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Bitcoin Policy and also B HODL. Jillian is great - glad to have her as a contact in common. Please do DM me; would be delighted to find some time to chat through developments etc.

I'm a geek - I notice things!!

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Also saying that other coins are 'HS2' is not the total dunk it might seem, given that HS2 is non-functional and may never be finished

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Kate, I run a BTC Lightning infrastructure company (UK listed plc). Very happy to give you some time whenever you like to discuss growth, innovation and development in the Lightning network. You mention stablecoins - Tether itself will soon be running ON Lightning for example....

Anyone who has an irrational hatred of Bitcoin has any number of things which are not 'actual' facts with which to attack it. I just move on now. We can't save everyone. Some people just like being angry; I'm not one of them.

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Honestly, if it makes you this angry, that's cool. I don't need to convince you. Don't buy any, and all best to you.

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Do have a read of that data on the link I shared if you are ever curious. A lot of my work is with the Human rights Foundation who simply use this as one of the tools in their tool kit for continuing work in very tough regimes and circumstances

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Perhaps you could have saved some percentage points if you had 😜. But I think you make exactly the right point - you don't use it because you haven't needed to. Many people do actually need it (but most of them don't live in the UK, or a stable democracy, or where inflation is still broadly ok)

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I understand that the prevailing narrative has been that this is a tool for criminals - I once also believed that myself. But the data shows otherwise, and it's also really interesting data to read as well (if you are at all of a curious bent)

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Sure, just one small example: the lightning network as a payment rail is already facilitating cheap, almost instantaneous cross border payments that don't even require sender or receiver to know that bitcoin is involved in the transaction. Real time conversion, and no huge fees.

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As well as being a dull policy lawyer I also happen to be the CEO of a listed company with Bitcoin on the balance sheet and working in paytech. I'm likely prevented by market abuse regulations from indulging in 'breathless excitement'. Very happy to be dull & measured for you, whenever needed!

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

It's quite literally not - the latest data from the market leader analyst on crypto crime suggests that just 0.14% of payments are illicit. Primary use case is on the main entirely lawful.

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If you could pass this on to the expert you had on @moneybox.bsky.social . This is @freddienew.bsky.social sending members of the FCA at the Labour Party conference a bitcoin transaction, 'instantly' via Bitcoin's layer 2.0 Lightning network. Stephenson would have been proud. British innovation!

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And what about this from a BBC colleague? bsky.app/profile/joet...

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From the archives. Felicity's 12 year old now up over 200 per cent

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I'm afraid to say it is honestly astonishing to hear material like this still being broadcast in 2025.

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B HODL - A Bitcoin Treasury and Services Company

Open invitation from any of the Bitcoin Policy UK team to come on and discuss Bitcoin in depth. Furthermore, I'm now also heading up a listed company in the space (admission date was only this week - bhodl.com). Very happy to come on and speak in my capacity as CEO there as well.

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Freddie New @freddienew.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hello there! Glad to see this is all totally 'unexpected' by the galaxy brains on this platform as well

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Cambridge uni is actually waaay behind the curve on this. The innovation sharp end is moving far more rapidly towards carbon neutral and even net beneficial via methane usage and heat co location. A great resource to discover more www.da-ri.org

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Digital Assets Research Institute

Pioneering Environmental and Social Impact Research in Digital Assets. Join us in exploring the intersection of Bitcoin and sustainability.

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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Bitcoin in the bush - the crypto mine in remote Zambia. We visit a bitcoin project on the Zambezi river making use of 'stranded electricity'. The company behind it wants to start building its own renewable plants for mining and to spread electricity in Africa. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bitcoin in the bush - crypto mining brings power to rural areas

Bitcoin miners will go to remote locations to take advantage of cheap electricity.

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Joe Tidy BBC News @joetidy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

On my way back from a fascinating and exhausting assignment to Zambia about Bitcoin mining. 28 hours of driving in 3 days but worth it to report from locations like this.

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Stop Bank Spying — Big Brother Watch

Fettering these is the simplest way for an authoritarian state to control you. We defeated these attempts before. We must defeat them again. Please share as widely as you can; use the template prepared by Big Brother Watch below to alert your MP NOW. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/st...

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And why is this so important? Because transacting freely is fundamental to your ability to live a free and unencumbered life in an open society. Your decisions, your opinions, and your desires are all reflected in your transacting and spending choices.

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If the state believes I have committed a crime, it must prove that beyond reasonable doubt in front of a jury of my peers. Until it does that, I am innocent. Punishment before proof is the mark of the tyrant.

It's an appalling overreach of state power. More fundamentally, it reverses the presumption of innocence that is the keystone of the justice system in any fair society.

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🚨 This is not a drill 🚨 Everyone who cares about their right to privacy and personal freedom should write to their MPs now. In the UK Labour are rushing through a Bill that could give the government the power not only to spy on your bank accounts, but to remove money directly from them.

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If you don’t like the sound of that, then join us in fighting back. The battle is far from over, and it’s absolutely crucial that we win.

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👉They pretend that ‘user’s privacy would be protected’. This is of course utterly false (see the admission in the second image below). A digital pound will give the Bank and the Government effectively total control over your money, your spending, and by extension, over you

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👉It’s good news that even a ‘decision’ won’t be made until 2027. If that’s what they’re telling us now, the timetable will likely slip to at least 2029.

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👉CBDCs won’t be ‘like an electronic version of the banknotes issued by the Bank of England’. They would be programmable and would absolutely allow governments to monitor and control your spending. This is unacceptable in a free society.

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👉As we’ve previously predicted, a CBDC can’t be created without ‘Parliament’s approval’. This gives us a bargaining chip. We all need to make clear to our MPs that we don’t want these monstrosities in our country, and that any MP who votes in favour of a CBDC will be punished at the ballot box.

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A lot to unpack from the UK’s CBDC - 🚨 both good and bad 🚨.

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We also recommend that the regulation clarifies that it cannot and shall not apply to the developers of free and open source software.

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How should it be changed? We recommend two simple changes – that the information being gathered on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency users is severely limited and in a way proportionate to the high risk of personal harm

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Additionally, the UK’s new draft regulations fail to make clear that none of these reporting requirements will fall upon the developers of free and open source software, as such persons cannot be in a position to comply.

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Also the risk of violent physical attacks against Bitcoiners whose details are leaked to or obtained by bad actors.

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This is a highly dangerous level of intrusion into your personal and private life, particularly given the increasing frequency of data breaches (examples in our paper)

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It will include your name, address, date of birth, amount of Bitcoin held or sold or transferred

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What’s wrong with it? The amount of personal and transaction data that will be gathered and shared is truly staggering. This won’t just be shared with your domestic tax authorities, but with others across the globe.

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What’s being proposed? Under the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework or CARF, it’s proposed that tax authorities worldwide will gather and have access to information on cryptocurrency transactions, allegedly to combat tax evasion and ensure compliance with tax laws.

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Bitcoin Policy UK have today released a research paper and delivered this to HMRC with commentary on recommended changes to the draft legislation.

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