Brexit's Favorite Son Now Orange-Pilling: Nigel Farage Stacks £2M in Bitcoin

Nigel Farage has officially become the first sitting UK MP to publicly buy Bitcoin, completing a £2 million ($2.5 million) purchase through Stack BTC Plc. The April 13, 2026 transaction makes him both the first sitting MP and the first UK political party leader to publicly participate in a Bitcoin purchase. Yes, the man who spent years convincing Britain to leave the EU has now decided to opt out of the legacy financial system too.

The deal went down at Blockchain.com's London headquarters, where Farage was filmed taking part in the process—because what's a Bitcoin buy without a photo op these days? Apparently, you can't truly stack sats without a carefully curated Instagram story and a hard drive full of proof-of-keys.

"A Bitcoin treasury company must actively accumulate the asset to remain credible," Farage emphasized, channeling his inner Saylor. Look, if you've been paying attention to Michael Saylor's content for the past four years, you're basically a Bitcoin evangelist at this point. Farage clearly hasn't been watching cat videos on YouTube during those long Brexit negotiations.

The purchase was funded through recent capital raises totaling over £4.2 million ($5.25 million). Stack BTC's model combines acquiring profitable UK businesses with converting surplus capital into Bitcoin—treating BTC as a long-term balance sheet asset. The company previously held a modest 21 BTC position but is now scaling aggressively with 68.19 BTC in its