Free Cities Podcast
The Free Cities Podcast explores alternative governance, new jurisdictions, and the global movement to build freer societies. Hosted by Timothy Allen, the show features long-form conversations with people building autonomous jurisdictions and real-world pathways to more freedom. It focuses on legal structures, incentives, economics, and business models that turn freedom into a way of life. Topics include charter cities, special economic zones, network states, and seasteading. The podcast is the official podcast of the Free Cities Foundation.
Episodes
200 - Will Próspera Survive Its Own Success? | Erick Brimen
Everyone asks what happens if Próspera fails. Almost nobody asks what happens if it works.
- Four long years of building a Free City while the government of the day tried to repeal the law underneath it. An arbitration claim large enough that Honduras walked out of ICSID. Two television crews in twelve months, Channel 4 and ABC Australia, both arriving with the same script and interviewing many of
199 - The Hanseatic League in the Cloud | Petar Čekerevac
The four layers of building a new jurisdiction, and why the network state might be a backup layer for the world
- Petar Čekerevac is a Senior Fellow at Atlas Network, working on their Project on Decentralizing Technologies. He was executive manager of Libertarian Club Libek in Belgrade, he helped set up the Serbian media outlet Talas, and he is an advisor to Bitcoin District in Próspera.
The conve
198 - We’re Building a New Country in Europe | Daniel Jackson
At 21 years old, Daniel Jackson is already president of a country. There is just one problem: he currently can't enter it.
If you follow Free Cities, micronations or alternative governance online, there’s a good chance Verdis has suddenly appeared in your social media feed. Daniel says Verdis-related content has generated more than 200 million views over the past year, much of it following footage
197 - They'll Blame You When It Fails | Dominic Frisby
Gold, Bitcoin, and who gets the blame when the money fails.
- Dominic Frisby has written about gold for MoneyWeek for the best part of twenty years. He co-wrote and narrated Four Horsemen, and wrote Life After the State, Bitcoin: The Future of Money? and Daylight Robbery. He writes the newsletter The Flying Frisby, performs stand-up, and has a satirical song you have probably heard without knowing
196 - The Panopticon Is Already Here | Gareth Icke
Why are so many people suddenly questioning the official version of everything?
- Gareth Icke grew up surrounded by some of the most controversial ideas in Britain. His father, David Icke, built an entire body of work around hidden networks of power, manipulation and control, and Timothy came across many of those books when he was younger. He found the way David connected institutions, incentives
195 - How to Survive a Hostile Government | Christian Betancourt
A first hand account from inside the worst four years.
- Christian Betancourt is a Honduran lawyer, entrepreneur and one of Próspera's earliest residents. He was also one of the first people Timothy Allen ever interviewed for this podcast, back in episode three in 2022, when Próspera consisted of little more than the Beta building and the Honduran government had just begun its campaign against the
194 - Two Founders, Two Futures | Liam Martin & Nick Francis
One says relax. One bought a Bunker. Two founders on whether AI is coming for your job.
- Liam Martin is the co-founder of Time Doctor and Running Remote, and the creator of Peppermint, an AI tool that builds a working digital twin of you out of your emails, messages and calls. Nick Francis spent more than fifteen years building and running Help Scout as a fully remote company. Both were recorded
193 - Fifty Years of Watching It Go Wrong | Mark Frazier
He knew the men who tried to start their own countries. He watched every one of them fail.
- Mark Frazier has been in this movement longer than almost anyone alive. He put out libertarian magazines in high school, and by eighteen he had been made publisher of Reason, back when it ran out of a truck driver's apartment and had three hundred subscribers. That was 1970. Over the following half century
192 - The First Country on the Internet | Joey Flores
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 company building a global social safety net for remote workers. A two-time startup founder whose YC-funded music startup was acquired, he dropped out of high school at sixteen and now lives in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Timothy Allen sits down with Joey at the Runni
191 - Everyone Needs a Plan B | Vance
Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle
- Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residency visas across Latin America. A Canadian-American software developer, he began travelling after reading Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Workweek and arriving in Playa del Carmen in 2018.
