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The Praxeology of Privacy: Cypherpunks Rebuilding the Internet - Max Hillebrand | Ep. 165

The Praxeology of Privacy: Cypherpunks Rebuilding the Internet - Max Hillebrand | Ep. 165

Season 1 Episode 165 Published 3 days, 2 hours ago
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Max Hillebrand is a cypherpunk, crypto anarchist, and author of the new book “The Praxeology of Privacy”, a 587-page work bringing Austrian economics and cypherpunk engineering together. He is a contributor to White Noise, a decentralized encrypted messaging app built on Nostr and the Marmot protocol. In this episode, we dig into his new book, the gap between Austrian economics and the cypherpunk movement, state intervention, CBDC, we explore various freedom tech tools, and Max explains his optimism about a peaceful, tech-driven path to freedom. 


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Max on Nostr: https://tinyurl.com/5x7xbu3h 

Max website: https://towardsliberty.com/ Max’s book The Praxeology of Privacy: https://towardsliberty.com/pop

White Noise (Download): https://www.whitenoise.chat/  

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CHAPTERS 

00:00 - Coming Up...

01:36 - Introducing Max, White Noise & The Praxeology of Privacy

04:09 - A Cypherpunk vs a Bitcoiner

07:18 - Defining Privacy vs Secrecy & Anonymity

09:43 - The Gap Between Austrian Economics & Cypherpunks

17:14 - Ad-Break: Expat Money & Ledn

21:13 - Why Observation Enables State Predation

24:40 - Why Write & Open "The Praxeology of Privacy"

30:50 - Living the Cypherpunk Life: Costs & Rewards

32:42 - Ad-Break: Trezor & Abundant Mines

37:16 - Does Bitcoin's Security Depend on People Willing to Resist?

40:48 - Freedom Lived Is Freedom Well Understood

43:46 - CBDCs & Rothbard's Triangular Intervention

52:19 - Cypherpunk Tools 101: Encryption, Signatures, Ha

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