Current Position
Nik Bhatia founded The Bitcoin Layer and is a Visiting Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. USC Marshall also lists him, as Nikhil Bhatia, as an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Business Economics. His United States classification reflects this professional institutional context, not a claim about nationality.
Background & Biography
Before his research and teaching work, Bhatia traded US Treasuries for an institutional asset manager. His educational background includes USC and a finance master’s degree from IE Business School in Spain. That historical study does not establish a current Spanish work base.
Notable Contributions
Bhatia wrote Layered Money and Bitcoin Age. His work connects Bitcoin with macroeconomic analysis, while his teaching covers fixed income and Bitcoin in separate courses. An author's framework should be distinguished from an independently validated forecasting record; this profile makes no performance claim.
Why Katharos.ai Is Following Them
Katharos.ai follows the ways established financial concepts enter digital-asset discussions. The relevant questions are not simply whether a price forecast succeeds. They include how a model defines its inputs, whether its assumptions are visible and how explanations change when observations conflict with expectations. Research and education can make those distinctions easier to examine.
Areas to Follow
Follow dated publications, revisions to analytical methods and the separation of research from product promotion. Pay particular attention to how commentators distinguish a monetary instrument, an investment thesis and a payment mechanism. These categories can overlap without being interchangeable. Course descriptions and public institutional biographies should be rechecked when responsibilities change.
Reporting Scope
This is an unranked editorial profile, not an endorsement of a paid research product, a forecast or an investment strategy. Academic and fellowship appointments do not imply that an institution endorses every public view. Coverage should attribute arguments to their authors, distinguish historical employment from present roles and avoid turning credentials into claims about investment returns.
Sources for Further Reading
Bitcoin Policy Institute — individual biography https://www.btcpolicy.org/authors/nik-bhatia
USC Marshall — faculty biography https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/nikhil-bhatia
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