Timothy Allen sits down with Vance in Próspera for a practical guide to i
190 - Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone | Joyce Brand
Spencer Heath, the Entrecom Model, and the City With One Owner
– Joyce Brand is a proper OG of the Free Cities world: author of 'Pioneering Prosperity: The Morazán Model for Free Cities', co-author of Spencer Heath's posthumous Economics and the Spiritual Life of Free Men, and one of the very few people in this movement who has actually lived in a Free City. She spent three years as an early resid
189 - The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City | Gonçalo Hall
Nomad Villages, the Bali Playbook, and Building a Caribbean Frontier
– Gonçalo Hall is a pioneer of the digital nomad movement, the builder behind the world's first Nomad Village in Madeira and the founder of NomadX, who now runs the Roatán Tourism Bureau, a Próspera company whose job is to put a little-known Caribbean island on the map. A year ago, in episode 130, he told Timothy that almost nobo
188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto
Community, Mesh Networks, and the Plan to Build a Parallel Society on Bitcoin
– Polycarp Nakamoto is the masked, anonymous figure at the centre of Lab 484, a research laboratory and cluster of startups based in Austin, Texas, building for Web 5: a second internet that runs peer-to-peer on Bitcoin nodes rather than the centralised choke points of the web we use today. Through Lab 484 and its flagsh
187 - Free Cities Have a People Problem | Daniel Thompson
Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society
– Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of Noma Collective, a global community of remote workers, location-independent professionals and, increasingly, families, who travel and live together in different parts of the world a month at a time. Born and raised in the UK to a family of musicians, he sp
186 - You're Not Allowed to Say This | Eric Kaufmann
Woke's 1960s Origins, the Race Taboo, and the End of the Progressive Era
– Eric Kaufmann is a Canadian professor of politics at the University of Buckingham, where he directs the Centre for Heterodox Social Science. One of the most prominent academic voices on nationalism, national identity, and political demography, he is the author of Whiteshift: Immigration, Populism and the Future of White Maj
185 - Medicine Without Permission | Niklas Anzinger
Self-Sovereign Medicine: Biotech, Right to Try, and the Cracks in the FDA's Monopoly
– Niklas Anzinger is a German entrepreneur who has probably done more than any single person to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. He is the founder and General Partner of Infinita VC, the first VC fund based in Próspera, Honduras, and the founder and CEO of Infinita City, formerly known as Vitalia, a netw
184 - What AI Can't Replace | Matthew Mottola
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 next decade trying to drag the rest of corporate America with him. He was early at Gigster, built the Microsoft 365 Freelance Toolkit, co-authored The Human Cloud with Matthew Coatney (HarperCollins), and now runs Human Cloud as an aggregator of flexible-t
183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk
He Quit Poland for the Best Job in Bitcoin
- Tomek Kołodziejczuk is a Polish bitcoiner from Warsaw, where he founded the Bitcoin Film Festival, now four years old and the first of its kind in the world. A year ago he flew to Roatán to visit Próspera, the Honduran free economic zone he'd been hearing about for years. On his second day he bought a motorbike from Facebook Marketplace to lock the deci
182 - Jailed for a Tweet | Lucy Connolly
12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post
- Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport murders in July 2024, she fired off an angry tweet, regretted it within hours, and deleted it. A week later, two police officers knocked on her door. Twelve and a half months later, she finally walked out of HMP Peterborough.
Timothy Allen sits down wi
181 - Brazil's First Free City | Paloma Lecheta
The Free City That's Been 45 Years in the Making
- Paloma Lecheta is a Brazilian entrepreneur and co-founder of Founder Haus, a hub for what she calls healthy entrepreneurship in Jurerê Internacional, a private neighbourhood on the island of Florianópolis. After accelerating around 1,800 startups across Brazil, she is now part of a small group of founders trying to do for Brazil what Próspera is d
180 - Why Bad Ideas Persist | Crémieux
IQ, Institutions & Why Every Country Is Run Poorly
- Crémieux is a pseudonymous statistician and writer with a large following on Substack and X. He likes to take widely cited studies, reopen the data, and argue the conclusions don't always hold up. His readers include Elon Musk and JD Vance, and his work circulates widely in tech and policy circles.
