Most Bitcoin policy debate happens between specialists who share a vocabulary and an assumption set. The Bitcoin Roundtable is built for the opposite: a lawyer, an energy operator, an accountant, a banker, and a protocol engineer working the same question at one table, with no seat ranked above another.
Bitcoin the protocol, the businesses that touch it, and the people who hold it are three different regulatory objects. Most confusion in a policy conversation comes from treating them as one. The table starts by separating them before arguing about any rule.
A reporting rule that is trivial for a large bank can be disqualifying for a two-person payments company. Members from banking, accounting, and fintech can price that asymmetry out loud instead of assuming it.
Custody, settlement finality, energy interconnection, and tax treatment all behave differently in the field than on paper. Practitioners at the table describe what a proposed rule does to their real workflow.
Policy work only matters if it can be stated plainly. Discussions are pushed toward a short, written position that a non-specialist can read and act on.
A regulation touches more industries than the one it names. These are the seats a serious Bitcoin policy discussion draws on at the Roundtable.
Agreements, custody structures, dispute frameworks, and compliance reality.
Reporting standards, cost-basis treatment, controls, and proof-based assurance.
Rule-making process, public education, and civic coordination.
Account access, supervision expectations, and settlement obligations.
Interconnection, demand response, and how mining is treated in energy policy.
What the protocol and Lightning can and cannot be made to do by rule.
A member seeds an idea or concern on the Idea Board — a rule, a proposal, a gap between law and practice.
Members from other industries stress-test it in open discussion and volunteer to help develop it.
Work that becomes a Roundtable position moves to governance, where decisions are made by consent: adopted when no member raises an unresolved, reasoned objection.
The Roundtable is neutral ground. It does not lobby on behalf of any company, and nothing here is legal, tax, or investment advice.
Legal, tax, regulatory, energy, and civic practitioners are welcome at the table — wherever in the world you work from.