"There is an alternative to the state." New episode. Daniel Thompson has spent six years building communities outside the system, and his take is that the free cities movement's real bottleneck was never law or land. It's people. Getting them to actually show up, and to stay. Digital nomadism as a stage, not the destination. Families as the key to critical mass. A broken property ladder swapped for something you genuinely own. And the case for buying a dying European village and rebuilding it with people who think like you. Recorded in person in Próspera. Stream it and boost on Fountain (V4V):

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Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society – Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of N...

New episode out. I sat down with Prof. Eric Kaufmann to work out why the West feels like it's coming apart, and where it actually started. His answer goes right back to the 1960s. We got into immigration, identity, and the slow erosion of being able to say what you think. Stream it on @Fountain - https://fountain.fm/episode/FUw0E74ubpXGo4wBgyJ5

Reflections on my convo with @Tomek ⚡ K. When asked about everything Próspera doesn't have yet, the missing coffee shop, the missing scooter rental, the missing late venue, the missing grocery store that solves the chicken-and-egg adoption problem, Tomek didn't treat any of it as a problem. He treated it as the actual opportunity. His view: a 200-person startup city isn't a finished product you move to. It's an open invitation. Every gap is a business someone hasn't started yet. The legal and tax infrastructure is already in place. Próspera is the only jurisdiction on earth where you can denominate your books in Bitcoin, pay 1% corporate tax in sats, and sort residency in a few months. What's missing is the texture of normal life. That's where the next wave of builders comes in. For anyone who has been waiting for a clean reason to start something in a charter city, this is the conversation to listen to.

Free Cities Podcast • 183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk • Watch on Fountain

He Quit Poland for the Best Job in Bitcoin - Tomek Kołodziejczuk is a Polish bitcoiner from Warsaw, where he founded the Bitcoin Film Festival, no...

Can anyone advise me? Is a Mac Mini still a decent way to go for an AI set up at home? Looking to create a very specific AI system for podcast workflow. Won't use it for anything else. Cheers.

In case you missed it a few weeks back, this one is still worth your time, and arguably more relevant by the week. I sat down with Lucy Connolly. A mother from Northampton who posted an angry, ugly message on X the night three children were murdered in Southport, deleted it within hours, was sentenced to 31 months, and served just over a year inside. Where is the line between a statement that is vile and one that is criminal? When the state reaches for a prison cell over words, what does that signal, and to whom? Connolly is candid about what she wrote, what prison was actually like, and why she refuses to let the worst thing she ever posted define her. And if you found this one interesting. This Friday I'll be dropping an interview with Canadian Prof Eric Kaufmann. Where Jordan Peterson brings the emotion, Kaufmann brings the evidence, circling the same cultural storm with survey data instead of sermons. 🎧 Listen or watch the full conversation with Lucy Connolly: ▶️ YouTube: 🎙️ Fountain:

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12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport m...

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An Australian man cured his dog's cancer for $3,000. No pharma company. No FDA. Just a genome sequence, AlphaFold, and a homemade vaccine. That story is a small window into a much bigger shift, and it's the subject of our new Free Cities Podcast episode with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City and a General Partner at Infinita VC. Niklas has probably done more than anyone to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. We sat down in Austin to talk about why the way medicine gets made is starting to come apart, and what replaces it. A few of the threads we pull on: - Why aging isn't officially a disease, and why that quietly holds back one of the best-funded industries in the world. - How China went from near zero to 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a single decade, and what that should tell the United States. - Why Right to Try laws in Montana and New Hampshire might matter more than any federal reform. - Robin Hanson's idea that your doctor and your life insurer should be the same company, so that someone finally has an incentive to keep you alive. - And the question underneath all of it: why do you need permission to try to save your own life? Apparently, a lot of this stuff is going to happen in my lifetime. And I'm quite old. Fingers crossed. Watch the episode 👇

New episode is up, but only for subs rn. Niklas Anzinger has spent the last few years building a biotech hub inside Próspera. In this conversation he makes the case that the FDA's monopoly on who gets to try what medicine is costing lives, and that the cracks are finally appearing. Dog cancer vaccines built at home for $3,000 with AlphaFold. Sid Sijbrandij going founder mode on his own bone cancer. China eating 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a decade. Montana and New Hampshire quietly cracking open the Right to Try framework. And why Próspera's insurance-based regulatory model might be the most important governance innovation nobody's talking about. Early access on @Fountain now. General release Friday at 6.15am GMT. https://fountain.fm/episode/d0sQp6idoayM1GrrVXHx

Most people think geopolitics is complicated. It isn't. It's the same playbook. For 300 years. Maritime dominance. Broken countries. Managed migration. Dollar zones. The same families. The same institutions. Patrick Henningsen has spent decades reporting from war zones, reading the classified think tank papers, watching the narratives get manufactured in real time. This conversation goes deep. Ukraine. Israel. Migration. NATO. The Anglo-American Empire. The petrodollar. Why Russia didn't fold. Why Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv. Who actually benefits. Not a conspiracy theory. A coherent picture most people have never been shown.

🇧🇷 A Brazilian banker bought raw land in 1980 and built a private city: water, sewage, security, urban planning, all within Brazilian law. No special legal status. Just contracts and stubbornness. He died last year at 83. His name was Péricles de Freitas Druck. Most of the Free Cities world has never heard of him. Now a small group of founders wants to take what he built and add the one thing it's missing: formal regulatory autonomy. A Próspera-style Digital Economic Zone on the island of Florianópolis, built on a 45-year foundation that's already profitable, already governed, already real. Brazil loses 1,200 millionaires a year. Many of them are founders. Most of them don't want to leave. This is the story of a Free City hiding in plain sight, and the people racing to formalise it before the rest of the world notices.

