Robin Smith

@AlanJLSmith Free market in the UK 🇬🇧 is an illusion. We work for the government. On one side it’s subsidies, on the other side it’s taxes leading ultimately to IHT. As entrepreneurs we just pinball in the middle, but it feels like with labour walls are coming in closer and closer.

Business owners: from next week, your company shares may be subject to inheritance tax upon your death. Another poor decision by a government that claims to want to encourage growth and support small businesses.

@scotsrenewables have come across curtailcoin.com. I'm interested in the idea of #scoltand building a sovereign wealth fund in #bitcoin with all our curtailed wind. In the same way, Norway did when they discovered North Sea oil. Thoughts? @CurtailCoin

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@freddienew @DecentraSuze @bitcoinpolicyuk 🫡 Thank you for the incredible amount of voluntary work Freddie @DecentraSuze & BPUK team do. Sometimes it’s the unpaid passion projects that are the most rewarding. I’m confident in decades to come your flag bearing policy/lobbying work will be the catalyst for change in 🇬🇧

Thank you to @DecentraSuze , my co-founder and CEO at @bitcoinpolicyuk, to all of our core team and advisers, and to all those who have supported us in whatever way (there’s a link in the thread). This isn’t the end of our work – but an acknowledgement that since I am now full time with @bitcoinhodlco, and that each of our core team and wider volunteers all need to earn a living, we have to reassess and restructure our goals and operations. From the beginning, we operated as a team of volunteers, running on shoestrings and fumes. I personally funded our operations from my own pocket for the first year, and we worked at nights, weekends, on our holidays and in our spare time, around our day jobs to ensure that there was a Bitcoin only and Bitcoin focused voice at the table (a table otherwise filled with Web 3 and crypto voices). In our several years of operations, we have researched and drafted tens if not hundreds of thousands of words in research and consultation papers, ensured that these have been delivered to and form part of the Parliamentary research databases on the subject, and had dialogue at the highest levels of government, with MPs, Lords and Ministers. We have played a part in ensuring that Bitcoin is now legally recognized as property in English law, we have pushed back hard against CBDCs and been instrumental in the deluge of 50,000 responses on the issue being sent in to the Bank of England, and have bonded with the Bitcoin community across the UK to make it as easy as possible for constituents to write to their MPs on relevant issues. However, each of Susie and I (and all our core team) still need to earn a living. As I’m full time at a listed company, I have duties to my shareholders to devote my time to them and to fulfil all the obligations that sit with the CEO of a listed company. BPUK has long been in need of funds to pay for personnel to continue our work; and I am afraid to say that instead of supporting us, such funds inevitably seem to get diverted to bodies such as “Stand with Crypto” or the “British Blockchain Association”. As a result, and to ensure that a Bitcoin only voice survives in the UK, we are scaling BPUK’s operations back to core functions only. Although my role at BHODL takes up all my working hours, I will continue (at nights and at weekends) to research and write Bitcoin only consultation and advocacy papers, which remain imperative for as long as the current FCA consultation is ongoing. At the outset, I felt I probably had a full cycle of unpaid and extra curricular work in me; this summer it will be exactly four years since my first evidence to Parliament; so it looks as though I wasn’t far off the mark. Thank you again to all our supporters, whether past, present or yet to come.

@JoeNakamoto Strike and Blockstream Jade a good starting combo…. Once he’s had some Jedi training, Coldcard and Robosats or Bisq

What video do you send noobies on how to buy *and store* bitcoin? He’s done the work to know he wants to buy some. Now it’s a question of getting it right. Presumably a video by Ben Btcsessions, but he is based in the UK 🇬🇧

@sebbunney Hey seb, thanks for all your work, it was your book that helps my wife (a clinical psychologist ) understand bitcoin, you made it very relatable, family conversations are much easier now!

I’ve always believed information should be accessible to everyone. If you can’t afford my book, message me — I'll send the e-book for free, no questions asked. And if you’d rather not reach out, The Hidden Cost of Money is already on Anna’s Archive… even in Spanish, which I just discovered... super cool! Free for anyone who needs it. Link below 👇

@ZynxBTC The orange stage presentations were good , I avoided most of the Tresurey stage which seemed like corporate sponsorship…. With expectation of @jackmallers who was the highlight and Saf who was great

Unfortunately I have received numerous reports that Bitcoin Amsterdam was the worst event this year. Common complaints include: -Relentless talk about "crypto" and "tokens". -Shilling of sketchy products and services. -Didn't feel like a Bitcoin event. Such a shame.

@DecentraSuze @LucyRigby Well done , Great letter Susie, measured, thanks for all the work you do.

