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Gil Roberts

(He/Him)
Louisville, Washington, D.C.
As seen in: Substack
Covers:  Bitcoin, Monetary systems, Payment rails, Institutional finance, Governance, Polycentric, Institutional economics, Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits, CBDCs, DATs, Lightning Network, Bitcoin Layer 2
Doesn't Cover: Altcoins, Memecoins, Penny Stocks, Copy Trading, Day Trading, Cryptocurrency Trading, Perps, Sports Betting, Technical Analysis, NFTs, dApps, Ordinals, Runes.

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Gil Roberts’s Biography

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Gil Roberts is a Bitcoin entrepreneur, derivatives trader, and Senior Partner at Washburn Bitcoin. He also founded the Roberts Consulting Network, where he advises on Bitcoin strategy and financial innovation. Washburn Bitcoin's current project, Riptide, is designed to bring Bitcoin into millions of households.

Before Bitcoin, Gil spent more than a decade in traditional finance, working across mortgage origination, commercial lending, debt recovery, and investment products. He later shifted int…

Gil Roberts’s Journalist Portfolio

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Before the Browser, There Was AOL

Before the Browser, There Was AOL

Bitcoin's adoption problem is structural, not cultural. Why everyday use depends on an AOL-style on-ramp, bui…

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The Trouble with TribbleCoins

The Trouble with TribbleCoins

Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs all promise a dollar is a dollar. What happens when that stops bei…

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Digital Asset Treasuries and the Capital They Signal

Digital Asset Treasuries and the Capital They Signal

Digital Asset Treasuries are Bitcoin's signal, shaping outcomes without authority. Their influence exists but…

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Economic Nodes and the Governance They Already Operate

Economic Nodes and the Governance They Already Operate

Economic Nodes are already governing through embedded code, policy, & infrastructure. This informal governanc…

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From Node Software to Node Systems

From Node Software to Node Systems

Bitcoin Commons makes Bitcoin coordination legible, expanding developer opportunity for institutional Bitcoin…

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The Bitcoin Commons Decoded

The Bitcoin Commons Decoded

Bitcoin Commons decoded through institutional economics, commons theory, and Hayek's knowledge problem to exp…

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Before the Browser, There Was AOL

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By Gil Roberts
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Bitcoin’s adoption problem is not ideological resistance, regulatory hostility, or user ignorance. It is a mismatch between who bears responsibility for running the system and who actually has the capacity to carry it. For more than a decade, Bitcoin has exposed raw infrastructure directly to end users while governance, professional accountability, and coordination have stayed informal or invisible. That is not how general-purpose technologies usually cross into everyday life.
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The Trouble with TribbleCoins

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By Gil Roberts
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The U.S. monetary system is straining to hold itself together as multiple dollar instruments now coexist under a single name while behaving differently in settlement speed, access, and control. Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDC-style systems are defensive adaptations meant to preserve institutional coherence under pressure.
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Digital Asset Treasuries and the Capital They Signal

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By Gil Roberts
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Digital Asset Treasuries (“DATs”) are not a tactic or a trend. They are a new institutional class formed by the collision of institutional-scale capital with Bitcoin’s fixed supply, open settlement, and absence of centralized governance. At scale, capital does not sit idle; it signals. Treasury posture becomes legible to markets, counterparties, regulators, and builders whether intended or not.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Lightning.News took a chance on me.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, actually. I miss them.

How is social media changing news?

Social media IS the news now. News has always been about "the scoop" and breaking no longer waits until the nightly news cast.
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