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Powering Businesses and Sustainable Growth with Bitcoin #npub1z74dj8y9xgq3lmz3eyvarzmwxwllhuzewz2exwz5j57tf6jssmss9pd4yx

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Bitcoin Policy UK
Bitcoin Policy UK@bitcoinpolicyuk·
Bitcoin Policy UK are delighted to announce that Susie Violet Ward, a founding member of BPUK, has been appointed as our new CEO. Full press release below.
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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
Today @TheFCA raided eight London sites in its first ever coordinated crackdown on peer to peer crypto trading. Enforcement has now moved onto ordinary individuals operating outside the regulated system. The UK is trying to position itself as a global centre for digital assets centred around stablecoins, tokenisation and institutional adoption. At the same time, the most direct form of decentralised exchange is being pushed into a legal grey area. Individuals trading with one another can find everyday activity interpreted as unlawful once it reaches meaningful scale. There are effectively no P2P traders registered under current AML rules. This creates a tension in UK policy where: - privacy is treated as opacity - self custody is viewed as risk - decentralised systems are judged against rules designed for intermediaries. When there is no realistic route to compliance, enforcement dictates behaviour by default, not by design. These same regulatory and data collection approaches are creating real physical security risks by linking identities to holdings and turning oversight into surveillance. The implications for safety, privacy and surveillance are unprecedented. These regulators will also have to live in the world they create... @BitcoinPolicyUK
WOLF Crypto@WOLF_Crypto_X

🇬🇧 UK FCA RAIDS 8 LONDON ADDRESSES IN FIRST P2P CRYPTO CRACKDOWN Britain's Financial Conduct Authority hit eight sites suspected of peer-to-peer crypto trading under money laundering rules No P2P traders are currently FCA-registered in the UK and are technically illegal

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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth… they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X. We are told the @BBC is a trusted British institution, transparent, accountable and impartial. My 13 month battle to get a simple correction showed the opposite. Endless bureaucratic deflection, stonewalling and a flat refusal to engage with evidence or expert input. This is how narratives form and facts disappear. After years of scandals and blatant disinformation, is it finally time to #DefundTheBBC? This is the first time I have explained the full fiasco in this new podcast on @BitcoinArchive with Archie.
Bitcoin Archive@BitcoinArchive

The BBC pushed a fake Bitcoin story. When Susie @DecentraSuze exposed them, and requested documentation under Freedom of Information, they took cover. This is the true story of a 13-month campaign to get to the truth - why did the BBC lie? youtube.com/watch?v=x2M6gs…

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Freddie New
Freddie New@freddienew·
I really don't think anyone in @UKLabour realises there are more Bitcoin and crypto holders in the UK than trade union members. Just yesterday, we had comments like this in the House from @JanetDaby - for the record, the donation to which she refers was made in cash, not crypto (see BBC article below: "Mr Harborne's donation, which was made on 1 August, was not in cryptocurrency". Also, the nature of Bitcoin makes it easier to trace the source of funds, as I myself show in the flow below (I made a test donation of £5.00 and followed this on the public ledger). Perhaps any of Janet's constituents who hold Bitcoin could reach out to her, and encourage her to engage with @bitcoinpolicyuk to learn more? Or point her to the new 'Bitcoin Basics' educational sections on the Bitcoin Policy UK website.
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Jez Casey@Jcastweet

There are more bitcoin and digital asset owners in the UK than trade union members! The FCA puts it at ~6 million adults. That’s: • More than ALL UK political party members combined — times five • Equal to the number of smokers (who shaped decades of legislation) • Bigger than the entire trade union movement today and yet bitcoin is barely a political conversation. That will change and fast. @trussliz @kwasi_stackbtc @BitcoinColl