Dear @LucyRigby, I hope you will take a moment to read this. We spoke in the Anacta Suite at Labour Conference. During your conversation with Visa I asked you directly: “As the UK is the third largest sovereign holder of bitcoin, should the Treasury be researching a strategic bitcoin reserve to strengthen our economic position.” You took our organisation’s details and said you would follow up. Before and after that conversation @BitcoinPolicyUK has reached out to you on multiple occasions. We have contacted your office with open letters, emails, our bitcoin manifesto, invitations to meet, policy documents and evidence based submissions. These include the strategic bitcoin reserve letter published here: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/aea8… We have also submitted our policy material which can be found here: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/aea8… We have had no response. Our work is independent and carried out in the public interest. We ask only for the opportunity to contribute to the national conversation. In contrast, Visa and now Ripple appear to have extraordinary access and influence at the highest levels of government. At Labour Conference Visa representatives advocated for identity linked payments. Ripple is now pushing centralised digital infrastructure that aligns closely with government controlled money, a model that risks creating the most monitored and permissioned financial system we have ever seen. At the Texas Bankers Association roundtable Visa pushed programmable money and tightly controlled payment rails. These systems are often marketed as “inclusive,” but reports show they exclude the most vulnerable and create new risks for privacy and autonomy. Visa and Ripple have both the budget and the access to push this vision across every forum they enter. This creates a serious problem. The UK is being guided by advice from companies with vast resources and strong commercial incentives. Their interests are not aligned with the interests of citizens. When ministers hear mainly from large corporates they receive a narrow and distorted view of what the country’s digital future should be. This leads to policy ideas that weaken privacy reduce freedom and place growing power in the hands of intermediaries. Bitcoin offers the opposite: - It strengthens national resilience - It supports privacy and individual freedom - It provides an open monetary network that no corporation can manipulate - It is the only digital asset aligned with the principles of a free and open society My concern is simple. The UK is receiving advice shaped by powerful corporate interests whose incentives run directly against the public good, and Bitcoin is being sidelined at the moment it matters most. This is not a party political issue, it is about ensuring that government hears from more than one type of stakeholder. The stakes include financial stability energy innovation and the UK’s global competitiveness. img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/aea8… Bitcoin Policy UK remains ready to brief you at any time. There is no cost and no commercial motive. Only evidence independence and a commitment to helping the UK make informed decisions. I hope we can finally begin this conversation. Yours sincerely Susie Violet Ward CEO, Bitcoin Policy UK

@brulobeer you need one of these guys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿… in full flow @BitcoinConfEUR

@Hasheraio @BitcoinConfEUR Like what you’re doing, guys 😀

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SPACEX STARLINK TO 3 BILLION PHONES BY 2030 We predicted the X Phone months ago—and now Elon's confirmed it. With AI inference on every device and 3B customers by 2030. This won't just be a phone. It is the end of telecom as we know it. Totally worldchanging within 5 years. The $17B EchoStar deal involves AWS-4 spectrum (H-block/S-band), enabling high-bandwidth satellite-to-phone globally. Musk hinted at a Starlink phone and partner company phones at the All in Summit 2025. Hardware changes like chipset modifications for new frequencies are needed and will be ready in 2 years. This will allow high-bandwidth video streaming anywhere with those phones working indoors in normal homes but not thick metal roofs. Everyone in the audience raised hands to say they want a Starlink phone. EchoStar, an old-school geosynchronous satellite company. Has lost half its customers to Starlink's low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation (8,000+ satellites). They are roadkill for SpaceX. EchoStar failed to utilize the spectrum (FCC requires half-system launch within timelines). They sold it preemptively. SpaceX got $8.5B in EchoStar stock, boosting their value 20%. In India and elsewhere, spectrum is a public resource. Underutilization leads to reallocation because the government auctions it to companies that will pay more and do more with it. If SpaceX is 100X more effective then the spectrum will get auctioned to SpaceX as the governments will get way more value by having the spectrum in competent hands. @elonmusk @spacex @starlink @chamath @Erdayastronaut @esherifftv002 @WR4NYGov @MarcusHouse @RandyWKirk1 @herbertong My SpaceX Projections are Now 7 million and 9-10 million customers by end of 2025. $5 billion in profit. 2026--- 28M customers → $60B revenue $48B profit (high margins as expenses scale minimally). At 40x P/E (like Nvidia), valuation $1.6–2T. By 2028 SpaceX will have 100M high speed internet users for $400B/year profit and a $16 trillion valuation. They will be the world's largest company. This is just from dishes/high-speed internet, not mobiles. Mobile potential: India alone (300M+ users), plus Europe, Africa, etc. Starlink could reach 3 billion customers by 2030. All of that cash, profits and valuation will make it very easy to acquire more spectrum and more companies.

@virginmedia now fuelling my anger of their appalling business practices… the were charginf me £80/month with terrible customer service. So I left. Interesting this is their “true” price. Dealing with them feels like like haggling in a market stall in rural India #worstservice

I just boosted Trail Coach on @btcmap. Check them out! btcmap.org/merchant/node:… #bitcoin

@DecentraSuze Yay 🙌… congrats Susie

Today, I'm heading into the Roxom studio in London’s Soho to start regular shows on Bitcoin, current affairs, UK policy, and to interview key voices in the space. This is a hugely exciting opportunity and a perfect synergy with my work as CEO of Bitcoin Policy UK and as a journalist. Bitcoin adoption in the UK is happening. ⚡️ Thank you, @RoxomTV.

@LomondSchool known for sailing, but didn’t expect them to chart a course to #Prague just to recruit a new #Saylor! Must be the Bitcoin current pulling them in ⛵🧭 @Lomondlife #Bitcoin

Be here at 5.20pm Expo stage @BTCPrague or be the square root of nothing.. #bitcon #education #uk

Making a splash in the #mempool @BTCPrague. Thanks to the organisers a great day 1. Passionate presentation by @jackmallers, for all #Millennials to watch when it emerges on #YouTube… 👏

@RevolutApp 75% of travel has to be paid in card… this has to be FLIGHS…. Fuel for diesel in a van does NOT count according to insurance customer services.

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@RevolutApp careful not to get caught out with Revolt Travel Insurance with Metal Ultra Plans. Their insurance is a CON 😔 . You are NOT insured if you drive abroad in a car or campervan. You have to pay 75% of your flights or holiday package using card. Source customer service