Dubai, SEZs, Special Zones, State Competitiveness, Monarchy, Multiculturalism, Nation State Lifecycles, Bitcoin ETFs, UTXO consolidation, Michael Saylor, Savings Technology. Timothy Allen talks with Stephan Livera. I've got another dispatch from Dubai for you this week and its also another returning guest, Stephan Livera. The last time we spoke was way back in episode 04, over a year ago when I ran into him in El Salvador. This week, we’re on his home territory, well adoptive home at least. He r...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 33 min
SEZs, Free Zones, Autonomous Cities, Shannon, China, Shenzhen, Dubai, UAE, Special Economic Zones, Honduras, Prospera, Democracy, Free Cities, International Cities. Timothy Allen talks with Peter Young. Today I have the Free Cities Foundation's managing director Peter Young back for another episode. This time we’re talking about SEZs, free zones and autonomous cities. We’re basically giving you the 101 on what we discovered during the making of our film 'Zones of Progress’ in Dubai. There are lo...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Dubai, Evolution of Cities, USA Cities, Healthcare, Education, Pharmaceuticals, Saudi Arabia, Consumer Choice, Innovation, Democracy. Timothy Allen talks with Fred Roeder. Today I have another conversation for you that I recorded in Dubai. I am speaking with a gentleman by the name of Fred Roeder. Fred is the managing director of the Consumer Choice Center which is a consumer advocacy group focusing on pro-growth policies or, as Fred put it: promoting abundance for consumers. Fred is also a Duba...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Private Cities, USA, Russia, Libertarianism, Honduran ZEDEs, Democracy, Monarchy, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Neom, The line. Timothy Allen talks with Vera Kichanova. Today's show is a conversation I had with the Free Cities Foundation's very own senior economist, Vera Kichanova. Obviously, we take a deep pretty dive into the subject of private cities. Vera received the first ever Phd in the subject. What you may not know about her, however is that she was Russia's first ever elected libertarian… s...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Settee, Geoarbitrage, Flag Theory, Brazil, Digital Nomadism, Portugal, Golden Visas, Georgia, Argentina, Lifestyle Planning Timothy Allen talks with Danilo Silva. Todays guest is the digital nomad and perpetual traveller, Danilo Silva. Danilo is the C.O.O. of Settee, a Brazilian company that, in there own words “Helps Free People Become Citizens of the World”, advising on relocation, geoarbitrage and flag theory in general. As you would imagine our conversation primarily revolves around these to...
Mar 22, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Regen Tribe, Regenerative Movement, Futurism, Mexico, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Sovereignty, Pioneer Communities, Eco Villages, Holacracy, Regenerative Neighbourhoods, Kuyabeh, Tulum Timothy Allen talks with Nicole Reese & Oscar Correa. On today’s show we’re delving into one of my least visited sections of the Free Cities Spectrum. I’m talking with two members of Regen Tribe, a startup involved in the ‘Regenerative Neighbourhood' ecosystem. Oscar Correa is the founder and CEO of Regen Tribe and...
Mar 15, 2024•1 hr 54 min
Bitcoin, El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, Education, Dollarization, China, Singapore, IMF, Hope, Bond to Unbind. Timothy Allen talks with Tomer Kantor. I’ve got my final Bitcoin film festival despatch for you today. I’m talking with the director of the film “Bond to Unbind. Bitcoin & El Salvador". Tomer’s film is a deep dive into the fascinating story of contemporary El Salvador. Spearheaded by its phenomenally popular president Nayib Bukele, El Salvador took the bold approach of not only passing ...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Liberstad, Intentional Community, Norway, Non-Aggression, Voluntarism, Technology, Digital Identities, Bitcoin, Freedom, Opting out. Timothy Allen talks with Sondre Bjellås. Sondre is a developer/programmer who is also the co-creator of Liberstad, an innovative Norwegian community founded on the principals of non-agression and voluntarism. In this episode you can expect an overview of the project along with plenty of updates on how things are progressing, as well as some of Sondre’s unique pers...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 39 min
