In the span of a single weekend, two cryptocurrency investors handed Reform UK a combined £72 million — more than every British political party raised together in the previous year — reshaping the financial landscape of British democracy in ways the existing rules were never designed to contain. The donations, each £36 million, arrived from men who framed their giving as a corrective to institutional advantage, yet critics see in them the very concentration of private power that democratic systems were built to resist. The moment has forced an old and unresolved question back to the surface: i