Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Kalie of Expats Everywhere. They discuss the details surrounding living in Portugal and other EU countries and the mentality of being a successful expat.

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TIMELINE

00:00 – Introduction
1:40 – Expats Everywhere background
3:40 – Why Portugal?
6:50 – Overview of Portuguese visas
9:45 – Portugal easiest option for European residency?
10:30 – Hurdles of Portugal visas
13:30 – Portugal citizenship process changed
15:20 – Taxes in Portugal
18:10 – Portugal "crypto friendly"?
19:27 – What makes a successful expat?
22:20 – Alternative cities to Lisbon
25:35 – Biggest hurdles adapting to Portugal
28:00 – Traveling with children
30:45 – How to quickly adapt to a new place
35:00 – EU Entry/Exit System EES
37:50 – Other countries complementary to Portugal
40:00 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Douglas Tuman of Monero fame. They discuss all of his Monero projects—Monero Talk, XMR Bazaar, XMR Chat, Monerotopia—as well as practical topics on how to live on Monero, as well as thoughts on figures in the community and banned accounts.

GUEST: DOUGLAS TUMAN
→ https://x.com/DouglasTuman

MONERO TALK
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→ https://x.com/MoneroTalk

XMR BAZAAR
→ https://xmrbazaar.com/
→ https://x.com/xmrbazaar (Account permanently banned: spread the word)

MONEROTOPIA
→ https://monerotopia.com
→ https://x.com/MoneroTopia

XMR CHAT
→ https://xmrchat.com/
→ https://x.com/xmr_chat

MONERONODO
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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:25 – Why did Douglas Tuman devote his life to Monero?
3:05 – Has their been a hijacking of Bitcoin?
4:35 – Monero Talk
8:00 – Douglas running for Congress
11:50 – Is being public important for Monero?
15:40 – Struggles of running Monerotopia
18:25 – Other Monero events
21:10 – Does Doug have troubles being publicly connected to Monero?
21:45 – XMR Bazaar
29:10 – Living off of Monero
30:55 – Why don't privacy influencers talk about Monero?
32:55 – Moneronodo
34:50 – Banned Monero Twitter account
36:05 – Thoughts on Monero Maverick
39:05 – Anti-Jewish sentiment in Monero
41:00 – Medium of exchange vs store of value
44:30 – Should Monero users be more interested in price?
48:00 – Did Doug lose faith in Monero mining after Qubic attack?
50:40 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg for a fifth time. They discuss the moral, anarchic, and technological questions that continue to define our world.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
1:45 – Clone thought experiment
3:40 – Digital ID
8:30 – Samourai Wallet
12:40 – Judges the biggest part of the problem of government?
16:30 – The Simple Web
20:50 – Wikipedia a decentralist failure?
25:00 – Laissez Faire city failure
32:00 – Quantum Computing
34:05 – Anarchy has no ways to fight off evil
42:50 – Are "defense stocks" immoral
48:50 – VPNs
55:00 – Final thoughts

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Episode 222 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – The Psychopath Duology

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Hillebrand about Nostr: a censorship-resistant social media protocol.

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00:00 – Introduction
4:15 – Max Hillebrand's nomad lifestyle
7:35 – Current status of Germany
8:50 – Overview of Nostr
12:30 – Problems with traditional social media
16:10 – Shadow banning and opaque rules distort reality
18:55 – Where did Mastodon go wrong?
20:05 – Which is the biggest thing Nostr has achieved so far?
22:45 – How to run Nostr
27:55 – What are you responsible for as a Nostr user?
31:20 – How do we follow people on Nostr
32:40 – Where does content get hosted?
35:00 – Balance between user-friendly and sovereign
36:45 – Hardcore privacy on Nostr
39:50 – Is Nostr full of only Bitcoin talk?
44:05 – Ongoing maintenance of Nostr
46:30 – Do you have to be in Lightning to use Nostr
49:50 – Quality of life problems
54:00 – Other interesting aspects of Nostr
57:00 – What does censorship-resistance mean?
1:01:20 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, one of the handful of Bitcoiners who believes in the original vision of the project, and one of the handful of people in the world who actually uses Bitcoin.

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→ https://bip47db.github.io (A Decentralised On-Chain Directory for BIP47 Payment Codes)

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:05 – What was the significance of Samourai Wallet in Bitcoin?
8:05 – Upcoming Bitcoin conference – any hope?
14:40 – Latest from Bill (TdevD)
20:50 – BIP-361
25:55 – The BIP process is not Bitcoin
35:10 – BIP-110
40:05 – Worse example of a Bitcoin podcast episode or article
44:22 – Who is worse for sound money: Luke DashJr or Jerome Powell?
47:18 – Opinion on Bitcoin company Strike
50:30 – Max's BIP-47 suggestion
1:09:10 – Is flying the English flag racist?
1:12:30 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with former Suriname presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe. They discuss this small South American country and Maya's radical ideas to completely transform it, her backstory, recent controversy related to her presidential run, and where Bitcoin fits in to her ideas.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:00 – Suriname
8:00 – About Maya Parhoe
20:55 – Running for president of Suriname
32:20 – How to transform a country like Suriname
51:40 – Maya Parbhoe recent controversy
1:06:20 – Future endeavors for Maya Parbhoe
1:13:15 – Final thoughts

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ray Youssef, a crypto entrepreneur formerly of Paxful, who was abducted by federal agents and taken to the US where he is currently facing troubling allegations. He gives an update on his situation and also discusses some of his other views on the Global South, why he is persona non grata at Bitcoin conferences, and why decentralization is not the best process for human freedom.

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TIMELINE
00:00 – Introduction
2:00 – Ray Youssef introduction
19:00 – Ray Youssef captured
20:50 – Stepped down from NoOnes.com
30:15 – Is decentralization the goal?
34:45 – Ray banned from Bitcoin conferences
38:15 – Ray is building a video game
43:20 – Goethe's 'Faust'
50:03 – Testosterone as critical for comprehending the truth

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