{"id":233241,"date":"2026-09-28T20:43:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=233241"},"modified":"2026-09-28T20:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:43:44","slug":"uk-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-blasts-nigel-farages-bitcoin-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=233241","title":{"rendered":"UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage\u2019s \u2018Bitcoin Account\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage\u2019s \u2018Bitcoin Account\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has appeared to slam Reform Party leader Nigel Farage\u2019s use of Bitcoin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a Monday speech, the finance minister said that Nigel Farage \u2014 a pro-crypto member of parliament \u2014 was \u201cLiz Truss with a Bitcoin account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Farage, who is leading the increasingly popular Reform Party, has come under fire recently for receiving donations from crypto entrepreneurs. Liz Truss was the UK\u2019s shortest serving Prime Minister who was heavily criticised for her debt-fueled 2022 mini budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNigel Farage \u2014 he wants you to think he\u2019s a man of the people,\u201d Healey said<\/a>. \u201cBut when it comes to the economy, he\u2019s Lizz Truss with a Bitcoin account.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Healey went on to say that his leading Labour Party would help the UK get ahead \u201cthrough fiscal discipline, through good work, through strong industries.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments were criticized by the Bitcoin community on X, who asked what a \u201cBitcoin account\u201d even was.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently \u2018Bitcoin account\u2019 is now a thing,\u201d the Simply Bitcoin account wrote<\/a> on X. \u201cIncredible stuff from one of the people running Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Populist Farage has long been a pro-crypto politician. Since 2020, he has framed Bitcoin mainly as a question of personal freedom<\/a> and opposition to state control of money.<\/p>\n

Farage has also said that he was debanked by private British bank Coutts and that led him to develop more interest in digital assets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just last year, he said<\/a> at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference at Las Vegas that he\u2019d slash crypto capital gains taxes and force the Bank of England to establish a Bitcoin reserve if elected as the next Prime Minister.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Farage has come under fire this year for receiving millions of dollars in the form of crypto donations from tech entrepreneur and Tether investor Christopher Harborne, and Ben Delo, one of the founders of the now-closed BitMEX crypto exchange.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police have opened<\/a> an investigation into reports that Reform broke rules against overseas donations. Reform denies wrongdoing and says it will cooperate.<\/p>\n

This post UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage\u2019s \u2018Bitcoin Account\u2019\u00a0<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Blasts Nigel Farage\u2019s \u2018Bitcoin Account\u2019\u00a0 UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has appeared to slam Reform Party leader Nigel Farage\u2019s use of Bitcoin.\u00a0 In a Monday speech, the finance minister said that Nigel Farage \u2014 a pro-crypto member of parliament \u2014 was \u201cLiz Truss with a Bitcoin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":233242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}