The Praxeology of Privacy: Freedom Tech vs Mass Surveillance | Max Hillebrand
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Walker America interviews Max Hillebrand about the intersection of privacy, freedom, and economic consequences of surveillance.
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…
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