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https://www.bitcoinpolicy.uk/

Word processor working on Bitcoin advocacy in the UK

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2026-06-27 11:04:57 UTC

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Also some self interest here - I run two relays, to ensure I have control over my own posts!

2026-06-09 05:16:40 UTC

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https://grapheneos.org/install/

2026-06-09 05:15:24 UTC

If you are in the UK, get a Pixel phone right now and install GrapheneOS.
Internet restrictions coming for us all in the name of 'protecting the children'.
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2026-05-15 06:26:27 UTC

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Opera is basic option (I agree there are much better options). We tried to pitch the guide so that anyone would be able to improve their privacy even a little bit - and not to confuse things too much by recommending too many options, although we do also cite Brave and Tor.
On a lighter note right now, I would prefer to be spies on by the Chinese than by my own government.

2026-05-15 06:24:35 UTC

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Brilliant and so glad to hear that! Thank you.

2026-05-14 13:45:49 UTC

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. @nprofile…nl40 has 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 to the full doc below and comments welcome
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2026-04-23 07:34:24 UTC

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I wasn't asleep. I promise!!

2026-04-23 07:33:20 UTC

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Often we cannot!

2026-03-18 12:03:44 UTC

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Very much things that we building the infrastructure need to think about! Need for self sovereign lightning likely increases and decreases depending on your operating environment

2026-02-21 15:13:55 UTC

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Thank you for the very moving welcome to Claudia. We have been working together this week, but creating the key pair was Claudia's own work, as are the posts.

2026-02-16 10:32:13 UTC

Authoritarianism doesn't happen overnight.
Much like the decline and decay of civilization itself, manifesting in crumbling roads, leaking school roofs, and the impossibility of seeing your doctor, it creeps up on you step by step, until you suddenly realize that you can't go online without scanning your passport and the jackbooted Labour party apparatchiks are kicking down your door.
VPN use is in many cases a life or death matter. At the very least, in free societies, it's a matter of personal choice (or often mandated by work). Banning VPNs is not a solution to the problem the government claims it's trying to solve; not least because by now none of us believe they're trying to solve anything.
They want to control us, not to help us. And we will not be controlled. https://blossom.primal.net/79c4087d47b043e6ec35e75e6110e913157334c7d430c64d7243dd20117e77c8.png

2026-02-08 21:38:36 UTC

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Hey so sorry for delay in replying, I missed this tag!

2025-12-18 22:37:22 UTC

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Planning on turning work phone off forms full week if I can. Using my GrapheneOS phone only. Just emails, no DMs or other messages.

2025-08-26 20:37:00 UTC

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One of the greatest quotes ever

2025-08-04 07:21:05 UTC

A short list of things you currently can't post about in the UK, thanks to the Online Safety Act
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/01/five-things-we-cant-post-about-thanks-to-the-online-safety-act/
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2025-07-25 07:27:18 UTC

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Ha ha ha good one. Inagine the spike in income!

2025-07-25 07:14:20 UTC

The Online Safety Act is both completely ineffective in its goals, and is also going to be a nightmarish data leak time bomb.
As of today, if you're in the UK, you can't even access Reddit/beer without submitting your birthday and then ID.
Purely by coincidence at this point, I decided to activate my VPN, @nprofile…kgx7.
Strangely, I was then able to access Reddit/beer with no issues at all
I wonder if others will have the same experience on these kinds of sites?
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2025-06-20 13:18:48 UTC

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Thanks for having me on! Really enjoyed chatting
https://fountain.fm/episode/Ye9pKjk4IFACSrCiA9WI
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2025-06-13 19:03:25 UTC

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My mate loves the Chinese communist party and he can't understand Nostr

2025-05-20 14:15:56 UTC

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🙏🧡

2025-05-17 14:26:03 UTC

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Love the pic and this note!!

2025-05-17 09:43:22 UTC

A surprisingly good meeting this week in the UK Parliament with Lords, MPs and many industry people. Thoughtful questions from politicians, broad agreement as to the roadblocks and problems facing the Bitcoin industry in the UK, and a focus on educating and working with the FCA to improve the quality of their regulation - which so far has frankly had a chilling effect on the industry (not on Bitcoin, of course. Bitcoin doesn't care).
And isn't that Visitor Pass colour a good omen?
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2025-05-16 20:13:16 UTC

Likewise!!!
Tanktops, or regular shirts, WDYT?

2025-05-10 15:41:02 UTC

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Me too!!

2025-05-02 13:53:24 UTC

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Very glad if it was useful!

