Patrick Hiebert | The Cost of Staying Put
"It's 30 hectares that we've reserved for building our own city this time. So we're working with the Tipolis architecture guys and saying, okay, let's design a European town in this one."
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Trey Goff | Nobody Understands What's Inside the Black Box
"If there's one thing I've learned over the last couple of years that has made my life magnificently better, it's that reality is not what it seems like in any meaningful sense. And there's so much more out there."
Erick Brimen | Will Próspera Survive Its Own Success?
"People simply don't believe that it's actually happening. That is the first challenge, that it's real and that it's actually happening. And it's better to be real and controversial than to not exist and be irrelevant."
Petar Čekerevac | The Hanseatic League in the Cloud
"We have to be humble about the vision in that sense, and then very bold in our attempts to achieve these underlying goals."
Daniel Jackson | We're Building a New Country in Europe
"It definitely feels like an uphill battle all the time. But I think anything's possible."
Dominic Frisby | They'll Blame You When It Fails
"A very realistic possibility is that you see governments get themselves into increasing amounts of problems. Governments go bankrupt. Their currencies do collapse. And they then blame the Bitcoiners and the gold bugs."
Gareth Icke | The Panopticon Is Already Here
“You know, to just say no. It’s the most important word in the English language.”
Christian Betancourt | How to Survive a Hostile Government
"I believed in it very much, to the extent that I waged my own career and my own life by coming here. It had to resist. I used to joke that if it hadn't resisted I would have stopped practising law, stopped believing in it."
Liam Martin & Nick Francis | Two Founders, Two Futures
"I'm an entrepreneur. I love technology and innovation. I think the tools that are now available to us are beyond extraordinary… I think I'm an incredible optimist as it pertains to AI." "When you hear a lot of these AI evangelists talk publicly about AI, maybe there's a 10% chance that it could be dangerous or a 5...
Mark Frazier | Fifty Years of Watching It Go Wrong
"Many free zone initiatives have been pushing on a string. They've fallen in love with a particular location and then push, push, push to try to make it happen... So the big takeaway for me was that these efforts to set up free areas by funnelling money into a predestined spot were exactly the wrong way to start."
Joey Flores | The First Country on the Internet
"We are building a social safety net that is global and ultimately our plan is to launch the first country on the internet, which will allow people to become member-based citizens and have that safety net follow them everywhere they go."
Vance | Everyone Needs a Plan B
"It was London in the 1800s. It was Spain in the 1600s. It was Portugal in the 1500s. It was the Netherlands before that. And right now it's the Americas."
Joyce Brand | Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone
"If you have a bad owner, the people will leave. If he's not doing what he promised, if he's not keeping them happy, customers leave all the time. The worse he is, the sooner people will leave, he'll go bankrupt, and someone else will buy the property that can do a better job with it. That's the way business works."
Gonçalo Hall | The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City
"When you build for nomads you build for everyone else. If you build something good enough to attract a digital nomad to whatever you are building, you are building something good enough for 90% of the people... That's why I say you should build for nomads, but nomads should not be your end client."
Polycarp Nakamoto | Plan For Decentralisation
"The real reason that I wear the mask is because it doesn't matter who I am. Anybody can be doing what we're doing thanks to Bitcoin and the Bitcoin node network. The message, the idea of free speech in a worldwide mesh network, does not depend upon any single person's identity. Everyone is building the mesh network."
Daniel Thompson | Free Cities Have a People Problem
"As we progress through this movement in general, I think this might be the key to unlock the critical mass. I really do think that. I think families are overlooked because the old family thought process, or the people who were families when we were younger, may not have been ready for this. But now everyone who's...
Eric Kaufmann | You're Not Allowed to Say This
"It's good to have a norm against racism, but when you go to a taboo, that's a very black and white thing. There's no nuance, there's no grey zones, and all of a sudden this is a powerful piece of kryptonite that somebody can weaponise."
Niklas Anzinger | Medicine Without Permission
"Imagine we had the technology and we would say, oh, for a reason X, Y, Z, we don't allow people to use it. That would be like withholding life-saving medicine from someone, which is equivalent, ethically speaking, to killing someone."
Matthew Mottola | What AI Can't Replace
"I'm going to say for full-time employees that spend over a billion on talent, I'm saying there's going to be 40% layoffs. And they might say only 10%, but in reality, they're recalibrating easily up to 40%."
Tomek Kołodziejczuk | The Bitcoin Free City
"I came to visit, just to visit. On the second day, I bought a motorbike from Facebook Marketplace just to lock in. Okay, this might be my place."
Lucy Connolly | Jailed for a Tweet
"The minute you don't agree with something they do, they'll come for you too. Don't for one minute think that you're safe. So why are you supporting this? Because it could happen to any one of you."