Good post...great to see more comment from the UK! ... Pension laws here in the UK mean you cant get the money out until you are 55, so there are cases of people losing their homes whilst at the same time having money in pensions they are not allowed to access! Rather than just let you have your own money when you need it (god forbid!) our decepit Establishment come up with even more complicated rules, hence the loan idea which has been around for a while ... ... You are right it is impossible to buy any Bitcoin fund in the UK. The FCA have made sure investment providers cannot let you buy them (retail, not wholesale, who can do want they want...). Agree MSTR is the proxy for those with Sipps in the UK, as long as you can stomach the risks, which most bitcoiners would (fees, exchange rate, stock market trends, proxy ownership). ... As far as the politics is concerned, imv ALL political parties have hollowed out the working class (what the US call the middle class) and there is basically nothing left to lok forward to but stagnation, decline, crime, addiction, increased authoritarianism. All the good jobs have gone and they're not coming back .. Either QE or Brexit could have been used to chart a different course, wouldn't have been plain sailing, but that would require leadership, and dont have any. ... All we can do is stack sats and encourage, in a friendly, non-dogmatic way, anyone who is open minded enough to listen, to do the same...