Robin Smith

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Design Engineer, Innovator, Founder & occasional tea boy 4cGlasgow & @numnutsdevice #btc

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@Revolut very frustrated to discover that you don’t integrate your Revolut pro account with #xero accounting. #UKGov new #makingtaxdigital requires freelances (Revolut pro customers) to do quarterly accounting with software like Xero.

Yet you don’t support it?

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@AlanJLSmith Free market in the UK 🇬🇧 is an illusion.

We work for the government.

On one side it’s subsidies, on the other side it’s taxes leading ultimately to IHT. As entrepreneurs we just pinball in the middle, but it feels like with labour walls are coming in closer and closer.

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@scotsrenewables have come across https://t.co/Acp2Y6I1Pa. I'm interested in the idea of #scoltand building a sovereign wealth fund in #bitcoin with all our curtailed wind. In the same way, Norway did when they discovered North Sea oil. Thoughts? @CurtailCoin

[Pavel Grachev @pgrache]

Up only

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@freddienew @DecentraSuze @bitcoinpolicyuk 🫡 Thank you for the incredible amount of voluntary work Freddie @DecentraSuze & BPUK team do. Sometimes it’s the unpaid passion projects that are the most rewarding. I’m confident in decades to come your flag bearing policy/lobbying work will be the catalyst for change in 🇬🇧

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@JoeNakamoto Strike and Blockstream Jade a good starting combo…. Once he’s had some Jedi training, Coldcard and Robosats or Bisq

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@sebbunney Hey seb, thanks for all your work, it was your book that helps my wife (a clinical psychologist ) understand bitcoin, you made it very relatable, family conversations are much easier now!

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@ZynxBTC The orange stage presentations were good , I avoided most of the Tresurey stage which seemed like corporate sponsorship…. With expectation of @jackmallers who was the highlight and Saf who was great

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@DecentraSuze @LucyRigby Well done , Great letter Susie, measured, thanks for all the work you do.

[Decentra Suze @DecentraSuze]

Dear @LucyRigby,

I hope you will take a moment to read this. We spoke in the Anacta Suite at Labour Conference. During your conversation with Visa I asked you directly:

“As the UK is the third largest sovereign holder of bitcoin, should the Treasury be researching a strategic bitcoin reserve to strengthen our economic position.”

You took our organisation’s details and said you would follow up.

Before and after that conversation @BitcoinPolicyUK has reached out to you on multiple occasions. We have contacted your office with open letters, emails, our bitcoin manifesto, invitations to meet, policy documents and evidence based submissions. These include the strategic bitcoin reserve letter published here:

https://t.co/dARrTmw4Tu

We have also submitted our policy material which can be found here:

https://t.co/fOi78heeqd

We have had no response.

Our work is independent and carried out in the public interest. We ask only for the opportunity to contribute to the national conversation.

In contrast, Visa and now Ripple appear to have extraordinary access and influence at the highest levels of government.

At Labour Conference Visa representatives advocated for identity linked payments. Ripple is now pushing centralised digital infrastructure that aligns closely with government controlled money, a model that risks creating the most monitored and permissioned financial system we have ever seen.

At the Texas Bankers Association roundtable Visa pushed programmable money and tightly controlled payment rails.

These systems are often marketed as “inclusive,” but reports show they exclude the most vulnerable and create new risks for privacy and autonomy.

Visa and Ripple have both the budget and the access to push this vision across every forum they enter.

This creates a serious problem. The UK is being guided by advice from companies with vast resources and strong commercial incentives. Their interests are not aligned with the interests of citizens.

When ministers hear mainly from large corporates they receive a narrow and distorted view of what the country’s digital future should be. This leads to policy ideas that weaken privacy reduce freedom and place growing power in the hands of intermediaries.

Bitcoin offers the opposite:

- It strengthens national resilience
- It supports privacy and individual freedom
- It provides an open monetary network that no corporation can manipulate
- It is the only digital asset aligned with the principles of a free and open society

My concern is simple. The UK is receiving advice shaped by powerful corporate interests whose incentives run directly against the public good, and Bitcoin is being sidelined at the moment it matters most. This is not a party political issue, it is about ensuring that government hears from more than one type of stakeholder. The stakes include financial stability energy innovation and the UK’s global competitiveness.

https://t.co/2cHUMxFdWS

Bitcoin Policy UK remains ready to brief you at any time. There is no cost and no commercial motive. Only evidence independence and a commitment to helping the UK make informed decisions.

