The Bitcoin Policy Institute is an interdisciplinary cohort of economists, coders, lawyers, climate scientists, philosophers, and policy analysts, providing research, fact checking and commentary on Bitcoin.
We will discuss with Mathew Pines what they do, who their message is for, why there has been recent changes to the U S government's approach to crypto, whether crypto can help avoid sanctions and whether the U S makes the distinction between Bitcoin and other crypto.
Time stamps
00:06 Hook - decentralisation
01:20 Introduction
06:17 Bitcoin Policy Institute, role and audience
11:03 Financing and different interests
17:02 What subjects do they advise on
21:00 Why the approach of US government evolved
31:27 US government, centralisation vs decentralisation
45:07 US government and distinction between BTC, CBDC and stablecoins
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Meet the people who educate the US government on bitcoin