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{"platform":0,"content_id":"2000505872532001217","author_id":"1860855170","content_url":"https://x.com/akshaybd/status/2000505872532001217","content":{"text":"funnily enough Tokyo was in the top 3 shortlist for the venue. \n\nit came down to picking a place that would be a crowd favorite v. one that’s impactful. \n\napart from direct flights, good infra and visas… there’s two other criteria worth considering:\n\n1. regulations. the goal is take BP to places that will be progressive to the industry so we can accelerate adoption in the region. often it requires us to be ahead of the curve/make bets on where that’ll be given the scale of the event. we figured the US regs will be tailwind for the UK. here’s some news from y’day confirming this [1]: \n\n“The new law - the government will introduce legislation into parliament later on Monday - will extend existing financial regulation to companies involved in crypto, aligning Britain with the U.S. rather than the EU, which has built rules tailored to the industry.”\n\nlooking a bit further out, Reform UK is explicitly pro crypto [2] (and by some counts getting larger than the labor party). greenshoots are promising.\n \n2. capital availability. perhaps obvious but London intersection of global capital markets, asset management and fintech. every financial outfit has an office there. much easier to co-opt those folks if we are colocated with them… it’s why accelerate nyc helped us get better institutional momentum.\n\ntradeoffs are weather and safety concerns but knowing Ellie and team, they’ll have that super tightly managed.\n\ntldr: bp tokyo would’ve been more fun, but bp london will be more impactful. could be cool to do Accelerate Tokyo tho.\n\n[1] https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/uk-regulation-cryptoassets-start-october-2027-finance-ministry-says-2025-12-15/\n\n[2] https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/3823/attachments/original/1748557986/REFORM_Digital_Bill_interactive.pdf?1748557986"},"media_type":1,"platform_created_at":1765792742,"parent_content_id":"2000453369375469970","quote_content_id":"","ext":{},"created_at":1765795389}
