Our latest report maps a foreign influence campaign aimed at stalling American AI. We built an interactive website to help you navigate the campaign. Dive deeper: https://lnkd.in/eFNg6KSq
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The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) is a non-partisan think tank conducting research on emerging monetary networks to improve public policy.
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Part II of our report on foreign influence in the campaign against American AI is out today 👇 • Neville Roy Singham, an American Marxist based in Shanghai, funds the nonprofits whose leaders run the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). • $23.6 billion in proposed AI investment delayed or blocked by PSL organizing efforts. • 10 moratoria, 1 permanent ban, 4 projects scrapped. • No public disclosure of who funds the work. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e22eVGk3
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Announcing Freedom Tech DC 2026. BPI's annual summit returns to Washington on September 22-23. Learn more and secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/e9NPPz5m
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🇺🇸 NEW: Rep. Nick Begich joins David Zell to discuss his ARMA bill, a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, AI, and more. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/efY3G_rn
Spotlight Series Ep. 2: Rep. Nick Begich
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E&C is asking the right questions about data center oppo. Thanks to Samuel Lyman at the Bitcoin Policy Institute for doing the research. Looking forward to the findings. BPI report: https://lnkd.in/eagXhepc https://lnkd.in/eZrKbuz5
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The Bitcoin Policy Institute today released “Foreign Influence in the Campaign against American AI,” a new report by Head of Research Samuel Lyman documenting three vectors of foreign influence behind the campaign to halt U.S. AI data center construction. The report traces an influence trail from Beijing’s English-language state media apparatus through a CCP-aligned U.S. nonprofit network — now under active investigation by the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Select Committee on the CCP — to foreign-billionaire charitable vehicles that have funneled more than $2 billion into U.S. advocacy infrastructure. It connects this documented trail directly to the pending Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez AI Data Center Moratorium Act (S. 4214) and to the 54 local moratoriums that have already passed across U.S. towns and counties. Americans have legitimate concerns about AI data centers. Those concerns deserve serious local deliberation. But local deliberation works only when the public can see who is bankrolling the campaigns shaping the debate. This report provides that transparency.
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Great evening of transatlantic dialogue on Bitcoin and digital asset policy in the House of Lords. Thank you all for the warm hospitality and a genuinely substantive conversation on the distinction between open protocols and centralized intermediaries—a framework that's critical for good policy. Looking forward to continued collaboration across the pond!
👑 State Opening of Parliament Digital Futures A timely and thoughtful discussion in the House of Lords this evening on digital futures, crypto regulation and the evolving role of Bitcoin in public policy. Thank you to Dr Lisa Cameron Cameron for convening the conversation, and to Lord Taylor of Warwick for hosting us in the splendid Committee Room 1. What struck me most was the historical echo. The early internet was once viewed primarily through the lens of risk: abuse, fraud, illicit activity and institutional uncertainty. Many early dot-coms failed. But the underlying infrastructure went on to shape three decades of growth, productivity and new economic models. Crypto and digital assets clearly raise a different set of risks. Consumer harm is real. Bad actors are real. Market integrity matters. The collapse of centralised firms showed exactly why strong regulation is needed. But we also need to be precise. Our friends at the Bitcoin Policy Institute flew in especially and were passionate and knowledgable, offering an excellent perspective as Clarity is in the voting stage and these are the guys who created the latest thinking and have steered the legislation through, so super interesting to have a discussion with them. We agreed that there is a crucial distinction between open protocols and the firms that build around them. A protocol does not have a CEO, a balance sheet, or a customer complaints team. Centralised intermediaries can fail, mismanage risk, or commit fraud. Open networks raise different questions: resilience, transparency, governance, access, monetary design and strategic relevance. That distinction matters if regulation is to be effective. For the UK, the task is not to be first. It is to be credible, rigorous and investable. Sometimes this is a tortoise and hare story. Speed matters, but durability matters more. The UK’s opportunity is to build a regime that protects consumers, keeps bad actors out, and gives serious innovators the clarity and confidence to build here. We also need better education. Policy isn’t shaped by slogans, hype cycles or influenced by socials. It needs academic depth, technical literacy, economic analysis and sustained engagement between policymakers, regulators, industry and civil society. That is why discussions like this matter. The next phase of crypto regulation will not be won by ideology. It will be won by those who can distinguish technology from speculation, protocols from intermediaries, and innovation from harm. A valuable evening of UK-US exchange, and a reminder that digital assets policy is now firmly part of the mainstream economic and strategic debate. Also met some really cool new friends! 🥂 #Crypto #DigitalAssets #Bitcoin #FinTech #Innovation #Regulation #FCA #UKFinTech
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Reminder: Join us next Tuesday evening in Washington, D.C. for "Power Grab: AI's Biggest Bet or America's Biggest Bill?" — a live debate on data centers, energy, and AI infrastructure hosted by the Bitcoin Policy Institute, Young Voices, and PubKey. May 12, 2026 PubKey DC — 410 7th St NW, Washington, DC Doors at 5:30 PM · Debate at 6:35 PM · Networking until 8:00 PM Featuring Christian Britschgi (Reason Magazine) and Mark Moran (U.S. Senate candidate, Virginia), moderated by Sam Raus (Young Voices). Free to attend — drinks and food provided.
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BPI is proud to announce we are going international! 🇬🇧 Thanks to a generous donation from Xapo Bank, we will be expanding our operations to support sound Bitcoin policy education abroad. Our first efforts will be in the UK, where we will be meeting with Members of Parliament and HM Treasury in the coming weeks. Special thanks to Joey Garcia for making this possible.
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