Timothy
Timothy Allen

We've hit another milestone. Two hundred episodes of the Free Cities Podcast.
The first was recorded in Próspera, on Roatán, four years ago. So is the two hundredth.
This week I sit down with Erick Brimen, founder and CEO of Próspera.
What two hundred weeks of this show makes clear is that the debate has moved. It used to be about what a Free City might be. It is now about arbitration clauses, schools, power supply, and why nobody can get a decent coffee.
Less glamorous than the theory, but a much better sign.
Thank you to everyone who has listened, supported, disagreed or come on the show over the last 4 years.
Episode 200 is out now 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00sq3k6_iVk
Fountain 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/nheiZrtvrjk2VeJl0D2e

2026-09-15 09:42:29 UTC

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This particular script is 100 percent predictable at this point.

2026-09-10 01:37:26 UTC

Trezor should stop using third parties. Time to do it all in-house.

2026-09-08 14:25:57 UTC

Everything we speak about here really starting to ramp up as predicted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClK0ZAZ_NjQ

2026-09-06 12:44:37 UTC

Frisby on the show...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgEN9ctyR3s

2026-09-05 01:19:41 UTC

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Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/PzfKYoVcvJlP3PGJ4Yrl

2026-09-05 01:18:34 UTC

Daniel Jackson is 21 and president of Verdis, a claim to half a square kilometre of unclaimed land on the Danube between Croatia and Serbia. His team settled it in 2023. Croatian police removed them, banned him for life and told him he is considered a threat to homeland security.
So Verdis runs in exile from offices in the UK and Novi Sad. 400 citizens, 5,000 e-residents, its own passports, humanitarian projects in Côte d'Ivoire, and a police boat parked between him and the territory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjpSCVa_hJg

2026-08-31 14:01:12 UTC

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Next time our paths cross hopefully. He's a globe trotter ATM.

2026-08-28 06:30:25 UTC

Gold vs Bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/3a0b7a59b086a047df94d87b7682f0789b6861f140151da1fda4feeb19bcc89b.jpg
Dominic Frisby on the pod this week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgEN9ctyR3s

2026-08-26 16:10:31 UTC

EP 197 is up early on Fountain.
Dominic Frisby 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/2oMhr1qpaKSIr1MbTdKL

2026-08-26 08:37:03 UTC

The UK Home Secretary, on what she wanted to build.
"The eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
Shabana Mahmood, describing her vision as Justice Secretary as achieving by AI what Bentham tried with his Panopticon. Said to Tony Blair, December 2025.
These are her own words, in public, to a former Prime Minister.
She then talked about extending AI in policing beyond live facial recognition, which is already being rolled out.
Bentham's design was rejected as too cruel for convicted criminals by the standards of 19th century justice.
What can we do?👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhY1x7isMZ4

2026-08-21 11:19:28 UTC

Noted. Tnx.
#nevent1q…86dq

2026-08-21 08:51:01 UTC

New Free Cities Podcast with Gareth Icke.
Gareth is David Icke's son. He's a really nice bloke: less about the lizard people and more about practical solutions to authoritarianism.
We get into the digital panopticon, political saviours, personal responsibility, peaceful non-compliance and what he thinks of his dad's ideas.
Watch👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhY1x7isMZ4

2026-08-19 08:43:45 UTC

NEW episode. Early access is live now on @fountain_app
This week: Gareth Icke.
We get into David Icke (his dad), the digital panopticon, political psychopaths, Brexit, COVID, conformity, political saviours, peaceful non-compliance, parallel systems and the question of what you actually build when you stop believing politics will save you.
🎧 Listen early on Fountain:
https://fountain.fm/episode/9ZsXCoUk7wvnv4nYGLPz
General release Friday.

2026-08-07 11:25:16 UTC

Two founders discuss AI.
One's bought land in the Canadian woods with its own water and power. The other says this is the best time in history to build.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4S1kZvzXo
🧡

2026-08-05 09:34:22 UTC

New episode is live for Fountain subscribers today. Everyone else, Friday morning UK time.
Two founders, recorded back to back in Austin, who could not disagree more about what AI is going to do to us.
Liam Martin has built a tool that makes a working digital twin of you out of your emails and calls. He thinks tens of millions of jobs could be gone inside a year, and has bought twenty acres in the Canadian woods with its own water and power.
Nick Francis built one of the first fully remote company back in 2011, when people still made fun of him for it. He calls himself an incredible optimist, reckons more software engineers are being hired now than ever, and says the last ten per cent of any job, the craft, is the part AI will never touch.
One of them is wrong. I still don't know which.
https://fountain.fm/episode/obkVbUYCKw2MkAP887Uw

2026-08-04 19:14:03 UTC

Does anyone know what method Satoshi used to generate random numbers?

