143 - Max Hillebrand: The Praxeology of Privacy

Aug 15, 2025

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Freedom, John Locke, Privacy, Property, Cypherpunk, Bitcoin, Praxeology, Parallel Economies, Nomadism, Intervention, Sovereignty, Scarcity.

Timothy Allen speaks with Max Hillebrand.

Max joins me to explore freedom, privacy, and property rights in the free market of ideas. We discuss Cypherpunk strategies, the appeal of Bitcoin, Free Cities, and digital nomadism as ways to resist creeping socialism and surveillance. Drawing on Lockean ownership theory, Austrian economics, and praxeology, Max makes the case for combining decentralization, community, and technology to defend liberty in both physical and digital realms.

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TIMESTAMPS

0:00:30 – Introduction To Episode
0:08:39 - Start of conversation
0:17:14 — Triangular Interventions of the State
0:18:38 — The banning of VPNs
0:23:39 — Mean Time To Harassment
0:31:55 — The Cypherpunk Ideal: Increasing the Cost of Attack
0:37:50 — Dragnet Surveillance & Privacy
0:44:00 — Free Cities and The Importance of Freedom in Meatspace
0:51:16 — There are No Frontiers Left
1:00:20 — Conscription is Coming Back
1 :08:09 — There are Many More Good People Than Bad
1:14:05 — AI and Robots of Convenience in the Dystopian Future
1:25:37 — Bitcoin Proves John Locke's Theory of Property Rights
1:32:41 — Proving Economic Reasons
1:38:52 — The Cypherpunks Don't Know How Fundamentally Correct They Are
1:43:59 — Freedom is Correct. The State is Evil
1:56:34 — AI Will Remove Scarcity from the World
2:01:02 - Keynsian Bullshit
2:05:20 - Tik Tok Will Eventually Generate 100% AI Content
2:17:47 - Rally Cry for Freedom Lovers

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