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Ep. 96: Max Hillebrand - Building Weapons of Defense for Freedom

By Efrat Fenigson

Aired Sep 16, 2025 · 1h 19m · Last boosted Oct 23, 2025

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My guest today is Max Hillebrand, praxeologist, cypherpunk, and open-source advocate dedicated to building freedom tech that empowers individuals through economic and technological sovereignty. As a contributor to projects like Bitcoin Core, Wasabi Wallet, BTCPay Server, JoinMarket, Lightning Network, Bisq, Angor, White Noise, and Amethyst. In this episode, Max shares his journey from Austrian economics into Bitcoin privacy, recounting how tools like CoinJoins, Wasabi, and the Taproot upgrade push Bitcoin closer to true anonymity. We explore the battle between fiat and freedom, the broken incentives of inflation and war, and why opting into Bitcoin is both a moral imperative...

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  • 210 via Fountain
    Great show! It’s becoming one of my favorite podcasts… thanks for everything you do!
  • 100 via Fountain
    When was this recorded please?
  • 100 via Fountain
    Great conversation! I loved the analogy of an attacker being an entrepreneur. We should continue to work on technologies that increase the cost of an attack!
  • 525 via Fountain
    @efrat and @max with so much signal. Individual sovereignty, privacy, it is music to my ears and the moral obligation I now have to remove all remaining fiat from my bank account has just been turbocharged. I cannot be an enabler of fractional reserve banking and support the inflation inducing loans they create.
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    No ground breaking new info for me, but inspirational nevertheless. While listening, I decided to switch to part-time work in my fiat job, and start looking for more meaningful projects. Hopefully, a couple of years down the line, this will lead to a complete transition away from the fiat mines.
  • 210 via Fountain
    💪
  • 777 via Fountain
    Awesome talk