Free Cities Podcast
Timothy Allen
The official podcast of the Free Cities Foundation hosted by Timothy Allen. Timothy conducts in-person, long-form discussions with the preeminent thought leaders in the Free Cities ecosystem, including builders, investors, residents, entrepreneurs & people who value liberty & prosperity for all. Everyone is welcome, especially skeptics. Topics: Private Cities, Pioneer Communities, Charter Cities, Seasteading, Homesteading, Libertarianism, Anarcho-Capitalism, Bitcoin, Economics, Geopolitics, Flag Theory, Homeschooling, Technology, Free Markets & Digital Nomadism. New episodes every Friday.
122 - Lauren Razavi: Digital Nomads, Global Mobility & Network States
Global Mobility Rights, Remote Work, Digital Nomad Visas, Bali, Malaysia, Japan, Borderless Work, International Citizenship, Migration Trends, Future Of Work, Plumia.Timothy Allen talks with Lauren Razavi.Lauren is a technologist, political scientist, and global citizen focused on the future of work, global mobility, and digital nomadism. As Executive Director of Plumia, she leads efforts to build a global standard for nomad visas and reimagine the infrastructure that enables cross-border living
Mar 21, • 1:33:25
121 - Dennis Pratt: Liberty, Community & The Free State Project
New Hampshire Free State Project, Libertarianism, Personal Freedom, Education Reform, Political Activism, Small Government, Zoning Laws, Liberty Clubs, Grassroots Movements.Timothy Allen talks with Dennis Pratt.Dennis was inspired to move to New Hampshire in 2018 and has been involved in the Free State Project ever since, establishing community groups, running the free state festival PorcFest and doing some fascinating research into the psychology of the local Libertarians.In this episode, Denni
Mar 14, • 1:57:39
120 - Daniel Hannan: Woke Politics, Reform & The Culture of Liberty
Liberty, Individualism, Conservatism, Woke Politics, Collectivism, Government Overreach, China, Social Credit System, Personal Responsibility, Reform UK, Pandemic.Timothy Allen talks with Daniel Hannan.Daniel Hannen is a British writer, journalist and politician. If you’re a Brit you may know him as one of the founders of ‘Vote Leave’ - one of the organisations that successfully campaigned during the UK's Brexit referendum. Many people know him from his best selling books and if you frequen
Mar 7, • 54:20
119 - Pavla Karon: Activism, Accountability & Abundance
Dark Side of Activism, Personal Growth, Inner Work, Abundance Mindset, Trauma, Personal Responsibility, Freedom, Self-Reflection, Consciousness, Parenting.Timothy Allen talks with Pavla Karon."Timothy and Pavla engage in a deep discussion on activism, personal responsibility, and the inner work necessary for meaningful change. They explore the "shadow side" of wanting to save the world, emphasizing self-awareness before external action. Pavla shares insights on money as energy, highlighting the
Feb 28, • 2:14:44
118 - Tim Stern: Building a Free City in Venezuela
Margarita Island, Special Economic Zones, Venezuela, Urban Development, Community Building, Economic Freedom, Digital Nomads, Entrepreneurship, Governance, Cryptocity.Timothy Allen speaks with Tim Stern.Tim Stern, a tech entrepreneur and visionary, shares his journey of establishing a unique community in Venezuela's Margarita Island, dubbed "Cryptocity." With a background in IT and a passion for liberty, Tim transitioned from traditional business to creating a haven for like-minded individuals s
Feb 21, • 1:11:15
117 - Scott Schneider: Freedom in the Final Frontier
Space Law, Individual Rights, Freedom Movements, Governance, Personal Satellites, Live and Let Live Foundation, Space Exploration, Anarchism, Technological Innovation, Future Predictions.Timothy Allen talks with Scott Schneider.Scott's journey into the realm of freedom and individual rights began with his background in law, specializing in aerospace law. His unique perspective on international legal frameworks has led him to engage with the Live and Let Live Foundation, a movement dedicated to p
Feb 14, • 1:40:16
116 - Manuel Barkhau: The Rise of Libertarianism in Germany
Libertarianism, Germany, Freedom, Economic Policy, Media Influence, Governance, Drones, Technology, Future Predictions, Social Dynamics. Timothy Allen talks with Manuel Barkhau. Manuel is a Software Developer based in Frankfurt Germany. He's been an Austro-Libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist since the Ron Paul presidential campaign in 2008 and a Bitcoiner since 2011. His current focus is growing the libertarian community and awareness of libertarianism in Germany through the German libertarian p
Feb 7, • 1:34:41
115 - Vera Kichanova: Lessons From Odessa
Special Economic Zones, Odessa, Economic Freedom, Urban Planning, Free Cities, Urbanization, Architecture And Design, Sustainable Cities, Political Freedom, Urban Economist. Timothy Allen talks with Vera Kichanova. Vera Kichanova is the senior economist at the Free Cities Foundation and a policy researcher at Zaha Hadid Architects and King’s College London. Her PhD thesis explores the future of private urban development — from charter cities in emerging economies to start-up nations in neutral
Jan 31, • 1:44:27
114 - Alex Voss: Strategies for Liberty, Free Cities & Bitcoin
