Dubai Is Back to Work. Your Bitcoin Should Be Too.

Date Posted:Wed, 2nd Sep 2026

Dubai Is Back to Work. Your Bitcoin Should Be Too.

This is a working session rather than a talk. Over two hours we go through the three things you can do with a Bitcoin position you have no intention of selling: borrow against it, earn on it, and reshape its payoff with options. Whiteboard, real numbers, and an honest look at where each one breaks. The mechanics are the same whether the position sits in a personal wallet or on a company balance sheet, so both are welcome and both get covered.

 

Borrowing against it. How a lender values BTC when you pledge it. LTV bands, haircuts, margin, and what actually happens on the day a trigger is hit. We size a loan live, then run it through a 40% drawdown and see who gets the call and who gets liquidated. This module is mostly about how people lose coins they thought were safe.

Yield. Where the return actually comes from in each of the common structures: lending, basis trades, covered calls, and hashrate-linked exposure. Who is holding your Bitcoin in each case, and what risk you are being paid to take. That second question is the one most platforms answer badly, and it's the difference between a real yield and a Celsius.

Options. Collars, covered calls and principal-protected structures, explained without the pricing maths, so you can read a term sheet and know exactly what you've agreed to give up. We build a collar from nothing and price the trade-off out loud.

Four cases we work through together.

Someone holding a long personal position at a much lower basis who needs cash without triggering a disposal. A family office managing an allocation across a market cycle. A company that raised in dollars and holds in Bitcoin. A miner earning in BTC and paying for power in fiat.

Same asset, four different answers. Some of them are "do nothing", and we'll say so when that's true.

What you leave with

The ability to read a Bitcoin credit or structured product term sheet and interrogate it properly, a clear view on whether any of this suits your own situation, and an official Kognitiv Certificate of Attendance issued after the session.

Run by Rootstock Institutional, who lend USD against Bitcoin collateral. We'll cover our own structures alongside everyone else's and tell you where ours don't fit.

Educational session. Nothing here is investment advice and no products are sold in the room.

Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Time: 18:30 – 21:30

Location: Kognitiv Academy UAE at AXD Space

Register here.