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The old centralised model has officially run out of road. We are watching global institutions collapse under their own weight and the cracks are no longer possible to paper over. As the IMF said, "The 'muddling-through' approach ⁠that ​many countries have adopted so far is reaching its limits." The IMF has sounded the alarm on the European Union. Europe is facing catastrophic, compounding bills for defence, energy and ageing demographics. Without radical, structural overhauls, average public debt is projected to skyrocket to 130% of GDP by 2040. This is happening globally but playing out at different speeds. Even Tony Blair, the ultimate architect of the modern centrist, globalist establishment, published a scathing assessment of where the UK government finds itself. Blair is calling out Net Zero targets and the economic damage of restrictive employment and business regulations. He says tax receipts are drying up, welfare costs are exploding and governments are borrowing at a completely unsustainable rate. When the elite who built the current political consensus admit the math doesn't work anymore, you know the illusion is shattered. At this point, believing that more centralised intervention, more debt and more regulations will fix it is far more delusional than paying attention to cosmic cycles or historical turnings. Politics is disintegrating because the foundational architecture is obsolete. Politicians schooled in flawed economics, captured by corporate interests and trapped in ego still think the answer to every crisis is more statist control, more bureaucratic overreach and more debt. Somehow, the masses still look to these dying institutions for solutions. This entire news cycle, the breakdown of the EU, the panic of the political elite, the economic redlining is perfectly coinciding with our transition into the 'Age of Aquarius'. To the conditioned mind, explaining a sovereign debt crisis through this lens sounds insane... but right now a cosmic alignment of rebellion, decentralisation, community, technology, innovation and the unconventional makes a lot more sense than the mainstream narrative. What we are witnessing is a massive shift in collective consciousness. The existing top down systems are fighting a losing battle against a global elevation of vibrational frequency. When a collective vibration shifts, the old paradigm panics. It manifests as political turmoil, institutional breakdowns, the rise of authoritarianism, ideological extremism and polarisation. It is the death rattle of a control matrix trying to fight back against a spiritual evolution it cannot contain. So what is the answer? It’s not fixing a broken political party or voting in a new centralised 'saviour'. Everything in this matrix is mathematical and built on code... and code responds to the user. There is no such thing as an objective experience; you cannot separate your reality from your own conditional bias. What you can do is change the frequency you operate on. The ultimate rebellion against a collapsing, low vibrational system is to raise your own vibration. To see through the illusion of the chaos, recognise that it’s all a catalyst for awakening and anchor yourself back into the ultimate truth ... which is Love. The old world is on borrowed time, we need to stop looking to out of touch politicians for answers. Let's build decentralised systems and communities, step out of fear and raise the frequency. Full Reuters article: reuters.com/business/finan…

Huge progress update. We will soon have Cashu Ecash mints in secure enclaves that the mint operator can't steal the Bitcoin from, not can they inflate or manipulate the Ecash supply. The operator has no access to the private keys of the mint. This is amazing news for users and operators alike. It allows us to build tools for communities that allow them to run mints without being afraid of malicious actors, internally or externally, such as security threats from hackers. We're building this for the Bitcoin community first but we're planning to expand this also for local currency communities outside of the crypto space that exist in pockets all around the world. Especially the local currency tech stack is old and antiquated. We're going to give them the most advanced ecash protocol they could ever dream of. For free! Lots of moving parts here: servers, libraries, backend, wallets, and protocol extensions. Incredible work by the entire Cashu team.

This is a huge day for @bitcoinhodlco, and the culmination of months of work. First thing is to congratulate and say thank you to my incredible team who have been working flat out to pull this off - thanks and well done. On a company and also a personal level, this is hugely meaningful for us. It marks the launch of our second business line as trailed in our Admission Document; starting with our Lightning routing business, we're now entering the Lighting Service Provider market, offering inbound liquidity channels to enterprise, retail, human and machine customers. It's a huge step for us on our mission to compound our Bitcoin holdings and both to normalise and to simplify the use of Bitcoin as money. Couldn't be happier to have hit the Pizza Day release date as well! Thanks to everyone who made this happen - and on to the next challenge.

