Episode Archive
"When I went to El Salvador, I went to try and find the catch. What's really happening there? What is this Bukele dictator actually doing there? I went in there to to ask tough questions about Bukele. It took me about a week to change my mind, to realise that's not really the story. That people love him. They hone...
"Freedom is not going to come for free. You can't ask anyone. You can't go and ask a police officer to give you more freedom because he's going to follow the law. That's his job. "
"Overall, political risk, be it national, local, or geopolitical international risk, has been on the rise over the last 15 years. It has become critical and the time is ripe to consider it in detail and to consider your options. "
"This is the project of my life. I want to live and I want to die in that place, in a free place because as libertarians, we need a physical place to live. I mean, things like Network States are fine, but in the end we are people living in a three dimensional world. We need to have our feet on some soil and I want...
"As far as the Cypherpunks go, I wanted the viewers to really understand WHY there is Bitcoin out there. You know, why? Why Bitcoin? And so it was really important for me to explain that a bunch of people were afraid that freedom could be jeopardised and so they built things.. and Bitcoin became the tool to fight f...
"If you have an idea, bring it up. Let's put it on the table. Let's discuss it. And yeah, we can potentially make it happen. Maybe it works because we are still a relatively small community. Probably as we grow, it's going to change a little bit. But for now, it works quite well. Everybody's quite welcoming to diff...
"I remain disappointed, flummoxed, angry and aggravated that free market libertarianism has not made more headway because it seems to me to provide many, if not most of the answers to the barriers to human flourishing and removal of human suffering. "
"Previously, whenever people gathered with friends for dinner or lunch, the first question that would usually come up was 'Will you leave Hong Kong?'. In the last two or three years, that question has changed to 'When are you going to leave Hong Kong? "'.
"It's beneficial if you can speak to leaders and politicians around the world and educate them about Bitcoin. Not about them essentially adopting it, but to let them know that there's a bottom-up movement happening all around the world and that really, they can't do anything to stop it. So they might as well embrace...
"There is this famous quote that you can never change things by fighting the existing reality and that you have to start something new. I think that's pretty much valid. It might be much easier to start a new country than it is to fix an existing one. "
"People are completely persuaded by monopoly governance. They're brainwashed with it. It's coming for us. It's coming for free people. It's coming fast, it's coming hard and it's not hiding its agenda. So this is where I want to argue with all my colleagues. We don't want one Próspera here. We don't want a dozen Pr...
"If you have these ecologies of freedom, you can make amazing cities and that is one of the best things you can do. I think you'll be hard pressed to do it somewhere else these days. Even existing, amazing cities are being ruined by bad policy and not being allowed to mature or being allowed to mature enough.. There...
"W e have to go back to doing more with neighbours, with family with friends. That's one way of replacing big government. Yes, you can replace it with a Free Private City and a service model, but you can also replace it with actual communities, and the actual community is, I think more attainable. Particularly for l...
"If you speak to urban planners, they will tell you that to have a viable, sustainable community, you need 1100 to 1300 households. That's a rule of thumb in that industry. A household in the UK is 2.4 people, so you can come to a figure. Very importantly, we are not saying that we actually know what the figures sho...
"The playbook today on a Fiat standard is to figure out a way to lie, cheat, get into central banking, get into politics and if you can't get into central banking or politics, get into big business and get as close as you can to the monetary spigot. So all of the incentives align you in such a way that you're basica...
" I think that what we're going through is pretty new. For most of human history, there has always been a frontier. So there was always a space where new people could push into and there's certainly some sort of ideological conformity among the kinds of people who are interested in that. They are different in some w...
"I think that's a perennial question for a lot of people who want to influence the world around them. Are you going to go into academia and change the world through ideas? Are you going to go into politics and change the world through actions? Or are you going to do both and work for a think tank? "
" We are talking about forming new societies. I mean, it's a big topic, but I think the main things have been covered now. I think I can say that because it took me 30 years to get the knowledge to write the book and I have discussed this topic intensely with all kinds of people all over the world. I can say that we...
"We need to be creating free societies across the world. What was it that Hans-Hermann Hoppe said? We need thousands of Liechtensteins'". We do need more of this across the world. You want to be able to run into your president at the local grocery store. That's my opinion on it. We need more smaller communities tha...
"There are a lot of countries and cities that are worried about the sea level rise and are investing a lot of money into research and development for floating extensions of their cities. The Netherlands already does this. The technology to build floating cities is being developed regardless of Seasteading. I'm just...
"Right now we've been living in a society of debt on debt on debt on debt. This is something that cannot be sustained. The current financial system as it is currently constructed, cannot survive in the long term on this type of methodology. So there needs to be a shift and a move to a new type of system for any type...
