For similar articles, make sure you're subscribed to the Watchman's Torch Newsletter in one of the following two places: → https://watchmanprivacy.substack.com/ → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/watchmans-torch-newsletter/By Gabriel Custodiet

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Seth for Privacy about Monero, its competitors, and its many challenges. GUEST → https://x.com/sethforprivacy → https://sethforprivacy.com/ → https://optoutpod.com/ → https://cakewallet.com/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://esc…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill about many Bitcoin issues: Samourai Wallet, Ashigaru Wallet, Bitcoin Knots, terrible figures in Bitcoin, the importance of CoinJoins, Lightning thots, Ledger, and the UK. FOR BITCOIN BEGINNERS → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwwPwsAnQGY&list=PLJyrw2XESBDpNHKb63a2ylrITPShY-3T7 → https://escapethetechnocr…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Mike of Parallel Systems. They discuss the benefits of Eastern Europe, the history of the decline of the world in corelation to gold, homesteading, and the myth of replacement fertility rate. GUEST → https://parallelmike.com/ → https://parallelsystems.substack.com/ → Podcast: Parallel Mike Podcast WATCHMAN PRIVACY → ht…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Tom Bodrovics, the host of Palisades Gold Radio and The Competent Man Podcast and a thoughtful voice on how to think about investing from a contrary perspective. They discuss gold, uranium, modern monetary theory, the economic problems of Canada, welding, how to vet a bank, and setting up a self-sufficient trailer. GUE…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Jeremy of Goldbacks. A Goldback is a gold product that looks similar to a banknote with particles of gold embedded in it. Gabriel and Jeremy discuss the proliferation of this product, the question of the “high premium,” money laws in the US, acquisition, anti-counterfeiting measures, and all of the practical questions …

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io and Lusitano Dreams. This time around Dallas explains the process of earning permanent residency in Portugal: which means access to the European Union. What Dallas offers is similar to his South Dakota offerings. GUEST → https://lusitanodreams.com/ (Portugal Residency Service) → https://privacy…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with global reporter Michael Yon about China’s plans for the world, about the hijacking of Bitcoin, crowd psychology, Chinese information war, and the agenda behind globalist migrant waves. GUEST → https://michaelyon.com/ → https://x.com/Michael_Yon → https://substack.com/@michaelyon WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanpriva…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io about the mass data exposure within the medical industry, along with some tips about how to navigate these dangerous waters. GUEST → https://privacypost.io/ (Dallas) → See previous episodes with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io SOUTH DAKOTA NOMAD RESIDENCY: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE → https://escapethetechn…

Some stories about cybersecurity and privacy consulting from the trenches. Volume 1. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html Music by Karl Ca…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Michael Snyder of the Economic Collapse Blog about tariffs, trade wars, debt-to-GDP ratios, how to analyze the economy, whether MMT can keep us going for the next 20 years, and if exploiting debt rather than paying it off is the better strategic move. GUEST → https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com (Main website) → https:/…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Gregory Treat, lawyer and consultant on families trying to forge a dynasty. GUEST → https://avaloncircle.com/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ (Including Watchman’s Torch Newsletter) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) CRYPTO DONATIONS →…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Max Tannahill on various Bitcoin topics: the story of Liquid, Ashigaru and Samourai, Knots, Singapore, and much more. GUEST → https://x.com/maxtannahill → t.me/maxtannahill (Telegram) → https://www.p2prights.org/donate.html (Samourai Wallet court case donations) WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ (Inc…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Seth for Privacy: privacy advocate and VP of Cake Wallet. They discuss a number of topics on Monero’s 11th anniversary. GUEST → https://x.com/sethforprivacy → https://sethforprivacy.com/ → https://optoutpod.com/ → https://cakewallet.com/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → ht…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Steven Harris, an engineer, prepper, manufacturing consultant and author. Harris covers a broad range of topics from his vantage of High Speed Mentality. GUEST → https://x.com/BookNwss/status/1847506100117012782 (Story of saving mom’s life) → http://harris1234.com/ → http://shop.harris1234.com/ → https://harris1234.lib…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Milan Dereede of NanoGPT. The website allows you to access hundreds of popular AI services without creating an account, with an affordable pay-per-prompt service, and with some privacy benefits. Milan explains the details of the service as well as giving some reflections on practical AI use from a hardcore user. GUEST …

