RSAC just made a power move. With Jen Easterly stepping in as CEO, the cybersecurity industry’s front porch gets real leadership, real credibility, and real intent—writes Alan.

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Easterly will be leading the world-renowned cybersecurity conference and other RSAC programs.

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At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Nvidia announced major AI partnerships with Lilly and Thermo Fisher Scientific to accelerate drug discovery and automate laboratory infrastructure globally.

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At the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, Nvidia announced major AI partnerships with Lilly and Thermo Fisher Scientific to accelerate drug discovery and automate laboratory infrastructure globally.

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Jeff Booth, Oliver Velez, and Bitcoin Beach Founder Mike Peterson to Speak at Bitcoin Medellín 2026

The second Edition of the Bitcoin Medellin Conference is coming. The small but high signal conference is set in the City of Eternal Spring, Medellin, a tourism hot spot for the Latin American countries, featuring rich food, landscapes, music, and culture, famous for the charisma and beauty of its people. Medelling also hosts a large international community with a strong entrepreneurship and start-up culture. 

The Bitcoin Medellin conference will take place on January 16- 17, 2026, in Plaza Mayor, a large event conference space near the heart of the city. The conference will feature international grade speakers like Jeff Booth, Venture Capitalist and author of The Price Of Tomorrow, Oliver Velez, Wall Street Veteran, author and educator, Mike Peterson, Founder and Director of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach, Frank Corva, Bitcoin Journalist, among many other Colombian and international Bitcoin entrepreneurs. 

The conference will feature two days of talks on various dimensions of Bitcoin, such as mining, finance, self-custody, investment strategy, and so on. It will feature talks in Spanish and English. 

There are two tiers of tickets, General and Premium, that give attendees access to speeches and the event hall or access to VIP spaces and side events. Both tiers have a massive discount for Colombian residents, encouraging evangelism and attendance from locals, a common model in Latin America.

The VIP Speakers mixer access dinner was a highlight of the conference last year, hosted at a 5-star Argentinian restaurant with an all-star attendance. 

Colombia is an under-appreciated Bitcoin and crypto hub, with a double digit percentage of its imports from China paid in stablecoins a long standing Bitcoin and crypto community that has deep peer to peer and OTC market, if you are shopping for conferences next year, this is one you’ll want to have a look at.

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Bitcoin Is a Relief, Not a Theory: Pakistan’s Case for Crypto Adoption

At the Bitcoin MENA conference, Bilal Bin Saqib, chairman of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, delivered a message that framed bitcoin not as a speculative asset, but as a practical solution to structural economic problems facing millions of people in Pakistan.

One of Bin Saqib’s most striking takeaways was how grounded his argument in lived reality. In Pakistan, bitcoin is less about ideology and more about necessity. 

Bitcoin as a financial relief

As Bin Saqib put it, for many Pakistanis “bitcoin is not theory, it’s a relief,” a response to problems traditional financial systems have failed to solve for decades.

He pointed first to savings. Pakistan’s currency has lost more than half its value over the past five years, eroding purchasing power for ordinary citizens. In that environment, Bin Saqib argued, people are not looking for explanations of monetary theory. They are looking for protection.

Bitcoin, he said, provides a way to store value outside inflation driven by political decisions, money printing and currency mismanagement. “You don’t need a lecture,” he noted. “You need a hedge.”

Access was the second pillar of his case. Despite Pakistan being home to roughly 240 million people, more than 100 million remain unbanked. 

For this population, traditional finance has simply never arrived. Bitcoin, according to Bin Saqib, offers a financial identity without the need for permission, paperwork or intermediaries that may never open the door. 

That permissionless access, he argued, is especially powerful for young people encountering true financial ownership for the first time.

The third pillar was cross-border earnings. Pakistan has one of the largest freelance workforces in the world, yet freelancers often struggle to receive international payments quickly, cheaply and transparently. 

Bitcoin and blockchain-based payment rails enable Pakistani workers to get paid globally without friction, delays or excessive fees. For many, this has meant a direct connection to the global economy for the first time.

Bin Saqib tied these grassroots use cases to a broader national strategy. Pakistan, he said, is not trying to “chase the future” but to build a new one. With roughly 70% of the population under the age of 30, the country cannot rely on outdated economic models. 

Digital assets, and bitcoin in particular, are being viewed as infrastructure rather than speculation—new financial rails for the Global South.

He outlined his mandate since being appointed seven months ago: to transform one of the world’s largest unregulated crypto markets into a compliant, investment-friendly ecosystem. 

Pakistan has already moved to establish a virtual asset regulatory framework, issue provisional licenses for exchanges, and develop regulatory sandboxes for mining, tokenization and fintech.

The goal, Bin Saqib said, is to bring activity onshore rather than push it underground, protecting users without suffocating builders.

Bin Saqib’s discussion of energy 

Energy played a central role in the discussion. Pakistan paradoxically suffers from both power shortages and massive excess capacity, paying for electricity that goes unused. 

Bin Saqib described bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence as tools to convert that “wasted economic oxygen” into productive output. 

Every unused megawatt, he argued, could be turned into bitcoin mining or AI compute, effectively transforming stranded energy into digital exports.

In that framework, bitcoin mining becomes less about consumption and more about industrial renewal. 

Rather than exporting only commodities or labor, Pakistan could export compute—what Bin Saqib called one of the most valuable resources of the 21st century. He framed this not as a narrow energy policy, but as part of a broader industrial rebirth.

Looking ahead, Bin Saqib predicted that the next wave of bitcoin adoption will not be led by Wall Street, but by emerging markets where economic pain is real and the upside is massive. 

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