Party leader says he wants UK to be a ‘crypto powerhouse’ during speech at Las Vegas conference

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    9 days ago

    Grifter grifts also inb4 he launches Britcoin or Churchill or some other nonsense

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      The largest 3rd party in the country (according to polls) is talking about accepting donations that can’t be traced by regulators like the Elections Commission. They’ve already been associated with a lot of US dark money who would love something like this to get around donation limits. This is definitely newsworthy.

      • On Thursday the Reform website was updated to accept cryptocurrency donations. There was a disclaimer stating that all donations were subject to Electoral Commission rules and that anonymous donations were not permissible.

        They don’t accept anonymous donations. So that doesn’t appear to be a concern at least.

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          It’ll be interesting to see how they enforce that. The Electoral Commission will have quite a time tracing all the Bitcoin transactions that go to that address.

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    8 days ago

    How about gold, silver, or wp:Ethereum?

    On 15 September 2022, Ethereum transitioned its consensus mechanism from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS) in an update known as “The Merge”, which cut the blockchain’s energy usage by 99%.[10]