Welcome to the Free Cities podcast. My name is Timothy Allen and this is the official podcast
of the Free Cities Foundation.
Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of the Free Cities podcast. This is bonus episode number
three. These are the episodes which are only available to our subscribers on fountain.fm
and I'll be dropping them periodically over the year but especially in the weeks that regular
release episodes are ones that subscribers have already been granted early access to. Right,
this show where do i start well this is a very long episode over three and a half hours in total
but as always there's a reason for that a bit of background this was november 2022
and i was in san salvador speaking at adopting btc which is a bitcoin conference in el salvador
and at the opening party I just met a guy. We started chatting at the bar, we ended up
eating food together and had a very very interesting conversation at that party.
That guy was a gentleman by the name of Jake Hamilton and later on in the trip I had a day off and I contacted him and said look would you mind just sitting down and shooting the shit with me
As we say, nothing's off topic. We just start talking and we see where it goes.
And that's pretty much what we did.
Initially, we began talking about Erbit, which is a very interesting decentralized operating system that Jake is basically a dev for,
which was the original hook for me into a conversation with him however this conversation
soon veers off into a myriad of directions now when I'm editing these podcasts I normally keep
a small list beside me that I write in real time of the subjects covered as I'm listening to the
episode that way when I get to the end it's very much easier for me to sort of get a sense of what
we spoke about and especially it's good when I'm writing an episode description. For this episode
well I ended up creating over 60 different topic titles. Things that we talked about but to give
you an idea just so you know what you're letting yourself in for. As I've said we began talking
about erbit and we went on to these as follows digital nomadism ethics complex systems ai the
akashic records bitcoin and time plank seconds non-computational quantum physics metaphysics
the origin of humans dwelling in the digital realm then we have a whole talk on religion
christianity simulation theory the end of humanity dmt one part of the conversation is all about psychedelics and near experiences fasting spirituality ketamine spirit animals you name it sugar proof of work
existential traps narcissism ai again stark net the bitcoin circular economy bitcoin maximalism
philosophy of bitcoin bitcoin as monetary critique which was a very interesting part digital aliens
who is satoshi nakamoto neural link conflict cultural patrimony the list goes on it does
actually go on i gave this to my ai to try and sum it up as well um it didn't come up with much
it just said in quotes erbit bitcoin digital nomadism effective altruism and various aspects
of technology consciousness and the future of humanity i prefer my list anyway it's the kind
of podcast that i absolutely love and i was very thankful that jake agreed to do it because really
he was just some bloke i met at a party we'd never met before i haven't met since actually
and he was a very accommodating to me especially to talk for like i say three and a half hours
at their erbit dev house in san salvador which was an incredible place this kind of james bond
style pad just above san salvador overlooking the whole city i think i mentioned it at the beginning
of the podcast anyway i think this is the perfect episode to be a bonus episode because it's quite
techy quite relevant to the NOSTA crowd and the value for value crowd I think And also of course Bitcoiners It never really been listened to by anyone I originally recorded it for a podcast that I just
started at the time, which never went anywhere because I ended up doing this podcast literally
a few weeks afterwards. So it's just sat there doing nothing for a couple of years like the other
ones that i'm going to be releasing here you can follow jake actually on twitter if you want to
continue listening to his takes on life he has an equally left field timeline you can follow him at
his wonderfully warm and inviting username at 36 underscore 72541890 he told me the relevance of
that number once but i've completely forgotten and chat gbt can't even work it out either i tried
everything to work out what that means he describes himself on twitter as a teleo punk
martian patriot erbit bitcoin dev and nrx whatever that is anyway get ready for this one you really
might need to sit back and relax i hope you enjoy it i absolutely loved it and really the
reason I get up in the morning sometimes is to have conversations like this absolutely loved it
so please sit back relax and enjoy this bonus episode number three which is my conversation with
Jake Hamilton
Thank you.