Risk Management, Geopolitics, The Fourth Turning, Free City Vulnerabilities, State Conspiracies, Monetary Reset, World Economic Forum. Timothy Allen talks with Marc-Felix Otto. Dr. Marc-Felix Otto is partner and chairman of The Advisory House AG, a renowned strategy and management consultancy serving the European energy industry. His expertise includes risk management for major energy trading organizations and, fortunately for us, he is also a council member of the Free Cities Foundation who has...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Libertarianism, Ciudad Morazán, Honduras, ZEDEs, Legal Battles, Passion Projects, Morazán's Urban Plan, Blue-Collar Free City, Special Economic Zones. Timothy Allen talks with Massimo Mazzone. On today's show I’m talking with somebody who I consider to be one of the key individuals in the Free Cities Movement. He is the incredibly successful entrepreneur who is both the brains and the finance behind Ciudad Morazán, Honduras’s so called blue-collar Free City. Massimo is a life-long Libertarian wh...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, Film, ARTE, Blockchains, Authoritarianism, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, Cypherpunks, Privacy, Freedom, The Satoshi Mystery. Timothy Allen talks with Rémi Forte. Rémi is a film director who created what I would call one of the most influential Bitcoin films ever created. 'The Satoshi Mystery' has been viewed officially more than 8 million times. It's a 6 part film series which, in my opinion explains the 'why?' of bitcoin incredibly well using interviews and documentary...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 10 min
Moving to Montenegro, Montelibero Community, Libertarianism, Permaculture, Digital Nomadism, Lockdowns, Russia. Timothy Allen talks with Tatiana Bugrova. Tatiana is an active member of the Montelibero community who has bought a plot of land at 'MTL City', their fledging libertarian community site. I caught up with her at the MTL clubhouse in Bar, Montenegro and we discussed her motivations for moving to Montenegro along with her hopes and expectations for the project. If living in a libertarian ...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
IEA, Libertarianism, Free City in London, State Competition, Socialism, USA, Hong Kong, Viability of Free Cities, Federalisation Timothy Allen talks with Mark Littlewood. Today's guest will be well known to many of you. He was, at the time of this interview, the director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, the leading free market think tank in the UK. Formerly he was the chief press spokesman for the Liberal Democrats and an advisor to the Conservative Party under Prime Minister David ...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Hong Kong, Protests, International Charter Cities, Singapore, Free City Design, BNO Visa, UK Free City Project, Global Citizen Passport Timothy Allen talks with Ivan Ko. Ivan is a real estate development and finance veteran from Hong Kong who more recently has turned his hand to the production of 21st century charter cities in his role as CEO of Victoria Harbour Group. In this conversation we discuss Ivan's reasons for leaving his homeland of Hong Kong and the ensuing international journey that ...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Absolute Monarchy, Serbia, Jan3, Bitcoin, Nation State Bitcoin Adoption, Low Time Preference, Hyperinflation, Family. Timothy Allen talks with Filip Karađorđević. Also known as Prince Filip of Serbia, Filip is a former asset manager turned Bitcoiner currently traveling the word spreading the gospel of censorship-resistant money with 'Jan3', Samson Mow's organisation dedicated to promoting nation-state Bitcoin adoption. As you might expect, Prince Filip is also a monarchist, so in our conversatio...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Liberland, Micronations, Claiming Free Land, Croatia, Serbia, The Singularity, Consciousness, Community, Free Republics. Timothy Allen talks with Vít Jedlička. Vit is the founder and president of the Free Republic of Liberland, a new micronation formed in 2015 which claimed an uninhabited parcel of disputed land on the western bank of the Danube, between Croatia and Serbia. This was my first time discussing the project on this podcast and, as a result my questions are quite rudimentary. Liberlan...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 23 min
Seasteading, Flotels, Aquapreneurs, Evolutionary Psychology, Climate Change, Burning Man, Surveillance State, Distributed Problem Solving, Underwater Hotels. Timothy Allen talks with Joe Quirk. I really enjoy my conversations with Joe. The first time I met him was at our conference two years ago when I interviewed him for a film and it was instantly obvious that he is a great orator and overall extremely interesting guy. This is a light hearted conversation about Seasteading. Joe is the presiden...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Urban Design, Modernism, The Elite Class, Progressivism, Fiat Architecture, Central Planning, New Urbanism, Dubai & The Emirates. Timothy Allen talks with Marthinus Grobler. Todays’ show is an episode about architecture & Free City planning with Marthinus Grobler. Marthinus is the chief architect at Tipolis, a company that I would describe as being at the forefront of planning, building and operating Free City projects throughout the globe. I loved talking to Martinus. Not least because ...
Dec 15, 2023•1 hr 32 min
Abandoned villages, Agorism, Galicia, Spain, Free Commune of Panadexo, Governance. Timothy Allen talks with Marnix Van Suylekom I know that many of you, myself included, have secretly dreamt of buying an abandoned village and turning it into the utopia of your dreams. Well today’s guest has embarked on one such project and I sat down with him recently in Prague…. Marnix Van Suylekom has a grand plan to apply Agorist principals to the rejuvenation of an abandoned hamlet in a picturesque valley in...
