Freedom, Economics, Austrian Economics, Free Cities, State Control, Regulation, Agorism, Algorithms, Bitcoin, Decentralization, Internet Frontier, Globalization, Governance. Timothy Allen talks with Per Bylund. This episode delves into the philosophical and practical aspects of freedom, exploring how the internet, as a modern frontier, plays a pivotal role in shaping our current socio-political landscape. Per Bylund, an economist known for his work on entrepreneurship and the market process, sha...
Nov 15, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Elon Musk, Twitter, X, Free Speech, Censorship, Trump, US Election, Liberty, End The Fed, Nostr, Federal Reserve, Bitcoin, Libertarianism. Timothy Allen talks with Natalie Danelishen. It is election week in the US, so I thought we should get some feedback from a local this week. Natalie is well-embedded in the political quagmire as a well-followed Twitter influencer, tweeting about liberty and freedom. One of Elon's favourite libertarians, she even got Javier Milei to retweet a photo from the co...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 37 min
Bitcoin, Pensions, Institutional Investment, Austrian Economics, 2008 Financial Crisis, Hyperinflation Risk, Energy Consumption, ESG Considerations, Pension Schemes, Financial Literacy, Financial Planning. Timothy Allen talks with Sam Roberts. Sam is a qualified actuary and director at Cartwright, a UK-based pensions and investment advisory firm that serves institutional clients such as corporate pension schemes, charities, and corporate treasuries. Under the direction of Sam, Cartwright has bee...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Nostr, Social Media, Algorithms, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Cryptography, Anarchism, Hutting, Próspera, Honduras, Fountain App, Amethyst. Timothy Allen talks with Ben Arc. You may have noticed recently that I’ve been talking a fair bit about Nostr on this podcast. We’re even reading out Nostr messages at the beginning of each episode. Well, it’s time to take a deeper dive, but before we do, I want to give my best 101 intro to start you off. This is important. As far as I can tell, Nostr is n...
Oct 25, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Governance, Bitcoin, Intentional Communities, Libertarianism, Próspera, ICSID Arbitration, Dubai, Liberty In Our Lifetime, Seasteading, Sark renovation, Liberland. Timothy Allen talks with Peter Young. So, how can I sum up the last 100 episodes? Well, it's been a phenomenal journey for me, which has taken me all over the world, meeting exceptional people who are really pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the market of living together. Of course, I feel very fortunate to have had this o...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 12 min
Privacy, Identity, Future State Congress, Network State, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Open Source, Nomadism, Regenerative Cities, Digital Utopias, Intentional Communities. Timothy Allen talks with Dr. David Bovill. David is a former medical scientist, hacker, programmer, and artist, currently known as—and I’ll quote his brief bio from the current Future State Congress website here—“Liquid democracy OG, Ethereum early adopter, commons platforms like WikiWiki contributor.” As you will hear, h...
Oct 11, 2024•3 hr 3 min
Nostr, Surveillance State, Religion, Bitcoin, Great Filters, Acceleration Theory, Family, Decentralised Networks, Defiance. Timothy Allen talks with Selfbankt. I've got another pseudonymous guest for you again this week. He's somebody I originally met through Twitter some years ago, subsequently forging a good friendship in real life, you may know him from Twitter yourself, in fact. He was a well-known character to Bitcoiners: SelfBankt, that was until he was banned from Twitter during the pande...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 53 min
Bitcoin, Forestry, Stoicism, Próspera, Volatility, Risk, Anti-fragility, Nostr, Identity, Land Ownership, Parallel Networks, Freedom, Citadels. Timothy Allen talks with Ben Gunn. Pseudonymous Ben is somewhat of an elusive character.. and I mean that in the best possible way. He’s a grafter, a proof-of-worker and he doesn’t sit down and do podcasts very often. I drove up the Welsh borders to visit him at his woodland estate last week to chat about a number of things. The idea was initially sparke...
Sep 27, 2024•3 hr 18 min
Socialism, Communism, 1989, Gold, Bitcoin, Central Banking, Dollar Hegemony, Stablecoins, Governance, Rebellion. Timothy Allen talks with Niko Jilch. Today I have for you my last recording from Prague's 2024 Bitcoin conference. Niko is an Austrian financial journalist who’s been covering financial markets, monetary history/policy and macro economics for over 10 years. Interestedly for me, he’s been an advocate for gold for most of that time too and, as many of you will know, I’ve been dying to g...
Sep 20, 2024•2 hr 55 min
Parenting, Liberated Children, Stoicism, Feminism, Voluntarism, Socialism, Gender Roles, Gender Wars, Liberty, Freedom. Timothy Allen talks with Pavla Karon. Pavla is an entrepreneur and freedom maximalist who co-runs her family business, but outside of that she’s all about family and personal growth. When our paths cross, I always have great chats with her and this one is no exception. Core topics discussed include raising children, especially parenting methods and bringing up liberated kids. W...
