Britain's War on Freedom, Privacy, Speech and Bitcoin - Freddie New | Ep. 157

Freddie New is a lawyer turned Bitcoin executive, CEO and co-founder of B HODL, a Bitcoin treasury and Lightning services company, and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK. He grew up in Zimbabwe, a country that has cycled through five currencies in his lifetime, and he took from it a lasting impression of lawyers and judges as the people who stand up hardest against government overreach. In this conversation Freddie unpacks what is behind the UK’s child safety framing of internet age gating, why 12,000 people were jailed over social media posts, how banks create money, why he thinks large scale currency collapse is where the debt story ends, and his view on bitcoin as Digital Credit.

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CHAPTERS 

00:00 - Coming Up...

01:42 - How Freddie & Efrat Met

03:41 - Introduction: Freddie New B HODL, Bitcoin Policy UK and a Lawyer's

07:05 - Scanning Every Device in the UK and Child Safety Pretext

09:22 - Digital ID: Centralised Honeypot of Personal Data

11:39 - Ad-Break: Expat Money & Ledn

13:54 - Why Freddie Cares: Orwell, Huxley & the Duty to Act

15:57 - If the Protocol Needs No Permission, Why Does Policy Matter?

19:39 - Why Is Control Tightening in the UK

28:00 - How Is Money Created & Why Currencies Collapse

31:16 - Why Digital Privacy Matters

36:51 - Lightning as a Business: B HODL

43:43 - Ad-Break: Trezor & Abundant Mines

45:30 - Bitcoin Backed Credit vs Bitcoin as Money

51:26 - Where Is The UK Heading, With Bitcoin & In General

55:26 - For Brits Still Afraid of Bitcoin

58:03 - Banning Bitcoin Means Banning Speech, Thought & Math

59:01 - Freddie's Bitcoin Journey

01:00:19 - Don't Give Up Hope