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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about VPN discrimination: how companies delay, deny, defend blocking your access to their service, even as a paid customer, if you use a privacy-preserving technology like virtual private networks.
GUEST
β https://x.com/realUrbanHackerWATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Joshua Sheats of the podcast Radical Personal Finance. They discuss Joshuaβs productivity habits, education, homeschooling, gold ownership, the Corporate Transparency Act, China and Malaysia, and arrestproofing.
GUEST
β https://www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/
β https://x.com/JoshuaSheats
β https://radicalpersonalfinance.libsyn.com/replay-456-protect-your-money-by-arrest-proofing-yourself-and-your-children
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
4:05 β Joshuaβs reading habits
8:45 β University education?
14:00 β Gold ownership strategy
23:10 β Corporate Transparency Act
31:34 β Thoughts on China
43:00 β Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia
50:20 β Homeschooling
1:00:00 β Favorite episodes of Radical Personal Finance -
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Episode 149 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast β Torchlight Chat β The Corrupting Influence of Sponsors
Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about all the ways in which sponsorships and paid influence fully corrupt a content creator.
GUEST
β https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks for a third time with Joe Doran of Trends Journal. Joe lays out his view of the present and future of artificial intelligence and other technocratic agendas as we begin 2025.
GUEST
β https://trendsjournal.com/
β https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00J9R7PHQ/allbooks (Joe Doran's books)
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)TIMELINE
0:00 - Beginning
2:10 - Response to Venice AI interview
6:25 - How would AI intellectual property laws work?
11:30 - Problems with the progress of AI
14:50 - What's really happening behind the scenes of AI development
18:50 - Favourite representations of AI in fiction
21:40 - Trends of 2025
26:30 - Smart cities
31:00 - Progress vs fulfillment
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with the Monero proponent AlaskaAnon about how to live on monero to enhance freedom and get around the fascist banking system. They also discuss Alaska and some philosophical ideas pertaining to free living.
GUEST
β https://x.com/repeal19thUSA
β https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHd71cejcKU (another interview with Alaska)
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
1:20 β Origin of AlaskaAnon
5:15 β How do you measure a cryptocurrencyβs success?
9:50 β How important is combating inflation?
16:30 β AlaskaAnonβs Monero stack
23:25 β How to be unbanked
34:23 β How to not maximally comply
46:50 β Why Alaska?
53:50 β Advanced monero topicsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker review the Monero Nodo: a new pre-built Monero node project with custom hardware and software.
GUEST
β https://x.com/realUrbanHackerLINKS
β https://moneronodo.com/
β https://twitter.com/MoneroNodo
β https://twitter.com/douglastuman
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/2024/12/15/monero-nodo-teardown/
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Diego Salazar (rehrar) of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo (pared down Monero/Bitcoin version of Stack Wallet). Diego gives an introduction to the wallet and why itβs one of the very few Monero and Bitcoin wallets that you should be considering.
GUEST
β https://stackwallet.com/ (Stack Wallet is multi-coin; Stack Duo is Monero/Bitcoin)
β https://twitter.com/stack_wallet
β https://t.me/stackwallet (Telegram)WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
1:50 β Origins of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo
8:00 β Does running two wallets pose any problems?
14:50 β How does Stack fund itself?
20:12 β How do you run all your multi-coin nodes?
27:40 β Stackβs features and future
30:55 β PayNyms vs Silent Payments
36:00 β Is Diego afraid as a developer of self-custody wallets?
40:52 β What does Stack know about its users
42:35 β Final thoughtsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker speak about the old concept of so-called trusted computing, and whether or not this original betrayal of technological freedom has cost us dearly to this day.
GUEST
β https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks about the role of psychopaths in the structuring of our world.
FIRST EPISODE (Episode 4)
β https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/Psychopaths
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/
CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio -
https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/the-ai-anti-technocracy-course/
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YouTube has censored Watchman Privacy. Time to take action.
https://watchmanprivacy.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchmanPrivacy
https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy
https://www.bitchute.com/privacy/
https://rumble.com/c/WatchmanPrivacy
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Michael Yon, global traveler, former highly skilled war correspondent, and first-hand reporter on mass migration (invasion) of myriad groups of people into the West. They explore the conspiracy of countries such as China to invade the US via unrestricted warfare: flooding the country with drugs, setting up their own banking and police institutions in the US, and leading the charge of cultural degradation.
GUEST
β https://michaelyon.com/
β https://x.com/Michael_Yon
β https://substack.com/@michaelyon
β https://rumble.com/c/c-6595237/videos
β https://odysee.com/@dougcasey:5/doug-casey's-take-ep.-339-michael-yon
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
2:40 β What role does the IOM play in migration/invasion of the West
8:00 β Unrestricted Warfare
20:45 β How China influences South and Central America
29:40 β How will all of this play out?
41:50 β Child trafficking
47:50 β Satanism
49:15 β Final thoughtsMusic by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel and Urban discuss the weird world of second-hand username marketplaces, the corrupt underbelly of these markets, Telegram scamming, jailbreaking tractors, and some other bizarre things one can find in the dark (and not-so-dark) parts of the Internet.
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with original cryptographer Paul Rosenberg about the origins of morality, the epic adventures of the cryptographers of Laissez-Faire City, which cryptographic tools governments will attack next, the anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography, the problems of hierarchy, liberation theology, the problems of intellectual property, and the ethics of gene editing.
PREVIOUS EPISODES
β Episode 16: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg
β Episode 54: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2
β Episode 96: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApesGUEST
β https://freemansperspective.com/
β https://freemansperspective.com/product/the-untold-story-of-the-greatest-crypto-project-ever-e-book/
β https://www.amazon.com/stores/Paul-Rosenberg/author/B07TYTP6CD
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
1:50 β Where do morals come from?
4:55 β Prague Hackerβs Conference
12:44 β Stories from Laissez-Faire City
20:30 β What cryptographic tool will the governments go after next
24:40 β When Paul met the guy who invented DNS
26:15 β Anti-capitalist sentiments in cryptography
31:21 β The knowledge problem of centralized systems
36:20 β The laziness of βright toβ culture
39:00 β The problem of hierarchic for anarchic Christians
43:50 β Liberation Theology
47:25 β The problem of intellectual property
52:00 β Ethics of CRISPR and gene editing
56:40 β Final thoughts
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Gabriel and Urban discuss the 2024 Monerotopia event: new technologies in Monero, changes we recommend, Starlink and Moneronodo, other privacy crypto, and how the event functioned in an antifragile way.
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
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βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Kevin of Altair Tech: a shop in the US that sells home mining equipment, including devices they themselves have created. Altair Tech might be the solution that home miners have been looking for.
PREVIOUS BITCOIN MINING EPISODES (START HERE IF NEW)
β https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/EconoAlchemistBitcoinMiningPrivacy
β https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/DiverterNoKYCGUEST
β https://altairtech.io/
β https://x.com/btctwatterpants (Kevin, the speaker)
β https://altairtech.io/blog/
β https://x.com/altair_tech
β https://altairtech.io/product/urlacher/
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
1:20 β How Altair Tech solves problems of Bitcoin home mining
7:40 β The Urlacher
11:25 β The Bitaxe
12:45 β Estimates of profits from home miners (check also at 32:22)
14:50 β Highest end models
16:00 β Kevinβs lessons from home mining
20:00 β Choosing a mining pool
22:30 β Privacy while mining
23:45 β Common mistakes
25:00 β Space heater miners
26:08 β The Bitaxe phenomenon
27:50 β Future of home mining
28:30 β Big self-mining operations
30:00 β Shipping time, etc.
32:22 β Estimates of profits from home miners
38:00 β Final thoughts -
Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Will Freeman about the prevalence of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) and his solution: Deflock, which maps these anti-American tools across the globe.
GUEST
β https://deflock.me/
β https://github.com/frillweeman/deflock
β https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-project-deflock-is-mapping-license-plate-surveillance-cameras-all-over-the-world/
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Erik Voorhees of Venice AI. They discuss how Venice takes a different approach to the Big Tech AI options: namely, it does not have access to your prompts, and it does not censor them. Along the way they discuss how surveillance and censorship manifests in the paternalistic AI industry, the future of open-source AI models, the IP question of AI, and why regulating AI might have unintended side effects.
GUEST
β https://x.com/ErikVoorhees
β https://venice.ai/
β https://x.com/askvenice
β https://moneyandstate.com/blog/the-separation-of-mind-and-state (explanation of project)
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Timeline
00:00 β Introduction
3:27 β Privacy-invasion of Big Tech AI companies
6:50 β How does Venice AI give the user privacy?
9:55 β How long will non-account service last?
10:25 β What does Venice (the city/concept) have to do with anything?
11:40 β How do open-source models work in AI?
16:50 β Phone version of AI (not app store version)
18:05 β Censorship within AI
24:42 β Uncensoring AI makes it faster and better
25:55 β Other uncensored AI companies
27:10 β Making AI βsafeβ
30:30 β IP question of AI
34:45 β Who owns the creation of AI tools?
35:10 β Any red lines where AI should be βregulatedβ?
37:20 β Does Venice have any access to our prompts?
38:15 β Venice AI vs self-hosted models
39:40 β Would Venice ever train their own AI model?
40:25 β Final thoughts -
Gabriel and Urban discuss their recent free course on contributing to Tor. The course can be found at: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
Free course on Tor: https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/running-a-tor-relay-video-course/
PREVIOUS TOR EPISODES MENTIONED
β https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartI
β https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/TorPartIIWATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent cyberattack against The Internet Archive, details about how the company and its services function, and some thoughts about how we can start backing up the Internet ourselves.
Guest Twitter: https://x.com/realUrbanHacker
Harddrive image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#/media/File:Incoming_additional_storage_at_Internet_Archive.jpg
WATCHMAN PRIVACY
β https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting)
β https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy
β https://escapethetechnocracy.com/CRYPTO DONATIONS
β8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero)
βhttps://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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