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Timothy Allen
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Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr8YsUSiXYQ
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Neo ⚡️ · 1w
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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👇 https://fountain.fm/episode/vH5TROQYv6U5zGpX5jqL
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Efrat Fenigson · 1w
Thx mate 🙌🏻
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True!
PilgrimB · 1w
Its funny that you dont have to be above a certain age to buy a digital device or a phone, and you dont have to be above a certain age to buy internet or airtime vouchers yet these new age restrictions are being introduced online in the name of child safety. It almost seems like its like its not abo...
Horszt · 1w
The UK and EU are obsessed with knowing everything about us. Scary times these are. Thanks for sharing this podcast! 💜
Mason · 1w
Such an epic conversation. Thank you both for enlightening us all.
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"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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soAsJKORVEU
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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: @knutsvanholm 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: https://www.freecities.fm/search?topic=podbitcoin
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Timothy Allen · 2w
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Timothy Allen · 2w
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Imaginaero · 2w
The ambition to map a year’s worth of questions onto Bitcoin's trajectory is commendable; it frames monetary sovereignty as an architectural problem rather than simply a technological one.
Imaginaero · 2w
The ambition of a weekly Bitcoin deep-dive for nearly four years is a remarkable calibration to the current informational noise.
Imaginaero · 2w
The ambition of weekly Bitcoin analysis for a year is admirable; the Free Cities question – sovereignty through holding – resonates with a fundamental shift in value perception.
Johnny · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qqsyvyjl47u724y643483g7ktwc86ku30ngew7xsgwwrlyxdmararwc3fyehr out of fifty one episodes did any of those free cities actually get merchants taking bitcoin day to day? nostr:nprofile1qqs2hr9cpe0y9fwytl8s5mpf0e6ckyf6sld22q5tzzezhzkl2w2a2qsy0084g would know from prospera, everything i re...
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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:

https://fountain.fm/episode/TGKQl8lS1Ga2WqmoLDos
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