I hope we can finally begin this conversation.

Yours sincerely
Susie Violet Ward
CEO, Bitcoin Policy UK

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@brulobeer you need one of these guys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿… in full flow @BitcoinConfEUR

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@Hasheraio @BitcoinConfEUR Like what you’re doing, guys 😀

[nextbigfuture @nextbigfuture]

SPACEX STARLINK TO 3 BILLION PHONES BY 2030

We predicted the X Phone months ago—and now Elon's confirmed it. With AI inference on every device and 3B customers by 2030. This won't just be a phone. It is the end of telecom as we know it.

Totally worldchanging within 5 years.

The $17B EchoStar deal involves AWS-4 spectrum (H-block/S-band), enabling high-bandwidth satellite-to-phone globally.

Musk hinted at a Starlink phone and partner company phones at the All in Summit 2025. Hardware changes like chipset modifications for new frequencies are needed and will be ready in 2 years. This will allow high-bandwidth video streaming anywhere with those phones working indoors in normal homes but not thick metal roofs.

Everyone in the audience raised hands to say they want a Starlink phone.

EchoStar, an old-school geosynchronous satellite company. Has lost half its customers to Starlink's low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellation (8,000+ satellites). They are roadkill for SpaceX.

EchoStar failed to utilize the spectrum (FCC requires half-system launch within timelines). They sold it preemptively. SpaceX got $8.5B in EchoStar stock, boosting their value 20%.

In India and elsewhere, spectrum is a public resource. Underutilization leads to reallocation because the government auctions it to companies that will pay more and do more with it. If SpaceX is 100X more effective then the spectrum will get auctioned to SpaceX as the governments will get way more value by having the spectrum in competent hands.

@elonmusk @spacex @starlink @chamath @Erdayastronaut @esherifftv002 @WR4NYGov @MarcusHouse @RandyWKirk1 @herbertong

My SpaceX Projections are
Now 7 million and 9-10 million customers by end of 2025. $5 billion in profit.

2026--- 28M customers → $60B revenue $48B profit (high margins as expenses scale minimally). At 40x P/E (like Nvidia), valuation $1.6–2T.

By 2028 SpaceX will have 100M high speed internet users for $400B/year profit and a $16 trillion valuation. They will be the world's largest company.
This is just from dishes/high-speed internet, not mobiles.

Mobile potential: India alone (300M+ users), plus Europe, Africa, etc.

Starlink could reach 3 billion customers by 2030.

All of that cash, profits and valuation will make it very easy to acquire more spectrum and more companies.

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@virginmedia now fuelling my anger of their appalling business practices… the were charginf me £80/month with terrible customer service. So I left. Interesting this is their “true” price. Dealing with them feels like like haggling in a market stall in rural India #worstservice

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

I just boosted Trail Coach on @btcmap. Check them out! https://t.co/BqysIlxy4u #bitcoin

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@DecentraSuze Yay 🙌… congrats Susie

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@LomondSchool known for sailing, but didn’t expect them to chart a course to #Prague just to recruit a new #Saylor! Must be the Bitcoin current pulling them in ⛵🧭 @Lomondlife #Bitcoin

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

Be here at 5.20pm Expo stage @BTCPrague or be the square root of nothing.. #bitcon #education #uk

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

Making a splash in the #mempool @BTCPrague. Thanks to the organisers a great day 1.

Passionate presentation by @jackmallers, for all #Millennials to watch when it emerges on #YouTube… 👏

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@RevolutApp 75% of travel has to be paid in card… this has to be FLIGHS…. Fuel for diesel in a van does NOT count according to insurance customer services.

[Robin Smith @4cRobin]

@RevolutApp careful not to get caught out with Revolt Travel Insurance with Metal Ultra Plans. Their insurance is a CON 😔 . You are NOT insured if you drive abroad in a car or campervan. You have to pay 75% of your flights or holiday package using card. Source customer service