"Being a tourist in a country is better than being a resident of a country."
Episode 165 of the Free Cities Podcast is Rahim Taghizadegan, Austrian School economist, on why exit is more powerful than voice.
> Why the Bitcoin citadel meme started as an insult and became a plan.
> Why your house might be a liability wearing an asset costume.
> Why intentional communities fail and contractual ones don't.
> Introduction to citadel.garden, his network of quiet, family-oriented refuges: 25 houses per location, held through a Swiss structure backed by Bitcoin, deliberately not advertised. Insurance, not utopia.
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Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.
Fifty-one episodes about Bitcoin.
That's one episode a week for almost a year, if you're feeling ambitious.
Over three and a half years the Free Cities Podcast has been asking a different question: once you hold money the state can't debase, where do you actually live? What do you build?
The archive now has its own page:
On privacy: @Max on the praxeology of privacy, @JeffG on the architecture of freedom, @selfBankt on decentralised networks.
On the state: @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M on why democracy drifts toward totalitarianism, @Susie Violet Ward on digital authoritarianism, @Efrat Fenigson on CBDCs.
On exit: @Daniel Prince on choosing a parallel life, @Nathan Day on overlanding and self-sovereign identity, @Tomek ⚡ K on the Bitcoin Free City he actually lives in.
On the big picture: @allen the sovereign individual thesis, @Tuur Demeestr on fiat as the biggest addiction of all, Polycarp Nakamoto on decentralised mesh networks.
And on this protocol: @Ben Arc on Nostr and anarchy, @Nick Malster on liberating creators from the attention economy.
Bitcoin fixes the money. These conversations are about what gets fixed next.
All 51, one page: 

52 episodes on Bitcoin
Top result: Dominic Frisby | They'll Blame You When It Fails. Plus 51 more on the Free Cities Podcast.
Everyone needs a Plan B.
New ep just dropped for subs. Everyone else, Friday.
Free Cities Podcast • 191 - Everyone Needs a Plan B | Vance • Watch on Fountain
Second Passports, Plan B Residencies, and the Americas Super Cycle
- Vance is the founder of My Latin Life, an immigration agency covering residenc...
At 70, Joyce Brand decided to do something with her life before it was over. At 71 she moved to farmland in the most dangerous part of Honduras to chronicle a Free City being built from nothing.
That city is Ciudad Morazán: one owner, no politicians, rent instead of taxes, near-zero crime in a region famous for the opposite.
New episode of the Free Cities Podcast, recorded in person in Próspera. Zap it, boost it, or just listen:
Free Cities Podcast • 190 - Building Prosperity in the Danger Zone | Joyce Brand • Watch on Fountain
New episode just dropped. Gonçalo Hall built the world's first nomad village in Madeira. Then he moved his family to a Free City.
"You should build for nomads, but nomads should not be your end client."
The nomad pioneer betting on a Free City, on the Bali playbook, the missing pieces, and why he isn't leaving.
Video live on YT 👇
Tomorrow on the podcast: the nomad pioneer who chose a Free City.
Gonçalo Hall built the world's first nomad village in Madeira and communities from Lisbon to Brazil. A year ago he told us nobody in the nomad world had heard of Próspera. Then he moved his family there.
Fountain subscribers are already listening. Early access, one coffee a month 👇
Everyone else: tomorrow.
Free Cities Podcast • 189 - The Nomad Pioneer Betting on a Free City | Gonçalo Hall • Watch on Fountain
Is it even possible to beat 'This Week in Bitcoin' to number one in the @Fountain charts?


