Bitcoin policy

Demystifying Bitcoin for India — and helping shape the policy conversation around it.

February 2021

A 220-minute explainer

What began as a single session — explaining Bitcoin from first principles to 30-odd IIM Ahmedabad batchmates — ran to 220 minutes because the questions would not stop. It became clear the appetite to understand was far bigger than one classroom.

2021

“Crypto in India” — a 7-part webinar series

Hosted for the IIM Ahmedabad Public Policy Alumni Special Interest Group: seven conversations with voices from law, finance, public policy, crypto, deep tech, and the World Bank — published openly on YouTube.

Late 2021

A briefing to Parliament

Represented the IIMA Public Policy Alumni Special Interest Group in a crypto industry meeting with Parliament’s Standing Committee on Finance — bringing first-principles Bitcoin understanding into the room where India’s policy questions were being asked.

2025

From conversations to coordination

Meeting Bitcoiners in person confirmed what the webinars had suggested: there is real appetite to work on India’s Bitcoin policy together. That work now happens with Bitcoin Policy Institute India.

November 2025

Contributing to the regulatory research

Attended the first Regional Stakeholder Consultation of the GNLU Project on Crypto Assets in India (“Assessing the Case for Regulation”) and submitted structured inputs toward its research — including a proposed taxonomy framework for crypto assets. The project’s final report is directionally consistent with those inputs: a multi-agency regulatory structure and activity-based, role-specific regulation.

Today

Writing in the open

The win-win-win policy blueprints India needs — for its people, its economy, and its government — published at Chain Policy.

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