The Praxeology of Privacy: Freedom Tech vs Mass Surveillance | Max Hillebrand

<p><strong>Privacy isn’t about having something to hide. It’s about preserving the freedom to act, communicate, and coordinate without coercion.</strong></p>

<p>In this episode of <em>THE Bitcoin Podcast</em>, Walker sits down with privacy advocate, cypherpunk, and Freedom Tech builder Max Hillebrand to discuss his new book, <em>The Praxeology of Privacy</em>.</p>

<p>Max explains how Austrian economics and cypherpunk philosophy intersect, why privacy is a natural consequence of self-ownership and property rights, and how surveillance distorts economic calculation in much the same way that money printing distorts markets.</p>

<p>The conversation explores:</p>

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<li>Why privacy is fundamentally tied to freedom</li>

<li>The economic consequences of surveillance</li>

<li>CBDCs and the future of financial control</li>

<li>Why corporations and governments increasingly operate as surveillance partners</li>

<li>The role of Bitcoin in creating a parallel economy</li>

<li>Tor, VPNs, encryption, and network-level privacy</li>

<li>Nostr’s growing ecosystem and why developer adoption matters more than user counts</li>