Instititional adoption is preceded by regulatory comfort.

So who is educating the world’s financial regulators about Bitcoin?

Answer: Cambridge University

Every year more than 300 financial regulators from Security and Exchange Commissions, Central Banks and Govt Agencies from around the world take part.

As a result they are starting to get more comfort about how they regulate bitcoin.

1/8 of the entire program is on ESG. They asked me to present the lecture and Q&A on this section of the program.

Whether you like ESG or not, the reality is, it’s a critical checkbox for almost all regulators, especially outside USA. Therefore addressing it head-on with regulators is critical to Bitcoin’s adoption story.

I went into the data and case studies which overwhelmingly support bitcoin having well-evidenced environmental, energy security and social benefits and equally well refute the earlier commentaries on bitcoin that suggested otherwise.

Most of them had never heard any of this data and they were grateful to have it available to them as it allows them to make evidence-based regulations around allowing institutions to invest into bitcoin and into bitcoin mining companies.

I just got the feedback that the presentation landed very well, in fact it was the most highly rated one of the program so far.

In fact they’ve invited me back to give future talks, including their enterprise group which includes a number of the large asset management firms.

Probably nothing.