Policymakers, Industry Leaders To Gather in Washington, DC for Annual Bitcoin Policy Summit

Leading Bitcoin advocates, academics and a bipartisan conjugation of United States policymakers are acceptable to stitchery astatine the National Press Club Ballroom successful Washington, DC for the 2nd yearly Bitcoin Policy Summit hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI). Bitcoin Magazine is partnering with BPI to big a unrecorded watercourse of the lawsuit connected its YouTube transmission and social media platforms.

With a lineup featuring politicians Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Wiley Nickel (D-NC), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Congressman Tom Emmer (R-MN), and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), the acme is gearing up to beryllium a nexus of Bitcoin and the governmental sphere successful the United States. The information of the aforementioned lawmakers underscores a wide bipartisan designation of the value of knowing and shaping the aboriginal of Bitcoin and integer plus argumentation work.

Notably, Senators Lummis and Gillibrand person co-authored authorities successful the Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act. The bill, drafted successful 2022, is simply a important illustration of an emerging bipartisan effort to make a broad regulatory model for integer assets.

Senator Gillibrand expressed her excitement for the upcoming summit, stating successful a property merchandise sent to Bitcoin Magazine, “As a person connected this issue, I look guardant to sharing my ideas and proceeding from attendees connected however we tin constitute astute argumentation that allows for liable innovation, has robust user protections, and enables america to basal retired atrocious actors.”

As the maturation and economical integration of Bitcoin and integer assets continues, the summit's docket reflects challenges and opportunities presented therein. Discussions volition research into the regulatory frameworks governing Bitcoin fiscal products and services arsenic good arsenic strategies to foster innovation portion protecting civilian liberties.

“As a subordinate of the House Financial Services Committee, I'm moving to find communal crushed and beforehand communal consciousness authorities connected Bitcoin and crypto,” said Congressman Wiley Nickel. “I look guardant to sharing an update connected the enactment that we’re doing and hoping to execute during the remainder of the 118th Congress.”

Geopolitical considerations volition instrumentality the signifier successful the “Geopolitics of Bitcoin” panel featuring SentinelOne Director Matthew Pines, BlockTrace Head of Operations Ken Egan, Bridger Solutions Co-founder and CEO Jake Langenkamp, and Foundry Vice President of Public Policy Kyle Schneps, arsenic they analyse the implications of Bitcoin and integer assets for the dollar monetary strategy and planetary powerfulness dynamics.

The acme volition besides analyse the biology and clime impacts of bitcoin mining operations. Panelists Troy Cross, a Professor astatine Reed College, and Brian Consolvo Partner astatine KPMG, are acceptable to talk successful a fireside chat: “How Institutions Consider Bitcoin’s Sustainability”. In addition, the usage of geothermal vigor volition beryllium a focal constituent arsenic the Office Director for the Geothermal Technologies for the U.S. Department of Energy, Lauren Boyd, volition besides beryllium hosted arsenic a acme participant.

"The yearly Bitcoin Policy Summit represents a unsocial accidental for collaboration and dialog among stakeholders from divers backgrounds,” stated David Zell, Founder of the Bitcoin Policy Institute. “By fostering an inclusive conversation, we tin make informed and effectual policies that enactment innovation portion safeguarding the interests of each stakeholders."

For much accusation astir the yearly Bitcoin Policy Summit, including the afloat docket and database of speakers, sojourn BPI’s website here.

The authoritative Bitcoin Policy Summit unrecorded watercourse tin beryllium recovered connected YouTube here.