Bitcoin, Free Cities, Economic Freedom, Sovereignty, Innovation, Autonomous Zones, Geopolitics, Community Building, Investment Strategies, City Design, Digital Nomads. Timothy Allen talks with Alex Voss. In this episode, we dive deep into the intersection of Bitcoin and Free Cities, exploring how these two concepts can work together to foster economic freedom and innovation. Alex Voss, CFO of Tipolis and a board member of the Free Cities Foundation, shares insights from his extensive experienc
Jan 24, • 1:28:32
113 - Laurence Ion: Longevity Cities, Decentralised Science & The Cure for Aging
Longevity, Free Cities, Medical Innovation, Aging, Gene Therapy, Regulatory Frameworks, Decentralized Science, Healthspan, Biotechnology, Community Living, Transhumanism, Existential Questions, Cryonics. Timothy Allen talks with Laurence Ion. In this conversation we explore the intersection of longevity, science and Free Cities. Lawrence shares his journey within the ecosystem, focusing on creating environments that foster rapid medical innovation by circumnavigating traditional regulatory bott
Jan 17, • 1:16:06
112 - Mark Lutter & Carl Peterson: Africa, Charter Cities & The Future of Urban Development
Charter Cities, Africa, Economic Zones, Urban Development, Governance, Special Economic Zones, Zanzibar, Infrastructure, Political Dynamics, Urbanization, Community Engagement. Timothy Allen talks with Mark Lutter and Carl Peterson from the Charter Cities Institute. In this episode, we explore the evolving landscape of charter cities in Africa, focusing on ambitious projects in Zanzibar and the broader implications for urban development across the continent. Mark and Carl share insights into t
Jan 10, • 1:16:55
111 - Alex Martynov: Mindfulness, Inner Freedom & Connecting With Your True Self
Freedom, Leadership Coaching, Self-Discovery, Personal Growth, Inner Freedom, Mindfulness, Complexity, Psychology, Self-Leadership, Authentic Living, Career Transition, Spirituality, Viktor Frankl. Timothy Allen talks with Alex Martynov. In this episode, we delve into the intricate dance between inner freedom and external constraints, exploring how our internal dialogues can create either liberty or self-imposed limitations. Alex shares insights on how unwittingly, our internal processes can le
Jan 3, • 1:35:56
110 - Francisco Litvay: Global Citizenship, 2nd Passports & Geo Arbitrage
Plan B, Second Passports, Digital Nomadism, Perpetual Travel, Second Citizenship, Flag Theory, Tax Optimization, Residency, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Latin America, Economic Zones, Freedom, El Salvador. Timothy Allen talks with Francisco Litvay. Francisco is a Brazilian digital nomad, flag theory expert and the co-founder of Settee, the Portuguese franchise of Staatenlos, companies that both help individuals with emigration, citizenship, offshore companies and tax optimisation etc. In this con
Dec 27, 2024 • 1:13:17
109 - Alex Ugorji: Life in a Honduran Free City Under Threat
Honduras, Ciudad Morazán, ZEDE Law, Repeal, Libertarianism, Economic Freedom, Governance, Legal Challenges, Community Development, Incentives, Political Dynamics, Próspera. Timothy Allen talks with Alex Ugorji. Alex is one of the original residents of Ciudad Morazán, the so called 'blue collar Free City' and one of the lesser known Honduran ZEDEs. In fact, as far as I can tell, he is the third-longest-standing resident of a modern Free City in history, so his opinion carries weight. He shares h
Dec 20, 2024 • 1:57:15
108 - Grant Romundt: Living on the Ocean in a Floating Home
Seasteading, Floating Homes, Marine Habitat, Sustainable Living, Freedom, Ocean Builders, Technology, Remote Work, Drone Technology, Panama, Freedom, Self-Sustainability. Timothy Allen talks with Grant Romundt. In this episode, Grant Romundt shares his visionary journey of creating floating homes and the future of seasteading. As a co-founder of Ocean Builders, Grant dives into the challenges and triumphs of constructing SeaPods: Unique marine dwellings, designed for both luxury and sustainabil
Dec 13, 2024 • 1:07:13
107 - Patrick Hiebert: Building Off-grid Libertarian Villages in Latin America
Libertarian Communities, Bitcoin, Sovereignty, Latin America, Off-Grid Living, Renewable Energy, Community Development, Freedom, Self-Sustainability, EcoVillages. Timothy Allen talks with Patrick Hiebert In this episode, Patrick Hebert, a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of EcoVillages, shares his journey from the software industry to establishing freedom-oriented communities in Latin America. Patrick discusses his transition from living on a boat with his son to creating self-sustaining luxur
Dec 6, 2024 • 1:55:21
106 - Joe Quirk: One Hundred Thousand Free Societies at Sea
Seasteading, Private Governance, Ocean Builders, Grant Romundt, Seapods, Floating Cities, Cruise Ships, Democracy, Freedom, Legacy Media. Timothy Allen talks with Joe Quirk This conversation with Joe, President of the Seasteading Institute, delves into the transformative potential of Seasteading as a frontier for innovation and freedom. Joe shares updates on the latest developments in the Seasteading movement, including new prototypes by Ocean Builders and the visionary efforts of Grant Romund
Nov 29, 2024 • 2:52:53
105 - Efrat Fenigson: Unmasking Agenda 2030
