.” This is the successor to the iconic Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis, rebuilt from the ground up around one question: how is control built, maintained, and resisted, and what happens when you take it apart to find out?
Technology is terrain here. Biology is leverage. Networks carry power, and for three days, the people who understand exactly how are going to say so out loud.
The venue as part of the argument
Old Wastewater Treatment Plant, Dark Prague’s new home, is the last fully preserved first-generation wastewater treatment facility on Earth, built in 1906. Art Nouveau industrial architecture, original machinery still intact, sitting on the UNESCO Tentative List. A place engineered to process waste, now hosting a conference engineered to process power.
Who’s actually going to be there
This isn’t a lineup of keynote-circuit regulars reading from slides. It’s a room full of the people building the tools and writing the code that cryptoanarchists, privacy engineers, and financial sovereignty researchers actually use:
Gavin Wood (Co-Founder, Parity), Amir Taaki (Cryptography, DarkFi), Rachel-Rose O’Leary (Core Developer, DarkFi), Aral Balkan (Small Technology Foundation), Nadim Kobeissi (Applied Cryptographer, Symbolic Software / Cure53), Harry Halpin (CEO, NYM), Jarrad Hope (Co-Founder, Logos), Max Hillebrand, Pavol Luptak, Juraj Bednar, and a roster of builders, breakers, and researchers who don’t usually share a stage: AJS (you may know him from earlier editions of MoneroKon), Bogomil Shopov, Darko, Dave Stann, Dylan Reibling, Elsirion, exiledsurfer, hbs, Jedai, and ketominer, among others.
Bitcoin. Cryptography. Monero. Fedimint. Financial sovereignty. Cryptoanarchism as a working philosophy, not a Twitter bio. It’s all in the same building, for three days.
Then the lights go down and the volume goes up
After 12+ hours of talks, workshops, and debates across three stages, Dark Prague switches frequencies. HIGH LIGHTS is the official Saturday night rave, a curated DJ lineup inside the same industrial machinery you spent the day sitting under. One more reason not to sleep.
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Dark Prague isn’t asking you to admire how control systems work. It’s asking you to learn how they can be rerouted, altered, or walked away from entirely. Thinkers, builders, and breakers, operating without permission, in a building that was already resisting demolition before any of them showed up.
🌒 That’s all for today!
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