Bitcoin 2026 has published a 400-name speaker roster for its upcoming megaconference this month. But despite a history of promoting the industry’s largest annual gathering as exclusively about bitcoin (BTC), many of these speakers have promoted a dubious variety of digital assets.

Protos reviewed the list and found dozens of speakers with documented promotions of non-BTC digital assets, many of which have, unsurprisingly, declined in value disastrously.

Last year, Protos documented a similar pattern at Bitcoin 2025 where attendees learned not only about BTC but also QI, ZEUS, YU, SUI, CORE, FXS, QBTC, TRX, BTT, SUN, JST, USDJ, MAG7, MEME, DEFI, USSI, WBTC, HUSD, USDD, IQ, and others.

This year, altcoin promoters will migrate from expo floor booths to speaking stages where they’ll probably spend most of their time talking about BTC.

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