Dec 08, 2023•1 hr 20 min
Island of Sark, Repopulation, Independence, Channel Islands, Move to Sark, Investment in Sark, Sark Masterplan. Timothy Allen talks with Christopher Beaumont & Swen Lorenz. On today's show I'm in discussion with two gentlemen involved in the self-governing island of Sark which is located just off the coast of Normandy. Christopher Beaumont, the 23rd Seigneur of Sark and Swen Lorenz, a Sark immigrant who helped revitalize public interest in the island by creating the hugely successful 'Move T...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Bushido, Bitcoin, Warrior Culture, Chivalry, Feudalism, Collectivism, Artificial Intelligence, Transhumanism, Warfare. Timothy Allen talks with Aleks Svetski. Todays guest will be well known to the Bitcoiners amongst you. Aleks is an entrepreneur and the co-author of the 'Uncommunist Manifesto' with Mark Moss, also, well known for the “Wake Up Podcast’. I caught up with him at BTC Prague and we talked about a number of relatively unusual things. I’ll list a few of them here…. The Bushido of Bitc...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 5 min
New Hampshire Free State Project, Libertarianism, Politics, Frontier Spaces, Ideological Communities, Alarmism, A.I., Regulation, PorcFest. Timothy Allen talks with Jeremy Kauffman. Jeremy is a tech entrepreneur and a well-known activist in the American Libertarian movement. He is deeply involved in the New Hampshire Free State Project, which is the focus of our conversation. He lives in New Hampshire and was the Libertarian nominee for the 2022 US Senate election there. In this episode, we disc...
Nov 17, 2023•1 hr 21 min
The E.U., Freedom, Brexit, Open Borders, Bitcoin vs CBDCs, City Gentrification, Inflation, Money Printing, Tik Tok, Democratisation of Ideas, Free Markets. Timothy Allen talks with Adam Bartha. Today I’m releasing a conversation that I recorded just over 6 months ago. It's worth noting that deciding which show to air each week is by no means an exact science and this episode has been near the top of my list for many weeks but it just kept getting bumped aside by interviews that had content that ...
Nov 10, 2023•1 hr 43 min
Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. Today we have Titus Gebel back on the show. This time we’re talking about the update to his classic book ‘Free Private Cities: Making Governments Compete for You’. What’s new? What’s gone and what lessons have we learnt since the last edition was published just over 5 years ago. Of particular interest to me were questions that I had about the preferred architecture and design of Free Private Cities along with culture, ethics and a run down of the main innova...
Nov 03, 2023•1 hr 40 min
Timothy Allen talks with Natalie Danelishen. This week on the podcast I’ve got another episode for you from Liberty In Our Lifetime and it's a light hearted chat I had with one of the newest additions to the Free Cities Foundation's team, Natalie Danelishen . I need to confess something before you listen. When we originally arranged to record this conversation a few weeks ago, the only free slot Natalie had in her busy conference schedule was the 2 hour window immediately after she arrived in Pr...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 21 min
Timothy Allen talks with Mason Leschyna. Today I have the first episode recorded at 'Liberty in Our Lifetime' 2024. I had a number of conversations on my bucket list for the conference and one of those was speaking to somebody about Seasteading, something that I was fortunate enough to do on two separate occasions. One of those was with Joe Quirk, the President of the Seasteading Institute and the other was with today's guest Mason Leschyna, the brains behind Atlas Island, a project planning to ...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 28 min
Timothy Allen talks with Nik Oraevsky. Today I have a fascinating show for you about monetary and personal sovereignty with Bitcoin Reserve CEO, Nik Oraevsky. Nik wasn’t always a Bitcoin OG but his background in traditional finance has helped him to navigate the perilous regulatory environment surrounding the foundation and running of a Bitcoin company. As a result he has excellent insights into the emerging world of cryptocurrency and freedom tech and indeed how to best isolate yourself from th...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Timothy Allen talks with Daniel Prince. Todays guest on the show is the long time Bitcoiner and friend of the Free Cities Foundation Daniel Prince. Daniel is the host of the Once Bitten Podcast which is one of the biggest and best known in the Bitcoin space. He is also going to be the MC at our Free Cities conference this year so I thought it would be a good idea to drop an episode in which I got to pick his brains for a couple of hours before you all get to meet him in person in Prague next wee...
Oct 06, 2023•2 hr 23 min
Timothy Allen talks with Patrick Lamson Hall and Nuria Forques. Patrick and Nuria are a husband-and-wife team whose firm, 'Fitted Projects,' was commissioned to design the Honduran ZEDE community of Ciudad Morazán, the second ZEDE established in Honduras after Próspera. While Próspera primarily focused on technological innovation and connecting Honduras with international business, Morazán was designed as more of a 'blue-collar ZEDE,' targeting working-class and middle-class residents primarily ...
Sep 29, 2023•1 hr 49 min
Timothy Allen talks with Josh & Zach Harvey. Today's show is a conversation I had in Portugal with a couple of Bitcoin OGs by the names of Josh and Zack Harvey. The two brothers were responsible for creating the first ever prototype bitcoin ATM way back in 2013, an endeavour that has given rise to their market leading company Lamassu , currently supplying Bitcoin ATMs all over the globe. More recently they have embarked on a inspiring regenerative agriculture project in their adoptive countr...
Sep 22, 2023•1 hr 17 min