Agenda 2030, Agenda 2050, Agenda 21, Stablecoins, Climate Change, Control, Smart Cities, 15 Minute Cities, Surveillance, Bitcoin, Spiritual Awareness, Fear, Compliance, Resistance. Timothy Allen talks with Efrat Fenigson. This conversation explores the rise of centralised control in a digital age with particular reference to Agenda 2030. Efrat sees Agenda 2030 as a plan to control many facets of human life, from finances and movement to information and even food choices. She argues that while t
Nov 22, 2024 • 2:13:21
104 - Per Bylund: Economics, Agorism & The Reality of Freedom
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, sh
Nov 15, 2024 • 1:30:07
103 - Natalie Danelishen: Free Speech, Twitter & US Politics
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
Nov 8, 2024 • 1:37:15
102 - Sam Roberts: Bitcoin, Pensions & The Financial Renaissance
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 be
Nov 1, 2024 • 1:44:55
101 - Ben Arc: Nostr, Anarchy & Algorithms
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
Oct 25, 2024 • 2:05:27
100 - Peter Young: 100th Episode Free Cities Review
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
Oct 18, 2024 • 1:11:35
099 - Dr. David Bovill: Future States, Regenerative Cities & Open Source Law
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, he
Oct 11, 2024 • 3:02:39
098 - Selfbankt: Decentralised Networks, Filter Events & Confronting Orthodoxy
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 pand
Oct 4, 2024 • 1:52:43
097 - Ben Gunn: Volatility, Stoicism & Anti-Fragile Networks
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 spar
Sep 27, 2024 • 3:17:50
096 - Niko Jilch: Socialism, Gold & Bitcoin Geopolitics
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 dyi
Sep 20, 2024 • 2:54:42
095 - Pavla Karon: Gender Roles, Family Dynamics & Raising Liberated Children
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.
Sep 13, 2024 • 2:10:20
094 - Shajay Bhooshan: Parametric Design, Digital Cities & The Future of Architecture
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
Sep 6, 2024 • 2:02:21
093 - Nathan Day: Overlanding, Self Sovereign Identity & Bitcoin Adoption
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 pimpe
Aug 30, 2024 • 1:06:24
092 - Tania Rak: Freedom, New Media & The Liberty Movement
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 medi
Aug 23, 2024 • 1:35:01
091 - Ivan Ko: Planning a Free City in the UK
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. En
Aug 16, 2024 • 1:03:45
090 - Lea Petrášová: Privacy, Autonomy & Decentralized Governance
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 decentra
Aug 9, 2024 • 1:29:57
089 - Allen Farrington: Venice, Sovereign Individuals & The Bitcoin Renaissance
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
Aug 2, 2024 • 1:41:42
088 - Thomas D. Walls: Liberland's Minister of Foreign Affairs
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’v
Jul 26, 2024 • 1:16:31
087 - Marc Friedrich: Preparing for an Economic Collapse
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 c
Jul 19, 2024 • 1:08:52
086 - Efrat Fenigson: Preparing for Central Bank Digital Currencies
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 digi
Jul 12, 2024 • 1:20:26
085 - Tuur Demeester: Identifying Our Shackles
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
Jul 5, 2024 • 1:27:02
084 - Luke Thibodeau: Próspera Update, Pioneer Residents & New Projects
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
Jun 28, 2024 • 1:01:42
083 - Swen Lorenz: Major Sark Announcement
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
Jun 21, 2024 • 1:05:14
082 - Hynek Fencl: Liberland Insights, Free City Proposals & The Limitations of Democracy
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 projec
Jun 14, 2024 • 2:04:54
081 - Glenn Cameron: Bitcoin, Institutions & Mass Adoption
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. Bi
Jun 7, 2024 • 2:15:33
080 - Patrik Schumacher: Free City Architecture, Synergy Clusters & Próspera
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
May 31, 2024 • 1:01:51
079 - Krysta Fox: Free Zones. Past, Present & Future
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 succes
May 24, 2024 • 1:17:41
078 - Sebastian Weglarz: Libertarian Memes, Anarcho-capitalism and Polish History
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
May 17, 2024 • 1:56:29
077 - Olivier Roland: The Sovereign Individual, Infopreneurship & Nation-State Disruption
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
May 10, 2024 • 1:41:57
076 - Andreas Baumgartner: Integrated Autonomous Cities & The Evolution of SEZs
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
May 3, 2024 • 55:01
075 - Zuby: Responsibility, Discipline & Choosing Liberty
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
Apr 26, 2024 • 1:20:48
074 - Stephan Livera: State Competitiveness, Bitcoin ETFs & The Demise of the West
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
Apr 19, 2024 • 1:33:06
073 - Peter Young: Special Economic Zones, Autonomy and the Future of Free Cities
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. The
Apr 12, 2024 • 1:05:29
072 - Fred Roeder: Dubai, Governance & The Evolution of Cities
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 Du
Apr 5, 2024 • 1:16:01
071 - Vera Kichanova: Private Cities, Russian Politics & Saudi Arabia
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 l
Mar 29, 2024 • 1:11:03
070 - Danilo Silva: Geoarbitrage, Lifestyle Planning & Flag Theory
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 t