Sep 13, 2024•2 hr 10 min
Zaha Hadid, Architecture, Próspera, Liberland, Metaverse, Parametricism, Digital Cities, Free City Design, Modular Buildings, Free Market. Timothy Allen talks with Shajay Bhooshan Shajay runs the computation and design group at Zaha Hadid Architects and he worked on the designs for some well known Free City projects including Próspera, Praxis and Liberland's metaverse project. Zaha Hadid definitely work at the sharp end of the wedge as far as using innovative technologies goes and speaking to Sh...
Sep 06, 2024•2 hr 2 min
Self Sovereignty, Overlanding, Landsteading, Bitcoin Adoption, Digital Identity, BTC Map, Flag Theory, Freedom. Timothy Allen talks with Nathan Day. Nathan is a former global IT systems optimiser who managed to gain a degree of financial freedom after he sold his business a few years ago. Consequentially, this lead to him and his wife to ask themselves the question: “If we were terminally ill and had 2 years to live, what would we do?” The answer came in the form of a custom built, fully pimped ...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 6 min
New media, A.I., Media Bias, Ukraine, Social Media, Communications, Liberty, Gender Equality, Fake News. Timothy Allen talks with Tania Rak. Today’s guest is Ukrainian journalist and PR expert Tania Rak. Tania works within the liberty movement spreading ideas of freedom at places like Fox news, CNN and BBC to name but a few. As you would expect, this conversation revolves around the 'science' of communicating… media literacy, A.I.'s impact on journalism, fake news, social media , fact checking, ...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 35 min
London Gateway, Free Port, Thames Estuary, Special Economic Zone, Free City Design, BNO Visa, UK Free City Project. 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 ambitious Free City project planned for the newly designated Thames Estuary Free Port area in The UK. Enjoy t...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min
KYC, Buenos Aires, Cypherpunks, Travel, Europe, Inflation, UAE, Argentina, Vexl, Bitcoin, Dubai, Governance, Tax, Digital nomadism. Timothy Allen talks with Lea Petrášová. Lea is a cypherpunk & privacy advocate best known as the co-founder and CEO of Vexl, the peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading network . Our conversation revolves around the intersection of decentralized governance, privacy, security and economic development. We discuss the importance of preserving privacy and security in decentral...
Aug 09, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Bitcoin, Collapse of Fiat, Venice, The Sovereign Individual, Governance, Democracy, Lyn Alden, Broken Money, Mercantile Republic. Timothy Allen talks with Allen Farrington. The Bitcoiners amongst you will know Allen well. He’s the co-author of the book ‘Bitcoin is Venice’, a very well respected book about modern economic theories… both the good ones and the bad ones. The title of the book comes from one of the Allen's essays in which he connects the properties of Venice which lead to it becoming...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Liberland, Gornja Siga, Croatia, Border Dispute, Serbia, Government, Settlers, Police, Diplomacy, Legacy Media, Politics. Timothy Allen talks with Thomas D. Walls. Thomas is Liberland's minister of foreign affairs and I caught up with him at ARK, the so called ‘Liberland village’ located just over the border from Liberland’s territory in Serbia. If you’re new to the story then I would say that this interview is one to be listened to in conjunction with the two other Liberland podcasts I’ve recor...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Hyperinflation, Economic Cycles, Fourth Turning, Prepping, Self Sufficiency, Monetary Collapse, Matrix, Financial Crisis, Gold, Bitcoin, Argentina. Timothy Allen talks with Marc Friedrich Today I’m having a conversation with Germany's most successful non-fiction author. Marc Friedrich has written 7 best selling books, the latest of which is called ‘The Greatest Revolution of All Time' and it is about preserving your wealth through what Marc says is the inevitable coming failure of the current mo...
Jul 19, 2024•1 hr 9 min
CBDCs, Bitcoin, China, Alipay, Wechat, Thailand, Personal Carbon Allowance, Universal Basic Income, Carbon Credits, Freedom, Monetary Collapse, Carbon Markets. Timothy Allen talks with Efrat Fenigson. Todays show is an important one if, like me you value individual freedom and prosperity. Efrat Fenigson is a journalist and marketing expert who I sat down with in Prague a few weeks ago to talk everything CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). CBDCs, as the name suggests are programmable digital...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 20 min
Bitcoin, Ibogaine, Psychedelics, Addiction, Fiat, Awareness, Nihilism, Collectivism, Beauty, Trauma, Democracy, Architecture, Freedom. Timothy Allen talks with Tuur Demeester. Tuur is an analyst and investor, probably best known for his work within the Bitcoin ecosystem. I have been a fan of his for quite some time, greatly appreciating his ability to straddle the worlds of traditional finance on the one hand & the somewhat esoteric world of Bitcoin on the other. One thing that may need expl...