Timothy Allen sits down with Crémieux in Hondur
179 - My Family Owns a Country | Liam Bates
Sealand, Sovereignty & Building Freedom Without Permission
- For nearly six decades, the Principality of Sealand has stood as one of the world’s most famous experiments in self-declared sovereignty: a former wartime sea fort occupied in 1967 by Paddy Roy Bates and still run by the Bates family today. What began as a pirate-radio outpost became a long-running test case in jurisdiction, legitimacy,
178 - 8 Hard Truths from 25 Years of Investing in Free Cities | Patri Friedman
Why Most Free City Projects Fail & What Actually Works
- After more than two decades investing in charter cities, seasteading, and governance innovation, Patri Friedman has arrived at a blunt conclusion: most attempts to build new societies fail not because of bad ideas, but because of poor execution.
Timothy Allen sits down with the founder of The Seasteading Institute and General Partner at Pron
177 - The Próspera Master Plan | Gabriel Delgado
Inside Próspera's Survival, Legal Battle, and Vision for Governance as a Service
- Próspera is the world's most closely watched startup city - a Free City project on the Honduran island of Roatán operating under the ZEDE framework with its own civil code, tax structure, and regulatory system. After surviving years of political hostility from the previous Honduran government, it now faces a pivotal
176 - Why Everything Feels Broken | James Price
“When Starmer came in in 2024, how many people across the entire British state changed jobs?
Two hundred. One hundred ministers… and one hundred special advisors… And that’s it. And everybody else in that deep state stayed exactly the same.”
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Timothy Allen sits down with James Price, former UK government adviser and political commentator, for a wide-ranging conversation on what it’s really like
175 - The Last Free Place | Oswald Horowitz
“I will die at sea for sure. I’m not going back.”
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Timothy Allen sits down with filmmaker Oswald Horowitz, the man behind the upcoming documentary The Legend of Landi, to trace the strange true story of Samuele Landi, an Italian tech entrepreneur who set out to live beyond the reach of the normal system on a rusty barge in international waters between Dubai and Iran.
What begins as Oswald's quix
174 - The Architecture of Spontaneous Order | Patrik Schumacher
"Land use should not be prescribed by any planning regime. People come together into the city by seeking out very particular connections and a multitude of connections. And they have to find each other. There needs to be the degree of freedom to associate and self-organize what I call the co-location synergies."
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Timothy Allen sits down with Patrik Schumacher, principal architect at Zaha Hadid Ar
173 - The Hidden Path to Tyranny | Mailyn Salabarria
"You can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out. They're never going to leave power."
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Timothy Allen sits down with Mailyn Salabarria, a Cuban refugee and liberty advocate, to talk about what “voting with your feet” looks like when it is not a lifestyle choice but a survival move. Mailyn describes leaving Cuba with two suitcases and $200, then having to learn how freedo
172 - The Ultimate Exit Strategy | Joe Quirk
"The golden age of voluntarism, anarcho-capitalism has already emerged. It's all over two-thirds of the Earth's surface. It's completely flourishing. It's long since entered its golden age. We've already proved that it works because it emerged naturally on the sea.
It's called the cruise ship industry."
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Timothy Allen sits down with Joe Quirk, president of The Seasteading Institute, to make the
171 - The Truth About Special Economic Zones | Lotta Moberg
Special Economic Zones, Public Choice, and the Truth Behind China's Miracle
Lotta Moberg is an economist and author of The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones, widely regarded as the leading academic book on the subject. After a PhD at George Mason University she spent a decade in macro investing and is now co-founding a wealth management firm, alongside an unusual sideline in cannabis cre
170 - Leaving Europe Is The Rational Choice | Tim Stern
"I want to be back in my tribe. I want to have strong people which I can rely on, which I can do business with, which I know, which have my back and I have theirs. That's exactly what I want to have. And if we are building this place right now, why would I fill it with people I don't know and I don't give a shit about?"
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“The whole country is falling apart and nobody gives a shit about it.”
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Tim
169 - The First Operational Seasteading Resort: Reef Resort | Mitchell Suchner
"If I can sell someone something to buy, they might buy it. If you can sell someone something that they can live in, they're likely to buy it. If you can sell someone something that they can live in and also generates passive income for them, they're very likely to buy it."
A real seasteading resort exists today. Here’s the business model behind it.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Mitchell Suchner,
168 - Vikram Bharati | At the Intersection of Free Cities & Network States
“The free cities community seems very much more buttoned up and more pragmatic – real estate, free cities, development, SEZs. You need lawyers, you need bankers.