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Bitcoin Archive
Bitcoin Archive@BitcoinArchive·
The BBC pushed a fake Bitcoin story. When Susie @DecentraSuze exposed them, and requested documentation under Freedom of Information, they took cover. This is the true story of a 13-month campaign to get to the truth - why did the BBC lie? youtube.com/watch?v=x2M6gs…
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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
Thank you @Ed_Miliband, your red tape and grid bureaucracy have actually done something right. You have made it easier, faster and make more business sense to mine Bitcoin rather than connect to the grid. A Yorkshire gas field that could supply over 10% of Britain’s annual demand is being positioned for early Bitcoin mining rather than immediate supply to the national grid. Reabold Resources plans a small on site gas fired power station using private gas to mine Bitcoin, generate early revenue and help fund further development of the field. Connecting to the grid is slow, costly and tied up in years of approvals, infrastructure build out and negotiations. Using the gas on site allows immediate monetisation from existing wells and creates early cash flow without waiting for the wider system to catch up. When the fastest and most viable route for a domestic energy resource is private on site use rather than supplying the grid, it becomes clear that Bitcoin isn’t the problem. This neatly exposes how misaligned UK energy policy, infrastructure and incentives have become. It’s amazing what businesses can do to stay profitable, even when the government tries to make it almost impossible. Full article: telegraph.co.uk/gift/f18a6bf32…
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Bitcoin Policy UK@bitcoinpolicyuk·
Bitcoin is often misunderstood, complex, polarising, and full of noise. At Bitcoin Policy UK, we believe better policy starts with better understanding. We’ve launched a new Learn section to explain Bitcoin simply: 
 • What it is
 • How it works
 • Why it matters Clear, accessible, and grounded in fundamentals. Start here:  bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-basics… @DecentraSuze @freddienew
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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
Centralising justice is bad enough, now Labour is pushing plans to take greater control over private pension pots and dictate where that capital flows. We need to separate money and state and seriously rethink the size and reach of government. History keeps showing what happens when politicians steer financial decisions for everyone else. - They incentivised diesel cars then pivoted and left owners exposed. - They launched Help to Buy and distorted the housing market. - They pushed green home insulation schemes then scrapped them after botched installations left homeowners with poor quality work and extra costs. - They also hike interest rates to control inflation which crushes demand and leaves families facing higher borrowing costs and real financial misery. Policy is made, policy reverses and individuals absorb the losses. More rules get layered on to fix the damage they caused. This latest move on pensions is not new, governments have been trying to direct capital for years. Now it is about funnelling pension money into UK infrastructure, private companies and growth projects. All framed as being in the national interest. The idea of pushing people into investments the government deems suitable is concerning, especially while UK retail remains restricted from easy access to a Bitcoin spot ETF. Every day brings another example of overreach or poor judgment. Moments like this make the case for Bitcoin even stronger. Full article: telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions…
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Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze

Labour’s plan to axe jury trials for half of all cases (up to 3 years prison and for 'complex' fraud etc) is a direct attack on Britain’s freedoms. They are dismantling the last decentralised check on state power, while pushing surveillance, digital IDs & programmable payments via regulated stablecoins. Centralise justice and you centralise control over everything! Full @Telegraph article: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…

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Jez Casey
Jez Casey@Jcastweet·
Fun fact. The Bitcoin Business Network have a very similar amount of members as @CryptoUKAssoc We started 12 weeks ago in earnest. Major difference is that the business network is comprised mainly of day to day UK businesses who are allocating to Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset as well as some of the businesses accepting Bitcoin payments via the lightning network where this is relevant for the particular business. Bitcoin is roughly 60% of the total Crypto market cap yet in the UK has little in terms of voice aside from our friends at @bitcoinpolicyuk Bitcoin should be 60% of the conversation in every jurisdiction and it isn’t. We are changing that. A movement driven by normal businesses and normal business owners who prefer superior money. 5.8 million small and mid sized businesses in the UK is the addressable market for the network. Stay tuned.
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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
I really hope this is poor or simplified wording from NatWest, because taken literally it raises serious questions under UK GDPR. Biometric data normally requires explicit consent and 'legitimate interests' on its own is not usually enough for identification or authentication. KYC is already done at onboarding, so what is being implied here? That identity checks are being pushed further into how accounts are used, potentially tied to limits like the £750 threshold? There is a clear trend of expanding 'legitimate interests' and pushing users into systems with limited opt out, where the practical effect starts to feel coercive even if it is legally structured. We already know KYC and AML create honeypots of sensitive data, increase physical security risks, and do little to prevent illicit activity, so what exactly is this solving? Set alongside moves to link payments to digital identity, and political shifts toward greater central control, including changes to the justice system, the direction of travel is concerning. Even Orwell didn’t predict this level of control. @NatWest_Help please can you confirm if this is simplified wording for customers, or the actual policy being implemented?
Rich@rich_rdctd

Natwest Bank just dropped a banger. "Tomorrow begins today" they say. If you set up biometric approval in the mobile app or Voice ID for Telephone Banking, you gave them consent to use this data. As per their email: "From 20th May, Natwest will use ‘legitimate interests’ to process biometric data, instead of your consent. Legitimate interests is a term in Data Protection Law, which means we use your data only when necessary and where we have carefully balanced your rights in the public interest." Bear this in mind as you cannot update your details or send more than £750 without using their biometrics service. @freddienew @DecentraSuze

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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
Great chat on @BitcoinArchive with Archie. Always love hanging out. A good friend of mine once said to me, “how do you operate in an adult world, you are so small?” …well, here’s the answer. Thanks to Charlie for finding me a footstool, aka a box.
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Antidote
Antidote@AntidoteBTC·
2 weeks away from our biggest event yet! The first-ever live event from @fountain_app and Antidote is happening on Thursday 30th April | 19:30 A night of live music & DJs at The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch, streamed live on Fountain. Every ticket comes with £5 in Fountain credits so you can pay your favourite performer directly while they're on stage. 💸 📍 The Old Blue Last, Shoreditch Grab your tickets now: luma.com/ysna282n 🎟
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Freddie New
Freddie New@freddienew·
'Prof' Jiang: "But where are they? Where are the Bitcoin servers?" The noderunners: "Here"
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SightBringer@_The_Prophet__

