Free Cities Podcast

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...

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 des...

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 rece...

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 Fre...

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 gov...

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 lea...

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 unde...

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 entr...

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...

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 cri...

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 w...

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...

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 ke...

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 w...

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...

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...

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 goi...

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 thei...

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...

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 incarna...

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 Net...

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 en...

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 wee...

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...

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,...