Hi Gary, sorry to keep ratioing you, and I suspect I will do it again. I only had to listen to 29 seconds to put this together because you revealed yourself by calling Reform the "far-right party". Perhaps after 29 seconds there is some sense in there, maybe I'll come back to it, anyway.... Let me first say, I am not a huge fan of Reform, but I am also not a fan of branding everything you dislike as far-right. Far-right politics, historically, means authoritarianism, racial supremacy, political violence, suppression of opposition and/or rejection of democracy itself. Agreed? So Reform then, well they support elections, free speech, lower taxes, border control and reducing the size of the state. You can dislike those ideas all you want, but they are mainstream positions held by millions of voters across democratic countries. Ironically Gary, or perhaps not, but parts of the modern far-left openly flirt with some of what you have branded: - Censorship and deplatforming - Punishing dissent - Political intimidation - Opponents as morally illegitimate (what you are doing here lad) - Expanding state control You can see this in support for speech laws, attempts to silence academics and journalists, aggressive cancellation campaigns and the belief that certain views should be excluded from public debate entirely. Please stop this stunted intellectual crusade, it is embarrassing. We know the agenda, you just want to expand the state, give more control to incompetency and loot the voters. Init.

We have submitted our response to HMRC’s consultation on the taxation of stablecoins. Our position is clear: if the government recognises that stablecoins used for payments deserve different tax treatment, the same principle should apply to Bitcoin when it is used to buy goods and services. The current CGT system creates unnecessary complexity for consumers and businesses while generating very little meaningful revenue. Buying a coffee with Bitcoin should not require detailed tax calculations and reporting obligations. We are calling for a usage-based exemption for cryptoasset payments, including Bitcoin, alongside a modern framework that supports innovation, economic growth, and digital payments infrastructure in the UK. The UK has an opportunity to become a global leader in crypto payments policy. We should seize it. Read more in our blog where you can find our consultation response: tinyurl.com/hdk6evan @DecentraSuze @freddienew

Today marks a new phase for Bitcoin Policy UK. After three years of building together, Freddie is now focusing fully on his work at B HODL. He first reached out to me after reading an article I wrote about Bitcoin mining and the environment and invited me to help establish Bitcoin Policy UK. What followed were 3 years of building, consultations, open letters, conferences, APPGs, late nights, weekends, stress, belief, friendship and an incredible team of volunteers who helped create something important. His focus on building Lightning Network infrastructure at B HODL is an important part of Bitcoin’s future. I want to thank Freddie personally for everything, especially for his dedication through the highs and lows of building BPUK from scratch. The next stage will look different, but the mission continues and the work we have already delivered remains available for anyone who wants to build on it. The ideas behind Bitcoin are bigger than any one organisation or chapter. Full announcement here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/blog-1/f/bpuk-…

@DecentraSuze @freddienew @bitcoinpolicyuk @freddienew, thank you for all that you have done, and continue to do for Bitcoin. The early mornings and late nights, time away from your family and home, your time and energy... thank you. 🙏

How is it possible that a change of this scale can occur in the UK without the consent of the populace? I do not consent to Palantir's access to my personal data.

Privacy, and our basic freedoms, are under attack from all sides. Incredibly, the so-called 'liberal democracies' are now leading these attacks; arresting their own citizens for posting online, rolling out facial recognition cameras, and moving to ban VPNs. "What can men do against such reckless hate?" And are we losing this battle? Absolutely not. There's still time to fight back, and we have much in our arsenal. We at @bitcoinpolicyuk have put together a 'Privacy Toolkit', that should let anyone, whatever their skill level, take a few small steps towards improving their privacy and their freedom, and making themselves just a little bit harder for governments to track and to oppress. This isn't comprehensive, and we'll continue to update it as time goes by. We hope it's useful to everyone and serves as a handy guide to help us all push back against government overreach, wherever we find it. Link in the thread and comments welcome! 👇

Privacy isn’t about “having something to hide.” It’s about protecting your freedom in a world where every click, payment, and message creates a permanent record. From facial recognition mistakes to leaked crypto-holder databases that led to violent robberies, the risks are real. Our new Privacy Toolkit offers simple, practical steps anyone can take to protect their ability to speak and transact freely online, whether you’ve got 10 minutes or want to go much deeper. Start with one change this week. Access the Privacy Toolkit here: tinyurl.com/37x5s9d8  @DecentraSuze @freddienew

