📍On 3 December, BBA hosted a Parliamentary International Roundtable to discuss the next steps towards building a Blockchain infrastructure for the UK.
🎥 Watch the highlight video below ⬇️
#Blockchain #DigitalAssets #Policy #APPG #BBA
https://blossom.primal.net/3aeae0b56d55f5e109ca7d786f5bb3c663c3b38c1bd29188b7c3b8be29ad1c88.mov
An honour to organise and moderate this Roundtable.
🚨 Bitcoin is much more than just a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
⛓️💥 Ordinals have quietly turned Bitcoin into a data + token layer Blockchain.
💥📣 NEW JBBA RESEARCH ALERT:
✅ Bitcoin is more than money:
Ordinals inscriptions let users store text, images, code and tokens directly on the base layer – not just move BTC around.
✅ 1 in 3 transactions are inscriptions:
Inscriptions now account for about a third of all Bitcoin transactions. Crucially, “normal” payments didn’t collapse – they stayed broadly stable while total on-chain activity grew.
✅ BRC-20 has taken over:
Roughly 4 out of 5 inscriptions are BRC-20-style fungible tokens, with text and images making up most of the rest.
✅ Ordinals are driving Taproot adoption:
There’s a tight link between inscription activity and Taproot usage – suggesting Ordinals are one of the main real-world drivers of this upgrade.
✅ Blockspace is busier than ever:
Inscriptions used around a quarter of total blockspace in the sample and contributed to the longest sustained period of “full blocks” in Bitcoin’s history, pushing average block size up by almost 50% vs. the pre-Ordinals era.
✅ Fees and miner revenue are up:
Even though inscriptions pay slightly lower fees per byte on average, they still contributed about a fifth of all fees – and their demand for blockspace pushed fees for “normal” transactions higher too. That matters for Bitcoin’s long-term security budget.
✅ It’s not just about the BTC price:
Short-term price moves explain little of inscription activity. Waves of new inscriptions line up more with technical innovation (e.g. BRC-20) than with classic bull/bear cycles.
🚀 This ground-breaking research from Alexander Wiedenmann and Andre Guettler of Ulm University and IWH – Halle Institute for Economic Research – Member of the Leibniz Association explores Bitcoin’s Ordinals and Inscriptions, and BTC's evolving Network state.
📖 Full paper has been published Open Access in The Journal of the British Blockchain Association (#JBBA):
🔗 Read the paper here:
✅ Indexed in DOAJ and Web of Science | Read by >2.7 million readers monthly:
https://doaj.org/article/a86a6331d8e84f3a94bfcd88727fec9b
This paper will be featured in the April 2026 print Issue of The JBBA.
JBBA Editor in Chief:
Prof. Dr nostr:nprofile1qqsrqyymajeq8uafk9p3p4a9eucl35d9h56ztrqt6mqvw2rdtfn4ascpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzxrhwden5te0d35kw6r5de5kuemjv4kxz7fwvdhk60fvfsn MBE FBBA
#Bitcoin #Blockchain #Network
American Blockchain Act of 2025 will see the U.S investing $59 million over the next 5 years.
China, on the other hand, is investing $54 billion towards its National Blockchain Roadmap, placing DLT at the core of its National Data Strategy.
Some of my key takeaways from London Blockchain Conference, where I delivered a keynote speech.
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I was in Dubai recently where I met some government officials, C-suite execs, and several Web3 start-ups.
It’s not by luck or by chance that some jurisdictions are excelling in blockchain.
From evidence to impact, they are following 5 essential steps to build a world-class digital economy:
#Blockchain #bitcoin #Web3 #Dubai #UK
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https://blossom.primal.net/14730c01ed7743ca0e68f8dc8f0478d9286112819d23877b4ac925c6d0bff196.mov
🌐 Stablecoins will be a game-changer for the Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth represents around one-third of the world’s population – roughly 2.7 billion people.
🌏 From remittances and trade to cross-border payments and SME financing, the potential for stablecoin-driven transformation is enormous.
🚨 60% of Commonwealth citizens are under 30: A mobile-native, digital-first generation, that will not wait for legacy systems to catch up.
