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25 episodes on Nomads
Top result: Christian Betancourt | How to Survive a Hostile Government. Plus 24 more on the Free Cities Podcast.
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Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.
Joey Flores dropped out of school at 16. His CEO found out by accident, because nobody had ever read his CV.
He now runs marketing at a company doing tens of millions.
His point: the CV is dying. Applicant-tracking software filtered him out for years for having no degree, screened out before a human saw his name. So he stopped applying and started building things people could see. Now he hires the same way, the person who shipped something beats the person with the tidy résumé every time.
The first country on the internet.
Not a network state that amasses people online and hopes to manifest something physical later. An actual membership passport, a social safety net that follows you across borders instead of dying at them, mapped out to 2050.
New epsiode with Joey Flores 👇
Free Cities Podcast • 192 - The First Country on the Internet | Joey Flores • Watch on Fountain
A Country on the Internet, a Passport by 2050, and the Death of the CV
- Joey Flores is Head of Marketing at SafetyWing, the Y Combinator-backed co...
The UK House of Lords just voted for a measure that would put age checks on VPNs. It will probably die in the Commons. But the fact that they voted for it at all is the tell.
When I last sat down with @Efrat Fenigson, she called this. Her point: privacy tools only protect you when everyone uses them. The moment only the privacy-conscious reach for a VPN, you stop being hidden and start being flagged. You become the one person in the room with the curtains drawn. The state doesn't need to read what you're doing. It just needs to see that you're the type who hides.
And the deeper point: privacy itself is being further reframed as suspicious. "What do you have to hide" becomes the whole argument. You forget why there's a door on the bathroom. You forget why you write in a private journal.
Her answer: The ID checks are here. Now what? Encryption is how you put the doors and curtains back in a digital world. Bitcoin is how you keep the ability to transact when permission becomes the default.
Full convo👇
Free Cities Podcast • 146 - Efrat Fenigson: Stop Bitching, Start Solving • Watch on Fountain
Censorship, Community, Psilocybin Microdosing, Spirituality, Israel, Propaganda , Bitcoin, Privacy, Encryption, CBDCs, Shadow banning, Parallel Sys...
"Being a tourist in a country is better than being a resident of a country."
Episode 165 of the Free Cities Podcast is Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian School economist, on why exit is more powerful than voice.
> Why the Bitcoin citadel meme started as an insult and became a plan.
> Why your house might be a liability wearing an asset costume.
> Why intentional communities fail and contractual ones don't.
> Introduction to citadel.garden, his network of quiet, family-oriented refuges: 25 houses per location, held through a Swiss structure backed by Bitcoin, deliberately not advertised. Insurance, not utopia.
Fifty-one episodes about Bitcoin.
That's one episode a week for almost a year, if you're feeling ambitious.
Over three and a half years the Free Cities Podcast has been asking a different question: once you hold money the state can't debase, where do you actually live? What do you build?
The archive now has its own page:
On privacy: @Max on the praxeology of privacy, @JeffG on the architecture of freedom, @selfBankt on decentralised networks.
On the state: @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M on why democracy drifts toward totalitarianism, @Susie Violet Ward on digital authoritarianism, @Efrat Fenigson on CBDCs.
On exit: @Daniel Prince on choosing a parallel life, @Nathan Day on overlanding and self-sovereign identity, @Tomek ⚡ K on the Bitcoin Free City he actually lives in.
On the big picture: @allen the sovereign individual thesis, @Tuur Demeestr on fiat as the biggest addiction of all, Polycarp Nakamoto on decentralised mesh networks.
And on this protocol: @Ben Arc on Nostr and anarchy, @Nick Malster on liberating creators from the attention economy.
Bitcoin fixes the money. These conversations are about what gets fixed next.
All 51, one page: 
53 episodes on Bitcoin
Top result: Trey Goff | Nobody Understands What's Inside the Black Box. Plus 52 more on the Free Cities Podcast.
Everyone needs a Plan B.
New ep just dropped for subs. Everyone else, Friday.
Free Cities Podcast • 191 - Everyone Needs a Plan B | Vance • Watch on Fountain
Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle
- Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residenc...
At 70, Joyce Brand decided to do something with her life before it was over. At 71 she moved to farmland in the most dangerous part of Honduras to chronicle a Free City being built from nothing.
That city is Ciudad Morazán: one owner, no politicians, rent instead of taxes, near-zero crime in a region famous for the opposite.
New episode of the Free Cities Podcast, recorded in person in Próspera. Zap it, boost it, or just listen:
Free Cities Podcast • 190 - Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone | Joyce Brand • Watch on Fountain
New episode just dropped. Gonçalo Hall built the world's first nomad village in Madeira. Then he moved his family to a Free City.
"You should build for nomads, but nomads should not be your end client."
The nomad pioneer betting on a Free City, on the Bali playbook, the missing pieces, and why he isn't leaving.
Video live on YT 👇
Tomorrow on the podcast: the nomad pioneer who chose a Free City.
Gonçalo Hall built the world's first nomad village in Madeira and communities from Lisbon to Brazil. A year ago he told us nobody in the nomad world had heard of Próspera. Then he moved his family there.
Fountain subscribers are already listening. Early access, one coffee a month 👇
Everyone else: tomorrow.
Free Cities Podcast • 189 - The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City | Gonçalo Hall • Watch on Fountain
Is it even possible to beat 'This Week in Bitcoin' to number one in the @Fountain charts?
Poly episode now up on YT:
"We've made our own golden calf, which is AI, and we're all worshipping this false god that knows all, sees all, and can tell us whatever we want. But the reality is, it's more like a dog that can talk."
Polycarp Nakamoto episode live on @Fountain now:
Free Cities Podcast • 188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto • Watch on Fountain
Got to sit down with Poly in Austin. In person, helmet on, as ever.
You know the pitch: a second internet on Bitcoin nodes, mesh, Nostr relays, e-cash, the whole Web 5 stack, owned by nobody and impossible to switch off. We got into all of it. Bitcoin nodes in food trucks, shipping-container homes with a private AI inside, what actually happens when the internet goes down, and why he reckons the old one has five years left.
The message, as ever: remove the centralisation from your own heart first, and have the self-sovereign stack in hand before you need it.
One of my favourite conversations this year.
Plan For Decentralisation. Early access for subs now. Everyone else, Friday.
Free Cities Podcast • 188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto • Watch on Fountain
This stuff is absolutely amazing:
"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):
Free Cities Podcast • 187 - Free Cities Have a People Problem | Daniel Thompson • Watch on Fountain
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 -
Free Cities Podcast • 186 - You're Not Allowed to Say This | Eric Kaufmann • Watch on Fountain
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
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.
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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...
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