2026-08-03 10:09:35 UTC

Ever heard of Universe 25?
Ethologist John Calhoun gave mice paradise. Unlimited food, water, nesting material, no predators, no disease. Nothing left to solve.
They bred to 2,200, then unravelled. Pups abandoned. Males violent, others just grooming in corners all day. Births stopped completely. Day 1,588, the last mouse died. The pen still had room for a thousand more.
Calhoun's read: scarcity never killed them. The absence of any role worth filling did.
Now say it again with AI as the abundance. Code writes itself. Analysis, admin, design, decisions, all handled. The output keeps arriving whether or not you turn up.
The question isn't whether we can build the utopia. It's whether we can build one that still needs us in it.
Full episode👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqCcAAHGLY

2026-07-31 11:55:28 UTC

Fifty years ago, men were raising flags on seamounts in the Pacific and declaring their own countries.
Mark Frazier knew them. He was a reporter on the ground when one of those breakaway nations collapsed. He has spent the half century since working on free zones in more than fifty countries, and he has watched almost every way these things can fail.
The lesson he drew is the opposite of what most people in this space believe. You don't build a free place by pushing it on a government. You make it a prize that governments compete to win. He once had twelve countries bidding to host a single project.
His take: The answer to capture and control is not to seize power but to make it pointless. In a world of real abundance, there is no scarcity left to fight over.
I sat down with him for two hours. It is, as far as we can tell, the only long conversation with him that exists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqCcAAHGLY
#Nostr #FreeCities #Sovereignty #Bitcoin

2026-07-30 16:30:31 UTC

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🙏

2026-07-28 08:38:13 UTC

Interested in the nomadic life?
Here are 23 conversations to inspire your next move...
https://www.freecities.fm/search?topic=podnomads

2026-07-27 23:55:26 UTC

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

2026-07-24 09:05:46 UTC

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 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/50oqpay64qsLYVIfatPT

2026-07-21 08:54:28 UTC

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 @nprofile…9d4q, 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

2026-07-19 08:41:57 UTC

"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

2026-07-17 11:18:15 UTC

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Plenty and yes Tomek talks about this in depth in his episode.

2026-07-17 08:55:45 UTC

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@nprofile…m0ya

2026-07-17 08:53:32 UTC

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: @nprofile…8p0e on the praxeology of privacy, @nprofile…n0n6 on the architecture of freedom, @selfBankt on decentralised networks.
On the state: @nprofile…3hw8 on why democracy drifts toward totalitarianism, @nprofile…2zl8 on digital authoritarianism, @nprofile…8xhx on CBDCs.
On exit: @nprofile…3424 on choosing a parallel life, @nprofile…pe2j on overlanding and self-sovereign identity, @nprofile…e5aa on the Bitcoin Free City he actually lives in.
On the big picture: @nprofile…a8xg the sovereign individual thesis, @nprofile…s8g7 on fiat as the biggest addiction of all, Polycarp Nakamoto on decentralised mesh networks.
And on this protocol: @nprofile…8r4g on Nostr and anarchy, @nprofile…27f2 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

2026-07-15 10:00:50 UTC

Everyone needs a Plan B.
New ep just dropped for subs. Everyone else, Friday.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ODAgF0oMqNvApzRdOm7Q

2026-07-10 09:16:31 UTC

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

2026-07-03 08:19:43 UTC

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 👇
https://youtu.be/FbCybLt2AtE

2026-07-02 11:20:26 UTC

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 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/dyxT1OIrg3aNthYWcAQE
Everyone else: tomorrow.