In my recent contribution to the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) Stablecoin Roundtable, I shared why:
✅ Stablecoins can dramatically reduce remittance costs across "Commonwealth corridors"
✅ Programmable money can improve transparency and compliance for governments and institutions
✅ Thoughtful, evidence-based regulation is essential to balance innovation and stability
✅ The Commonwealth can become a global testbed for scalable, inclusive digital finance
🎥 Watch the video for my key takeaways and proposals for a smarter, evidence-based stablecoin strategy across the Commonwealth.
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#Stablecoins #Commonwealth #Blockchain #DigitalAssets
https://blossom.primal.net/1a115f32cf587f24a1d5641b61c9de7432d0b78066553fe388b4b40e9ddac860.mov
“Policymakers are interested in how digital assets and blockchain will deliver real economic growth, public good, and Trust. They want to see voter-facing value — human impact stories resonate more than whether we have solved the scalability trilemma...”
🎤 Yesterday, our President Prof. Dr nostr:nprofile1qqsrqyymajeq8uafk9p3p4a9eucl35d9h56ztrqt6mqvw2rdtfn4ascpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzxrhwden5te0d35kw6r5de5kuemjv4kxz7fwvdhk60fvfsn MBE FBBA spoke at the Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA) Summit.
Thank you Amy-Rose Goodey for the invitation.
#Blockchain #Crypto #EvidenceBasedBlockchain
https://blossom.primal.net/e2ec5d365f56f01fcd9ccdb973ec765d80d3e16e9df666f3a69b0a032f7ad481.mp4
A pleasure to speak in Australia.
📍Earlier this week, we convened a Parliamentary International Roundtable on Digital Assets Policy & Regulation, in our role as the Secretariat of APPG on Blockchain Technologies.
🌐 The session brought together regulators, policymakers, and industry leaders from across the globe for an evidence-based dialogue on the future of digital assets in the UK and globally.
🎤 The Roundtable was moderated by BBA President, Prof. Dr nostr:nprofile1qqsrqyymajeq8uafk9p3p4a9eucl35d9h56ztrqt6mqvw2rdtfn4ascpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzxrhwden5te0d35kw6r5de5kuemjv4kxz7fwvdhk60fvfsn MBE FBBA.
🎥 Short highlights below ⬇️
#Blockchain #DigitalAssets #Policy
https://blossom.primal.net/f61c71c027917e88ab93da3bea472316b578b883ee95162d6a319aa538779186.mp4
A pleasure to convene this parliamentary Roundtable.
#Bitcoin #Crypto
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Over 43 million public keys have now been generated on Nostr — an incredible milestone for such a young protocol.
For perspective: Twitter took ~5 years to reach 43 million accounts.
The pace of adoption here is next level.
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#Nostr #Decentralisation #Web3 #SocialMedia #Adoption #Bitcoin
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I have been creating content on Nostr and sharing it across all my other social media.
I am even writing a book on Nostr.
https://x.com/drnaseemnaqvi/status/1841210423808573880?s=46
Just published an essay on Nostr:
https://primal.net/Naseem/human-centric-blockchain-policies-in-the-age-of-ai
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Real progress requires meaningful conversations.
Stakeholders working together to co-create a better future for all.
We can get this right. For everyone.
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#Blockchain #UK #Crypto #DigitalAssets #Leadership #APPG #BBA #Policy #Regulation #bitcoin #nostr
Quantum computing is a far bigger threat to #TradFi and the #Banking system than Bitcoin or Ethereum.
It will impact traditional financial infrastructures much harder and much sooner than public blockchains.
#bitcoin #TradFi #Blockchain #Quantum #PostQuantum #Banking #Nostr
Published my first long-form article on Nostr (via nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgwqmrdq Read).
Pretty good.
bitchat 1.2.0 (purple) shipping to testflight tonight.
this enables mutual favorites to automatically switch to a nostr-based transport when one of them leaves the mesh. only for private messages for now using NIP-17.
basically people can bitchat in person, favorite each other at that time, and then can continue the conversation if internet is available through nostr, from any distance. no need to input a npub or know anything about nostr. it just works.
https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/pull/358
Interesting
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