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Bitcoin Research Priorities in 2025: Beyond First-Order Effects

Bitcoin Research Priorities in 2025: Beyond First-Order Effects

This paper presents a 2025 horizon scan that adapts the logic of key questions exercises to Bitcoin-centric long-form podcast and interview discourse, drawing on 2,297 episodes to infer policy-salient research priorities.

Bitcoin’s Paradigm Shift and the Limits of Legacy Pricing

Bitcoin’s Paradigm Shift and the Limits of Legacy Pricing

The November 18, 2025 episode of the Robin Seyr Podcast features CK arguing that markets continue to misprice Bitcoin because they frame it within today’s financial paradigm rather than as a potential civilizational shift.

An emerging and urgent need for transdisciplinary research on Bitcoin

An emerging and urgent need for transdisciplinary research on Bitcoin

A Bitcoin science roadmap could identify research priorities and capacity-building opportunities across environmental, social, financial, economic, and security dimensions

AI-Assisted Identification of Policy-Salient Research Priorities and Emerging Issues

AI-Assisted Identification of Policy-Salient Research Priorities and Emerging Issues

This paper explores possibilities for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into horizon scanning and key question exercises to navigate the challenges posed by emerging technologies.

100 Important Questions about Bitcoin’s Energy Use and ESG Impacts

100 Important Questions about Bitcoin’s Energy Use and ESG Impacts

The breadth of knowledge required to answer key questions highlights the need to build research capacity, encourage collaborative cross-sectoral and -disciplinary research, and develop a prioritized research agenda.

Bitcoin Worlds preprint

Bitcoin Worlds preprint

Bitcoin confronts the global monetary order with an unprecedented experiment of absolute scarcity in a system built on elastic credit. Bitcoin’s trajectory will be set less by protocol rules than by governance choices.

Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book online

Draft Bitcoin horizon scan book online

Leveraging a modified, AI-assisted horizon scanning approach and analysis of 1,900 hours of 2024 Bitcoin-focused podcasts distilled with LLMs, it converts thousands of raw “threats and opportunities” into a preliminary research agenda.