And then the network state community, there’s a lot more dreamers, young dreamers who want to do pop-up cities.
But there’s a convergence in between where you have a group of people who are a bit of both. And I think that middle group of
167 - Mikkel Thorup | The Global Freedom Map Is Changing
“How do you get out of this? How do you separate yourself from your government today? How do you protect your wealth and your ability to provide for your family today?”
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Timothy Allen speaks with Mikkel Thorup.
Mikkel is a long-time expat, offshore consultant, and founder of Expat Money. He has spent over 25 years living outside his country of birth, traveled to more than 120 countries, and works
166 - Christoph Heuermann | You Can Live Tax Free Almost Anywhere
“Why do you need Free Cities if you can live tax-free everywhere?”
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Timothy Allen speaks with Christoph Heuermann.
Christoph is a perpetual traveler whose company Staatenlos sits at the intersection of global mobility, asset protection, and quiet preparation for uncertainty. What begins with stories of constant movement and remote places quickly turns into a deeper exploration of why some people
NEWS 002 - Venezuela After the Capture of Maduro
In this NEWS episode of the Free Cities Podcast, Timothy Allen summarizes a recent Free Cities Foundation Ambassador call focused on the reported capture of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro and the rapid signals of reopening that followed.
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Drawing on firsthand accounts from Tim Stern, founder of CryptoCity, a residential special economic zone being built on Venezuela's Margarita Island, the
165 - Rahim Taghizadegan | Exit Is More Powerful Than Voice
Bitcoin, Citadel Theory, Geoarbitrage, Capital Mobility, Privacy, Austrian Economics, citadel.garden, Family, Plan B, Private Communities, Optionality, Sovereignty, Free Cities
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Timothy Allen speaks with Rahim Taghizadegan.
Rahim is an Austrian economist and philosopher, founder of the Scholarium in Vienna, working in the Austrian School tradition on capital theory, entrepreneurship, and why poli
164 - Mason | The Last Piece in the Puzzle for the Sovereign Individual
Seasteading, Floating Cities, Ocean Living, Private Governance, Catamaran Design, Flag Theory, Libertarian Communities, Sovereign Living, LiberArx, Atlas Island, Ocean Builders, Free Cities.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Mason.
Mason situates seasteading within the Free Cities movement, contrasting projects like the SeaPod from Ocean Builders and the ArkPad by Mitchell Suchner, before introducing Li
163 - Yaron Brook | Why Atlas Shrugged Keeps Happening
Collectivism, Individualism, Objectivism, Statism, Freedom, Ayn Rand, Free Speech, Entrepreneurship, Reason, Transhumanism, Free Cities, Self-Interest, Liberty, Technology, Philosophy
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Timothy Allen speaks with Yaron Brook.
Yaron is an Israeli American author and commentator best known as the longtime chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute and a prominent advocate of Objectivism.
In this conversation
162 - Vladimir Leshko: You Will Live Forever If You Choose To
Longevity, Gene Therapy, Unlimited Bio, Próspera, Regulation, AI, Biohacking, Philosophy, Morality, Spirituality.
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Timothy Allen speaks with biomedical engineer Vladimir Leshko about gene therapy, longevity, and why Próspera’s regulatory environment makes human trials possible that are effectively blocked elsewhere.
Leshko explains how gene therapy works, why aging is a biological process rather
161 - Swen Lorenz: Demography is Destiny
Sark, Free Cities, Flag Theory, Capital Flight, Geo Arbitrage, Investment, Independence, Relocation, Political Risk, Wealth Mobility, Government Failure.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Swen Lorenz.
Swen is a Sark resident who was at the centre of the recent bid to rejuvenate the island by buying up the flailing Sark property portfolio of the Barclay family.
This episode is an update on the current si
NEWS 001 - Updates on the Honduran General Election & ZEDEs
This NEWS episode of the Free Cities Podcast reviews Honduras’s unresolved presidential election, with Nasri Tito Asfura (National Party) seen as the likely winner over Salvador Nasralla (Liberal Party), and the socialist Libre party effectively sidelined.
Jorge Colindres and Alex Ugorji agreed that either leading candidate would be favorable to special zones (ZEDEs), with Asfura having stronger i
160 - Mark Edge: The Freedom to Leave
Free State Project, Libertarianism, Seasteading, City-States, Proprietarianism, Democracy, Privatized Governance, Immigration, Sovereignty, Liberty Movement, Economic Freedom, Silicon Valley Oligarchs.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Mark Edge.
