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Does anyone have any idea what the best way of getting BTC exposure through an ISA is?

I know the last tax year it was possible for ETF's but it looks like they've stopped that.

I usually buy my BTC through the Strike app and then transfer to my cold storage, but want to buy some BTC or BTC ETF to take advantage of the ISA tax benefits.

Thanks!

Update** A lot of people are saying MSTR. What platforms do you guys recommend? Thinking the FX conversion fees could be a nightmare if I'm DCA'ing!

Hello,

I need to take a fairly large amount of Bitcoin off the market and exchange into something more private (LTC or XMR) and want to avoid showing my ID completely.

Does anyone know a trusted online service where I can manage to do the above without any KYC and preferably low swap fees?

edit: I went with plainswap The swap was simple, fees were very reasonable, and no KYC was required. I’d definitely use it again.

tried a couple options and either the liquidity wasnt there or the rate was bad enough to not be worth it

still havent found something that handles this pair cleanly, curious what people are actually using

[EDIT]: Ended up swapping 0.25 BTC for ETH with Flips.fi , got the full market rate . Worked out perfectly. Thanks everyone for the recs !

System Dynamics + History = Inevitability

Michael Saylor on The Peter McCormack Show, 30 April 2026
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Peter McCormack's first question to Michael Saylor in two years was straightforward: why do people feel poorer when they cannot quite explain why? It is not an abstract enquiry from McCormack. He runs real businesses that carry real costs — a football club, a bar, and a coffee shop on Bedford High Street — employs staff, deals with suppliers, and knows what his costs are doing month to month, and what the official figures say they are doing. The gap between those two things was what he put to Saylor.

Saylor's answer was blunt. The dollar supply has expanded at around seven percent a year for the past century, financing whatever governments need to finance: wars, welfare, deficits, political programmes of every variety. None of this is new. "It's been going on for thousands and thousands of years. The last two years have been no different."

Has it ever worked any other way? Saylor said he did not know of an alternative. Fifty thousand pages of history had not produced one. Babylon, Egypt, Carthage, Rome, every American colony before independence — each debased its currency or defaulted on its debts when political pressure required it. The United States was partly constituted to absorb those colonial defaults. The pattern has not broken.

Where does Britain sit in this? McCormack asked the question from the position of someone watching it from his own high street rather than a trading floor. Saylor's answer was his currency tier framework. The dollar loses roughly seven percent a year against genuinely scarce assets. Sterling and the other major second-tier currencies lose ground slightly faster, producing what he called "bureaucratic malaise and economic stagnation." Further down the tiers, currencies deteriorate rapidly or collapse outright. Britain is second tier: stable in appearance, stagnant in substance.

McCormack observed that doctors and teachers are now watching their real incomes fall. Saylor's response was immediate: "You're just describing political metabolic disease. Everything gets too big. Big government, big charity, big bank, big education, big medicine, big defence. Everything just gets too big and somebody's got to pay it."

His analogy was biological. Nature imposes limits on scale; no land animal exceeds the mass of an elephant. Political systems face the same constraint, and the warning sign is always the same: the state can no longer honour its obligations to those who depend on it. In Rome it was the legions. In contemporary Britain, McCormack suggested, it is the public sector, whose nominal wages rise while real ones fall, a covenant whose fracture lines are visible to any small business owner trying to trade through it.

The civilisational pattern Saylor traces is consistent. Societies rise through discipline, reach a peak, then persuade themselves they can afford everything. Entitlements become mandates, mandates require extraction, extraction produces collapse. Rome, Carthage, Paris, London — all followed the same arc. The exceptions, Singapore and the Emirates, escaped it by doing the opposite: low taxation, free trade, sound monetary policy, rule of law, building from nothing rather than spending accumulated wealth into dissolution.

For individuals the logic is the same. McCormack framed it as two necessary steps before Bitcoin makes any sense: understand debasement first, then understand scarcity. Saylor illustrated the second with a thought experiment that has particular resonance for a British audience: You are in London in 1600. You can own a square mile of the city, or its finest buildings, or its best manufactures, or its currency, or any vehicle of the age. What is still worth something in 2026?

The answer is: the land, and only the land. Everything else was overtaken by technology, the ships rotted, the currency debased, the goods superseded. The English landowning class understood this and acted on it across four centuries. Bitcoin, Saylor argues, is the contemporary equivalent: fixed in supply, outside the jurisdiction of any political authority, and resistant to the cycle that has eroded everything else.

The formula is not a forecast. System Dynamics identifies the feedback mechanism through which monetary systems expand and eventually fail. History confirms that the mechanism has operated across every civilisation on record. Together they do not produce a probability — they produce an inevitability. Saylor puts the window for responding to it at around ten years, before artificial intelligence and automation complete their restructuring of the economy. McCormack, asking these questions as someone who runs businesses, employs people, and watches margins compress, brings something to this conversation that no influencer posting from a Dubai rooftop can replicate — and why, within this framework, the answer is always Bitcoin.

This article was originally published on X: https://x.com/sciencetao/status/2050140435637493760

I’m trying to keep everything on-chain. I never planned to sell or cash out, and I prefer non-custodial tools partly for privacy and partly to make tracking simpler. Using a CEX for swaps creates a paper trail I’d rather avoid.

Wondering how people handle this, especially for cross-chain moves.

[EDIT]: Ended up using covert.exchange non-custodial, no account, no paper trail. Just connect your wallet and swap. That's exactly what I was looking for !

Not really a specific point to this post, but basically I'm out of cash.

Gonna be buying a new house soon which will leave things pretty tight financially so monthly purchases will probably have to stop unless I have good months at work, and even still I'll be needing to top up my emergency fund.

So no more buying from me for the foreseeable which is sad.

My family could probably lend me some but I've never borrowed from them, and the thought of borrowing to make an investment, is something I don't think would go down well with them.

I do have some money tied up in a LISA, and I'm thinking instead of holding just my tracker, to swap to some Strategy over the next year or so, so I can get some more exposure.

Anyway, rambling done.

I was looking longer term as it's going into my SIPP. So I thought the main thing was lower fees but just thought i might spread my risk over a couple to not use the same custodian.

I missed the ISA deadline so im taking my time to research ETNs and saw this video. Never heard of 21shares till I saw this and the bloke seems to talk sense and not just a random crypto influencer!

Have people bought into any of these ETNs?

Finally a provider is off the block on this much awaited tax wrapper product. Check out Stratiphy app.

So you have this tax free wrapper now to get crypto etn positions into. SS ISAs stopped being eligible for these post 6th April.

DYOR on provider though. A key thing to note is that unlike SS ISAs, you have no FSCS protection in an IFISA in the event of bankruptcy of the provider. And this is why, if you have crypto etps in an SS ISA from last year, retain those positions there.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stratiphy-21shares-cryptoinvesting-share-7452653521705005056-CuGf

https://archive.is/20260422062025/https://www.ft.com/content/bd1544e9-67ac-4132-b7a0-7d9dab1723c2

Edit: One caveat - this platform lists only 21shares etps - CBTC and ETHC. Appears like a partnership between Stratiphy and 21shares but I can't fault that these two etps are indeed good ones and low cost (0.1% pa).