Watchman Privacy

An unfiltered show about comprehending and escaping the Technocracy.
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Last Episode : August 20, 2025 12:45am
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Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Richard Turrin, author of a book on China’s rapid transformation to a cashless society. GUEST → https://richturrin.com/ → https://www.amazon.com/Cashless-Chinas-Digital-Currency-Revolution/dp/1949642720 → https://x.com/richardturrin → https://substack.com/@richturrin → https://www.linkedin.com/in/turrin/ WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Guest background 3:20 – China’s rapid cashless transformation from 2010 – 2018 7:00 – Did China have a plan to create this cashlessness? 10:40 – What is the reality in 2025? 13:00 – What is WeChat like at the user level? 19:50 – Are Alipay and WeChat sandboxed? 21:25 – Scams on Alipay and WeChat 26:45 – How do foreigners use Chinese payment apps? 30:20 – How will China transition to a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) 39:07 – Banks in China had to get on board 48:40 – Fees for Alipay and WeChat are essentially zero 50:50 – How often can Chinese use apps outside of China? 52:30 – Are Chinese allowed to use other payment methods? 55:05 – China data sovereignty 1:04:00 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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Published Wednesday

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Jacques Broodryk, Chief Spokesperson for AfriForum Community Safety, about the decline of South Africa and what an organization called AfriForum is doing about it. GUEST → https://x.com/JacquesBroodryk → https://afriforum.co.za/en/ (AfriForum) → Financially support AfriForum: https://sluit-aan.afriforum.co.za/en?campaign=RoepToepCMO&leadSource=600060509 RESOURCES → https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Boer-Government-Complicity-Africas/dp/0994715978 → https://www.youtube.com/@ConsciousCaracal/videos WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 - Intro 1:45 - How dangerous is South Africa overall? 4:00 - Cable theft and what it symbolizes 8:15 - What is the cause of this third-world criminality? 11:00 - South Africa ranks high in organized crime and corruption 11:30 - Car theft 13:35 - Spike traps 14:50 - South Africa has NO borders 19:15 - Is government incompetent or complicit? 21:10 - What OPSEC does a person need to take in South Africa? 24:55 - Are farm attacks being encouraged? 30:50 - South African government stopped publishing farm murders statistics 32:00 - Trump forces South African president to watch video about farm murders 34:00 - South African government encouraging attacks? 35:30 - Radio jammers and other advanced equipment 37:20 - How inept is South African police? 39:15 - Parallel societies in South Africa 43:45 - Will South Africa balkanize? 45:45 - Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published Monday

Gabriel and Urban discuss the recent attempt to 51% attack the privacy cryptocurrency Monero, and what you can do about it. MINE MONERO GUIDE → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/start-mining-monero-now/ 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 Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published Friday

Gabriel and Urban debrief a recent privacy-focused Bitcoin conference in Riga, Latvia. Is there hope for Bitcoin? 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 Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 08/13

Gabriel Custodiet speaks with Amir Taaki, hardcore cypherpunk with a wild curriculum vitae: working on Bitcoin in the early days, developer of Dark Wallet, fighter against ISIS, and developer of DarkFi privacy-focused communication platform (among other things). GUEST → https://x.com/Narodism → https://x.com/DarkFiSquad → https://dark.fi/ → https://t.me/darkfichat WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 2:20 - What is the difference between a criminal and a forest rebel? 3:20 - How did Amir discover anarchy? 15:15 - Amir Taaki's thoughts on how Bitcoin got to where it is 27:15 - Work on Dark Wallet 41:15 - Does Amir regret creating the BIP process? 50:50 - Why did Amir Taaki go to fight ISIS? 1:03:40 - Amir Taaki gets onto The List after fighting ISIS 1:12:05 - DarkFi 1:14:00 - Final Thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 08/11

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://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Update on Cake Wallet 5:50 – Challenges of developing on iPhone 11:10 – Difficulties of running a Monero company 17:30 – Do Bitcoiners at conferences secretly use Monero? 23:10 – What does price mean in Monero? 28:40 – Monero changing from ring signatures to full-chain membership proofs 32:25 – Who develops Monero? 38:20 – Ross Ulbricht huge Bitcoin donation from darknet market 44:55 – Has Bitcoin failed? 49:45 – Can Monero learn from Zcash? 56:50 – Final Thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 08/04

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://escapethetechnocracy.com/product/bitcoin-self-sovereignty/ GUEST → https://x.com/maxtannahill → t.me/maxtannahill (Telegram) → https://www.p2prights.org/donate.html (Samourai Wallet court case donations) WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:30 – Update on Samourai Wallet 13:30 – Ashigaru Whirlpool 21:40 – Bitcoin Knots 30:00 – Worst person in Bitcoin since May 2025 36:30 – Why make every transactions a CoinJoin? 42:30 – A common Bitcoin genre… 51:15 – Aping in to Bitcoin 57:50 – Thoughts on Ledger 1:01:30 – Amir Taaki vs Jameson Lopp 1:06:52 – What is Max most proud of being English? 1:11:20 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 07/14

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 → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:20 – Thoughts on Eastern Europe 6:40 – What happened to Europe after WWII 13:50 – The illusion of free markets 20:30 – What role does gold play in history? 33:10 – Thoughts on Goldbacks 41:00 – Cash is not property? 43:45 – How to get into homesteading 50:00 – Is replacement fertility rate really that important? 57:30 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 07/07

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. GUEST → Competent Man Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@CompetentManPod → https://x.com/competentmanpod → https://competentmanpod.com/ → Palisades Gold Radio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6X0ttmzTAJt_2ebcqcIbYw → https://palisadesradio.ca/ → https://x.com/PalisadesRadio WATCHMAN PRIVACY → https://watchmanprivacy.com (Including privacy consulting) → https://twitter.com/watchmanprivacy → https://escapethetechnocracy.com/ CRYPTO DONATIONS → https://watchmanprivacy.com/donate.html TIMELINE 00:00 – Introduction 1:40 – Favorite guests from Palisades Gold Radio 4:00 – Views on gold 10:00 – Fundamentals of contrarian investing 17:30 – Appreciation for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)? 28:50 – Economic problems in Canada 39:10 – Bullish case for uranium 43:50 – Shadowbanning experiences 48:00 – The craft of welding 1:00:24 – What is a competent man? 1:07:30 – How to vet a bank 1:14:00 – Setting up a self-sufficient trailer 1:18:45 – Tom Bodrovic’s top books on understanding the world 1:22:55 – Final thoughts Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
Published 06/30