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📍 AI-Powered Recap by Notebook LM | Hosted by RA George

🔴 Originally aired as a LinkedIn Live on:
🗓️ Monday, 27th May | 🕖 19:00 GST
🎥 Hosts:

• Ralph Gebran, Managing Partner at Onramp MENA

• RA George, Host of Blockchain DXB & Bitcoin DXB

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  Bitcoin Advisor & Educator | Helping HNWIs, Institutions & Sovereigns Navigate Custody, Access & Strategy | Managing Partner at Onramp MENA

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🧠 Note: This episode is 100% AI-generated using Notebook LM by Google, a tool that organizes, analyzes, and summarizes complex documents and conversations. It offers a uniquely structured recap based on our LinkedIn Live discussion.

• RA George introduces Bitcoin DXB and outlines the goals of the discussion.

• Ralph explains Onramp MENA’s mission and their work with institutional and regional Bitcoin adoption.

• What qualifies Bitcoin as a reserve asset?

• Satoshi Nakamoto’s cautionary advice:

  “The project needs to grow gradually…”
  Read more

• Simon Dixon: Advocates for governments publicly holding BTC.
  6 Forms of Money – Explainer

• Briefed Boris Johnson in 2013; echoes in Trump’s 2024-2025 rhetoric.

• Carlos Maslatón: Early proponent, claims $348M in BTC in 2014 would be ~$47B today.

• President Milei aims to dismantle Argentina’s central bank.

• First to legalize Bitcoin mining (2019); 1,000+ licenses issued.

• BTC seen as a tool against sanctions.

• BTC legal tender in 2021; may lose this status in Jan 2025 under IMF pressure.

• Echoes Pakistan’s Bitcoin ambitions under Wakar Zaka.

• Ricardo Salinas: From 10% BTC allocation in 2020 to 60% in 2022.

• Banco Azteca integrates BTC.

• Trump’s March 2025 Executive Order:
  Strategic Bitcoin Reserve & Digital Asset Stockpile initiative.
  Read more

• States supporting BTC:
  🟥 Republican: TX, AZ, GA, OK, WY
  🔵 Democrat: IL, MA, MD, NM, MI
  ✅ Approved: NH (5% allocation), AZ (HB 2749), TX (Senate Bill 21)

• May 2025 Remittance Tax Bill: 5% tax may fuel crypto adoption

Leading firms like MicroStrategy, Tesla, and Coinbase hold sizable Bitcoin reserves, signaling institutional confidence in BTC as a treasury asset.

• Al Abraaj adds BT