{"id":23566,"date":"2026-06-18T15:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/farage-trying-to-block-britcoin-plans-that-could-be-costly-for-billionaire-donor\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:37:14","slug":"farage-trying-to-block-britcoin-plans-that-could-be-costly-for-billionaire-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/farage-trying-to-block-britcoin-plans-that-could-be-costly-for-billionaire-donor\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage trying to block \u2018Britcoin\u2019 plans that could be costly for billionaire donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency<\/p>\n<p>Nigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party.<\/p>\n<p>The Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for the millions he has donated to the party and the undeclared \u00a35m personal gift to Farage that the Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/apr\/29\/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024\">revealed<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jun\/18\/nigel-farage-trying-block-britcoin-crypto-plans-bank-of-england-christopher-harborne\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/10683ae9e076e0011b37fd054df61e49e173f63b\/0_0_6121_4899\/master\/6121.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5d2d78b5f4373fe392ba165eba2a3f40\" title=\"Farage trying to block \u2018Britcoin\u2019 plans that could be costly for billionaire donor\" \/>Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency<br \/>\nNigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party.<br \/>\nThe Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for the millions he has donated to the party and the undeclared \u00a35m personal gift to Farage that the Guardian revealed in April. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform UK leader used private meeting at Bank of England to urge governor to drop plans for state-run cryptocurrency Nigel Farage has been trying to block a Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for the billionaire bankrolling his party. The Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/farage-trying-to-block-britcoin-plans-that-could-be-costly-for-billionaire-donor\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Farage trying to block \u2018Britcoin\u2019 plans that could be costly for billionaire donor<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}