Susie Violet Ward

Journalist — Co-founder & Director, Bitcoin Policy UK

Susie Violet Ward is Co-founder & Director at Bitcoin Policy UK, and a financial analyst and journalist specialising in Bitcoin. She writes for Forbes on Bitcoin, environmental issues, and its impact on global politics, business, technology, and human rights. She previously authored the opinion column My Two Sats for CityAM, exploring systemic global challenges through a Bitcoin lens.

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Regulation vs. Rights in the Age of Bitcoin Code, Cash, and Crime: Who Controls Your Freedom?

Satoshi Nakamoto described Bitcoin as peer-to-peer electronic cash — a form of digital money that removes the need for trusted intermediaries. For much of modern history, cash has functioned as a tool of personal sovereignty, enabling private exchange, independent ownership, and freedom of association.

Today, that foundation is being challenged. Expanding financial surveillance and regulatory pressures are redefining the boundaries of privacy, property, and expression in the digital age.

This panel examines the case of Samourai Wallet—and other related incidents, as a flashpoint in the broader conflict, raising urgent questions about free speech, the right to own and control property, and the future of financial privacy in an increasingly monitored world.

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Sat, 12:20