Just got back from CheatCode where I was on a panel called “The Fiat Panopticon: Defending Bitcoin in the UK”.

A couple of days later, The Telegraph publishes this:

Labour draws up equality law revamp that “will impose socialism” on Britain.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e3f0663a67ee0fb4

The article outlines plans for a new “socio-economic duty” requiring government departments to factor inequality into decision making across schools, hospitals, policing and wider public services.

It ties into the wider point we were discussing on stage, how systems evolve over time, gradually embedding more influence and control into how decisions are made. It does start to raise the question of how far that kind of model goes.

As one critic quoted in the article:

“This is unabashed class warfare targeting the middle class… embedded across the entire machinery of the state.”

Once decisions are filtered through central criteria, it starts to shape outcomes in a very different way.

This is why bitcoin is so important. It gives us a way to separate money from the state.