⚡️This “professor “ asking “where are the servers” in 2026 is like a medieval cartographer asking where the edge of the earth is in 1520. The question reveals that the person asking it hasn’t updated their model of reality despite overwhelming evidence that the old model is wrong. Bitcoin has been running for seventeen years. It has survived the shutdown of Silk Road, the collapse of Mt. Gox, a Chinese mining ban, multiple 80% drawdowns, regulatory assault from every major government, and active hostility from the entire traditional financial system. If the CIA built it they built the most resilient piece of infrastructure in human history and then let it be attacked repeatedly by other arms of the same government. That doesn’t hold up for five seconds under basic scrutiny. But the CIA theory isn’t really about the CIA. It’s about the desperate need to locate an authority behind the thing. Because if there’s no authority then every assumption about how power works, how money works, how systems work, comes into question. And for someone whose entire career and status and identity is built on understanding how systems work, that’s not an intellectual problem. That’s an existential one. The real thing happening in that clip is a man protecting his worldview in real time. The question “where are the servers” isn’t curiosity. It’s defense. If the servers can be located then the system can be understood within his framework. If they can’t be located then his framework is incomplete. And admitting your framework is incomplete when your framework is your career is something almost nobody will do voluntarily. This is why Bitcoin adoption follows generational lines more than intelligence lines. It’s not that older people are dumber. It’s that they have more invested in the existing model. Decades of career. Status built on expertise within the current system. Reputation staked on understanding how things work. Bitcoin doesn’t ask them to learn something new. It asks them to accept that something they spent their life mastering is being replaced. That’s a fundamentally different ask. Learning is easy. Unlearning is almost impossible when your identity is built on what you know. The “where are the servers” question will be studied in the future the way we study people who rejected the heliocentric model. Not as stupidity but as a perfect example of how paradigm resistance works in practice. The evidence was available. The system was running. The proof was on the blockchain for anyone to verify. And he looked at all of it and said “but where is the building.” There is no building. There was never going to be a building. The entire point is that there is no building. And the people who need a building to believe something is real are going to be the last people on earth to understand what happened. By the time they get it, it will have already restructured the global financial system around them. They’ll be standing in the rubble of the old model still asking where the servers are while the new one runs on sixty thousand nodes they never bothered to look at.

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Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin
Brilliantly succinct commentary here from @DecentraSuze on @LBC. Susie will be speaking in Bury St Edmunds next month with her @bitcoinpolicyuk colleague @freddienew (details in next post). To local Suffolk MPs @PeterPrinsley and @NJ_Timothy, you are welcome to join us.
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze

On @LBC last night with @JHansonRadio we discussed the Lib Dems calling for an FCA inquiry into Farage’s involvement in Kwasi Kwarteng’s company Stack. We covered potential market abuse, bitcoin treasury companies, the different risk profiles between these firms, bitcoin and crypto, and why businesses should hold bitcoin on their balance sheets. We also discussed how little UK regulators and MPs understand bitcoin or the opportunity, and how the UK is falling behind as a result ... which is a much bigger risk!! Audio here discussing the story.

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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
On @LBC last night with @JHansonRadio we discussed the Lib Dems calling for an FCA inquiry into Farage’s involvement in Kwasi Kwarteng’s company Stack. We covered potential market abuse, bitcoin treasury companies, the different risk profiles between these firms, bitcoin and crypto, and why businesses should hold bitcoin on their balance sheets. We also discussed how little UK regulators and MPs understand bitcoin or the opportunity, and how the UK is falling behind as a result ... which is a much bigger risk!! Audio here discussing the story.
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The Satos Awards
The Satos Awards@satosawards·
We’re honored to welcome Susie Violet Ward (@DecentraSuze) to the Satos Awards Nominee Council. Susie is a respected Bitcoin journalist and a leading voice in Bitcoin policy. Through her work with Bitcoin Policy UK, she has helped bring greater clarity and visibility to the conversations shaping Bitcoin’s future. As a Nominee Council member, Susie will help evaluate nominees and uphold the standards of excellence that define the Satos Awards. Welcome to the Council, Susie.
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Decentra Suze
Decentra Suze@DecentraSuze·
Labour’s plan to axe jury trials for half of all cases (up to 3 years prison and for 'complex' fraud etc) is a direct attack on Britain’s freedoms. They are dismantling the last decentralised check on state power, while pushing surveillance, digital IDs & programmable payments via regulated stablecoins. Centralise justice and you centralise control over everything! Full @Telegraph article: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…
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No to Digital ID@NoToDigitalID

Edward Snowden said it first: "When you say 'I don't care about the right to privacy because I have nothing to hide,' that's no different than saying 'I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say.'" "Simply because you are following the law, doesn't mean that you'll be exempt from governmental interference in your private life."

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