Trezor should stop using third parties. Time to do it all in-house.
Timothy Allen
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Chronicling the global movement to build freer societies.
Everything we speak about here really starting to ramp up as predicted.
Frisby on the show...
Daniel Jackson is 21 and president of Verdis, a claim to half a square kilometre of unclaimed land on the Danube between Croatia and Serbia. His team settled it in 2023. Croatian police removed them, banned him for life and told him he is considered a threat to homeland security.
So Verdis runs in exile from offices in the UK and Novi Sad. 400 citizens, 5,000 e-residents, its own passports, humanitarian projects in Côte d'Ivoire, and a police boat parked between him and the territory.
Gold vs Bitcoin.
Dominic Frisby on the pod this week...
Dominic Frisby on the pod this week...
The UK Home Secretary, on what she wanted to build.
"The eyes of the state can be on you at all times"
Shabana Mahmood, describing her vision as Justice Secretary as achieving by AI what Bentham tried with his Panopticon. Said to Tony Blair, December 2025.
These are her own words, in public, to a former Prime Minister.
She then talked about extending AI in policing beyond live facial recognition, which is already being rolled out.
Bentham's design was rejected as too cruel for convicted criminals by the standards of 19th century justice.
What can we do?👇
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New Free Cities Podcast with Gareth Icke.
Gareth is David Icke's son. He's a really nice bloke: less about the lizard people and more about practical solutions to authoritarianism.
We get into the digital panopticon, political saviours, personal responsibility, peaceful non-compliance and what he thinks of his dad's ideas.
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NEW episode. Early access is live now on @fountain_app
This week: Gareth Icke.
We get into David Icke (his dad), the digital panopticon, political psychopaths, Brexit, COVID, conformity, political saviours, peaceful non-compliance, parallel systems and the question of what you actually build when you stop believing politics will save you.
🎧 Listen early on Fountain:
General release Friday.
Free Cities Podcast • 196 - The Panopticon Is Already Here | Gareth Icke • Watch on Fountain
Why are so many people suddenly questioning the official version of everything?
- Gareth Icke grew up surrounded by some of the most controversial ...
Two founders discuss AI.
One's bought land in the Canadian woods with its own water and power. The other says this is the best time in history to build.
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New episode is live for Fountain subscribers today. Everyone else, Friday morning UK time.
Two founders, recorded back to back in Austin, who could not disagree more about what AI is going to do to us.
Liam Martin has built a tool that makes a working digital twin of you out of your emails and calls. He thinks tens of millions of jobs could be gone inside a year, and has bought twenty acres in the Canadian woods with its own water and power.
Nick Francis built one of the first fully remote company back in 2011, when people still made fun of him for it. He calls himself an incredible optimist, reckons more software engineers are being hired now than ever, and says the last ten per cent of any job, the craft, is the part AI will never touch.
One of them is wrong. I still don't know which.
Free Cities Podcast • 194 - Two Founders, Two Futures | Liam Martin & Nick Francis • Watch on Fountain
Does anyone know what method Satoshi used to generate random numbers?
Ever heard of Universe 25?
Ethologist John Calhoun gave mice paradise. Unlimited food, water, nesting material, no predators, no disease. Nothing left to solve.
They bred to 2,200, then unravelled. Pups abandoned. Males violent, others just grooming in corners all day. Births stopped completely. Day 1,588, the last mouse died. The pen still had room for a thousand more.
Calhoun's read: scarcity never killed them. The absence of any role worth filling did.
Now say it again with AI as the abundance. Code writes itself. Analysis, admin, design, decisions, all handled. The output keeps arriving whether or not you turn up.
The question isn't whether we can build the utopia. It's whether we can build one that still needs us in it.
Full episode👇
Fifty years ago, men were raising flags on seamounts in the Pacific and declaring their own countries.
Mark Frazier knew them. He was a reporter on the ground when one of those breakaway nations collapsed. He has spent the half century since working on free zones in more than fifty countries, and he has watched almost every way these things can fail.
The lesson he drew is the opposite of what most people in this space believe. You don't build a free place by pushing it on a government. You make it a prize that governments compete to win. He once had twelve countries bidding to host a single project.
His take: The answer to capture and control is not to seize power but to make it pointless. In a world of real abundance, there is no scarcity left to fight over.
I sat down with him for two hours. It is, as far as we can tell, the only long conversation with him that exists.
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Joey Flores dropped out of school at 16. His CEO found out by accident, because nobody had ever read his CV.
He now runs marketing at a company doing tens of millions.
His point: the CV is dying. Applicant-tracking software filtered him out for years for having no degree, screened out before a human saw his name. So he stopped applying and started building things people could see. Now he hires the same way, the person who shipped something beats the person with the tidy résumé every time.
The first country on the internet.
Not a network state that amasses people online and hopes to manifest something physical later. An actual membership passport, a social safety net that follows you across borders instead of dying at them, mapped out to 2050.
New epsiode with Joey Flores 👇
Free Cities Podcast • 192 - The First Country on the Internet | Joey Flores • Watch on Fountain
A Country on the Internet, a Passport by 2050, and the Death of the CV
- Joey Flores is Head of Marketing at SafetyWing, the Y Combinator-backed co...
The UK House of Lords just voted for a measure that would put age checks on VPNs. It will probably die in the Commons. But the fact that they voted for it at all is the tell.
When I last sat down with @Efrat Fenigson, she called this. Her point: privacy tools only protect you when everyone uses them. The moment only the privacy-conscious reach for a VPN, you stop being hidden and start being flagged. You become the one person in the room with the curtains drawn. The state doesn't need to read what you're doing. It just needs to see that you're the type who hides.
And the deeper point: privacy itself is being further reframed as suspicious. "What do you have to hide" becomes the whole argument. You forget why there's a door on the bathroom. You forget why you write in a private journal.
Her answer: The ID checks are here. Now what? Encryption is how you put the doors and curtains back in a digital world. Bitcoin is how you keep the ability to transact when permission becomes the default.
Full convo👇
Free Cities Podcast • 146 - Efrat Fenigson: Stop Bitching, Start Solving • Watch on Fountain
Censorship, Community, Psilocybin Microdosing, Spirituality, Israel, Propaganda , Bitcoin, Privacy, Encryption, CBDCs, Shadow banning, Parallel Sys...
"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.