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In this episode we discuss…

• Privacy as a prerequisite for freedom

• Why “freedom maximalist” → “privacy maximalist”

• How privacy raises the cost of coercion and violence

• The trap of “I have nothing to hide” and why that mindset is dangerous

• Free speech, surveillance, and the need for private spaces

• Chatham House–style events vs “Big Brother everywhere”

• Why both public and truly private speech are necessary for real free speech

• Bitcoin, Nostr, and building a parallel system

• The idea that the Bitcoin-based parallel system doesn’t merge with fiat—it replaces it

• How freedom tech allows a parallel economy to form before the fiat empire collapses

• Seasteading and “free territories”

• Oceans and high seas as the freest jurisdiction on Earth

• Seasteading: flags, insurance, vessel classification

• Self-sufficiency at sea: solar, desalination, food, coral-reef hulls

• Cyberspace as a new ocean for freedom

• 256-bit key space as “infinitely larger than the seas”

• Using strong cryptography to hide from attackers while still authenticating and coordinating

• Marmot, Nostr & private communication

• Public Nostr is great for broadcast—but we also need private Nostr

• Marmot protocol: combining Nostr (text), Blossom (data), and MLS (encryption)

• Goal: world-class, interoperable private messaging across Nostr clients

• Centralization risks: Signal, AWS & single points of failure

• Signal outages as a reminder of central infra vulnerability

• Why decentralized relay-based systems are more resilient

• Asymmetric technology & Bitcoin’s early distribution

• Uneven tech = one guy in plate armor vs thousands with sticks

• Early Bitcoiners getting half the supply in the first four years

• The responsibility and potential danger of huge hidden Bitcoin fortunes

• Organic redistribution & the “boring” 100k Bitcoin

• OG whales selling (e.g. the 80k BTC wallet) and spreading ownership

• Why broader distribution of sats is good for the network and culture

• Patronage, grants, and funding Freedom Tech

• Reviving Medici-style patronage for coders, artists, inventors

• OpenSats, HRF and others as modern decentralized patrons

• Value-for-value: zapping devs on Nostr, routing zaps to builders

• Business models & roles for non-devs

• Why devs should stay “in the cave” building

• Non-devs handling ops, comms, marketing, fundraising, biz models

• Finding your niche: being world-class in a small combo of skills

• Education, indoctrination, and the fiat school system

• Modern public schooling as a neo-Prussian obedience/indoctrination machine

• Homeschooling and alternative education as parallel systems for minds

• Defaults, protocol ethics & “the purpose of a system is what it does”

• “Only the defaults matter” for user privacy and behavior

• Why protocol and library designers must bake in freedom and privacy by default

• Practical freedom tech: SeedHammer & steel backups

• Open-source steel engraver for keys, QR codes, descriptors, Shamir shares

• Multi-generational, robot-engraved steel backups as serious sovereignty tools

• Final call to action

• Stop just consuming content about freedom—start building Freedom Tech

• If you’re listening to this, you have permission: pick a project and help.

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