Straight, No Chaser
Understanding Freedom through Money, Technology, Economics and Philosophy
Podcasting since 2025 • 16 episodes
Straight, No Chaser
Latest Episodes
Monthly Round Up 5: Beyond The Bull Run
We revisit a live panel from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town and argue that 2025’s flat price masked a deeper bull run in infrastructure, adoption, and freedom tech. Builders pushed Lightning, open-source mining, Nostr, and circular economies while ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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Monthly Round Up 4: Freedom Needs Better Defaults: Self-Hosted AI, Community Custody, And Paying With Sats
We trade war stories about AI coding that dazzles then stalls, and show how self-hosted LLMs and agents can reclaim privacy and time. The talk shifts to real-world Bitcoin: QR payments across South Africa, M-Pesa bridges in Kenya, community cus...
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Gerhard Wolmarans - If It’s Not 200 Years Old, I'm not Interested
The news cycle says crisis; history says pattern. We sit down with political philosopher and lecturer Gerhard Wolmarans to test whether our moment is truly exceptional or simply another liminal passage where the old order fades and the new hasn...
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Bridge to Bitcoin - Money Changes Culture Before It Changes Policy
Want to see Bitcoin move from theory to till? We sit down with Bridge to Bitcoin—the team quietly onboarding UK pubs, cafés, galleries, and independents—to unpack a playbook that starts with footfall, not hype. Their pitch is disarmingly simple...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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Dirk Roeder - From 21 Wonders To Energy Freedom: On Travel, Grids, And Human Prosperity
What does freedom look like when it’s not a slogan but a daily practice? For Dirk Roeder, it starts with owning his time—and he stress‑tests that idea by circling the globe with his wife, mapping an eight‑month route through 21 wonders across f...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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