Nordic Blockchain Conference comes to Stockholm
The seventh edition of the Nordic Blockchain Conference (NBC) is coming to Stockholm on 18-19 June 2025.
Stockholm, April 14, 2025 – The 7th edition of the Nordic Blockchain Conference (NBC) is set to take place on June 18–19, 2025, at the Epicenter in Stockholm, Sweden. Organized by the not-for-profit organisation, The Nordic Blockchain Association (NBA), the event may be the largest blockchain and Web3 gathering in the Nordic region, attracting over 1,000 delegates and featuring more than 100 industry-leading speakers.
The timing of the Nordic Blockchain Conference 2025 in Stockholm is particularly noteworthy, coming soon after the recent ousting of Daniel Barr, the now former Head of the Swedish FSA (Finansinspektionen) due to a perceived conflict of interest during his time as head of the Swedish Pensions Agency (Pensionsmyndigheten). Mr. Barr had as recently as December 2024 issued a risk warning about the cryptocurrency market, a communication that was criticised by many market participants for what they perceived to be a lack of balance in highlighting the opportunities that the digital assets space could bring to Sweden.
Riksbank Governor Erik Thedeen has also publicly stated that Bitcoin has no place in Sweden's financial system, describing it as an instrument based on pure speculation and citing the collapse of crypto exchanges as evidence of its instability, “"It is an instrument that is completely impossible to value and we do not want to bring it into the Swedish financial sector,"
Thedeen’s position contrasts with that of Rickard Nordin, Swedish Member of Parliament for the Centre Party in Sweden (Centerpartiet) who in a formal request to Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson, urged the government to weigh the potential of digital assets in national fiscal strategy, with one idea being to keep confiscated bitcoin in a strategic reserve if it should be confiscated as has been considered in the U.S.
Event Sponsors
The Nordic Blockchain Conference is being sponsored by a number of leading firms including the Diamond sponsor Partisia, whose vision is to establish a new standard for secure solutions that manage confidential data across users and platforms.
Also sponsoring are Bird & Bird, the prominent international law firm renowned for its expertise in intellectual property (IP), Bird & Bird has been instrumental in high-profile cases, such as defending the Crypto Open Patent Alliance against claims by Dr. Craig Wright, who asserted to be the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
Sources:
Sweden Ousts Top Financial Services Regulator After Public Outcry, Insurance Journal, April 11, 2025
Thedéen om bitcoin-rekordet: "Ren spekulation", Dagens industri, March 12, 2025
Swedish Lawmaker Urges Bitcoin Reserve Strategy Without Taxpayer Spending, CryptoDNES, April 13, 2025