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Salahuddin Khawaja
BSB MemberFounder
About
Salah spent 20 years in NY running tech projects on Wall Street. Initially as a Management Consulting at Deloitte (for clients like MasterCard, CapitalOne, Citi, Lehman) and then worked in house at JP Morgan and Bank of America. At Bank of America he was Managing Director of Automation running a team of 300 people.
He saw the potential of Bitcoin in 2014 and has been HODLing since.
Salah started in tech early - with learning to code in high school. He then went to LUMS and got his Bachelors in Computer Science in 1997. He then got a Masters in Telecommunication and Network Management from Syracuse University in 1999.
Speaking Topics
Measure: How Bitcoin Turns Economics Into Science
For 13000 yearshuman progress has advanced every time we’ve invented a new instrument of measurement - the telescope made astronomy a sciencethe clock made navigation preciseand Bitcoin now does the same for economics. By fixing the supply of money and creating the world’s first incorruptible ledgerBitcoin transforms value into something measurableauditableand falsifiable. It shifts economics from opinion to observationfrom politics to physics - revealing how civilizations rise or fall based on their ability to preserve trustscarcityand accurate measurement across time. This talk explores Bitcoin not as an investmentbut as humanity’s next great scientific instrument - the ruler that finally lets us measure value itself.
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Genesis/Culture
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