Party leader says he wants UK to be a ‘crypto powerhouse’ during speech at Las Vegas conference
Reform open the doorway for anonymous unregulated donations
Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says
Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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wewbull@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
They aren’t anonymous.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Really? There’s a register of bitcoin wallet IDs to names and addresses?
hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Trump: UK Edition
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Why did the Guardian even bother to write this article? It isn’t really newsworthy imo.
cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
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.
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
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.
Zip2@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Can’t wait to see it all get stolen.
DMCMNFIBFFF@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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]
sirico@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Grifter grifts
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Britcoin is a pretty good name, tbf