Mar 22, 2024 • 1:09:41
069 - Nicole Reese & Oscar Correa: Regenerative Neighbourhoods, Holacracy & Pioneer Communities
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 Trib
Mar 15, 2024 • 1:53:56
068 - Tomer Kantor: El Salvador, Bitcoin & The IMF
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
Mar 8, 2024 • 1:07:52
067 - Sondre Bjellås: Liberstad. The Norweigan Free City
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 per
Mar 1, 2024 • 1:38:55
066 - Aaron Mucke & Jan: Hard Money, Culture & BTC Disciples
Bitcoin, Art, Memes, Fourth Turning, Satoshi Skull, Money, Gold, BTC Derivatives, Proof of Work, Religion, Spirituality, Venezuela, Hyperinflation, Human B. Timothy Allen talks with Aaron Mucke & Jan Aaron Mucke is a film director and Jan is one of the protagonists from his Bitcoin film “Human B” which was the reason for us all coming together for this podcast. In the conversation we take a quick dive down the rabbit hole to see what Aaron and Jan discovered during the production of 'Hu
Feb 23, 2024 • 1:26:58
065 - Marc-Felix Otto: Political Risk, Geopolitics & Governance Conspiracies
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 h
Feb 16, 2024 • 1:13:21
064 - Massimo Mazzone: Ciudad Morazán. The Blue-Collar Free City
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 Libe
Feb 9, 2024 • 1:16:23
063 - Rémi Forte: Bitcoin Origins, CBDCs & Social Credit Scoring
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 inte
Feb 2, 2024 • 1:09:37
062 - Tatiana Bugrova: Buying Land in Montelibero, Community & Montenegro
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 l
Jan 26, 2024 • 1:02:16
061 - Mark Littlewood: Libertarianism, Devolution & Decentralisation
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
Jan 19, 2024 • 1:16:31
060 - Ivan Ko: Leaving Hong Kong, UK Charter Cities & Global Citizen Passports
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
Jan 12, 2024 • 1:11:58
059 - Filip Karađorđević: Monarchy, Low Time Preference & Bitcoin Adoption
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 ou
Jan 5, 2024 • 1:21:16
058 - Vít Jedlička: Starting a New Country in Europe
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. Liberla
Dec 29, 2023 • 1:23:08
057 - Joe Quirk: Seasteading, Evolutionary Psychology & The Surveillance State
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 presi
Dec 22, 2023 • 1:21:52
056 - Marthinus Grobler: Free City Design, Fiat Architecture & New Urbanism
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 becau
Dec 15, 2023 • 1:31:33
055 - Marnix van Suylekom: Buying an Abandoned Village in Spain
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 i
Dec 8, 2023 • 1:20:19
054 - Christopher Beaumont & Swen Lorenz: Sark. Past, Present & Future
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
Dec 1, 2023 • 1:21:25
053 - Aleks Svetski: Bushido of Bitcoin, Feudalism & Artificial Intelligence
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 Bush
Nov 24, 2023 • 1:05:10
052 - Jeremy Kauffman: New Hampshire Free State Project & Libertarian Politics
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 d
Nov 17, 2023 • 1:20:49
051 - Adam Bartha: Free Markets, The European Union & CBDCs
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
Nov 10, 2023 • 1:42:42
050 - Titus Gebel: Free Private Cities Book Update
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 in
Nov 3, 2023 • 1:40:03
049 - Natalie Danelishen: Twitter, Homeschooling & Ending the Fed
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 arrive
Oct 27, 2023 • 1:21:28
048 - Mason: Free Cities at Sea, Atlas Island & Seasteading
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 projec
Oct 20, 2023 • 1:27:48
047 - Nik Oraevsky: Bitcoin Predictions, CBDCs & Global Citizenship
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 t
Oct 13, 2023 • 1:51:04
046 - Daniel Prince: Choosing a Parallel Life, Self-Directed Education & Bitcoin
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 6, 2023 • 2:23:07
045 - Patrick Lamson-Hall & Nuria Forques: Designing a Free City from Scratch, Dreamers vs Pragmatists & The Future of Urban Planning
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 res
Sep 29, 2023 • 1:48:58
044 - Josh & Zach Harvey: Homesteading, Low Time Preference & Moving to Portugal
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 cou
Sep 22, 2023 • 1:17:26
043 - Pavol Lupták: Global Opportunists, Parallel Societies & Crypto Anarchy
Timothy Allen talks with Pavol Lupták. Pavol is someone who I’ve been trying to talk to for quite a while… so many people have mentioned his name to me but he had thus far proved to be a pretty elusive guy on account of the fact that he is (amongst other things) a perpetual traveller. Fortunately for me I bumped into him at BTC Prague where his company Liberation Travel had a stand next to the Free Cities Bureau, and I managed to sit down with him for a couple of hours to delve a bit deeper int
Sep 15, 2023 • 1:55:10
042 - Kosta Korenkov & Albina Tokarchuk: Buying an Apartment in Montelibero, 10 Years as a Digital Nomad & Russian Libertarians
Timothy Allen talks with Kosta Korenkov & Albina Tokarchuk. This week's show comes from Montelibero which is a fascinating project that resides firmly within the ‘intentional community’ band of the Free Cities spectrum. For the most part, comprised of Russian libertarians, Montelibero has a tight knit community with land and buildings in Montenegro as well as its own currency and decentralised governance system. If you want to take a deeper dive into the project you can check out our f
