Straight, No Chaser
Understanding Freedom through Money, Technology, Economics and Philosophy
Straight, No Chaser
Latest Episodes
Ivo Vegter - If Privacy Is Dead What Replaces It
The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be manufactured at scale, the real threat becomes an epistemic crisis: a slow co...
Monthly Round Up 10: Tether Says Self-Custody And Everyone Laughs
We trade jokes and hard truths about stablecoins, surveillance, and why “self-custody” means very different things depending on who holds the off switch. We move from BTC Prague and Europe’s privacy-first Bitcoin culture to South African capita...
Monthly Round Up 8: Capital Controls Come For Bitcoin
They don’t need to pass a new law to change your life, they can update “regulations” and call it a day. We sit down to unpack South Africa’s draft capital flow regulations from Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank, why the public comment...
Jabu Jakes - Bitcoin Works Because Nobody Owns It
A government can threaten bans, taxes, and capital controls, but what happens when the thing it is trying to control is just code running on a global, decentralised network? We sit down with Jacques “Jabu Jacks” Strydom to get past the noise an...
Nick Darlington: A Freelancer Turns Bitcoin Into Everyday Money
Owning Bitcoin is easy. Using it in the real world, without wrecking your savings plan, is where things get interesting. We chat with Nick Darlington, a South African freelancer and builder who went from travel and a self-made writing career to...