The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI), Cornell Tech Policy Institute (TPI), and Fedi are leading a new two-year, integrated study on American attitudes toward financial privacy. This project is the first to systematically examine how public policy and enforcement shape both user behavior and developer decisions around privacy technologies. As Director Sarah Kreps notes, the study will move debates about privacy “from the abstract” to evidence by tracking how policy signals affect public behavior and developer choices over time. The research combines nationally representative surveys of U.S. users with in-depth interviews of developers working on Bitcoin and related open-source systems, with four semi-annual reports beginning in April 2026 and running through 2027.