Current Position
Andrew M. Bailey is Senior Director of Education and Resident Philosopher at the Bitcoin Policy Institute in Washington, DC. United States denotes his current professional market, not a claim about nationality or residence.
Background & Biography
Bailey previously taught philosophy at the National University of Singapore and was a founding Yale-NUS College faculty member. He earned his doctorate at Notre Dame and undergraduate degree at Biola. His teaching has crossed philosophy, politics and economics.
Notable Contributions
With B. Rettler and C. Warmke, Bailey co-authored Resistance Money, published in 2024. The book develops a philosophical argument for Bitcoin. It examines monetary arrangements through questions about institutional power, rather than treating market price as the sole measure of significance.
In a February 2025 BPI interview, Bailey recalled that student interest helped bring Bitcoin into his teaching around 2016. He also criticized the assumption that Bitcoin’s success is historically inevitable, arguing that such confidence can encourage complacency. Those remarks document his position at that time, not a prediction by Katharos.ai. The interview’s then-current academic role and anticipated Wyoming appointment are not used as evidence of his present employment.
Why Katharos.ai Is Following Them
Katharos.ai follows Bailey because arguments about money often depend on unstated judgments about freedom, trust and institutional authority. His work gives those assumptions explicit attention. Reporting will examine the reasoning and evidence behind his advocacy, including objections and practical limitations, rather than treating a philosophical defense of Bitcoin as proof of a particular investment outcome.
Areas to Follow
Follow his public education work, debates over financial privacy and exclusion, and arguments about the social consequences of monetary technology. Katharos.ai will distinguish normative claims about how institutions should behave from empirical claims about what users experience. Changes in his positions and substantive responses to critics are also relevant.
Reporting Scope
This profile concerns the philosopher Andrew M. Bailey, not the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey. It covers publicly documented professional work as reviewed on October 21, 2026. First-person career recollections and advocacy are identified as such. Inclusion is not an endorsement, an assessment of personal beliefs, or investment advice.
Sources for Further Reading
Bitcoin Policy Institute — current author biography: https://www.btcpolicy.org/authors/andrew-bailey
Andrew M. Bailey — professional website and publications: https://www.andrewmbailey.com/
Bitcoin Policy Institute — Meet the Fellows interview, February 27, 2025: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/meet-the-fellows-andrew-bailey
Photo Credit
Photo: Bitcoin Policy Institute, “Meet the Fellows: Andrew Bailey” (February 27, 2025). Source: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/meet-the-fellows-andrew-bailey . Original portrait retained with transparent padding to 16:9; no retouching or enlargement.