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Areeb Ahmad
BSB MemberSenior Associate
About
Areeb Ahmad tells the story of Bitcoin through the lens of law, power, and technology. Based in Dubai, he advises crypto exchanges and fintechs on licensing and compliance, while questioning how institutions, AI, and tokenization are rewriting the rules of money itself.
Speaking Topics
Subject to alignment with the panelsome of the subjects I’d be keen to explore include:
1. Bitcoin’s Institutional Moment: From Hedge to Treasury Asset – How spot Bitcoin ETFs are reshaping global capital marketsthe role of corporates integrating Bitcoin into balance sheetsand whether regulation has domesticated the world’s most radical asset.
2. Bitcoin’s Mirror: What the AI Boom Is Teaching Crypto About Decentralization – Exploring how AI’s growing centralization contrasts with Bitcoin’s governance model and what lessons decentralized networks can offer to the AI ecosystem.
3. The Bitcoinization of Surveillance – Examining Bitcoin’s traceability as a feature rather than a flawthe emergence of “monetary policing” through analytics toolsthe evolving role of self-custody apps as KYC gatewaysand the need of pricing regulation because the real competition for Bitcoin may now be the tokenized dollar.
4. Bitcoin Mining in 2025: EfficiencyEnergyand the ESG Paradox – How regulatory policy and renewable energy innovation are redefining proof-of-work and the sustainability narrative.
5. The Next Bitcoin Wars Will Be Between CustodiansNot Miners – Understanding how custody and wallet infrastructure define power in the Bitcoin ecosystemthe rise of MPC and nation-state storageand why “not your keys” has become a geopolitical issue.
6. Interoperability and Bitcoin: Integrating the Oldest Chain into the Tokenized Future – Exploring wrapped BTCDeFi bridgesand Layer-2 innovation as Bitcoin evolves to coexist with tokenized markets.
7. Bitcoin and Legal Ownership – A deep dive into the legal dimensions of Bitcoin custody and controlexamining how courts interpret possessionbeneficial ownershipand trust obligations in insolvency and recovery scenarios.
8. RWA 101: Tokenisation fo RWAs
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Politics/Regulation
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