Sep 8, 2023 • 1:23:17
041 - Niko Laamanen: Leaderless Organisations, Moving to Madeira & Bitcoin Adoption
Timothy Allen talks with Niko Laamanen. This week it's another dispatch from my recent visit to BTC Prague. My guest is Niko Laamanen, a Finnish gentleman who left an unfulfilling life as a construction engineer to start a publishing house specialising in the dissemination of content promoting ideas of freedom and liberty in all its myriad forms, or in Niko’s own words, “Stuff you don’t really learn at school but maybe you should.” Konsensus Network, as it is called, is a project that was
Sep 1, 2023 • 1:21:38
040 - Casey Given: Heterodox Thought Leaders, Free Cities PR & Young Voices
Timothy Allen talks with Casey Given. Casey is the president and executive director of ‘Young Voices’ which is a non profit agency that aims to cultivate the next generation of libertarian thought leaders in policy, journalism, and academia, or as Casey himself describes it, "A talent agency for heterodox thinkers". Casey has an interesting connection with the Free Cities movement through his undergrad student days and UC Berkley where he hosted a number of prominent seasteaders at th
Aug 25, 2023 • 1:22:25
039 - Rahim Taghizadegan: Bitcoin Citadels, Geopolitics & CBDCs
Timothy Allen talks with Rahim Taghizadegan. Today on the pod I have for you a very interesting conversation I had at BTC Prague with the Free Cities Foundation’s chief economist Rahim Taghizadegan. Rahim is an Austrian economist who is actually from Austria, which was a first for me, but he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur who has written more than a dozen books. In this conversation we begin by investigating th
Aug 18, 2023 • 1:36:22
038 - Raphaël Lima: Radical Ideas, Brazilian Free Cities & Digital Nomadism
Timothy Allen talks with Raphaël Lima. Today we have a conversation with one of our FCF esteemed ambassadors by the name of Raphael Lima. Raphael is what I would call a Libertarian Influencer. In his home country of Brazil, his daily youtube show “Ideias Radicais” has over 650k subscribers. He is also the founder of both the Free Market Institute in Brazil and settee.io which is a company that in their own words 'helps our customers to live and do business without borders’... in other wor
Aug 11, 2023 • 1:54:04
037 - Andreas Hellmann: Big Government, Tax Policy & The Free Market
Timothy Allen talks with Andreas Hellmann. Today we’re back in Lisbon for a brief conversation I had with Andreas Hellman who I managed to intercept just before he went on stage at LibertyCon. Andreas is the director of outreach, tax and regulatory policy at Tholos Foundation which is the international arm of Americans for Tax Reform. As a passionate advocate for the free market Andreas speaks critically of the workings of big government and its tax policies. We discuss questions such as: Whe
Aug 4, 2023 • 51:44
036 - Titus Gebel: Medieval City-States
Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. I’m back this week with Titus Gebel for another conversation and the subject of our discussion this time is Medieval City-States. Titus is of course very knowledgable about governance models from this time in history and we spend our time exploring the rise and fall of free imperial city models and what it might have been like to live within such a system as well as discussing what, if any, lessons we may be able to learn from these historical Free Cities i
Jul 28, 2023 • 1:03:13
035 - Pierre Corbin: The Great Reset, Bitcoin & The Macro Future
Timothy Allen talks with Pierre Corbin. Pierre is a film director and co-founder of the world's first Bitcoin film festival. This conversation with Pierre is a deep dive into his latest film 'The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin' which reflects his ideas and observations of the current macro economic situation that we all find ourselves in. Some of the many subjects touched upon in this episode include: The gold standard, Venetian war bonds, Ming Dynasty hyperinflation, debt cy
Jul 21, 2023 • 2:02:38
034 - Titus Gebel: Breaking the Political Cycle
Timothy Allen talks with Titus Gebel. It's another of my discussions from Montenegro again this week and this time it’s part one of two conversations I had with none other than the founder and president of the Free Cities Foundation himself, Titus Gebel. Now, since most of you will know who Titus is I will keep this intro brief. Obviously he has done many interviews before so I tried my best to keep this conversation away from the usual Free Private Cities talking points and delve a little
Jul 14, 2023 • 1:51:09
033 - David D. Friedman: Asteroid Colonies, Medieval Cooking & Romani Law
Timothy Allen talks with David Friedman. Today's guest needs no introduction… He is an esteemed economist, legal scholar and libertarian thinker who has for many, redefined their understanding of individual liberty and the dynamics of human society. But did you know he was also a connoisseur of medieval cooking? Well, you’re about to find our as I sit down for an hour with David Friedman. As you would expect our conversation makes many twists and turns and we cover a fair bit of ground.
