Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the serious cybersecurity attack called "SIM swapping" and how to escape it.

SIM SWAPPING GUIDE (FOR PURCHASE) → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/how-to-evade-sim-swap-scams/

GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, experienced in-the-trenches Bitcoin and Monero user, about an assortment of topics: Ross Ulbricht, Samourai Wallet, the “hijacking” of Bitcoin, the Bitcoin “podconf” phenomenon, PayNym vs Silent Payments, what Monero maxis get wrong, and the crypto scene in Singapore.

GUEST → https://twitter.com/maxtannahill → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/MaxTannahill (Previous episode)

SAMOURAI WALLET LEGAL DEFENSE FUND DONATIONS → https://www.p2prights.org/donate.html

ASHIGARU WALLET LINKS → http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/download/ → https://ashigaru.rs/ → https://ashigaru.rs/news/

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Ross Ulbricht and what next 5:55 – Update on Samourai Wallet 9:08 – The “hijacking” of Bitcoin 19:10 – Roger Ver under attack 20:00 – Thoughts on Ashigaru Wallet 25:05 – Bitcoin Strategic Reserve 26:55 – How many “Bitcoiners” actually use bitcoin? 27:15 – The worst advocates of Bitcoin 35:30 – Lies About Bitcoin book doomed to fail 28:50 – What would Max like to see Trump do for crypto 44:25 – PayNym vs Silent Payments 51:20 – What do Monero maximalists get wrong? 58:30 – What are the dumbest things you hear about Bitcoin privacy? 1:02:40 – Swaps services and atomic swaps 1:08:20 – Crypto scene in Singapore 1:12:30 – Singapore politics 1:16:00 – The UK dystopian moment 1:22:15 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Emmanuel Maggiori, author of several books on artificial intelligence and Silicon Valley. Specifically, Maggiori speaks on the disappointments of these over-hyped industries, the crazy over-funding, and the simultaneous culture of workers who have nothing to do. The discussion also veers toward AI and the reasons why AI in its current form has limited benefits, many unsolvable flaws, and will not match the hype attached to it: not even close.

GUEST → https://emaggiori.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Emmanuel-Maggiori/author/B08Q468YQ4

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Guest background 3:25 – SiliCONned: the waste of capital in tech investment 18:25 – The failures of VC funding 21:00 – Culture of no work at tech companies 29:00 – Reckoning coming to Big Tech 30:30 – Smart Until It’s Dumb: the inherent limitations of machine learning 38:30 – Data sets make AI much more inefficient than most people realise 41:45 – How to trick AI 45:10 – How can locally hosted LLMs store so much in so little space? 49:35 – Explaining Nvidia's DLSS 55:00 – How marketing exaggerates AI 1:01:00 – Rapid fire questions 1:03:06 – Can digital things act like human brains? 1:08:00 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Paul Rosenberg, who was at the trial of Ross Ulbricht, shares some thoughts from previous episodes of Watchman Privacy.

Ross Ulbricht was pardoned by President Donald Trump on January 22, 2025.

Two clips combined (in order):

Clip 1: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/CypherpunkApes Clip 2: https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/PaulRosenberg2

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about VPN discrimination: how companies delay, deny, defend blocking your access to their service, even as a paid customer, if you use a privacy-preserving technology like virtual private networks.

GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Joshua Sheats of the podcast Radical Personal Finance. They discuss Joshua’s productivity habits, education, homeschooling, gold ownership, the Corporate Transparency Act, China and Malaysia, and arrestproofing.

GUEST → https://www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/ → https://x.com/JoshuaSheats → https://radicalpersonalfinance.libsyn.com/replay-456-protect-your-money-by-arrest-proofing-yourself-and-your-children

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 4:05 – Joshua’s reading habits 8:45 – University education? 14:00 – Gold ownership strategy 23:10 – Corporate Transparency Act 31:34 – Thoughts on China 43:00 – Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia 50:20 – Homeschooling 1:00:00 – Favorite episodes of Radical Personal Finance

Episode 149 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Torchlight Chat – The Corrupting Influence of Sponsors

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about all the ways in which sponsorships and paid influence fully corrupt a content creator.

GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks for a third time with Joe Doran of Trends Journal. Joe lays out his view of the present and future of artificial intelligence and other technocratic agendas as we begin 2025.

GUEST → https://trendsjournal.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B00J9R7PHQ/allbooks (Joe Doran's books)

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

TIMELINE 0:00 - Beginning 2:10 - Response to Venice AI interview 6:25 - How would AI intellectual property laws work? 11:30 - Problems with the progress of AI 14:50 - What's really happening behind the scenes of AI development 18:50 - Favourite representations of AI in fiction 21:40 - Trends of 2025 26:30 - Smart cities 31:00 - Progress vs fulfillment

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with the Monero proponent AlaskaAnon about how to live on monero to enhance freedom and get around the fascist banking system. They also discuss Alaska and some philosophical ideas pertaining to free living.

GUEST → https://x.com/repeal19thUSA → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHd71cejcKU (another interview with Alaska)

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:20 – Origin of AlaskaAnon 5:15 – How do you measure a cryptocurrency’s success? 9:50 – How important is combating inflation? 16:30 – AlaskaAnon’s Monero stack 23:25 – How to be unbanked 34:23 – How to not maximally comply 46:50 – Why Alaska? 53:50 – Advanced monero topics

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker review the Monero Nodo: a new pre-built Monero node project with custom hardware and software.

GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker

LINKS → https://moneronodo.com/ → https://twitter.com/MoneroNodo → https://twitter.com/douglastuman → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/2024/12/15/monero-nodo-teardown/

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Diego Salazar (rehrar) of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo (pared down Monero/Bitcoin version of Stack Wallet). Diego gives an introduction to the wallet and why it’s one of the very few Monero and Bitcoin wallets that you should be considering.

GUEST → https://stackwallet.com/ (Stack Wallet is multi-coin; Stack Duo is Monero/Bitcoin) → https://twitter.com/stack_wallet → https://t.me/stackwallet (Telegram)

WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/

CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRHmu4Q6R8kEWMpafiXPPNBkeRBhNPK6sw27urqqMYTWWXZrsX6BLRrj7HiooPAy (Monero) →https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3JDQDSj2rp56KDffH5sSZL19J1Lh/pos (BTC)

Timeline 00:00 – Introduction 1:50 – Origins of Stack Wallet and Stack Duo 8:00 – Does running two wallets pose any problems? 14:50 – How does Stack fund itself? 20:12 – How do you run all your multi-coin nodes? 27:40 – Stack’s features and future 30:55 – PayNyms vs Silent Payments 36:00 – Is Diego afraid as a developer of self-custody wallets? 40:52 – What does Stack know about its users 42:35 – Final thoughts

Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio