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Riccardo Spagni - Privacy Basics For A Hostile Internet
Riccardo Spagni - Privacy Basics For A Hostile Internet
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Understanding Freedom through Money, Technology, Economics and Philosophy
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- Riccardo Spagni - Privacy Basics For A Hostile Internet · 55 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 15“Information wants to be free” is not a slogan, it is a warning. Once your personal data leaks, there is no pulling it back, and AI is making breaches, scams, and mass…
- Round Up 13 - The Scam Season In Bitcoin · 1 h 14 minWe dig into why scams and hacks feel relentless right now, from AI-powered trickery to supply chain compromises that shake confidence in hardware wallets. We also challenge the…
- Monthly Round Up 12 - Bitcoin Reality Check · 1 h 10 minWe unpack why South Africa’s new draft crypto regulations could be less about protection and more about control, then pivot into what real pushback might look like when the rules…
- Round Up 11: BIP 110 Sounds Simple Until You Ask Who Decides · 1 h 24 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 12We weigh up BIP 110 and Bitcoin spam without pretending anger is a strategy, then zoom out to how narratives shape both protocol fights and geopolitics. We end on hands-on…
- Ivo Vegter - If Privacy Is Dead What Replaces It · 1 h 1 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 10The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be…
- Monthly Round Up 10: Tether Says Self-Custody And Everyone Laughs · 1 h 11 minWe trade jokes and hard truths about stablecoins, surveillance, and why “self-custody” means very different things depending on who holds the off switch. We move from BTC Prague…
- Monthly Round Up 8: Capital Controls Come For Bitcoin · 1 h 15 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 9They don’t need to pass a new law to change your life, they can update “regulations” and call it a day. We sit down to unpack South Africa’s draft capital flow regulations from…
- Jabu Jakes - Bitcoin Works Because Nobody Owns It · 1 h 14 minA government can threaten bans, taxes, and capital controls, but what happens when the thing it is trying to control is just code running on a global, decentralised network? We…
- Nick Darlington: A Freelancer Turns Bitcoin Into Everyday Money · 1 h 7 minOwning Bitcoin is easy. Using it in the real world, without wrecking your savings plan, is where things get interesting. We chat with Nick Darlington, a South African freelancer…
- Monthly Round Up 8: When Data Becomes Oil Who Owns You · 1 h 12 minWe go deep on what “sovereign computing” looks like when you try it for real, from spinning up a Fedimint federation to self-hosting services that keep working even when…
- David Ansara: The only problem with Orania, is that there aren't more of them. · 1 h 0 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 5When the lights go out and the basics stop working, most people either rage at politics or retreat into cynicism. We chose a third option: talk honestly about what freedom…
- Monthly Round Up 7: It's Tamagochi For Grown-Ups · 1 h 29 minAI agents are starting to feel less like chatbots and more like little workers you have to raise. We talk about OpenClaw, Start9, and what it actually takes to run self-hosted AI…
- Jordan - Build Tech That Can’t Be Tread On · 57 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 3Imagine telling a stranger your most personal message so they can walk it across the room to your partner—then watching them copy it into a company database. That’s how most…
- Monthly Round Up 6: We Really Should Not Be Listening To These People · 1 h 8 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 2We share hard-won lessons from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town: live Lightning demos that clear cross-border in minutes, cafés running BTCPay, and African builders shipping useful…
- Monthly Round Up 5: Beyond The Bull Run · 40 min · Řada 2 Epizoda 1We revisit a live panel from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town and argue that 2025’s flat price masked a deeper bull run in infrastructure, adoption, and freedom tech. Builders pushed…
- Monthly Round Up 4: Freedom Needs Better Defaults: Self-Hosted AI, Community Custody, And Paying With Sats · 1 h 7 minWe trade war stories about AI coding that dazzles then stalls, and show how self-hosted LLMs and agents can reclaim privacy and time. The talk shifts to real-world Bitcoin: QR…
- Gerhard Wolmarans - If It’s Not 200 Years Old, I'm not Interested · 1 h 2 minThe news cycle says crisis; history says pattern. We sit down with political philosopher and lecturer Gerhard Wolmarans to test whether our moment is truly exceptional or simply…
- Bridge to Bitcoin - Money Changes Culture Before It Changes Policy · 1 h 39 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 13Want to see Bitcoin move from theory to till? We sit down with Bridge to Bitcoin—the team quietly onboarding UK pubs, cafés, galleries, and independents—to unpack a playbook that…
- Dirk Roeder - From 21 Wonders To Energy Freedom: On Travel, Grids, And Human Prosperity · 59 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 12What does freedom look like when it’s not a slogan but a daily practice? For Dirk Roeder, it starts with owning his time—and he stress‑tests that idea by circling the globe with…
- Monthly Round Up 3: Silent Rails, Loud Implications · 1 h 2 min · Řada 1 Epizoda 11The mood swings of the market don’t define the mission—and this roundtable proves it. We swap war stories from live demos and travel to Lugano with an update on a coastal Bitcoin…