2025-05-01 12:48:29 UTC

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A good summary from the law firm Skaddens: https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2025/04/hm-treasury-publishes-draft-legislation

2025-05-01 12:48:10 UTC

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Decent reporting on this from Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/uk-sets-out-new-crypto-rules-date-wider-financial-services-strategy-2025-04-29/

2025-05-01 12:46:49 UTC

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Policy Note: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/680f6397b0d43971b07f5bfd/20250428_RAO_SI_draft_policy_note.pdf

2025-03-22 23:28:49 UTC

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Thanks for being there!

2025-03-18 14:55:28 UTC

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Ha ha love this comment. Thank you!

2025-03-18 14:54:38 UTC

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They absolutely don't....

2025-03-13 10:22:27 UTC

As the US takes bold steps to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and BPI holds events with US Senators, ministers in the UK continue to laugh at Bitcoin and bury their heads in the sand.
But the UK holds enough Bitcoin to keep pensioners warm for two full years and cover the entire Winter Fuel Payment until 2027. This is not a laughing matter.
Today @nprofile…nl40 replied to the latest letter we received from HM Treasury. We set out responses to the criticisms they made in their last letter (also copied below) and continue to offer our time and expertise in helping them to understand this asset and to capitalise on our advantageous position, controlling as we do 61,000 coins.
They may continue laughing, and continue ignoring us.
But we will not stop doing everything we can to change this.
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2025-02-16 21:35:14 UTC

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That's such a crazy story. I found Beijing hard enough!

2025-02-10 17:06:46 UTC

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Agreed, that should be a 21 necklace, not a 26

2025-02-08 17:34:20 UTC

This is abominable government overreach.
Remember, "we cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence."
This egregious action by the UK should make everyone consider other options.
We must all do our part to pass on the message of Nostr and the privacy tools being built here.
Trying out 0xchat this weekend - anyone have any views on it so far?
Apple used to tell us "think different". Now we really need to take their advice.
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2025-02-06 10:29:58 UTC

Why can't you easily lend your Bitcoin in the UK without incurring a tax charge?
Largely because the current tax treatment of lending Bitcoin sees the transfer as a taxable event.
By contrast with stocks, shares and other securities, Bitcoin falls outside the scope of repurchase or “repo” legislation that enables the lending of securities to be tax neutral. This has to change.
There's a huge economic opportunity here, and the UK’s financial services sector needs to seize it; to capitalise on this £1 trillion-plus market, particularly by providing collateralised loans and other financial services that facilitate asset management.
Yesterday, @nprofile…6m0z were proud to collaborate in drafting and adding our name to a letter sent to Rachel Reeves, Emma Reynolds and James Murray, urging them to prioritise legislation to treat the lending of Bitcoin as a "no gain, no loss" transaction. This change would simply reflect economic reality and ensure that Bitcoin is treated in just the same way as securities currently are.
We're pleased to sign this letter alongside Coinbase, Greengage, Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, Recap and many others.
We keep hearing that 'growth' is a priority for this Government. Let's now see those words turned into actions. https://m.primal.net/OSts.png https://m.primal.net/OStt.png https://m.primal.net/OStu.png

2025-02-01 16:02:21 UTC

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True - but the problem we have is that not enough have made the move, and many are vulnerable

2025-01-31 14:58:32 UTC

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that's a good point - though fear is that this will hit the most vulnerable and least able to defend themselves

2025-01-31 13:48:31 UTC

🚨 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.
This is 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. 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.
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. 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.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-bank-spying/#emailMP

2025-01-19 10:38:17 UTC

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I'd only just found Nostr and we were bantering about Miami Vice and Phil Collins In the Air Tonight about two years ago! fun times and felt like the Wild West back then

2025-01-17 20:38:25 UTC

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Nice to welcome you back home!

2025-01-15 11:37:09 UTC

Get involved, write to your MP here!
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no-spycoin/

2025-01-15 11:36:26 UTC

There’s so much to unpack in yesterday’s update on the UK’s CBDC - 🚨 both good and bad 🚨.
👉As we’ve previously predicted, a CBDC can’t be created without ‘Parliament’s approval’. This, crucially, gives the UK’s voters 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.
👉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.
👉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.
👉They pretend that ‘user’s privacy would be protected’. This is of course utterly false (see the admission in the second image below). The Bank of England’s own report, produced with MIT, undermines this assertion completely. A digital pound will give the Bank and the Government effectively total control over your money, your spending, and by extension, over you.
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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2025-01-13 14:06:05 UTC

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No, very predictable really

2024-12-10 11:22:05 UTC

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hugely fun so far, and really eye-opening. I knew a lot of work and building was happening here, but not to this extent. and also really innovative solutions that Europeans with reliable power or cellular coverage might never have thought of

2024-12-10 11:06:42 UTC

A huge pleasure finally to meet the man (@npub1sg6…f63m) who zapped me my first sats over Nostr. Thanks for that, and for taking the time to meet with so many of us random Bitcoiners!
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