About

About Satoshi Institute

Satoshi Institute publishes four governance standards for corporate bitcoin treasuries and writes the board policies built on them.

Founder

Bryant D. Nielson

CEO and founder

Bryant wrote the four standards (RAES, RARTA, SRF and BEOL) and does the engagement work himself. A company that hires the Institute gets the person who wrote the standard, not a team trained on it.

Newsletter: The Governed Bitcoin Treasury ↗ Weekly on LinkedIn, on board-level governance for corporate bitcoin treasury. Written for CFOs, audit committees, risk committees and directors. More than 1,800 subscribers.
Background: Former Director of Training at Bullish Global and at Block.one.
Podcast: Host of the Bitcoin Alchemy Podcast.
Education: Master of Science in Blockchain and Digital Currency, University of Nicosia.

Books

The Bitcoin Treasury Playbook
The Anti-Treasury Treasury: How the Paradox Framework Transforms Corporate Treasury
On Amazon ↗
The Discipline Premium
Why the Market Stopped Paying for Bitcoin and Started Paying for Governance
On Amazon ↗

What the Institute does

Corporate treasury policy was not written for an asset that can fall 80%, trades around the clock and has no central counterparty. A company that holds bitcoin needs board-approved answers to questions its existing policy never asked.

Free to read

Four published standards

RAES, RARTA, SRF and BEOL set out what is eligible to hold, how much and on whose authority, what happens under stress, and how the position is run. They are public and versioned.

Read the standards

Paid work

Two fixed-fee engagements

Bitcoin Sale Policy Sprint. $12,500, 15 business days.
Defensibility Snapshot. $5,000, 10 business days.

Each ends with documents your board can adopt and your auditor can file. Anything larger is scoped after one of the two.

See both engagements

What the Institute is not

Not an investment adviser

We do not manage money, sell investment products or tell anyone to buy or sell bitcoin.

Not an advocacy group

We do not argue that a company should hold bitcoin. The work starts once a board has decided to evaluate or hold it.

Not a retainer consultancy

Each engagement has a fixed scope and a fixed fee. It ends with documents the company owns and can maintain without us.

Not a research desk

No price targets, no trade ideas, no market calls.

Start with a scoping call

You leave knowing which engagement fits, or that neither does.

Or write to info@satoshiinstitute.com

Book a scoping call See both engagements