Nigel Farage reassures voters his relationships with crypto billionaires, Bitcoin companies and gold dealers are all perfectly normal working-class stuff
by Andy Matthews 2 months ago 
Nigel Farage has reassured voters that his increasingly complicated relationships with crypto billionaires, Bitcoin companies and gold dealers merely demonstrate how closely connected he remains to ordinary working people.
The clarification comes after reports that Stack BTC, a Bitcoin treasury company in which Farage owns a 5.6% stake, plans to acquire gold dealer Direct Bullion, which has previously paid Farage £405,000 for promotional work.
Stack BTC is chaired by former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, giving the entire enterprise the reassuring air of the sort of financial stability traditionally associated with Kwasi Kwarteng.
Farage explained, “This is how normal people live.
“You finish a hard day’s work, go down the pub, order a pint and discuss whether your Bitcoin treasury company should acquire a precious-metals dealer to generate cash for further cryptocurrency purchases.
“I hear this sort of thing everywhere I go.”
Reform’s relationship with alternative finance has attracted attention after the party recently received £72m from two crypto billionaires, while crypto investor Christopher Harborne has separately given Farage £5m personally.
Farage rejected suggestions there was anything unusual about Reform attracting quite so much money from an industry famously enthusiastic about forms of tender that can prove rather more difficult to follow around than a cheque from Barclays.
“Yes, criminals like crypto, and they like gold. Criminals also like mobile phones,” he explained. “That doesn’t make my iPhone suspicious, does it?
Ordinary voter Simon Williams said Farage’s financial arrangements merely proved how well he understood families struggling with the cost of living.
He explained, “My wife and I were only discussing this last night.
“She said the electricity bill had gone up again, and I said, thankfully, our 5.6% holding in a Bitcoin treasury company gives us adequate exposure to alternative asset classes.
“Then we checked the gold price and went to bed.”
Farage insisted Reform would continue representing people abandoned by the Westminster establishment.
“Whether you’re a plumber in Stoke, a builder in Sunderland, or a cryptocurrency billionaire wondering why the Bank of England hasn’t made it easier for everyone to buy Bitcoin yet, Reform is the party for you.”
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