Freddie New

@freddienew

CEO, @bitcoinhodlco (bhodl.com) | Co-Founder, @bitcoinpolicyuk | #npub1wl39ydk5rpecvtrzhq67afl9ykn2ty2xdxdkfmyan0rss3f3ma5sndznlx

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Freddie New
@freddienew
May 11
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
Pimlico Journal
@PimlicoJournal
May 11
🚨NEW: Britain has developed a reputation as perhaps the most censorious 'liberal' democracy. How did we get here — and what can we do about it? ✍️: @charliecolecc investigates. 📖: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/restoring-fr…
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Freddie New
@freddienew
20h
More than 60,000 people arrested in the UK over the past five years, for 'communications offences', which is exactly as Orwellian as it sounds. Support @BigBrotherWatch and others like them in pushing back against this apparently never-ending erosion of our ability to speak -
Silkie Carlo
@silkiecarlo
Sep 6
🚨 NEWS: Our groundbreaking new investigation into the scale of Britain’s free speech crisis is front page of the Mail on Sunday today. Time for @andyburnham to listen - we want a free speech reset. I’ve written to him today calling for an urgent review into our laws on speech
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Sep 4
B HODL UPDATE @bitcoinhodlco | AQSE: $HODL | OTCQB: $BHODF | FRA: $F5S Lightning Infrastructure (LSP Update) Our public node (bhodl-public-01) continues to grow, now running 5.27 BTC of capacity across 48 channels, and representing approximately 0.2% of the entire Lightning
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Sep 4
Many of us in the UK Bitcoin industry have been fighting for this for years, and it FINALLY looks as though we may get it over the line. Until now, if you lend your Bitcoin, the tax authorities have treated that as a disposal and tried to charge you capital gains tax (even when
Freddie New
@freddienew
Feb 6, 2025
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
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Sep 3
This year at @BTCPrague the team put on a truly excellent conference, and it was a privilege to be on stage returning to the subject of CBDCs (and their more freedom-focused alternative). Like Jason Voorhees, CBDCs won't seem to stay down no matter how many times we put them
BTC Prague
@BTCPrague
Sep 3
The digital euro is coming and @freddienew explains what changes when stopping someone costs one action instead of six phone calls. @LyudaKozlovska says that future is already the present. Plus @EconWithNick, Florence Humblet and Martin Hobza on what Europe has built.
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