In this episode, I sit down with Juraj Bednár, a hacker-entrepreneur and freedom maximalist. We talk about his path from hacking Linux as a kid to building businesses on a Bitcoin standard. Juraj also breaks down his critical but nuanced perspective on Michael Saylor’s approach.

If you’re looking for practical tactics and big ideas on how to expand your freedom and sovereignty with Bitcoin, this episode is for you.

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00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Host intro & why Juraj’s story matters.
02:12 - Origins of liberty; Linux as a first taste of freedom.
03:11 - Windows vs. Linux and learning abundance by hacking.
06:16 - Early internet & hacker culture
13:13 - Three kinds of freedom & why optionality matters.
20:12 - Global optionality: place, people, money, time.
25:18 - “Hack everything”: experiments beyond computers.
31:00 - Hacking vs. science & entrepreneurship; learn by doing.
38:29 - Juraj’s Bitcoin origin
47:48 - First sats by mail & the Parallelni Polis experiment.
56:01 - Operating on a Bitcoin standard: pay-now, short payrolls, 30% rule.
1:03:00 - Speculation vs. freedom; fiat friction & frozen accounts.
1:20:36 - The Full Privacy playbook

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