Jul 7, 2023 • 56:20
032 - Andreas Baumgartner: Negotiating With Governments, Lifestyle Zones & Digital Nomadism
Timothy Allen talks with Andreas Baumgartner. We’re back in Montenegro again this week with a conversation I recorded at the so-called pop up city of Zuzalu. I’m talking with a gentleman who has very deep ties to the Free Cities movement, working as he does in the economic development space. His name is Andreas Baumgartner and he has spent the last 25 years working in the political and legal side of the space with the likes of the Metis Institute, Tipolis and Praxis to name but a few. Andreas
Jun 30, 2023 • 1:09:15
031 - Thomas Walker-Werth: Free City Planning, Frontier Governance & Colonising Outer Space
Timothy Allen talks with Thomas Walker-Werth. Today’s show was one of my favourite interviews from our recent trip to LibertyCon in Lisbon. Thomas is an associate editor at The Objective Standard, and as a former town planner in the UK he has much to say about the designing and organising of Free Cities. In this conversation, we take a deep dive into the reality of what its actually like planning towns as well as making some predictions about the prospect of designing places to live in outer
Jun 23, 2023 • 2:02:28
030 - Knut Svanholm: Seafaring, Praxeology & Bitcoin Spirituality
Timothy Allen talks with 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'. This is a pretty long and meandering conversation and there is a fair amount of thinking out loud going on... so do bear with us. Subjects covered include, Bitcoin, Prax
Jun 16, 2023 • 3:50:21
029 - Jose Birkin: Montelibero, Libertarian Governance & Tokenomics
Timothy Allen talks with Montelibero community member Jose Birkin. This conversation was my first in Montenegro within the Montelibero community. Montelibero is an intentional community of mostly Russian speaking libertarians that appears in our free communities directory. Myself and Peter Young traveled there last month on a fact finding mission to see what kind of progress is being made in their quest to become 'a role model of liberty in practice in Montenegro'. Due to it’s decentra
Jun 9, 2023 • 2:52:55
028 - Marek Tatała: Decentralising Nation States, Economic Freedom & Polish Politics
Timothy Allen talks with Marek Tatała. Marek is the VP of the Economic Freedom Foundation which is a Polish grant giving organisation in a similar vein to Atlas Network. Alongside funding relevant projects they also work on advocacy and political lobbying, believing in any way that bridges can be built to help integrate free market and classical liberal ideals into general society. Our discussion revolves around the work of the foundation and we touch upon many related subjects including the
Jun 2, 2023 • 1:05:32
027 - Federico Fernández: Innovation vs Regulation, E Governance & New Technology
Timothy Allen talks with Federico Fernández. Federico is the CEO of ‘Somos Innovación’ also known as ‘We Are Innovation', which is a network of more than 30 think tanks based in Latin America and Europe dedicated to promoting progress through innovation, the adoption of new technologies and human creativity. Unsurprisingly, the main focus of our discussion is innovation in all of its many incarnations. We examine the eternal struggle between regulation and innovation and dive into some of
May 26, 2023 • 1:03:56
026 - Gabriel Delgado: Próspera Update - Buildings, Infrastructure & Honduran Government
Timothy Allen talks with Gabriel Delgado. Gabriel is the co-founder and CDO of Próspera. Próspera is a private city and special economic zone on the island of Roatán in the Central American state of Honduras. The city is an autonomous zone with private government and its own fiscal, regulatory and legal architecture A couple of weeks ago whilst I was in Montenegro attending the New Cities and Network States weekend at Zuzalu, Timothy Allen got to sit down with one of the founders of Próspera,
May 19, 2023 • 52:52
025 - Jacek Spendel: Libertarian Advocacy, Freedom of Movement & the Future of Autonomy
Timothy Allen talks with Jacek Spendel. Jacek is the President of Liberty international which is the oldest organisation promoting libertarianism worldwide. In this conversation we discuss the work of Liberty International as well as Jacek’s views on libertarianism, travel, free cities and the future of the free world.Jacek has an optimistic view of the world, something that we whole heartedly endorse here at the free cities foundation. Its incredibly encouraging to hear from so many differe
May 12, 2023 • 51:29
024 - Matt & Terry Kibbe: Liberty & The New Media Landscape
Timothy Allen talks with Matt & Terry Kibbe. Matt and Terry Kibbe are the founders of ‘Free the People' which is an educational foundation charged with the mission of tuning in the next generation to the core values of personal liberty and peaceful cooperation. I met them both in Lisbon where they were speaking at LibertyCon and were it not for both of our incredibly strict schedules over that weekend I would have happily spoken to them for much longer since they have such a wealth of e
May 5, 2023 • 51:33
023 - Kris Kaleta: Digital Libertarians, Futurology & Manifesting Online Communities
Timothy Allen talks with Kris Kaleta. Kris Kaleta is a digital nomad and technologist who is doing some absolutely fascinating post-graduate research on virtual Libertarian communities. Our conversation touches on many aspects of his work from digital politics to emerging governance models and the contemporary phenomenon of online communities manifesting in real life. Kris has been a keen observer of the Free Cities movement since the start so he has a lot of great insights into the future
Apr 28, 2023 • 2:25:13
022 - Mikołaj Pisarski: Mises for the Masses, Education & Libertarian Parenting
Timothy Allen talks with Mikołaj Pisarski. Mikołaj is the former president of KoLiber Association and the current president of the Instytut Misesa, Poland’s Mises Institute. In this conversation we discover Mikolaj’s love for working with young people and his passion for teaching Libertarian principals and the ideas of Austrian economics. We also talk about Polish history, personal responsibility, parenting strategies and the problems of democracy, as well as a little Anarcho-capitalism and tec
