Watchman Privacy

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Douglas Tuman of Monero fame. They discuss all of his Monero projects—Monero Talk, XMR Bazaar, XMR Chat, Monerotopia—as well as practical topics on how to live on Monero, as well as thoughts on figures in the community and banned accounts.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Paul Rosenberg for a fifth time. They discuss the moral, anarchic, and technological questions that continue to define our world.

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Episode 222 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – The Psychopath Duology

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Hillebrand about Nostr: a censorship-resistant social media protocol.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill, one of the handful of Bitcoiners who believes in the original vision of the project, and one of the handful of people in the world who actually uses Bitcoin.

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→ https://bip47db.github.io  (A Decentralised On-Chain Directory for BIP47 Payment Codes)

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with former Suriname presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe. They discuss this small South American country and Maya's radical ideas to completely transform it, her backstory, recent controversy related to her presidential run, and where Bitcoin fits in to her ideas.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ray Youssef, a crypto entrepreneur formerly of Paxful, who was abducted by federal agents and taken to the US where he is currently facing troubling allegations. He gives an update on his situation and also discusses some of his other views on the Global South, why he is persona non grata at Bitcoin conferences, and why decentralization is not the best process for human freedom.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Zelko of RoninDojo and Samourai Wallet. They unpack the crazy politics in the Bitcoin community: from the fuzzy "red lines" of Bitcoin company, to the gradual diminishment of Bitcoin's cypherpunk origins, to FOSS gaslighting and the recent Ocean Mining censorship. Oh, and Bitcoin is not for Progressives.

Note: Originally recorded December 2023

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Lauren Rodriguez about how her political prisoner husband Keonne Rodriguez is doing in prison, some updates on Samourai Wallet, and some reflections on the injustice surrounding this event and similar events.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Parallel Mike on the Iran War, the technocratic boot falling on Europe, food crisis and solutions, the rise of gold and its acquisition, working within the banking system, and the fight against dopamine hits.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with John Robb, a futurist military analyst. They discuss his original book, Brave New World, and how thinking about modern warfare involves understanding how cultural movements and politics are shaped by viral moments and the scarcely predictable movements of "the network." Episode was recorded in late 2025.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks Milan de Reede, co-creator of Nano-GPT.com, a pay-as-you-go AI aggregate service with certain privacy features. De Reede gives an update on NanoGPT and discusses some practical tips for using AI.

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→ https://nano-gpt.com/  
→ https://x.com/milan_dereede  
→ Previous episode (173): https://youtu.be/WhoB66PILfc 

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with well-known privacy YouTuber The Hated One. They discuss the difficulty of maintaining integrity while recommending privacy tools, the problem with Proton's expansion into other services, societal changes that would benefit privacy, cryptocurrencies, and current advances of surveillance.

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Episode 211 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Naomi Brockwell: Nothing to Hide

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with the long-time privacy instructor Naomi Brockwell about her origins, how to onboard normies to privacy, Flock cameras and private property, her updated thoughts on Bitcoin and crypto, and the mistakes parents make exposing their children online.

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of the trendsetting Bitcoin wallet Samourai Wallet. Keonne was inexplicably arrested in a violent and oppressive military-style raid of his property in April of 2024. He was charged with the bizarre accusation of conspiracy to run an unlicensed money transmitter despite never transmitting money. Keonne tells his story and explains how he has been condemned to prison and str...

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