2026-06-28 08:19:27 UTC

Is it even possible to beat 'This Week in Bitcoin' to number one in the @nprofile…5gem charts?
https://blossom.primal.net/553ba6d443101619b7e4ea2108c93a082e91b40bed30bf8e09a304b01bd3c6b7.png

2026-06-26 11:05:13 UTC

Poly episode now up on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdKHpUS1cAs

2026-06-26 07:47:36 UTC

"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 @nprofile…5gem now:
https://fountain.fm/episode/T0BpN1LJtOFYOpE9Lyxb

2026-06-25 08:00:44 UTC

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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/T0BpN1LJtOFYOpE9Lyxb

2026-06-24 09:25:44 UTC

This stuff is absolutely amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sd1stYQp-c

2026-06-19 09:20:54 UTC

"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): https://fountain.fm/episode/Ozizg5VY0TnaYxMs04Lu

2026-06-12 11:42:37 UTC

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 @nprofile…5gem -
https://fountain.fm/episode/FUw0E74ubpXGo4wBgyJ5

2026-06-10 16:13:42 UTC

Reflections on my convo with @nprofile…e5aa.
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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/uDCMkio9FJhVSCZxKKMv

2026-06-09 22:15:54 UTC

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I appear to have sorted this out now. Going for a high spec laptop instead. Using a combination of local and cloud. Not in the market for a $10k set up yet.

2026-06-09 11:09:24 UTC

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.

2026-06-09 09:24:38 UTC

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISqw2ySDFyU
🎙️ Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/ER6rtwYRUDZmSIgWVZ5r
🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LCsRF4EvfEqKVFkw7HGXt?si=f102b5dede09496f
🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/182-jailed-for-a-tweet-lucy-connolly/id1655921100?i=1000767892682

2026-06-08 11:30:16 UTC

@nprofile…8xhx has been on the show 3 times.
Catch up with her episodes in the new archive:
https://www.freecities.fm/search?q=Efrat+Fenigson

2026-06-08 11:16:39 UTC

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Thank you Peter

2026-06-05 10:41:17 UTC

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 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkfN8o-GN7c

2026-06-04 09:03:42 UTC

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

2026-06-03 10:11:09 UTC

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It was recorded last year but is required watching now.

2026-06-03 09:57:19 UTC

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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgpVqVGanLY

2026-06-02 20:40:53 UTC

🇧🇷 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_UYNGvDxc

2026-06-01 16:36:06 UTC

The Bitcoin economy that's quietly forming on a Honduran island:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiNf7WMAxKM

2026-06-01 11:51:04 UTC

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Thanks!

2026-05-29 10:49:36 UTC

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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/kp3VAMl5DhNqtVTSMktH

2026-05-27 11:29:36 UTC

New ep with Matthew Mottola, CEO of Human Cloud. Early access for @nprofile…5gem 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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/kp3VAMl5DhNqtVTSMktH

2026-05-26 08:16:11 UTC

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🙏

2026-05-22 09:20:04 UTC

He quit Poland for the best job in Bitcoin.
@nprofile…e5aa 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.
👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/uDCMkio9FJhVSCZxKKMv

2026-05-21 04:06:47 UTC

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Prospera, Honduras. Lots of episodes about it: https://www.freecities.fm/search?topic=podprospera

2026-05-20 10:15:28 UTC

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.
@nprofile…e5aa 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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/uDCMkio9FJhVSCZxKKMv

2026-05-19 12:58:55 UTC

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What about this interview tho? Which parts show she's a psyop?

2026-05-19 06:02:16 UTC

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Interesting. Never heard that one before. What are the tell tale signs for you? I'd like to go deeper in to this.

2026-05-18 10:05:17 UTC

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.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ER6rtwYRUDZmSIgWVZ5r

2026-05-15 13:08:50 UTC

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... https://fountain.fm/episode/ER6rtwYRUDZmSIgWVZ5r

2026-05-12 06:34:52 UTC

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 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA_UYNGvDxc&lc=Ugx9E1im3tyCTZlbiJB4AaABAg

2026-05-08 11:35:30 UTC

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: https://fountain.fm/episode/8L0yPb3DwSG4qTH5mSVr

2026-05-07 08:39:28 UTC

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..
https://fountain.fm/episode/8L0yPb3DwSG4qTH5mSVr

2026-05-04 14:44:47 UTC

So, Gary's Economics has officially said he'll be voting Green. No surprises there of course but I'm genuinely looking forward to the inevitable interview he will have with Zak Polanski. It will be something to study and learn from. They'll use every socialist slight of hand in the book.

2026-05-03 00:10:20 UTC

"I'm a Bitcoiner. I studied Bitcoin for 20,000 hours. I often judge people on that. If they start talking about Bitcoin and tell me something that's bullshit, I know they probably didn't study a lot of other things either."
https://fountain.fm/episode/wnv0Nt6IZ2qNQ2Dhv9m8

2026-05-01 13:02:26 UTC

Crémieux on representative democracy:
"Voice is annoying."
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Watch & Listen on @nprofile…cgkr - https://fountain.fm/episode/wnv0Nt6IZ2qNQ2Dhv9m8

2026-04-30 13:36:33 UTC

Crémieux is on the show this week. Subs have early access now...
https://fountain.fm/episode/wnv0Nt6IZ2qNQ2Dhv9m8

2026-04-26 16:50:50 UTC

Just lost my Waymo virginity in Austin.

2026-04-24 12:51:03 UTC

In 1967, a British WWII veteran named Paddy Roy Bates seized an abandoned North Sea fort and declared it the Principality of Sealand. A British court ruled it had no jurisdiction. His family has defended it ever since - against the Royal Navy, a German-led coup in 1978, and decades of a government hoping they'd disappear.
Now the third generation has taken the reins. Prince Liam Bates talks about what comes next: building towers in the North Sea, reclaiming land to create an actual island and growing an e-citizen community that already spans 124 countries with 1.5 million followers.
The family funded the operation for decades through a shellfish business. Noble titles and e-citizenship now sustain it. The plan is full sovereignty, physical expansion, and a permanent population.
"That's the only way you can drive change. You can't ask to do anything. The world's regulated. They tell you no. So you just have to go and do it."
https://fountain.fm/episode/wx2mWplRLVACJdGBJGrE

2026-04-17 14:52:30 UTC

You don’t build a new jurisdiction with ideas.
You build it with deals, capital, and leverage.
Here are 8 hard truths from one of the OGs of the Free Cities ecosystem.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ciFR5rnH4BWYm3oYL7NV

2026-04-16 14:28:21 UTC

I've got Milton's grandson, a Free Cities OG on the pod this week. Subscribe for early access..
https://fountain.fm/episode/ciFR5rnH4BWYm3oYL7NV

2026-04-12 00:38:19 UTC

Music recommendation: This isn't gonna be for everyone, but I reckon Meshell Ndegeocello's music is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-DGveW7BM

2026-04-10 08:04:09 UTC

Three years ago, Próspera had one building and a hostile government that swore to destroy it.
Today? Every metric is up and to the right.
On today's show I sat down with co-founder Gabriel Delgado to hear the full story - and the master plan that's even bigger than I previously thought.
https://fountain.fm/episode/6z7Iezt9eMsfXHRy1KSm

2026-04-04 07:35:45 UTC

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2026-04-04 05:40:53 UTC

I went back to this older episode today and it feels more relevant now than when I recorded it.
Not because it “predicted everything”, but because the core questions have only got sharper: Ukraine as a proxy battleground, migration as a destabilising force, Israel’s centrality in Middle East power politics, and how media narratives shape what the public is allowed to see.
https://fountain.fm/episode/XIiKUFNCzaKkPNp4c1tt

2026-04-03 15:54:49 UTC

"Just a bit of economic freedom can cause absolute miracles. It did in the past. It can do so again."
In Episode 176 of the podcast, I sat down with James Price - a former senior adviser across five UK government departments including the Treasury and Cabinet Office.
This isn't your typical political commentary. James has been inside the machine and explains, with remarkable clarity, how it actually operates.
Some things that stood out:
→ When the UK government changed in 2024, only 200 people across the entire state changed roles. Everyone else stayed exactly where they were. → Civil servants are more likely to die in the job than be fired. → Special advisers are "constitutionally not allowed to tell civil servants what to do." → During the vaccine rollout, a minister had to tell civil servants to Google the logistics industry because they had zero experience moving anything anywhere.
He breaks down how democracy got eaten from the inside by the people nobody voted for. How the blob digests every election and nothing changes. How Hayek and Burnham saw all of this coming 80 years ago. And why more people are starting to ask whether the nation-state is the problem — not the solution.
This one's a masterclass in how the modern state actually works - and why it doesn't.
https://fountain.fm/episode/tuZpY3c4GgvGqdbO8qnk

2026-04-02 06:04:09 UTC

“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.”
https://fountain.fm/episode/tuZpY3c4GgvGqdbO8qnk

2026-03-28 14:35:53 UTC

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Me too. I saw some pre production sequences and the story is amazing and very well documented.

2026-03-28 02:51:57 UTC

On the podcast this week, I join Oswald Horowitz for one of the wildest frontier stories you'll ever hear.
https://fountain.fm/episode/if1YcDueqXZxIaKX9Z2i

2026-03-20 08:01:09 UTC

Architecture is downstream from law.
If your buildings are ugly, inert, overpriced, and impossible to build, the problem is not just aesthetic. It is political.
This week on the pod: Patrik Schumacher on why bad governance produces bad cities.
https://fountain.fm/episode/GGo2awSfGNciGhTGnHnF

2026-03-19 21:57:30 UTC

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Nope. $6 for a month.

2026-03-19 10:03:35 UTC

It's an intense one this week.
Patrik Schumacher is one of the most important and controversial voices in architecture today.
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Early access for subscribers TODAY...
https://fountain.fm/episode/GGo2awSfGNciGhTGnHnF

2026-03-13 09:16:47 UTC

Episode 173 is out: Mailyn Salabarria.
If you think tyranny only arrives overnight, this will change your mind. She’s lived the “hard mode” version and explains the “slow mode” version.
Top line: “same dog, different leash.”
Listen now: https://fountain.fm/episode/gSnY6oQPUDolaXJYgXhF

2026-03-11 13:22:40 UTC

“You can vote your way into socialism, but you can only shoot your way out.”
Subs on @nprofile…cgkr get early access right now...
https://fountain.fm/episode/gSnY6oQPUDolaXJYgXhF

2026-03-06 23:04:17 UTC

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He's the best.

2026-03-06 13:33:48 UTC

“‘They’ll stop you!" is usually a reflex, not a refutation.
Incentives protect alternatives more often than people think.
https://blossom.primal.net/b7ab30d53266e082b8ca261da8a1682a95b14626ace9c85ef40484e917731871.jpg
https://fountain.fm/episode/bX3x7eJ73BWcW3wpOiOh

2026-03-05 09:54:03 UTC

Very popular returning guest on the show this week. Early access for subs on @nprofile…cgkr until tomorrow...
https://fountain.fm/episode/bX3x7eJ73BWcW3wpOiOh

2026-02-27 09:38:53 UTC

Special Economic Zones are marketed as “sandboxes for reform”.
Lotta Moberg says that’s often the wrong story.
In this episode we talk incentives, why failing zones can get more funding, and why free cities like Próspera might be a different category entirely.
https://blossom.primal.net/eca108ad465280b9c8505b9b58e7a4cf2887d2632ca0b5768c3263345e1c8e13.jpg
WATCH: https://fountain.fm/episode/kTVFzEz5YL0pMjWf6DPi

2026-02-21 20:05:46 UTC

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🙏

2026-02-20 10:38:31 UTC

An exit tax is a government admission of failure: they couldn’t make the place attractive, so they make leaving expensive.
Tim Stern is on the podcast this week. We talk incentives, capital flight, and why places like Margarita Island become magnets.
https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c

2026-02-19 09:42:23 UTC

"Get out of Europe".
Tim Stern on the pod this week. Early access today for sub's on v4v...
https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c

2026-02-13 07:25:07 UTC

Seasteading only scales if it exports something the world wants.
Mitchell Suchner (ArkPad) makes the case for “economics first” and lays out an incremental path: aquaculture as early cashflow, tourism as a demand engine, and later ocean industries (mineral extraction from seawater, offshore data infrastructure, autonomous logistics).
We also get into stability/storm design and the governance implications of flags and jurisdiction at sea.
Listen: https://fountain.fm/episode/6NPTpzR5jaNlv4fmknjg

2026-02-12 11:29:48 UTC

Seasteading isn't just a fad.
Early access to this week's pod for subscribers on @nprofile…am06
https://fountain.fm/episode/6NPTpzR5jaNlv4fmknjg

2026-02-10 21:17:34 UTC

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For auto editing... Autopod is an extension for Adobe Premiere Pro

2026-02-10 21:15:06 UTC

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Opus.pro

2026-02-06 14:40:10 UTC

So many infinite pizza peeps coming out of the woodwork recently.

2026-02-06 11:20:29 UTC

GM.
What do the Free Cities crowd and the Network State crowd actually share in common?
Vikram Bharati argues that the overlap is where the most interesting things are happening right now...
https://fountain.fm/episode/XU4TuLuElDrpEQJkK3Mj

2026-02-05 08:20:24 UTC

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Anything is possible. The two main options are Madrid to San Pedro Sula, or through Miami. There aren't any directs from Europe unfortunately. Lay over in USA would be the least crazy in my experience, as long as you can take your time.