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Freddie New

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Freddie New

@freddienew

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

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Joined July 2009

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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
Aug 19, 2025
Replying to @ronin21btc
This is what happens when people stop drinking. Wouldn't have happened in Don Draper's day.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Apr 27, 2024
If, like many of us, you feel a bit taken aback by events of the past week in #Bitcoin , you may be wondering about what you can do, practically, to maintain your ability to transact freely and to preserve your privacy. Whatever the enemies of freedom may tell you, in free and
Freddie New
@freddienew
Apr 26, 2024
This week may feel very very dark for #Bitcoin and for those who believe that all people, everywhere, should be able to transact freely with each other, as one of their most basic freedoms. But know that this fight was always coming; and we would not be facing it right now if
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Dec 17, 2022
@SenWarren these are my daughters, flipping a coin to generate a 256 digit binary number. We converted this to hexadecimals, generated a bitcoin private key, and created a wallet. No KYC was, or will ever be, required.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Nov 5, 2025
Why the UK is financially broken, in a few simple numbers👇 We now pay £212 billion per year on on 'illness-related inactivity'. This is about 70 % of the ENTIRE INCOME TAX TAKE of the government. So 70p of every pound you pay in tax goes not to nurses, teachers, doctors,
Fraser Nelson
@FraserNelson
Nov 5, 2025
Quite a moment. The Mayfield review has calculated the lifetime cost of writing people off as long-term sick; it’s £1m in lost earnings for 22yo “with the state incurring a similar cost”.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Dec 20, 2023
Dear @SenWarren, Many in the #Bitcoin community will have read your letters, sent to @BlockchainAssn, to @coincenter, and to @coinbase. We include an example in the thread below. However, not many of us realised at first that you had cunningly hidden a #Bitcoin address in the
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Jan 17, 2025
Replying to @sciencegirl
This
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Mar 2, 2024
I am not mentally prepared to deal with videos from the World Economic Forum that promote the positive social and sustainability benefits of #Bitcoin mining. The cognitive dissonance is too much. Is this the turn of the tide?
Documenting ₿itcoin 📄
@DocumentingBTC
Mar 2, 2024
₿𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: World Economic Forum reports bitcoin mining is helping protect endangered animals in Congo’s national forest.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Jul 25, 2024
It's as negligent for a nation not to have a #Bitcoin strategy today as it would have been to ignore the internet in 1994. The UK is the third largest nation state holder of Bitcoin, with over 61,000 coins. Nearly five million UK citizens are thought to hold Bitcoin. And the
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Freddie New
@freddienew
May 3, 2024
It is both terrifying and uplifting that most users of this platform appear to understand money creation, currency debasement and the role played by central banks better than a man who was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden under Obama. He is
Arnaud Bertrand
@RnaudBertrand
May 3, 2024
This is absolutely priceless. And probably the most frightening clip you'll ever watch on the people in charge of the US economy. Jared Bernstein is literally the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, the main agency advising Biden on economic policy
FINDING THE MONEY Film
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FINDING THE MONEY Film
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Dec 12, 2023
Replying to @freddienew
I'd suggest speaking constructively with your colleague @SenLummis , with @GOPMajorityWhip or with @WarrenDavidson - or with @Dennis_Porter_ if your goal is genuinely to protect the interests of United States citizens and to preserve their First Amendment rights at the same time.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Sep 28, 2025
About to head up to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, to fight the corner of Bitcoin holders and Bitcoin businesses in the UK. This was in the envelope along with my pass. Um, read the room, chaps.
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Mar 23, 2024
This needs to be taken seriously but, as always, it's crucial to read the text of the actual legislation. TLDR Self-custody is not illegal: 1. This is a prohibition of anonymity, not of #Bitcoin. If you are able to prove eg through signing a message, that you control the keys to
Joe Nakamoto ⚡️
@JoeNakamoto
Mar 23, 2024
Payments to “unhosted” / self-custody #bitcoin and crypto wallets are now illegal How on earth are they going to police that?
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Freddie New
@freddienew
Sep 29, 2023
"It should not be controversial to affirm that UK citizens ought to have the right to spend their own money freely from their bank accounts for any lawful purpose". Buying, owning and selling #Bitcoin in the UK is lawful. It's government policy to make the UK a 'crypto asset
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