This briefing paper from Bitcoin Policy UK explains why this matters, especially for the UK and Europe: Full paper: img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/aea8… @BitcoinPolicyUK @DarthPeebles

The UK 30-year is now 80 basis points above the peak of the Liz Truss crisis. Nobody is talking about it. UK 30-year gilts hit 5.78%, the highest since 1998. The bond market is pricing more pain than the moment that supposedly broke British fiscal credibility two years ago. The UK is just the canary. US 10-year hit 4.42%. Japan's 10-year hit a 29-year high at 2.50%. Germany's bund hit 3.05%. France's OAT hit 3.72% with 114% debt-to-GDP. Every major central bank that was supposed to be cutting is now considering hikes. The energy shock reshuffled monetary policy. Oil above $100 means inflation isn't returning to 2%. This is the endgame. Decades of money printing meeting a supply shock central banks can't print away. The UK has £2.7 trillion in debt with £106 billion in annual interest, more than the entire defense budget. There are only two roads from here: IMF intervention or massive money printing. Either way, purchasing power gets destroyed. The ceasefire rumors surfaced the morning after US 30-year yields surpassed 5%. Whether the deal materializes or not, the bond market forced the conversation. Bitcoin sits outside this entire system. When every fiat bond market reprices lower at the same time, the case for a neutral reserve asset stops being a thesis and starts being arithmetic.

London pint, 2000: £2 London pint, 2026: £10 The pint didn't change. Your money got worse.

@citrea_xyz Gfy.

1/8 Today, we introduce CTR, the coordination asset for the Bitcoin economy. Over the past two years, we built an end-to-end Bitcoin economy that relies on the Bitcoin Network as its source of truth. With CTR, we're handing control of this economy to the people who use it.

We live in a permanent state of socialism - for the rich. Yes and this is the irony for socialists. Our financial system is a system which extracts upwards through inflation and purchasing power. As more money is created > money loses purchasing power > assets gain purchasing power > wage earners get poorer as wages don’t keep up > asset holders get wealthier as asset values increase too. Further, the rich have better access to buy more assets with the newly created money. How do I know this? I am an asset holder, I benefit, I’m telling you because I think it’s vile. No party has made any attempt to deal with this. Why? To deal with this means not deficit spending, which means balancing the books, which means being honest with the public, which means not making false promises to win votes. It is a machine of lying and corruption to win power. If you want a fairer society, inflation would be your number one enemy. Everything else is theatre - tax the rich is theatre, billionaire whinging is theatre. The government loves inflation as they are in so much debt it wipes it away for them. The rich love inflation as it makes the wealthier. Everyone else should treat it like the plague. Ending inflation is the best way to reduce the growing wealth divide. If we don’t, our society will continue to hollow out and your life will get harder. Stop voting for your own misery.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

Want to see the British Debt Clock? @shauniekt has made it. What fixes this? ukdebtclock.co.uk

So… what happens if your Government Digital ID gets revoked? That question should be setting off alarm bells in the current Digital ID consultation. What could THAT mean in practice? – Locked out of essential services? – Unable to work legally? – No access to banking? – Blocked from driving licence applications? – Cut off from pensions, childcare support, and more? – Restricted from physical spaces because… “computer says no?” Last few days to tell them what you think of their Digital ID idea - consultation closes Tuesday: …rn-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-con… We wrote a guide to the consultation here: togetherdeclaration.org/guide-to-the-g…

🇬🇧 We all share the same mission. Drive Bitcoin forward in the UK 🚀 The Bitcoin Business Network was built for exactly that. Until today, it was only open to business owners. That changes now! ⚡️ Professional membership is live. No business required. Just belief in what Bitcoin can do for this country. Come and be part of it 🧵👇

Sent to Restore Britain from a whistleblower - an internal job advert for a £81,000 Digital ID deputy director... As you can see, their plans are fully underway. We certainly have a big fight ahead of us in 2026. We must say NO to Digital ID.