Jul 05, 2024•1 hr 27 min
Próspera ZEDE, Duna Residence, Pioneer Settlers, Nostr, Prosperians, Honduras, Legal Battle, Special Economic Zone, Bitcoin, Opt In. Timothy Allen talks with Luke Thibodeau. Today's episode is a Próspera update show. Próspera is of course one of the Free Cities ecosystem’s flagship projects that everyone should be watching with an eagle eye as far as I’m concerned. The things that they are doing in Honduras and the pioneering issues that they are dealing with are laying the ground work for so ma...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Island of Sark, Repopulation, Independence, Channel Islands, Move to Sark, Investment in Sark, Sark Masterplan, Sark Property, Barclay Brothers. Timothy Allen talks with Swen Lorenz. On today's show I’m speaking with Swen Lorenz again. Swen co-runs the Sark Property Company and as the title of the episode suggests, they have some exciting news about their investment plans and the general future of Sark. I caught up with Swen in London a couple of weeks ago but have been holding back the episode ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Liberland, Liberbase, Croatia, Serbia, Gornja Siga, Settlers, Governance, Tipolis, Democracy, Communism, Collectivism. Timothy Allen talks with Hynek Fencl. Hynek is Head of Research at the Free Cities Foundation and also the Chief Communications & Research Officer at Tipolis which is Titus Gebel’s company focused on building Free Cities thought the world. This conversation was recorded during our trip to Croatia & Serbia and begins with us gathering our thoughts on the Liberland project...
Jun 14, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Bitcoin, ETF, Institutions, Finance, BlackRock, Pensions, Debt, Free Speech, Censorship, Deflation, ESG, Gold. Timothy Allen talks with Glenn Cameron . Glenn is a senior investment consultant who was recently appointed as Head of Digital Assets at Cartwright, the independent privately-owned pension actuarial, consultancy and administration firm. If you’re a financial layman like myself then it's easiest to think of him as the guy who deals with institutional investors regarding Bitcoin. Bitcoin'...
Jun 07, 2024•2 hr 16 min
City of London, NIMBYism, free zone Architecture, housing, planning, synergy clusters, Próspera, Hondurus, 3D printing, Zaha Hadid, Special Economic Zones. Timothy Allen talks with Patrik Schumacher Today's guest should need little or no introduction. He is the renowned architectural theorist, educator and author Patrik Schumacher, probably best know currently as the principal architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, who are renowned for their innovative and futuristic designs utilising organic forms...
May 31, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Economic Zones, D.M.C.C. , Dubai Multi Commodities Centre, China, Shenzhen, Ireland, Shannon Free Zone, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, SEZs. Timothy Allen talks with Krysta Fox This week we’re back in the U.A.E. with another excellent conversation from our SEZ filming trip. Krysta Fox has a long and illustrious business career, but the part we were interested in was her six year position as executive director of Dubai’s DMCC - (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) a very well known and hugely successf...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 18 min
Libertarianism, Communism, Anarcho-capitalism, Poland, Liberty International, Memes, Bitcoin, Skull of Satoshi, Freedom Culture. Timothy Allen talks with Sebastian Weglarz. This week's show is a bit of a trip into the past. If truth be told, I had an audio problem with the episode I was going to air and then I lost access to all my upcoming shows (it's a long story that I won't go in to). Anyway, whilst rummaging around in my archive looking for back-ups, I discover an unpublished episode that I...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 56 min
Alternative Governance, China, Próspera, Charter Cities, Dubai, Bitcoin, El Salvador, Digital Nomad Visas, Sovereign Individual Thesis, Network States, Infopreneurs. Timothy Allen talks with Olivier Roland. Olivier is a French author, entrepreneur, digital nomad and influencer with over 800,000 followers across his social media channels. His latest book (not out yet) focuses on how the internet is disrupting nation-states and how to navigate these opportunistic times. Olivier has been testing ou...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 42 min
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Special Zones, Tipolis, International Cities, Autononous Zones, Evolution of Special Economic Zones. Timothy Allen talks with Andreas Baumgartner. I have another returning guest for you today. The last time I spoke with Andreas Baumgartner was back in episode 32 where we discussed the ins and outs of negotiating with governments, something that Andreas does on behalf of Free Cities projects and organisations such as the Metis Institute, Praxis and, relevant in this c...
May 03, 2024•55 min
Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Liberty, Rights & Responsibilties, Democracy, Social Credit Scores, Freedom, Discipline, Governance, Brain Drain. Timothy Allen talks with Nzube Udezue. We’re back in the UAE again this week, where I was lucky enough to sit down with a gentleman by the name of Nzube Udezue. Of course, you will probably know him by his stage name, Zuby, he's a highly influential rapper, podcaster and interestingly for me, a current resident of Dubai. Zuby has a deep connection with the Mi...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 21 min