Mark is an award-winning radio show host, most famously, one half of 'Free Talk Live' the libertarian radio show he hosted out of New Hampshire with Ian Freema
BONUS 005 - Timothy Allen: Finding Freedom in an Unfree World
Welcome to this BONUS episode of the Free Cities Podcast. These episodes are exclusively available to our subscribers on Fountain.fm, and I will be releasing them periodically throughout the year.
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If you're not on Fountain, you can access the episode here: https://fountain.fm/episode/727p2ykSx85aTmeNbC8N
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
In this episode Timothy Allen is interviewed by Patrick Hiebert, CEO of V
159 - Massimo Mazzone: Liberty Without Libertarians
Free Cities, Ciudad Morazán, Libertarianism, Autonomy, Decentralization, ZEDEs, Honduras Politics, Próspera, Oligarch Conspiracy, Entrecomms, Entrepreneurial Communities, Freedom, Network States.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Massimo Mazzone
Massimo Mazzone is the founder of Ciudad Morazán. We talk about the growing Free City movement and the idea that you don’t need libertarians to create a liberta
158 - Trey Goff: Próspera, Perception, and Post-Scarcity
Próspera, Innovation, Governance, Media Narratives, Conspiracy Theories, Investment, Special Jurisdictions, Honduras, Digital Nomads, AI Agents, Ciudad Morazan, Consciousness, Post-Scarcity, Meaning, Technology
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Timothy Allen speaks with Trey Goff.
Trey is the chief of staff at Próspera and one of their longest serving employees. In this conversation he explains Prospera’s real model - partnerin
157 - Vera Kichanova: Climbing a Ladder of Consent
Private Cities, Economic Freedom, Urban Innovation, Consent, Market Choice, Oligarchs, Conspiracy, Seasteading, Free Ports, Irvine, Dubai, Prospera, Legal Safeguards.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Vera Kichanova
This is Vera’s third appearance on the show, and this time we're discussing the rising interest in free cities since COVID-19 and addressing recent critiques framing them as projects for the
156 - Patrick Hiebert & Alex Voss: Building Bitcoin Citadels
Bitcoin Citadels, Veritas Villages, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Bitcoin, Autris, BitCorp, Treasury Company, MNAV, Decentralization, Quadratic Voting, Governance, Special Economic Zones
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Timothy Allen speaks with Patrick Hiebert & Alex Voss.
Patrick gives updates on Veritas Villages’ expansion into Nicaragua, Panama, and Costa Rica. He highlights their network model, allowing members to share a
155 - Ioni Appelberg: The Medicine of Meaning - Part 2
Alternative Medicine, Psilocybin, Cannabis, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety, Self-Healing, Consciousness, Fiat Currency, Bitcoin, Civilization Decline, Spiritual Growth, Human Connection, Reality Illusion, Future Humanity
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Timothy Allen speaks with Ioni Appelberg
In this episode, part 2 of 2, Ioni shares his holistic approach to healing, blending alternative therapies like cannabis and psilocybin with
154 - Ioni Appelberg: The Medicine of Meaning - Part 1
Freedom, Health, Spirituality, Technology, Bitcoin, Longevity, Biogerontology, Aging, Freedom, Transhumanism, Consciousness, Scarcity, Civilization, Meaning, Healing.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Ioni Appelberg
In this episode, part 1 of 2, we explore the intersection of health, technology, and spirituality. Ioni discusses the evolution of medicine toward longevity science and biogerontology’s miss
153 - Daniel Prince: The Grand Conspiracy 2
Technology, Control, Bitcoin, Freedom, Global Conspiracy, Chemtrails, Weather control, Social Engineering, Autonomy, Health, Addiction, Allodial Title, Homeschooling.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Daniel Prince
In this episode, we explore how technology, media, and hidden systems influence the way we live, think, and connect. Amongst other things, we dive into the effects of blue light on our health
152 - Thomas D. Walls: Diplomacy By Example
Liberland, Diplomacy, Recognition, Croatia Dispute, Global Community, Libertarian Ideals, Free Republic, The Ark Project, Self-Sovereignty.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Thomas D. Walls .
