Knut Svanholm: Seafaring, Praxeology & Bitcoin Spirituality
“The fight for freedom is a constant struggle everywhere. In the long run, it’s not as easy as just ‘freedom-loving people will move to one jurisdiction and then that place will stay free forever’. That’s not how it works.”
This week the podcast is coming from Prague and I’m talking with one of our esteemed ambassadors here at the Free Cities Foundation who is also a very well known member of the Bitcoin community by the name of Knut Svanholm.
Knut is a former sea captain turned Bitcoin author/philosopher. He’s written a number of well-known Bitcoin books including ‘Sovereignty & Independence’, ‘Everything Divided by 21 Million’, and his latest work, ‘Praxeology: The invisible hand that feeds you’.
Now, this is a pretty long and meandering conversation and there’s a fair amount of thinking out loud going on, so I hope you can bear with us.
A vast array of subjects are covered, including Bitcoin, praxeology, human action, governance models, life on the sea, monetary history, central planning, eduaction, universal basic income, military history, religion, spirituality and we get to answer the age-old question: ‘Is Bitcoin is a cult?’.
Next week, amongst other things, I’ll be discussing city planning with Thomas Walker-Werth and trying to get to the bottom of the idiosyncracies of building Free Cities in the final frontier: outer space.