2B2T is the oldest anarchy server in the best-selling video game of all time: Minecraft. Just be careful staring into the abyss... GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ34…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks for a second time with James Wesley, Rawles, creator of the Survival Blog. They discuss hyperinflation, guns, how to prevent future civilizational collapse, pre-1899 firearms, Rhodesia and the Portuguese Colonial War, Robert Heinlein, and political philosophy. GUEST → https://survivalblog.com → https://www.amazon.com/stores…

Episode 170 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Torchlight Chat – The Enigma Machine: Hiding in the Open The Enigma Machine was significant in how it changed the conversation about how to protect information. Gabriel and Urban discuss the differences and tradeoffs of encryption and steganography, and why hiding in plain sight is an important option f…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Mark Knapp, a firearms lawyer, about how to think about self-defense from a practical and legal perspective. GUEST → https://firearmslawyer.net/ → https://x.com/firearmslawyer MENTIONED → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massad_Ayoob → https://armedcitizensnetwork.org/ → https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY …

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most important video games, not the least of which because it doesn't hold your hand, and doesn't follow the Cult of Safety. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO…

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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Martin of Asset Protection Advisers. This is a holistic discussion about how people, especially the wealthy, can practically protect their wealth and make use of every tool at their disposal: crypto, gold, US dollars, trusts, and international banking. GUEST → https://assetprotectionadvisers.com/ → https://www.youtube.…

The Incas are the undisputed champions of hiding. Their empire survived the unparalleled colonial might of the Spanish conquistadors for forty years. A mixture of strategic relocation, inventive guerrilla tactics, and their own form of encryption allowed them to survive twenty times as long as the Aztecs. One part of their strategy was the use of q…

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban explain the nail in the coffin of Firefox: a recent stupid terms of a service that indicates Mozilla can do what they want with the data you generate on their browser. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy …

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io about alternatives to health insurance, especially as one steps away from the doom-loop mainstream thinking as a nomad. GUEST → https://privacypost.io/ (Dallas) → See two previous episodes with Dallas of PrivacyPost.io SOUTH DAKOTA NOMAD RESIDENCY: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE → https://escapethetechno…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Sparrow Wallet creator Craig Raw about his Bitcoin-only wallet. Craig gives an update on his removal of Whirlpool, explains other new features of the wallet, and gives some perspective on Bitcoin wallet development, Lightning, and privacy on Bitcoin. PREVIOUS EPISODE → https://odysee.com/@WatchmanPrivacy:1/SparrowWalle…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Roger Huang about his insider views of the current political, moral, and technological soul and abilities of China. GUEST → https://x.com/Rogerh1991 → https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/ → https://chinabitcoinbook.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/Would-Mao-Hold-Bitcoin-Techno-Nationalist/dp/B0D7672L8X MENTIONED → htt…

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban explain the massive theft of Ethereum that happened in February of 2025 and what it means for the future of Ethereum. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIO…

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban examine the new geopolitical order of Chinese, American, and European AI plans. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRH…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Ernst J. van Zyl, head of public relations at Afriforum about the craziness in South Africa. They cover the recent events of Trump’s cutting off of aid to South Africa and the Expropriation Act, farm murders and tortures, international media cover-up, and the rank amorality that defines the government of the country. G…

In September 2005 something happened in Irvine, California that would change the world, forever. Digitally. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS →8829DiYwJ344peEM7SzUspMtgUWKAjGJRH…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with economist Peter Boettke about the details surrounding the Soviet economy that Lenin, and then Stalin, attempted to create in their utopian hubris. GUEST → https://www.peter-boettke.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/stores/Peter-J.-Boettke/author/B001IQWMUQ → Main book discussed: The Political Economy of Soviet Socialism: t…

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker talk about the ascent of Nvidia Corporation, AI and GPU clusters, and go into some details about the ever-useful and unusual technology of graphics cards. GUEST → https://x.com/realUrbanHacker WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → http…

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with historian Tom DiLorenzo about his efforts to expose Abraham Lincoln. Pushing against the soft “saint-like” treatment that historians have granted Lincoln, DiLorenzo exposes Lincoln’s totalitarian tendencies, his contribution to the birth of American fiat currency, his war crimes, among other reasons to have disdain for…

Gabriel Custodiet and Urban Hacker explain their new course, a cybersecurity tutorial series called HACKproof 2.0 PURCHASE HACKPROOF 2.0 HERE → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/hackproof/By Gabriel Custodiet

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) → htt…

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/maxtanna…

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 A…

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 WAT…

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 consulti…

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://radicalpersonalfinanc…

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) …

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://watchmanp…