Thomas is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Free Republic of Liberland.
In this episode, Thomas discusses Liberland’s evolving diplomacy and the nation’s efforts to foster peace and cooperation with its neighb
BONUS 004 - Giacomo Zucco: Governance Innovation Meets Bitcoin
Welcome to bonus episode number 4 of the Free Cities Podcast.
These bonus episodes are available exclusively to our subscribers on Fountain.fm, and I’ll be dropping them periodically throughout the year, especially during the weeks when subscribers already have early access to the current main episode.
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If you're not on Fountain, you can access the episode here:
https://fountain.fm/episode/CznBcy
151 - Susie Violet Ward: The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism
Authoritarianism, Privacy, Surveillance, Bitcoin, Freedom, Technology, Government Control, Autonomy, Community, Responsibility, Democracy, Censorship, Data Sovereignty, Resistance.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Susie Violet Ward.
Susie is a financial analyst and journalist specializing in bitcoin content. She is also the CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin Policy UK.
In this conversation we explore the bi
150 - Knut Svanholm: Democracy Leads to Totalitarianism
Bitcoin, Culture, Property Rights, Natural Law, Liberty, Democracy, Security, AI, Economics, Personal Responsibility, Geopolitics, Bitcoin Education.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Knut Svanholm.
In this conversation we discuss the evolution of Bitcoin culture, security, and the balance between fear-based narratives and empowerment through self-sovereignty.
Knut highlights natural law, property right
BONUS 003 - Jake Hamilton: Mind, Machines and Meaning
Welcome to this bonus episode of the Free Cities Podcast. These episodes are exclusively available to our subscribers on Fountain.fm, and I will be releasing them periodically throughout the year, especially during weeks when our regular episodes are ones subscribers have already had early access to.
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If you're not on Fountain, you can access the episode here: https://fountain.fm/episode/727p2ykS
149 - Vít Jedlička: Liberland’s Path to Prosperity
Liberland, Micronation, Liberty Island, Voluntary Taxation, Croatia Dispute, Smart Contract Constitution, Justin Sun, International Recognition, Free Republic
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Timothy Allen speaks with Vít Jedlička.
Vít is the founder and president of the micronation Liberland.
This discussion spans the current development on Liberland, including building houses, pontoon structures, and tourist infrastructure on
148 - Patrick Henningsen: The Grand Conspiracy
Alternative Media, Propaganda, Geopolitics, Ukraine Conflict, NATO, Russia, Anglo-American Empire, Petrodollar, Israel, Middle East, Conspiracy, Migration, Transnational Corporations, Technological Authoritarianism
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Timothy Allen speaks with Patrick Henningsen.
Patrick is a writer, filmmaker, and global affairs analyst best known as the founder of the alternative media site 21st Century Wire and
147 - Jeff G: Privacy and the Architecture of Freedom
Privacy, Decentralization, Surveillance, Cryptography, Nostr, Secure Messaging, White Noise, Bitcoin, eCash, Mesh Networks, Quantum Computing, Climbing, Self Sovereignty.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Jeff G.
Jeff G is a Nostr developer working in the privacy tech space. This discussion ranges from AI tools and privacy concerns to the evolution of secure messaging, where Jeff introduces his project
146 - Efrat Fenigson: Stop Bitching, Start Solving
Censorship, Community, Psilocybin Microdosing, Spirituality, Israel, Propaganda , Bitcoin, Privacy, Encryption, CBDCs, Shadow banning, Parallel Systems.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Efrat Fenigson.
Efrat is an independent journalist, marketing expect and host of her own hugely successful podcast, ‘You’re the voice’. This is a wide-ranging conversation about navigating an increasingly chaotic world.
145 - Freddie New: The State is Failing
Personal Sovereignty, Surveillance, Bitcoin, Financial Freedom, Economic Collapse, UK Politics, Freedom Tech, Social Credit Scores, Deep State, Online Safety Bill, Data Privacy.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Freddie New.
Freddie, is a lawyer and Head of Policy at Bitcoin Policy UK. In this conversation we explore the battle for individual freedom in an age of surveillance, financial instability, and
BONUS 002 - Gigi: Proof of Work - Part 2
Welcome to this bonus episode of the Free Cities podcast. These episodes are only available to our subscribers on Fountain.fm or other value-for-value platforms. I’ll be dropping them in the weeks when the regular release episodes are ones you’ve already had early access to, or, like this week, simply because I wanted to share a bonus episode.
