Towards Liberty Podcast

Privacy isn’t about having something to hide. It’s about preserving the freedom to act, communicate, and coordinate without coercion. In this episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast, Walker sits down with privacy advocate, cypherpunk, and Freedom Tech builder Max Hillebrand to discuss his new book, The Praxeology of Privacy. Max explains how Austrian economics and cypherpunk philosophy intersect, why privacy is a natural consequence of self-ownership and property rights, and how surveillance distorts economic calculation in much the same way that money printing distorts markets. The conversation explores: - Why privacy is fundamentally tied to freedom - The economic consequences of surveillance - CBDCs and the future of financial control - Why corporations and governments increasingly operate as surveillance partners - The role of Bitcoin in creating a parallel economy - Tor, VPNs, encryption, and network-level privacy - Nostr’s growing ecosystem and why developer adoption matters more than user counts - Operational security (OpSec) in both the digital and physical world - Signal’s limitations and the future of decentralized private communications - White Noise, Marmot, and the next generation of unstoppable encrypted messaging - How Freedom Tech can make coercion more expensive and liberty more accessible Max also shares his vision for a future where money, communication, identity, and publishing are all decentralized, permissionless, and resistant to censorship. Whether you’re new to privacy or already deep down the cypherpunk rabbit hole, this conversation provides a powerful framework for understanding why privacy matters—and what practical steps you can take to reclaim it. FOLLOW MAX: NOSTR: https://primal.net/maxhillebrand Try White Noise Chat: https://www.whitenoise.chat/ https://towardsliberty.com/ GET HIS BOOK: The Praxeology of Privacy on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/2xn9bs8y Read on Nostr: https://tinyurl.com/4b42kb7d PARTNERS & DISCOUNTS: - LEDN: Bitcoin-backed lending. Go to ledn.io/walker (https://ledn.io/?utm_source=walker&utm_medium=partnership&utm_campaign=walker&utm_content=podcast)and unlock liquidity WITHOUT selling your bitcoin. - BLOCKSTREAM JADE: BLOCKSTREAM JADE HARDWARE WALLET: Head to https://store.blockstream.com/ and use coupon code WALKER for 10% off! - BDIC™ is building an insurance marketplace on the bitcoin standard. Sign up for the waitlist at: http://bdic.io/walker - Buy Bitcoin with River: http://partner.river.com/walker - GET FOLD ($10 in bitcoin): https://use.foldapp.com/r/WALKER JOIN THE SUBSTACK TO GET NEW EPISODES DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX: https://walkeramerica.substack.com/ If you enjoy THE Bitcoin Podcast you can help support the show by doing the following: FOLLOW ME (Walker) on @WalkerAmerica on X (https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica) | @TitcoinPodcast on X (https://twitter.com/TitcoinPodcast) | Nostr Personal (walker) (https://primal.net/walker) | Nostr Podcast (Titcoin) (https://primal.net/p/npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8) | Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/titcoinpodcast/) Subscribe to THE Bitcoin Podcast (and leave a review) on Fountain (https://www.fountain.fm/show/68gcLZFDRxOzgGeZmXq6) | YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@walkerAmerica) | Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/0f4Ke6gRTiLij0455nQjPH) | Rumble (https://rumble.com/user/WalkerAmerica) | EVERYWHERE ELSE (https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast)

Recorded May 28, 2026 at bitcoin++ Vienna, economics edition — Vienna, Austria. Max Hillebrand presents a praxeological account of privacy: why the action axiom and the structure of human cooperation make privacy a precondition for a functioning economy, not an optional feature bolted onto it. Conference page: https://btcpp.dev/vienna#talks Future bitcoin++ events: https://btcpp.dev

"We are taught that the state builds our economy, but the reality is that every act of intervention is an act of wealth destruction." Max Hillebrand joins Danny Knowles on What Bitcoin Did to tear down the Keynesian fallacies that keep us in a cycle of manufactured poverty and systemic theft. They go deep into the Austrian framework to explain why privacy isn't just a tech feature, it is the bedrock of a free economy. Episode: https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/episodes/wbd1035-maxhillebrand

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men by Paul Rosenberg Narrated by Max Hillebrand The complete audiobook as a single low-bitrate MP3 file. Use this if you want one continuous listen; otherwise pick a chapter from the feed. A novel about the early internet, cryptography, and free markets. Praxeology, sovereignty, encryption, and the question of how human beings live free.

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