Industry committee  Mr. Chair, I want to put in one final point of consideration for everybody. Bitcoin founders and entrepreneurs are interested in these other use cases, like decentralized identity and peer-to-peer technology like the decentralized web. It is being built out on stacks, on layers o

Industry committee  As I've said in my opening statement, that's something that is really important to me. It's the reason I'm still in Bitcoin 11 years later, and why I'm spending my money and putting my money where my mouth is to help the billions of people around the world who live under some sor

Industry committee  Mr. Chair, that was a great question. I would also frame this in terms of the need for us to be progressive in looking at regulations. The SEC has a really great framework around what is a security and what is not a security, and we should definitely be working with United Stat

Industry committee  Thanks. Mr. Chair, one of the important things we should be looking at to make Canada safer from fraud in crypto markets.... I'm going to take a progressive, open view here. Let's say that not everything that's happening in blockchain tokens and digital assets or whatever is fra

Industry committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair, I take a bit of a step back from a lot of the conversation about Web3 and comparing that to Bitcoin. Web3 is typically a marketing term. It's an all-encompassing term that covers things like NFTs, security tokens and DAOs. For a lot of the stuff, existin

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for inviting me to speak here. My name is Brad Mills and I’m one of the founding members of the Bitcoin Coalition of Canada, which is an upstart multipartisan group working to educate policy-makers, journalists and everyday Can