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If you're not on Fountain, you can access the episod
144 - Leon Wankum: The Real Estate Reckoning
Real Estate Investing, Bitcoin Standard, Austrian Economics, Property Market Crash, Monetary Expansion, Digital Economy, Inflation Hedge Myth, Free Cities, Proof-Of-Work, Architecture, Japan.
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Timothy Allen speaks with Leon Wankum.
Leon, a veteran real estate developer speaks about his journey from property and construction into Austrian economics and Bitcoin. Leon challenges the idea that real e
143 - Max Hillebrand: The Praxeology of Privacy
Freedom, John Locke, Privacy, Property, Cypherpunk, Bitcoin, Praxeology, Parallel Economies, Nomadism, Intervention, Sovereignty, Scarcity.
Timothy Allen speaks with Max Hillebrand.
Max joins me to explore freedom, privacy, and property rights in the free market of ideas. We discuss Cypherpunk strategies, the appeal of Bitcoin, Free Cities, and digital nomadism as ways to resist creeping sociali
142 - Michael Mainelli: Solving Wicked Problems
City of London, Free Cities, Liquid Democracy, Dilemma Analysis, Governance, Regulation, Wicked Problems, Self-Regulation, Economic Autonomy, Democracy, Rule of Law, Decentralization.
Timothy Allen speaks with Michael Mainelli.
Michael is an American-born British scientist, economist, and accountant, known for being Chairman of Z/Yen, Sheriff of the City of London for 2019–21, and the 695th Lord
141 - Jason Cozens: Why Gold Still Matters in the Digital Age
Sound Money, Fiat Currency, Economic Inequality, Government Control, Gold, Bitcoin, Monetary Sovereignty, Inflation, Constitutional Currency, Financial Innovation, Glint.
Timothy Allen speaks with Jason Cozens.
Jason, the CEO of Glint speaks about reintroducing gold as a viable form of money through Glint’s platform, which allows users to buy, store, and spend fractions of physical gold in real
140 - Nick Malster: Liberating Creators from the Attention Economy
Bitcoin, Gary's Economics, Value-for-Value, Micropayments, Fountain, Content Creation, Monetization, Nostr, Attention Economy, Advertising, Community, Ownership.
Timothy Allen speaks with Nick Malster.
Nick is the co-founder of Fountain, a value-for-value podcasting app that enables Bitcoin micropayments. In this conversation we discuss the changing nature of work, critique popular economic views,
139 - Niklas Anzinger: Inside Próspera - A Longtime Resident’s View
Próspera, Digital Nomads, Infinita, Biotech, Bitcoin, Community Outreach, Crawfish Rock, Regulatory Innovation, Public Relations, Misinformation, Honduras
Timothy Allen speaks with Niklas Anzinger.
Niklas, a digital nomad turned entrepreneur and community builder in Próspera speaks about navigating public relations and skepticism of the Free City project, particularly in response to criticisms by
138 - Mailyn Salabarria: Government Red Flags - Lessons From a Cuban Refugee
Communism, Cuba, Government Overreach, Freedom, Political Indoctrination, Cuban Refugees, Education System, Individual Rights, Progressive Ideologies, Immigration, Defunding Government.
Timothy Allen speaks with Mailyn Salabarria.
In this episode, Mailyn shares her powerful story of growing up under communist rule in Cuba and how it shaped her deep awareness of government overreach and loss of ind
137 - Ben Gunn: Three Rules For Life - Part 2
Bitcoin, Societal Breakdown, Great Reset, Morality, NOSTR, Boomers, Taxation, Meaning of Life, Accountability, Proof of Work.
Timothy Allen speaks with Ben Gunn.
In the second part of this two part conversation we explore the evolving role of Bitcoin as both a store of value and a medium of exchange, analyzing its limitations due to taxation, regulation, and systemic incentives, while also diving
BONUS 001 - Gigi: Proof of Work - Part 1
Hello and welcome to this BONUS episode of the Free Cities Podcast.
These episodes are only available to our subscribers on Fountain.fm, and I'll be dropping them during the weeks when the regular release episode is one that subscribers have already had early access to.
