August 19, 2025

By Joe Pan

When the world’s biggest Bitcoin believers gather, it’s never just about blocks and chains. It’s about signal rising above the noise—a theme that takes center stage at BitcoinAsia 2025, returning August 28–29 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

This year’s conference, organized by Bitcoin Magazine and BTC Inc., has no shortage of fireworks. The headline announcement: Eric Trump, Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization and son of U.S. President Donald Trump, will deliver the keynote address. With Trump Sr. himself headlining the mainline Nashville conference last year, political threads at Bitcoin gatherings are now undeniably part of the story.

But the real richness lives in the programming: a two-day deep dive spanning technology, policy, adoption, and cross-border perspectives.

For the technically inclined, sessions like “Can Bitcoin Succeed Without Another Soft Fork?” and “Analyzing the History of Node Implementations” promise lively debates among developers and protocol veterans. Meanwhile, panels such as “What Features Does Bitcoin Need for Global Adoption?” and “Historical Lessons With Bitcoin Native Assets & How We Can Move Forward” invite both pragmatists and purists to weigh in on the path ahead.

Asia’s role in crypto innovation gets special attention with “Where Do Stablecoins Fit in Asia’s Financial Future?” And in a highlight much anticipated by policy watchers, a Taiwan delegation of scholars, lawyers, and industry leaders will take the stage for “Taiwan’s Approach to Bitcoin Policy & Regulation.” Expected speakers include Sherman Lin of Lin and Partners, Professor Lin Meng-Shiang of Ming Chuan University and the Consumers’ Foundation , and Jeff Wen, co-founder of Hayek Technology.

Also, corporate treasurers and finance chiefs may find inspiration in “Why Bitcoin is the Only Digital Asset That Works for Corporate Treasuries.”

With a mix of technical rigor, policy sparring, and headline-grabbing names, BitcoinAsia 2025 looks set to be both a developer’s lab and a geopolitical stage—Hong Kong’s own proof-of-work.

For program and speaker details, check out  https://asia.b.tc/. Blockwind News is a media partner of BitconAsia.

About the author

Joe Pan is an editor and producer at Blockwind News.  An early adopter of blockchain technology, he has covered major crypto conferences globally since 2019 and moderated Web3 events across Asia. Joe is part of the founding team of Blockwind News and teaches Asia’s only accredited Master of Journalism course on “Covering Cryptocurrency and Blockchain” at Hong Kong Baptist University.