Apr 21, 2023 • 1:33:20
021 - Nikos Sotirakopoulos: Life is Not Suffering, Culture Wars & Ayn Rand
Timothy Allen talks with Nikos Sotirakopoulos Nikos is an author, senior lecturer in social sciences at York St John Universtity and director of the European Ayn Rand Institute. Now, i have a problem with this conversation… namely that it is too short… Nikos is a busy man and I had a strict hour with him in Warsaw. However we managed to get through a fair bit in that hour…. brutalist architecture , collectivism vs individualism, the culture wars, Ayn Rand's philosophy, martial arts, what Jo
Apr 14, 2023 • 1:08:23
020 - Tom Palmer: Liberating Prosperity, Atlas Network & Problems with Free Cities
Today we’re beginning our series of interviews recorded in Poland and we’re starting out with a conversation I had with Tom Palmer during the Weekend Kapitalizmu conference. Tom is an American Libertarian author and theorist, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the executive vice president for international programs at Atlas Network. Just prior to recording this episode, Peter Young, The Free Cities Foundation’s CEO was chatting with myself and Tom in our makeshift studio in Warsaw and it
Apr 7, 2023 • 1:26:04
019 - Martin Leskovjan: Parallel Structures, Subversive Art & Liberating Minds
Today I'm talking with Martin Leskovjan. Martin is a member of the subversive Czech art collective Ztohoven and co-founder of Paralelni Polis which is one of the collective’s better known projects, also the site of the world’s first bitcoin-only cafe. This is a conversation about art and the power to influence. Ztohoven are a band of merry pranksters with a desire to provoke emotion and open minds and I talk with Martin about many of their projects and whether it is possible to create par
Mar 31, 2023 • 1:51:42
018 - Pontus & Ulrika Lindblom: Buying Property in a Free City, Flag Theory & Travel
This is Episode 18 of the Free Cities Podcast, and it is also the penultimate show from the series of conversations I had in Prague. I am in Warsaw for the next seven days, recording interviews that you will be listening to over the next two months on the Free Cities Podcast. I can report that I am only three episodes in, and I have to say that my mind has been blown already on two different occasions, so I am really looking forward to sharing these conversations with you over the coming weeks.
Mar 24, 2023 • 1:46:04
017 - Max Hillebrand: The Price of Privacy, Open Source Freedom & Bitcoin
Today I’m talking with Max Hillebrand. Max is a well-known privacy and Bitcoin activist who is also the CEO of zkSNACKs, the company who’s flagship product is the privacy oriented Bitcoin wallet, Wasabi Wallet. Max spoke in depth about privacy and self-sovereignty at last year’s Liberty in our Lifetime conference and this conversation follows in a similar vein. We begin with a few stories from his time working at Deutsche Bank but the conversation quickly moves on to open source software, Bitco
Mar 17, 2023 • 2:55:18
016 - Caroline King: Homeschool Refugees, Travel & Digital Nomadism
Today we have another dispatch from the Czech Republic which is also another refugee story of sorts, in a similar vein to my interview with Tom & Emily Lahdenranta who were the family of 5 who left Canada due to their government's pandemic policies. In this episode I’m talking with Caroline King. Caroline is a Swedish mother of 4 living with her husband and family in Prague. They had to leave Sweden in order to be able to homeschool their children on account of the Swedish governments
Mar 10, 2023 • 1:34:00
015 - Přemysl Bosák: Dispute Resolution, Evolution of Law & Personal Responsibility
On this week's podcast I am talking with Přemysl Bosák. Přemysl is the founder of a new dispute resolution platform called Disputio which is an obvious fit with people like myself who would prefer to bear the responsibility of resolving their own disputes. In this conversation we discuss the platform and how it works as well as a little about the history and evolution of law including bottom up solutions to legal problems. Přemysl is an anarcho-capitalist so we discuss anarchy and voluntarism as
Mar 3, 2023 • 1:17:02
014 - Jan Mošovský: Tales of Liberty & Free City Vulnerabilities
In part 4 of our series of conversations recorded in Prague I am talking with Jan Mošovský. Jan is the Director of Research at the Liberalni Institute, a Czech think tank championing the ideas of classical liberalism. He is also the European programs Manager at Students for Liberty, the largest libertarian students organisation in the world. I begin this conversation by asking Jan about something he wrote in an article… "Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature" An interesting observ
Feb 24, 2023 • 1:30:36
013 - Pavla Karon: Inner Freedom, Parenting Strategies & Ethical Non-Monogamy
Today's episode is my third conversation from our series recorded in Prague and this week I am talking with Pavla Karon. Pavla is what I would describe as an anarcho-capitalist entrepreneur and mother… labels aside she’s also a super interesting person to talk to who has much to say on the subjects of freedom and liberty, especially in the context of parenthood and relationships. Our conversation goes in many directions but in particular we discuss subjects such as what it was like growing up un
Feb 17, 2023 • 1:32:49
012 - Josef Tětek: Enemies of the State, Friends of Liberty & Bitcoin
This is the 2nd iteration of my series of conversations recorded in Prague and today I am I am talking with Josef Tětek. Josef is an author, educator and founder of the Slovak Ludwig Von Mises institute. He also hosts the popular Czech podcast Stackuj which is a show about Bitcoin, money and freedom. Josef’s background in Austrian economics and political philosophy informs the majority of our conversation and we start off by having an interesting discussion about the private provision of p