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If you're not on Fountain, you can access the episode here:
https://fountain.fm/episode/dC5YtEIodvAuYj0gYsTp
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A little backgro
136 - Ben Gunn: Three Rules For Life - Part 1
Privacy, Anonymity, NOSTR, Bitcoin, Digital Identity, Governance, Freedom, Technology.
Timothy Allen speaks with Ben Gunn.
In part 1 of this conversation, pseudonymous Ben explores the evolving landscape of privacy, anonymity, and digital identity in a surveillance-driven world. He distinguishes privacy from secrecy, emphasizes the importance of reputation in small communities, and examines the ch
135 - Jody Underwood: Homesteading, Microschooling & Living Off-Grid
Homesteading, Free State Project, Micro Schools, Education Reform, School Budgets, Off-Grid Living, Homeschooling, Bitcoin, Local Government, Critical Thinking.
Timothy Allen speaks with Jody Underwood
A former school board member and Free State Project board member, Jody discusses her off-grid lifestyle in New Hampshire, where she pursues self-sufficiency and runs an education non-profit. Drawn b
134 - Melissa Creem: Live Free or Die
Naming & Shaming Anti-Liberty Politicians, New Hampshire, Free State Project, Community, Liberty, Gun Rights, Political Activism, Local Governance.
Timothy Allen talks with Melissa Creem.
Melissa, a passionate advocate for liberty is the chairperson of the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance (NHLA). In this episode, we explore the unique political landscape of New Hampshire.
The conversation delves int
133 - Liam Martin: Positioning Yourself for the AI Future
Remote Work, Artificial Intelligence, Future Of Work, Virtual Reality, Digital Nomadism, Technology, Commercial Real Estate, Productivity.
Timothy Allen talks with Liam Martin.
Entrepreneur & best selling author Liam shares his insights on the evolving landscape of technology, remote work and digital nomadism.
The conversation delves into the concept of asynchronous management, emphasizing how eff
132 - Bonnie Freeman: The War on Bitcoin is Not Over
Bitcoin, Free Talk Live, Ian Freeman, Libertarian Activism, Government Overreach, FBI Raid, Regulation, New Hampshire, Ross Ulbricht, Financial Freedom, Free State Project.
Timothy Allen talks with Bonnie Freeman.
Bonnie is the wife of Ian Freeman, a prominent figure in the New Hampshire Bitcoin and Freedom community who is currently serving an eight-year prison sentence for selling BTC on localbi
131 - Izabela Patriota: Reclaiming Free Market Feminism
Latin American Politics, Inflation, Ladies Of Liberty Alliance, Feminism, Free Markets, Social Security, Traditional Family Values, Gender Roles, Social Responsibility.
Timothy Allen talks with Izabela Patriota.
Izabela is a member of the leadership team of Ladies Of Liberty Alliance Brazil and is the Director of Development for LOLA in the U.S.
In this conversation, she shares her unique backgrou
130 - Gonçalo Hall: Why Most Digital Nomads Have Never Heard of Próspera
Digital Nomadism, Community Building, Madeira, Honduras, Nomad Villages, Remote Work, Próspera, Ciudad Morazán, Coworking, Public Relations.
Timothy Allen talks with Gonçalo Hall.
Gonçalo, a pioneer in the digital nomad movement shares his journey from creating the first nomad village in Madeira to consulting with governments in Brazil, highlighting the transformative power of remote work and co
129 - Ian Underwood: A New Governance Model for the 21st Century
Extreme Personal Responsibility, Libertarianism, Technology, Guns, Individualism, Social Credit Systems, Freedom, Social Contract, Political Philosophy, Consent Of The Governed, Personal Freedom.
Timothy Allen talks with Ian Underwood.
Ian has been a planetary scientist and artificial intelligence researcher for NASA; the director of the renowned Ask Dr. Math service; co-founder of Bardo Farm and
128 - Scott Forte: Competitive Governance is Coming
Free Cities, Libertarianism, Competitive Governance, Federalism, State Rights, New Hampshire, Political Philosophy, Economic Freedom, Community Building.
Timothy Allen talks with Scott Forte.
Scott, a former pilot turned entrepreneur, shares his insights into the importance of competitive governance and the impact of state rights on individual freedoms. We discuss the historical context of governa
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