Tony Dong 2020

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🔥 The Satoshi Roundtable Returns to North America in 2027 and This Time AI Gets a Seat at the Table
The most secretive room in crypto just revealed its next move.
The Satoshi Roundtable, the legendary invitation only gathering that I once called Crypto's Fight Club, has officially announced that its 2027 edition is coming back to North America. And for the first time, artificial intelligence is formally joining the agenda. The news went out this week through an official press release on Cointelegraph, shared by our friends and partners at PowerAdvisors. I am proud to say I will be one of the participants at the table.
Let me tell you why this announcement matters far more than it looks.
What exactly is the Satoshi Roundtable?
If you have never heard of it, that is by design.
Since 2015, the Satoshi Roundtable has been the quiet engine room of this industry. It was created by Bitcoin OG Bruce Fenton as the opposite of a crypto conference. No stages. No booths. No press badges. No cameras. No sales pitches. Around two hundred of the most influential people in the space gather in one private venue, sit down at an actual round table, and talk openly about the hardest problems in Bitcoin and Web3.
There is an unspoken rule that everyone respects. What happens at the Roundtable stays at the Roundtable, until the ideas are ready for primetime.
I have been inside these rooms. I wrote about the experience last year, about the serious security at the entrance, the strict no camera policy, and the surreal feeling of watching early Bitcoin pioneers debate with the sharpest new builders in the industry with zero spotlight and zero hype. Some of the most important conversations in crypto history happened in these rooms years before the public ever felt their effects. The block size debates. The early institutional custody discussions. Quiet conversations that later turned into companies, protocols and policy.
That is the power of this event. It does not follow the news cycle. It creates it, silently, one or two years ahead.
The big news: North America, 2027
After unforgettable editions abroad, including the spectacular gatherings in Dubai that many of us attended, the Roundtable is going home. The 2027 edition, Satoshi Roundtable XIII, returns to North American soil in early 2027.
The symbolism here is loud. The Roundtable was born in North America and grew up traveling the world. It comes back at the exact moment the United States has flipped from crypto's toughest room into one of its biggest arenas. Clear rules are forming. Institutions are allocating. Bitcoin is sitting on balance sheets of corporations and funds that would not touch it a few years ago. Bringing the industry's most private brain trust back to this market at this moment is not a coincidence. It is a statement.

And now AI officially joins the table
This is the part that excites me most.
For 2027, the Roundtable is formally adding AI topics to the agenda. Anyone who has followed my journey knows I have been living at this intersection for years, from the AI integrations we are building at Bonuz to my OpenDeSci fellowship supported by NVIDIA and AWS, which pushes for open access to AI and science tools.
Here is the truth. Crypto and AI are not two separate revolutions. They are one revolution arriving in two waves. AI agents will need wallets, identity and payment rails that banks cannot give them. Decentralized networks will need intelligence to become truly useful for billions of people. Autonomous agents transacting on chain, machine to machine payments, decentralized compute, verified digital identity in a world of deepfakes, open models versus closed models. These are exactly the debates that need a room with no cameras, no marketing filters and no shareholders listening.
The fact that the most influential closed door gathering in crypto now treats AI as a core topic tells you where the smartest people in this industry believe the next decade is going.
Who actually sits at this table?
The guest list is never published, and I will respect that. But the type of room is no secret, and past editions speak for themselves.
Around the table you find the people who built this industry. Early Bitcoin pioneers and core developers. Founders and CEOs of exchanges, wallets, mining giants and protocol labs. Names that have shaped Bitcoin history like founder Bruce Fenton, Adam Back of Blockstream, Erik Voorhees of ShapeShift, security legend Jameson Lopp, core developers like Peter Todd and Eric Lombrozo, and BitAngels founder Michael Terpin have all been part of past editions. Add to that the investors and family offices moving serious capital, academics, policy minds, and the builders working on what ships next.
It is developers arguing with billionaires. Miners debating with regulators. OGs from 2011 challenging founders from 2025. All types of people who normally never share one room, suddenly sharing one table as equals.
And yes, I am honored to be one of them again. Representing Bonuz, representing Dubai, and representing every builder from our region who believes Web3 should serve real people in the real world.
And there is one more thing that makes me especially proud. Dr. Marwan Alzarouni will also be joining the Roundtable as a guest. If you know the Dubai ecosystem, you know this name. He is the CEO of AI at the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism, he has been the driving force of the Dubai Blockchain Center since its earliest days, and he is an advisor to Bonuz. The Dubai Blockchain Center, which I helped establish in 2018, was built to educate this region and connect it with exactly these kinds of global conversations. Seeing Dubai walk into the 2027 Roundtable through both of us feels like a full circle moment. With AI now officially on the agenda, having the man who leads AI strategy for Dubai's economy in that room could not be more fitting.
Why I believe 2027 will be a turning point
Every cycle has a moment when the industry quietly aligns on what comes next. It never happens on a main stage. It happens in rooms like this one.
The 2027 Roundtable lands at a perfect storm. Bitcoin matured into a global reserve asset. Regulation is finally taking real shape on both sides of the Atlantic. And AI is forcing every single one of us to rethink identity, money and trust from first principles. Put two hundred of the sharpest minds of this industry into one private room for several days with that backdrop, and I promise you the ripples will reach every corner of this market.
I am excited, and honestly a little awed, to be part of this table again.
I will not be able to tell you everything that happens there. You know the rules by now. But I will bring back what I always bring back: the signal, the direction and the conviction about where we are heading next.
North America, see you in 2027. And this time, we are bringing the machines into the conversation. 🤖🟠
If you want to follow the journey from Dubai to the Roundtable and everything we are building at Bonuz along the way, stay connected. The future of finance is still being forged behind locked doors. The difference now is that AI is in the room too.

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The United Kingdom has introduced new legislation that significantly raises the compliance burden for crypto firms operating within its jurisdiction.
Effective July 17, the law creates the possibility of criminal liability of up to 14 years for firms that fail to identify wallet ownership in a timely manner under the applicable legal requirements.
Unlike many regulatory changes that focus solely on future compliance, the new framework also places emphasis on what firms knew and when they knew it. This means businesses may need to demonstrate that they acted promptly based on information available at the time, making historical record-keeping a critical part of ongoing compliance.
A New Standard for Compliance The legislation does not specifically target cryptocurrencies, but its scope extends to UK-linked firms handling digital assets.
For many companies, compliance may now involve reviewing historical wallet identification processes and ensuring sufficient documentation exists to demonstrate appropriate actions were taken.
The development highlights the growing expectation that crypto businesses maintain compliance standards comparable to those of traditional financial institutions.
What This Means for the Industry As global regulators continue strengthening oversight of digital assets, compliance is becoming a competitive advantage rather than simply a legal requirement.
Firms with robust governance and record-keeping systems may adapt more easily, while those with weaker controls could face increased operational and legal risks.
The broader trend is clear: regulation is becoming a permanent part of the crypto industry's evolution.
Final Thoughts The crypto market has matured rapidly over the past decade.
Now, regulators are demanding that compliance frameworks mature just as quickly.
For businesses operating in multiple jurisdictions, staying ahead of regulatory expectations may become just as important as building innovative products.
👇 Do stricter compliance rules strengthen trust in the crypto industry, or do they risk slowing innovation?

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