Feb 10, 2023 • 1:15:12
011 - Alena Vranova: Navigating the Future, Paraguay Plan B, Bitcoin & Freedom Tech
Today we begin our series of interviews recorded in Prague and my first guest is Alena Vranova. Alena’s extremely accomplished track record includes several successful startups in finance and technology but she is best known as the founder and former CEO of SatoshiLabs who produce one of the world's best known cryptocurrency hardware brands TREZOR. SatoshiLabs also founded Slush Pool which was the world's first Bitcoin Mining Pool established way back in 2010. In this conversation we talk about
Feb 3, 2023 • 1:33:46
010 - John Dennehy: Innovate, Educate, Liberate, El Salvador & Bitcoin Adoption
In this episode I talk with John Dennehy. John is a former journalist who quit his life in the US to move to El Salvador with the intention of starting a Bitcoin education programme. The result was the creation of the non-profit organisation ‘Mi Primer Bitcoin’ and the world’s first ever Bitcoin diploma. In this conversation we discuss the story behind 'My First Bitcoin' as it is known in English, and the current state of the education programme as well as El Salvador's Bitcoin ad
Jan 27, 2023 • 1:17:07
009 - Zussel Ramos: Landing Your Dream Job in a Free City
Zussel Ramos is the C.O.O. of AmityAge Academy in the Free City project of Próspera in Roatán, Honduras. This interview will be the last one from my series of conversations recorded in Honduras and it is a very informal chat recorded in Próspera’s newly inaugurated Bitcoin Centre. Zussel is a wonderful young Honduran lady who ended up working her dream job in Prospera thanks to her interactions with the Students for Liberty organisation whilst at college. In this conversation we discuss th
Jan 20, 2023 • 35:56
008 - Sean Pawley: Free City Banking, History of Charter Cities & Space Habitation
Timothy Allen talks to Sea Pawley. Sean is the founder and CEO of Seshat Bank which is the full service commercial bank currently being established in the Free City project of Próspera in Honduras. Topics mentioned in this conversation include: How to start a bank. The history of charter cities. Neo-medievalism. Pros & Cons of decentralisation of power. Artificial Intelligence. Funding war in pre-revolutionary France. ZEDEs and alternative governance models around the world. What makes Pro
Jan 13, 2023 • 1:02:45
007 - Dusan Matuska: Bitcoin Education in a Free City & Moving to Próspera
Dusan Matuska is an entrepreneur, consultant & Bitcoin educator. I initially met Dusan in The Czech Republic during the Liberty In Our Lifetime conference but it wasn’t until our paths crossed again in San Salvador that I finally had the chance to sit down with him for an all to brief chat before he had to fly off to Roatán in Honduras where he has recently opened a Bitcoin eduction centre in the Free City project of Próspera. In this conversation we talk about Dusan’s decision to move to Pr
Jan 6, 2023 • 1:05:20
006 - Jorge Colindres: Mayor of a Free City
Jorge Colindres is a lawyer, business consultant, and public policy analyst. He is currently acting as Technical Secretary of Próspera ZEDE, a Special Economic Zone in the Republic of Honduras with the status of an autonomous municipality, a common-law legal system, a policy of low taxes and free trade, and an independent financial supervision regime. In this episode we go into Jorge’s role at Próspera which is similar to that of a Mayor in a traditional municipality. We also hear his opin
Dec 30, 2022 • 47:09
005 - Tom & Emily Lahdenranta: COVID Refugees, Moving to El Salvador & Family Life
Tom and Emily made the ultimate commitment to 'voting with their feet' when they sold their house and possessions in British Columbia and moved with their 3 young children to Central America. Their move to a better life was triggered by Canada’s strict COVID 19 restrictions, which had meant that, amongst other things, Emily was fired from her nursing job on account of her choice not to take a COVID 19 vaccination. This situation combined with what they considered to be the unacceptable and incre
Dec 23, 2022 • 2:29:43
004 - Stephan Livera: Bitcoin, Flag Theory & Voting With Your Feet
Timothy Allen talks to Stephan Livera. Stephan is the host of one of the world's leading Bitcoin podcasts and he is also the Managing Director at Swan Bitcoin International. He contributes to various outlets and publications including Bitcoin Magazine and Mises Institute as well as speaking at Bitcoin conferences internationally. Previously he worked as an Australian Chartered Accountant for Deloitte, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Macquarie Bank. Stephan grew up in Sydney, Australia
Dec 16, 2022 • 1:15:14
003 - Christian Betancourt: Building a Free City Bank, Regulations & Digital Currency
Timothy Allen talks to Christian Betancourt. Christian is the Co-founder and General Counsel of Seshat Bank, a regional API-first commercial bank and the premier commercial bank from the Honduran special economic zones. He heads its Legal and Compliance departments. He also collaborates as a Fellow at the Fundación para la Libertad Económica, a think tank dedicated to the promotion of public policies that further economic development and social tolerance. Previously Christian was an associate at
Dec 9, 2022 • 1:25:31
002 - Ricardo González: Working in Próspera, History of ZEDEs & Central America
Timothy Allen talks to Ricardo González. Ricardo is an executive member at Honduras Próspera on the island of Roatán in Honduras. He is an experienced Honduran attorney with a background in business development, start-up incorporation, counselling to mid to small-sized organizations, operation management, and mentorship. He got his Masters in Law (LLM) at Penn State University with a concentration in Corporate Law and Practice. Prior to studying full time at Penn State Law, Ricardo was the Chief
Dec 2, 2022 • 1:13:26