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Dominic Frisby recalls meeting MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor for the first time at a crypto event. What started off as an awe-struck moment became confusing after things took an unexpected turn.

“I saw Michael Saylor there. I was like, ‘Wow, that’s him!’” he tells Magazine. But it was Saylor who quickly came over and introduced himself before Frisby had a chance:

“He just came up to me and said, ‘I’ve seen some of your videos, and I really like your work and what you’re doing. Would you like to come over to dinner?’”

Frisby explains he was thrilled to be hanging with the OG Bitcoin maxi in Saylor’s house, which is “much nicer” than his own.

“Every time I watch a Michael Saylor video, I get orange pilled. The guy is so clever,” he declares.

It’s something of a mutual admiration society, with Saylor frequently sharing Frisby’s television appearances discussing Bitcoin.

Frisby is not just a Bitcoiner and has his fingers in a bunch of different pies, including cracking jokes on stage as a respected comedian, writing books and hosting TV shows.

With a modest 32,300 followers on Twitter — some way behind Saylor’s massive 3.1 million — he’s still making a name for himself and can often be heard talking about Bitcoin on radio stations like BBC 5.

Oh, and ever heard of hit U.K. show Money Pit? Well, Frisby was the face of it. He admits he has a knack for juggling multiple balls at once.

“I’m a bit of a jack of all trades, and I just tend to go and do whatever interests me in any given moment.”

Frisby can also boast of having penned one of the very first credible books on Bitcoin, Bitcoin: The Future of Money, published by Unbound back in 2014. 

“I think it was the first book on Bitcoin from a recognized publisher,” he declares.

Despite his admiration for Saylor, he thinks the next generation needs its own Bitcoin champion.

“I think Roger Ver was a brilliant evangelist for Bitcoin. Saylor was a brilliant evangelist for Bitcoin. But when the next bull market happens, we need a new evangelist. We need to find some new narratives to propel the story.”

And even though he’s a self-proclaimed Bitcoin maximalist, he admits he’s got a small bag of Ether tucked away, even if that’s more an investment in Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin than the actual network itself.

“My portfolio is probably over 90% Bitcoin, and I’ve got some Ethereum. That guy [Vitalik] Buterin, he’s obviously really clever. And I sort of think by investing in Ethereum, you’re effectively investing in Vitalik.”

What led to Twitter fame?

Frisby admits that his Twitter is a bit all over the place, a bit of a “hopscotch.”

He acknowledges that things might be better for him if he just focused on ranting about one topic.

“If I just tweeted about crypto all day long, I would probably have a much bigger following than I do.”

His followers spiked in 2021 when Frisby and a group of others went to well-known landmarks in the United Kingdom and beamed messages onto them.

“I was involved in this thing where we got a projector. And we went round projecting slogans on public buildings,” he explains.

Frisby decided to project the message “Bitcoin fixes this” on the Bank of England.

What type of content can people expect?

Frisby’s tweets are all over the place – one day it’s Bitcoin, the next it’s CBDCs, and then he throws in some comedy or drops a new music video.

His latest project is a parody song and music video on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

Titled “Programmable money,” Frisby plays the chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. He starts off chanting “CBDC” and then goes “these monitor every purchase you make, every transaction or decision you make.”

“It cost me a few thousand quid, and I had to call in a lot of favors. Yeah, I mean you can see it’s an expensive video.”

It looks like it’s paying off, getting shoutouts from well-known economist Lyn Alden and the famous Bitcoin podcaster Peter McCormack.

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Frisby is a Bitcoin maxi for all the “wrong reasons.”

“I just don’t have the time to study all these other coins, and I’m in various WhatsApp groups and stuff and Telegram chats, and I just can’t keep up with this new coin and that new coin. I just don’t have the time or the energy.”

He rattles off a few of his favorite commentators, like Lyn Alden, Peter McCormack, GiGi, Bitcoin entrepreneur Robert Breedlove and Adam Back, CEO of Blockstream.

Predictions?

By the sound of it, Frisby’s been thrown the prediction ball before:

“Do you want me to give you a headline stupid prediction that will get loads of clicks because I’ve said Bitcoin’s going to half a million dollars, or do you want me to give you a realistic one that in three years’ time people go, ‘You got that prediction right!’”

Obviously, we want the prediction that gets lots of clicks, but we’ll take what we can get.
Frisby’s prediction seems pretty reasonable for the upcoming cycle, suggesting we might hit an average price between $70,000 and $100,000.

But it could shoot up to a whopping $250,000 during this cycle. Maybe we should put that in the headline?

Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He’s also a standup comedian and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Project.

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Chancellor Rachel Reeves considering ‘changes’ to ISAs – and says there’s too much focus on ‘risk’ in investing

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The chancellor has confirmed she is considering “changes” to ISAs – and said there has been too much focus on “risk” in members of the public investing.

In her second annual Mansion House speech to the financial sector, Rachel Reeves said she recognised “differing views” over the popular tax-free savings accounts, in which savers can currently put up to £20,000 a year.

She was reportedly considering reducing the threshold to as low as £4,000 a year, in a bid to encourage people to put money into stocks and shares instead and boost the economy.

However the chancellor has shelved any immediate planned changes after fierce backlash from building societies and consumer groups.

In her speech to key industry figures on Tuesday evening, Ms Reeves said: “I will continue to consider further changes to ISAs, engaging widely over the coming months and recognising that despite the differing views on the right approach, we are united in wanting better outcomes for both savers and for the UK economy.”

She added: “For too long, we have presented investment in too negative a light, quick to warn people of the risks, without giving proper weight to the benefits.”

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Ms Reeves’s speech, the first major one since the welfare bill climbdown two weeks ago, appeared to encourage regulators to focus less on risks and more on the benefits of investing in things like the stock market and government bonds (loans issued by states to raise funds with an interest rate paid in return).

She welcomed action by the financial regulator to review risk warning rules and the campaign to promote retail investment, which the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is launching next year.

“Our tangled system of financial advice and guidance has meant that people cannot get the right support to make decisions for themselves”, Ms Reeves told the event in London.

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Last year, Ms Reeves said post-financial crash regulation had “gone too far” and set a course for cutting red tape.

On Tuesday, she said she would announce a package of City changes, including a new competitive framework for a part of the insurance industry and a regulatory regime for asset management.

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Reeves is ‘totally’ up for the job

In response to Ms Reeves’s address, shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride said: “Rachel Reeves should have used her speech this evening to rule out massive tax rises on businesses and working people. The fact that she didn’t should send a shiver down the spine of taxpayers across the country.”

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The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, also spoke at the Mansion House event and said Donald Trump’s taxes on US imports would slow the economy and trade imbalances should be addressed.

“Increasing tariffs creates the risk of fragmenting the world economy, and thereby reducing activity”, he said.

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Fairshake reported raising $52 billion from the crypto industry in the first half of 2025, at a time when candidates previously supported by the PAC were providing crucial votes.

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Programmable regulation could be the solution to legacy regulatory frameworks struggling to keep pace with DeFi’s rapidly evolving ecosystems. Embedding compliance in code can bring legal clarity, reduce risk and foster innovation in DeFi.

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