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

Podcast: You're The Voice | by Efrat Fenigson · Efrat Fenigson

Opublikowano: 2026-08-19

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 sc...