KOL501 | Stephan Kinsella (The Kinsellanator) returns to dispense some White Pills, with Mark Maresca of The White Pillbox: Próspera and Free Cities, PFS, Helsinki, Bitcoin, Why the State Is Fragile, Way-Station Libertarians, Anarchism, and IP

Kinsella on Liberty Podcast: Episode 501.

This is my discussion with Mark Maresca, of The White Pillbox, about my recent travels: episode. (Previous episode: Kinsella as “White Pill”: Maresca, “From the White-PillBox: Part 29. Achilles Heel edition 3”; KOL473 | The Universal Principles of Liberty, with Mark Maresca of The White Pillbox.)

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No, it’s not a new WWF hero. It’s Stephan Kinsella (the Kinsellanator) returning to the White Pillbox, to smash a folding chair over the head of statism.

Together we bob and weave across the landscape of libertarianism and the transition to a free society. And we see tangible building blocks forming, as Stephan discusses the three important conferences he recently attended: The Free Cities Conference held in Prospera Honduras, the Property and Freedom Society annual conference in Bodrum, Turkey, and The 2026 Bitcoin Conference held in Helsinki Finland.

Stephan Kinsella is an intellectual property attorney and a major contributor to libertarian thought and scholarship. His work is consolidated at his main website: https://stephankinsella.com/ Just a handful of his publications include: Against Intellectual Property: https://c4sif.org/aip/ Legal Foundations of a Free Society: https://stephankinsella.com/lffs/ The Universal Principles of Liberty: https://stephankinsella.com/principles/ Check out Stephan’s podcast Kinsella On Liberty: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Links to the organizations of the events he attended: The Free Cities Foundation: https://free-cities.org/ The Property and Freedom Society: https://propertyandfreedom.org/ The Nordic Bitcoin Conference held in Helsinki, Finland, 2026: https://btchel.com/ Other general items we covered: The Great Fiction, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Fiction-...

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Shownotes (Grok)

Kinsella reported on three recent trips: the Free Cities Conference in Próspera, the Property and Freedom Society’s 20th meeting in Bodrum, and the Nordic Bitcoin Conference in Helsinki. He liked the people at Próspera and may return, though he doubts the project will become a tech metropolis. A debate on intellectual property, moderated by Alex Voss, stayed polite but thin. He still sees most seasteading and startup-country schemes as long shots, including Liberland and unflagged fl