The Bitcoin economy that's quietly forming on a Honduran island:

Episode 184. Recorded at the world's biggest remote work conference in Austin. AI is replacing jobs faster than anyone wants to admit. The companies say10%. My guest, who sees the inquiry data before the layoffs hit the news, says 40%. His final question ties it all back to where we live: who do you sue when the AI is wrong? In Free Cities, you actually have an answer.

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He Swapped His Production Team For Claude – Matthew Mottola is an American who fell in love with freelancing in his twenties and then spent the n...

New ep with Matthew Mottola, CEO of Human Cloud. Early access for @Fountain subs now. He told me: - 40% layoffs are coming at large companies - He's automated 98% of his company's podcast workflow with Claude - Most agencies are quietly run by freelancers - Google runs on 60% contractors and doesn't advertise it - Universities are mostly a waste unless it's Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford or Harvard We disagreed on plenty. Especially the AI bit.

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He Swapped His Production Team For Claude – Matthew Mottola is an American who fell in love with freelancing in his twenties and then spent the n...

He quit Poland for the best job in Bitcoin. @Tomek ⚡ K visited Próspera a year ago. Day two: bought a motorbike on Facebook Marketplace to lock the move in. He's never left. He's now building the Bitcoin District: a modular Bitcoin neighborhood up a jungle valley, inside the only jurisdiction on earth where you can pay 1% corporate tax in BTC and denominate your books in sats. 👇

Free Cities Podcast • 183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk • Watch on Fountain

He Quit Poland for the Best Job in Bitcoin - Tomek Kołodziejczuk is a Polish bitcoiner from Warsaw, where he founded the Bitcoin Film Festival, no...

The only jurisdiction on earth where you can denominate your books in BTC, pay 1% corporate tax in sats, and incorporate a Bitcoin-only startup is a free economic zone on a Caribbean island. 15+ Bitcoin companies are already operating there. @Tomek ⚡ K visited a year ago. On day two, he bought a motorbike on Facebook Marketplace to lock the move in. He hasn't left. What's there: Orangeville, a wooden modular Bitcoin neighborhood climbing a jungle valley, phase one funded. Bitcoin Arena renovated, 1,000+ kids through it weekly. ~60 merchants accepting BTC across Roatán. ~10 to 15% of Próspera's economy already on Bitcoin transactions, including rent and tax. BitChill quarterly retreats. Satoshi Saturdays. Coffee for 2,000 sats at the Bitcoin Center. Bitcoin Games: 150 players, 2 BTC prize pool. Bitcoin Vibe Camp hackathon in August. Bitcoin++ and Sovereign Engineering both in talks. The bet: Roatán becomes the most Bitcoin-dense island on earth. Madeira's still ahead on merchant count. The race is on. Episode covers Hal Finney cryogenics, quantum threats to Satoshi's coins, the Hollywood sub-genre of Satoshi films, the Bitcoin standard at Próspera, Saylor, lower-price-is-better-for-Bitcoin, and the wooden neighborhood up the jungle. Subs have early access NOW, Everyone else can listen on Friday.

Free Cities Podcast • 183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk • Watch on Fountain

He Quit Poland for the Best Job in Bitcoin - Tomek Kołodziejczuk is a Polish bitcoiner from Warsaw, where he founded the Bitcoin Film Festival, no...

Some context from the country that birthed free speech. A 44-year-old mother was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a tweet. She deleted it after 3.5 hours. The police came a week later. She served 12 months prison. She's out now, on licence until March 2027. The state can put her back inside for what she says publicly between now and then. Britain arrests roughly 12,000 people a year for things people have said online. If you're here, you probably already understand why this matters. Here's Lucy Connolly telling her story.

Free Cities Podcast • 182 - Jailed for a Tweet | Lucy Connolly • Watch on Fountain

12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport m...

She tweeted in anger. Deleted it 3.5 hours later. A week later the police knocked on her door. The next time Lucy Connolly slept in her own bed, it was 12 months later. This is an unbelievable story...

Free Cities Podcast • 182 - Jailed for a Tweet | Lucy Connolly • Watch on Fountain

12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport m...

Brazil has had a Free City for 45 years. Nobody noticed. Built in 1980 by a banker who'd never heard of charter cities... running its own water, sewage, security, and urban planning to this day. Paloma Lecheta is now trying to make it official. Full story on the new Free Cities Podcast 👇

Last year, 1,200 millionaires left Brazil. Most of them were founders. Paloma Lecheta is one of the people trying to give them a reason to stay. In my latest Free Cities Podcast episode, the Brazilian entrepreneur and co-founder of Founder Haus walks through: ▸ The 45-year-old private development in Florianópolis already operating like a Free City ▸ The proposed Digital Economic Zone (Floripa 10) that could give it formal autonomy ▸ Why the difference between crazy and visionary is execution WATCH:

Free Cities Podcast • 181 - Brazil's First Free City | Paloma Lecheta • Watch on Fountain

Brazil already has a Free City. It's been operating quietly for 45 years. Paloma Lecheta on the new Free Cities Podcast. Fountain subs have access today..

Free Cities Podcast • 181 - Brazil's First Free City | Paloma Lecheta • Watch on Fountain