Poly episode now up on YT:
"We've made our own golden calf, which is AI, and we're all worshipping this false god that knows all, sees all, and can tell us whatever we want. But the reality is, it's more like a dog that can talk."
Polycarp Nakamoto episode live on @Fountain now:
Free Cities Podcast • 188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto • Watch on Fountain
Got to sit down with Poly in Austin. In person, helmet on, as ever.
You know the pitch: a second internet on Bitcoin nodes, mesh, Nostr relays, e-cash, the whole Web 5 stack, owned by nobody and impossible to switch off. We got into all of it. Bitcoin nodes in food trucks, shipping-container homes with a private AI inside, what actually happens when the internet goes down, and why he reckons the old one has five years left.
The message, as ever: remove the centralisation from your own heart first, and have the self-sovereign stack in hand before you need it.
One of my favourite conversations this year.
Plan For Decentralisation. Early access for subs now. Everyone else, Friday.
Free Cities Podcast • 188 - Plan For Decentralisation | Polycarp Nakamoto • Watch on Fountain
This stuff is absolutely amazing:
"There is an alternative to the state."
New episode. Daniel Thompson has spent six years building communities outside the system, and his take is that the free cities movement's real bottleneck was never law or land. It's people. Getting them to actually show up, and to stay.
Digital nomadism as a stage, not the destination. Families as the key to critical mass. A broken property ladder swapped for something you genuinely own. And the case for buying a dying European village and rebuilding it with people who think like you.
Recorded in person in Próspera.
Stream it and boost on Fountain (V4V):
Free Cities Podcast • 187 - Free Cities Have a People Problem | Daniel Thompson • Watch on Fountain
Building New Cities Starts With People: Digital Nomads, Families, and the Minimum Viable Society
– Daniel Thompson is the co-founder and CEO of N...
New episode out. I sat down with Prof. Eric Kaufmann to work out why the West feels like it's coming apart, and where it actually started.
His answer goes right back to the 1960s.
We got into immigration, identity, and the slow erosion of being able to say what you think.
Stream it on @Fountain -
Free Cities Podcast • 186 - You're Not Allowed to Say This | Eric Kaufmann • Watch on Fountain
Reflections on my convo with @Tomek ⚡ K.
When asked about everything Próspera doesn't have yet, the missing coffee shop, the missing scooter rental, the missing late venue, the missing grocery store that solves the chicken-and-egg adoption problem, Tomek didn't treat any of it as a problem.
He treated it as the actual opportunity.
His view: a 200-person startup city isn't a finished product you move to. It's an open invitation. Every gap is a business someone hasn't started yet.
The legal and tax infrastructure is already in place. Próspera is the only jurisdiction on earth where you can denominate your books in Bitcoin, pay 1% corporate tax in sats, and sort residency in a few months. What's missing is the texture of normal life. That's where the next wave of builders comes in.
For anyone who has been waiting for a clean reason to start something in a charter city, this is the conversation to listen to.
Free Cities Podcast • 183 - The Bitcoin Free City | Tomek Kołodziejczuk • Watch on Fountain
Can anyone advise me?
Is a Mac Mini still a decent way to go for an AI set up at home? Looking to create a very specific AI system for podcast workflow. Won't use it for anything else. Cheers.
In case you missed it a few weeks back, this one is still worth your time, and arguably more relevant by the week.
I sat down with Lucy Connolly. A mother from Northampton who posted an angry, ugly message on X the night three children were murdered in Southport, deleted it within hours, was sentenced to 31 months, and served just over a year inside.
Where is the line between a statement that is vile and one that is criminal? When the state reaches for a prison cell over words, what does that signal, and to whom? Connolly is candid about what she wrote, what prison was actually like, and why she refuses to let the worst thing she ever posted define her.
And if you found this one interesting. This Friday I'll be dropping an interview with Canadian Prof Eric Kaufmann. Where Jordan Peterson brings the emotion, Kaufmann brings the evidence, circling the same cultural storm with survey data instead of sermons.
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Free Cities Podcast • 182 - Jailed for a Tweet | Lucy Connolly • Watch on Fountain
12 Months in Peterborough Prison for One Deleted Post
- Lucy Connolly is a mother and childminder from Northampton. On the evening of the Southport...
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@Efrat Fenigson has been on the show 3 times.
Catch up with her episodes in the new archive:


3 episodes mentioning "Efrat Fenigson"
Top result: Efrat Fenigson: Stop Bitching, Start Solving. Plus 2 more on the Free Cities Podcast.
An Australian man cured his dog's cancer for $3,000. No pharma company. No FDA. Just a genome sequence, AlphaFold, and a homemade vaccine.
That story is a small window into a much bigger shift, and it's the subject of our new Free Cities Podcast episode with Niklas Anzinger, Founder & CEO of Infinita City and a General Partner at Infinita VC.
Niklas has probably done more than anyone to put Próspera on the longevity biotech map. We sat down in Austin to talk about why the way medicine gets made is starting to come apart, and what replaces it.
A few of the threads we pull on:
- Why aging isn't officially a disease, and why that quietly holds back one of the best-funded industries in the world.
- How China went from near zero to 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a single decade, and what that should tell the United States.
- Why Right to Try laws in Montana and New Hampshire might matter more than any federal reform.
- Robin Hanson's idea that your doctor and your life insurer should be the same company, so that someone finally has an incentive to keep you alive.
- And the question underneath all of it: why do you need permission to try to save your own life?
Apparently, a lot of this stuff is going to happen in my lifetime.
And I'm quite old. Fingers crossed.
Watch the episode 👇
New episode is up, but only for subs rn.
Niklas Anzinger has spent the last few years building a biotech hub inside Próspera. In this conversation he makes the case that the FDA's monopoly on who gets to try what medicine is costing lives, and that the cracks are finally appearing.
Dog cancer vaccines built at home for $3,000 with AlphaFold.
Sid Sijbrandij going founder mode on his own bone cancer.
China eating 30% of global pharma licensing deals in a decade.
Montana and New Hampshire quietly cracking open the Right to Try framework.
And why Próspera's insurance-based regulatory model might be the most important governance innovation nobody's talking about.
Early access on @Fountain now. General release Friday at 6.15am GMT.
Free Cities Podcast • 185 - Medicine Without Permission | Niklas Anzinger • Watch on Fountain
Self-Sovereign Medicine: Biotech, Right to Try, and the Cracks in the FDA's Monopoly
– Niklas Anzinger is a German entrepreneur who has probably ...
Most people think geopolitics is complicated.
It isn't.
It's the same playbook. For 300 years. Maritime dominance. Broken countries. Managed migration. Dollar zones. The same families. The same institutions.
Patrick Henningsen has spent decades reporting from war zones, reading the classified think tank papers, watching the narratives get manufactured in real time.
This conversation goes deep.
Ukraine. Israel. Migration. NATO. The Anglo-American Empire. The petrodollar. Why Russia didn't fold. Why Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv. Who actually benefits.
Not a conspiracy theory. A coherent picture most people have never been shown.