155. Economy 2.0 - A Conversation with Teun van Sambeek

For today’s episode, host Josh Sidman is joined by Teun van Sambeek. Our conversation took place, and was recorded in, April of 2025.Mr. van Sambeek is an IT professional and entrepreneur. After founding multiple companies, he decided to move to Africa to begin building affordable housing. This led to the founding of Bentoniq, a real estate development company that mass produces affordable housing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Teun is also the founder of the 1coinH system, an alternative monetary system. He received two master’s: one in real estate development from the University of Amsterdam and the other in Construction Engineering Technologies from the Eindhoven University of Technology. Mr. van Sambeek joined Economy 2.0 to discuss the security and privacy of blockchain technology, how alternative monetary systems can avoid inflation via money printing, and how his monetary system can replicate UBI without spiking inflation. To check out more of our content, including our research and policy tools, visit our website: https://www.hgsss.org/