Dan Howitt

HMRC just published a £3.4m procurement notice for cryptoasset investigation services — blockchain tracing software, forensic support, cross-chain analytics, and investigator training. With CARF reporting going live in 2026 and first data due May 2027, HMRC is building the enforcement infrastructure to match. This isn't a future plan. It's happening now. find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/021324-…

Calling @BorisJohnson… PONZI

@CryptoTaxJme Can an AI agent open a bank account? Maybe. But it can certainly generate a private key. If AI is truth seeking, one of the big goals of xAI, then the LLM’s are going to look at fiat currency and evaluate it as Bitcoiners do today - a ponzi.

@danhowitt That’s actually really interesting. With AI will it have free rein of currencies/assets to use? Bitcoin being the singularity makes perfect sense.

🚨 Where’s the Crypto Hub narrative? 🚨 England had a real chance to become a global crypto hub. We blew it. The government isn’t moving. There’s no real policy direction, no urgency, no vision. And pumps? They’re not exactly focused on the UK market right now either. We’re not building. We’re watching. And the world is moving on without us.

AI developments virtually everyday…. me: ‘a bloke cured his dog of cancer with ChatGPT’. Wife: ‘unload the dishwasher’

@Thesecretinves2 It's like the world has lost the capability of critical thinking. It's probably largely due to the fact every headline now needs to be clickbait.

@danhowitt Politicians and Journalists......

Tbf this is probably positive for Bitcoin. The factual inaccuracies and Bitcoin has been described as rat poison. Here is the rat.

@BorisJohnson Amazing that nearly 20 years of Bitcoin people still don’t get it.

I've long suspected Bitcoin is a giant Ponzi scheme and now I'm hearing tales of woe that make me fear I'm right. mol.im/a/15643681

It’s ok GDPR protects us…

Friday deadlifts. 5 x 4 x 110kg.

Fiona Bruce is 100% incorrect. We sell our gas in the GB market. Pretty much all the gas comes via pipelines from the North Sea platforms to the GB grid It is not sold on the international markets Drilling more displaces imported LNG. LNG requires liquefaction, shipping and regas costs which are all avoided with domestic production ie reduce the cost of gas for British consumers Plus we earn lots of tax income from our own production @KemiBadenoch

@Bitcoin_Cookie Indeed. Someone wake me up from the simulation

What in the retards is this?

@Thesecretinves2 smashing it at FAB.uk

We are excited to announce that @Nigel_Farage and @blockchain have made strategic equity investments in #Stack. This marks a major step forward in our ambition to build the UK’s leading Bitcoin treasury company, acquiring high-quality UK businesses whilst growing our #Bitcoin reserves. 🔗 stackbitcoin.co.uk RNS: aquis.eu/stock-exchange…

Loving the ’Londonmaxxing’ that's catching on. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@Jcastweet @BoomBapBurger Seeeya Hawksmoor! Definitely will be booking in

Good luck to Steve and the @BoomBapBurger team on the opening of their London steak restaurant this week. mrbl.co.uk Soft launch this week and bookings open from the 10th March. Both brands are members of the business network and im sure many people will be booking a table soon. Accepting Bitcoin for steak. What’s not to like.

The amount of time I spend convincing companies that we don't touch crypto, we account for it is insane. It's also pretty obvious what our business model is… I even explain Xero or quickbooks for cryptoassets. Then they ask for our FCA registration?! We are not required to be regulated! We don't provide financial services. In 2020 I even got our lawyers to spell out the obvious in a memo we can send to banks / financial institutions. Honestly, everyone seems so scared of regs the word ‘crypto’ on your website means an immediate no. It's so frustrating!

@getbitcoin108 Glad you made it through the process, and pleased that HopTrail worked out - decent chaps.

