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What would it take to make you leave home?
Recorded at this year’s conference in Próspera: @PatrickHiebert joins @MrTimothyAllen to discuss @VeritasVillages’ plans for a walkable European-style town in Costa Rica.
Watch the full conversation 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=QK7dfgoF…
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You can buy land and map out streets. You can't buy neighbours.
@originalstacia is building Meridia's community before the town exists. But businesses need customers, and residents need services. How do you get started?
Episode link in top comment👇
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Think banking in Paraguay is simple? 40% of locals are unbanked, and bank managers risk criminal liability over suspicious activity. Mention Bitcoin or wire foreign funds without warning, and you can expect accounts to lock or close on the spot.
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On Tuesday, a bank collapsed. By Friday, Paraguay’s president was in custody.
I asked @Ideiasradicais, who lives there, why the response to a banking scandal has actually increased his confidence in the country.
Watch our conversation👇
youtu.be/gc0uiymezeY
It's been a big year for seasteading
What happens when a business can sail away from a government?
@joequirkexults joins @MrTimothyAllen to discuss floating homes, portable businesses and AI as a writing critic.
Watch/listen:
fountain.fm/episode/zuA6rA32…
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What happens when a business can sail away from a government?
@joequirkexults joins @MrTimothyAllen to discuss floating homes, portable businesses and AI as a writing critic.
Watch/listen:
fountain.fm/episode/zuA6rA32…
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Can you build a community before you build a city?
@MrTimothyAllen talks to @TelamonArdavani of @JoinEdgeCity about pop-up villages, who pays for them, and what remains when everyone goes home.
WATCH 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=87eLa7MU…
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Feel free to checkout @MrTimothyAllen and I having a freedom oriented chat we recorded at the @FreeCitiesConf!
What would it take to make you leave home?
Recorded at this year’s conference in Próspera: @PatrickHiebert joins @MrTimothyAllen to discuss @VeritasVillages’ plans for a walkable European-style town in Costa Rica.
Watch the full conversation 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=QK7dfgoF…
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After visiting the first Zuzalu, I was pretty sceptical about pop-ups.
They’re starting to come of age now, though. Wide reach, real world results and proper business models.
I’m bullish.
Can you build a community before you build a city?
@MrTimothyAllen talks to @TelamonArdavani of @JoinEdgeCity about pop-up villages, who pays for them, and what remains when everyone goes home.
WATCH 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=87eLa7MU…
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Bitcoiners called it again. A few months ago, Bitcoin was the canary in the coal mine.
Over the summer, the Bitcoin ecosystem was hit first: the Coldcard firmware exploit, emergency patches at Core Lightning, and a flood of AI-generated bug reports. The base protocol held. The weaknesses were in the software built around it, and the response was a volunteer red team pointing AI at hundreds of Bitcoin repositories and fixing what it found in the open.
This week the rest of the internet got its turn. PHP2Shell, a set of flaws that had sat in PHP for over a decade, was found with frontier AI models and patched on 21 October. PHP runs roughly three quarters of the web, and governments took their own sites offline while they scrambled to update.
Bitcoin went first because it is the biggest open bug bounty in the world, and anything with money attached gets probed first. Banks, payment rails, hospitals and government databases are next, and most have relied for decades on obscurity and slow attackers. That cover is gone.
It will probably be quite painful for a while. What survives will be simpler, tougher and more honest about its own weaknesses. Stress is how resilient systems get built.
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What good is cheap electricity if someone else can switch it off?
That question cost us a lot to learn.
Paraguay. Ethiopia. Cheap power on paper. In reality, the switch was always in someone else’s hands.
So we stopped renting energy and started owning it.
I sat down again with @MrTimothyAllen on the Free Cities Podcast, three years after our first conversation in San Salvador. We didn’t do the polished version. We talked about:
⚡ What actually happened to our mining operations in Paraguay and Ethiopia
🛢️ Why AmityAge is moving into gas wells and power generation in Alberta
🤖 Bitcoin mining vs. AI data centres, and why the hype cycle is a risk, not a strategy
🚩 Why “I know the right people” is a red flag in this industry
🎓 Training Bitcoin educators from India to the Muslim world
🏝️ Próspera: what works, what doesn’t, and why a city needs families, not just digital nomads
Also: a basketball court, a Bitcoin logo, and local politics on Roatán.
