Bitcoin Policy Institute India launches to promote Bitcoin for financial independence, leveraging renewable energy, lowering costs, and boosting India’s global leadership.
The Bitcoin Policy Institute of India (BPI India) officially launched today, August 15, 2025, coinciding with the country’s 79th Independence Day. This is a foundation of the first Indian think tank that works to popularize the use of Bitcoin as a means of financial and economic independence.
Bitcoin Institute to Drive India’s Leadership in Global Financial Paradigm
The institute would like to establish Bitcoin as a strategic asset that will protect the country against geopolitical uncertainty, lower transaction costs, and leverage the large amount of renewable energy available in India to turn it into a valuable financial resource. This project is a part of a trend both globally and especially in the Global South, with nations experimenting with cryptocurrency as a means of strengthening economic resilience.
The launch highlights a courageous vision of the future of India. According to a press release by Mithilesh Kumar Jha, a founding fellow at BPI India, the move is historically relevant. “It is the same way that India of the past was able to gain political independence as the freedom fighters did, so can this generation gain financial independence on a global open monetary standard,” he added.
Moreover, BPI India will set the pace instead of following it regarding this financial paradigm. Mr. Jha continued, “To make India not only a player in this new financial paradigm but the leader in it as well is our mission. Not just a technology but a more powerful, atmanirbhar (self-reliant) India is what we are supporting. The institute will address some of the major areas towards this end.
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Bitcoin Policy Institute Eyes Renewable-Energy Mining and Low-Cost Payments
First, the institute will also market the use of Bitcoin as a secure asset when there is a conflict in the world particularly after the oil prices had increased by 8 percent in July 2025 because of the Middle East tensions. Next, it will utilize the 200 gigawatts of renewable energy that India will generate in 2025 in order to run Bitcoin mining. This strategy can be based on the example of such countries as Kazakhstan, which received $500 million as the mining income in 2024.
The institute also targets to lower transaction costs with the 15 percent rise in cross-border payment costs indicated by the International Monetary Fund in 2024. This would be an advantage to the Indian IT industry, which is worth 245 billion dollars, and would benefit from the blockchain technology. The launch is also timely with the world, as the growth of El Salvador in 2024 after accepting Bitcoin as a legal tender in 2021 was 3 percent on the GDP scale, and on the same date, Top Win International of Taiwan raised 10 million dollars to use as a Bitcoin treasury on August 15, 2025.
BPI India views Bitcoin as a means to financial inclusion, given that 1.4 billion individuals in the Global South are not traditionally banked, according to the United Nations. The institute can spearhead this initiative given that India had $700 billion in foreign exchange reserves in August 2025.
To sum up, the opening of BPI India on Independence Day is an indication that the financial future of the country has just begun. The institute supports the Bitcoin initiative in order to make India more self-reliant and dominant in the world.