Buying Property With the Proceeds of Bitcoin UK 2026 Having just been through the torturous ordeal of buying a house with the proceeds of bitcoin, I thought it might be useful to others to know what is involved. 1. Currently it is possible to buy property with bitcoin directly, but it is very unlikely the vendor would accept it. Bitcoin is not widely liked or understood in Britain and whilst there have been some direct house sales for bitcoin, they are very rare and Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is still payable - because paying someone for a house is counted as a disposal. 2. In addition, it is very unlikely a conveyancing solicitor would allow this transaction as most are not equipped to handle digital asset transactions. Which means you’ll have to sell your bitcoin - not necessarily a comfortable or easy thing. The more years you’ve been hodling the harder it is to exchange your pristine digital capital for filthy, lightweight fiat! 3. It also means you’ll incur a hefty CGT bill - handing many thousands over to the very fiat powers oppressing us with their financial and governmental incompetence. Uncomfortable but necessary: as a City trader used to say to me “Just pay your tax. You’ll sleep at night.” This is particularly true given HMRC’s new AI capabilities. Hyped or not, it isn’t worth testing them. 4. Once you have the fiat in your bank account, you then face the daunting process of solicitor's Anti-Money Laundering (AML) checks. You’ll need proof of the original source of funds you used to buy bitcoin (inheritance, gift, income etc), exchange statements showing the purchases and the sales, bank statements showing the funds in your account, the funds leaving your account, and the proceeds of the bitcoin sale back in your account. They need a full audit trail to satisfy their Proof of Wealth (PoW) and Proof of Funds (PoF) checks. 5. These checks are no joke. They stem from the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017 - lawsociety.org.uk/topics/anti-mo… - which place weighty obligations on law firms handling money. In particular, cash purchases of houses are viewed as ‘high risk of money laundering’ so attract enhanced due diligence measures. Solicitors have gone to prison for not tracing the source of even quite trivial sums. Similarly, criminals are targeting solicitors like never before - both for stealing funds through cyberattacks and for laundering money. The regulations are not without genuine cause. 6. Your choice of solicitors will determine whether you are put through potentially weeks of stress as they scrutinise every part of your financial and bitcoin life. Provincial solicitors are likely to say ‘cryptocurrency is high risk and we don’t do high risk’ and either turn you down flat at the beginning (if you are lucky) or put you through a long, drawn out process that could mean you lose the house you are intending to purchase, and lose your will to live with it. 7. There are some national conveyancing firms that are much happier to process bitcoin related house purchases. Thomas Legal thomaslegal.co.uk are one such. In our case, they completed their AML checks in one business day. And they were exceptionally friendly and efficient with it. A stark contrast to our first (local) solicitor who took 8 weeks to say that he wasn’t completely satisfied and 'further checks were going to be required’. 8. It certainly felt like the resistance of the fiat system to bitcoin was exemplified by his suspicious attitude. If you work with a firm like this, you’ll find yourself feeling like a criminal - guilty until proven innocent. Very uncomfortable. As is having your entire financial and bitcoin history exposed. Be prepared to reveal all if you want that dream house. 9. An essential component of clearing the AML check quickly was having a Hoptrail Proof of Wealth Report prepared in advance. hoptrail.io. This specialist auditing company look at the blockchain and exchange statements, rather than fiat accounts, and ensure your coins are not connected to known criminal wallets, mixers or from ‘dubious' sources such as Silk Road. There are stories of bitcoiners with 8 figure portfolios, not a satoshi of which could be used for house purchases because the coins were tainted - from the fiat system point of view at any rate. Most solicitors do not have these skills in-house so having a Hoptrail report is essential. 10. Because of a combination of the Hoptrail report and extended due diligence at solicitors, don’t expect much change from £10,000 for your conveyancing fees. Add in CGT and you’ll need to sell more bitcoin than you might be comfortable doing to cover all the costs. Note that there has been no requirement to have paid CGT before our funds were approved - contrary to some advice out there. 11. Some might ask ‘why put yourself through this?’. Well, in our case, after hodling for 12 years, it felt like it was time to see some real-world benefits. We’re not young and we want to live somewhere decent for our retirement. Feeling wealthy is no substitute for living in a house that better suits your needs. 12. Britain is still very much in the Dark Ages when it comes to bitcoin adoption and understanding. The vast majority of banks, solicitors, out there are simply follow what the @FCA, @FT, @BBC say about #Bitcoin, but at least some are more enlightened and will help, rather than hinder, your purchase. #End

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