The lesson from all of it: in Bitcoin mining, energy sovereignty is everything. Same goes for building a free city. If you don’t control the fundamentals, you don’t control your future.
Keep building. 🧡
🎧 Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=988e4wZQ…
#Bitcoin #BitcoinMining #Energy #Alberta #Prospera #FreeCities #AmityAge
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Is owning your energy the ultimate form of self-sovereignty?
This week, @MrTimothyAllen and @dusan_matuska explore Bitcoin, energy independence and building Free Cities where families and small businesses can thrive.
youtube.com/watch?v=988e4wZQ…
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Monday morning catch-up: @PatrickHiebert of Veritas Villages is planning a walkable European-style town in Costa Rica.
He tells @MrTimothyAllen how much freedom a developer can build under existing laws, then asks why Timothy still lives in Britain despite his criticisms of it...
Watch Episode 202: youtube.com/watch?v=QK7dfgoF…
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Do you owe your country a lifetime of trying to fix it?
@Ideiasradicais ran for office in Brazil. Losing came as a relief.
Now he lives in Paraguay.
@MrTimothyAllen asks: when is leaving the better answer?
youtube.com/watch?v=LQH2u2yl… @setteeio
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A Free City can import a tax code, a court system and a set of regulations. It cannot import a culture. That has to be established by the first people who move there, which may make choosing the pioneers more important than choosing the laws.
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This is how you sleepwalk into a surveillance state.
It does not arrive overnight. It is chipped away, one ‘reasonable’ measure at a time, until proving who you are becomes a condition of participating in everyday life.
🚨NEWS: The Government wants Britons to face PASSPORT ID checks for social media access
"Children deserve real online protections, not a sweeping surveillance scheme that has failed across the world and will introduce new risks to their safety."
"This is not a policy for children, but one that affects every single adult using social media in the country. "
"The Government’s requirement that all of us show a passport or driving license to open a social media account is a national ID scheme by the back door." - Maya Thomas, Legal and Policy Officer
Read our full statement⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/press…
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What's stopping you from relocating?
@PatrickHiebert is planning to build a European town on a Costa Rican cattle ranch. Thirty hectares, cobbled streets, cafés & shops.
Then he asks @MrTimothyAllen the awkward question. Given everything he says about Britain, why is he still living there?
Watch👇
youtube.com/watch?v=QK7dfgoF…
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We're in the 1991-1992 equivalent for AI, just before the dot-com bubble, but on a compressed timescale.
#AI #Technology #Future
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Some conversations are so fascinating you just don't know when to stop.
This week: The longest episode we've ever made. Nearly four hours with @thetreygoff, chief of staff at @ProsperaGlobal.
This is an extremely deep dive into AI and what it might mean for you in the future.
It opens on security: a flaw that sat unnoticed in hardware wallets for five years, and what happened when a model finally found it. Then OpenAI agents escaping a test sandbox and taking over a data centre.
Then it turns to something that matters more for most people.
Trey calls it 'The Sort'. AI won't lift everyone equally. It accelerates a separation that was already underway, between people who use these tools to multiply what they can do and people who get replaced by them.
From there: meaning versus happiness, flow state, and whether a man running a chicken farm in Mississippi is living a better life than a private equity partner in Manhattan.
Do not miss 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=IehqIWYZ…
Free Cities Conference retweeted
This week: The longest episode we've ever made. Nearly four hours with @thetreygoff, chief of staff at @ProsperaGlobal.
This is an extremely deep dive into AI and what it might mean for you in the future.
It opens on security: a flaw that sat unnoticed in hardware wallets for five years, and what happened when a model finally found it. Then OpenAI agents escaping a test sandbox and taking over a data centre.
Then it turns to something that matters more for most people.
Trey calls it 'The Sort'. AI won't lift everyone equally. It accelerates a separation that was already underway, between people who use these tools to multiply what they can do and people who get replaced by them.
From there: meaning versus happiness, flow state, and whether a man running a chicken farm in Mississippi is living a better life than a private equity partner in Manhattan.
Do not miss 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=IehqIWYZ…