The Blue Frontiers Podcast

Description The guest of this episode is Robert Viglione, co-founder of ZenCash. In this friendly conversation with our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, Robert speaks of the long-plans of ZenCash, its partnerships and, of course, seasteading. This chat is a one hour conversation about why and how the value of ZenCash align those of Blue Frontiers and of seasteading.  –––VARYON PRESALE––– https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/varyon   –––JOIN US ON TELEGRAM––– T.me/bluefrontierscommunity Timestamps 0:00 Intro of Rob Viglione 0:26 How is ZenCash relevant for liquid democracy models of governance in seasteading3:44 Professionalization of blockchain5:22 ZenCash’s company departments  6:55 Rob’s life as an academic 8:31 Why the rejection towards the blockchain space10:13 Why Rob loves seasteading so much11:11 Rob’s prediction about the future of seasteading12:00 How the values of Seasteading and Blue Frontiers match the values of ZenCash12:54 Floating Island Project in French Polynesia13:35 Once you go crypto, you don’t go back 14:31 Governance through uses of blockchain on seasteads16:17 Rob did the first Bitcoin transaction in Afghanistan18:33 Exiting and a post-ideological world18:59 Decentralized governance brings security22:13 Why reducing complexity makes no sense24:30 Inequalities and decentralisation in crypto projects and the world28:37  Why nation-states are violent systems that don’t work31:57 Selective transparency; the future33:52 ZenCash’s public Trello Roadmap36:50 Open source or not open source?42:06 Evolving systems to create multiple DAOs competing43:40 ZenCash and Seasteadings are the best friends in the world 44:38 First Tahitian Seasteading Gathering 201746:35 The effects on a world with seasteads47:49 Ideal properties of a community and the importance of humility51:38 Hero Engine World, Ethland, Blue Frontiers and Rob’s projects53:59 Keep Calm &…55:02 The Varyon, the cryptocurrency of seasteads57:21 “our parents’ generation was all hippies…but they were poor hippies. We now wit cryptocurrencies can afford to make this stuff a reality. We are going going to create a more peaceful happy clean world”59:20 How to join Blue Frontiers community on Telegram   –––––SUBSCRIBE–––––iTunes: https://apple.co/2DD5f4uStitcher: http://bit.ly/2DwaIuK –––––LEARN MORE–––––https://www.blue-frontiers.comhttps://twitter.com/bluefrontiershttps://www.instagram.com/bluefrontiers/https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Frontiers-255004088265639/

This episode of the Blue Frontiers Podcast is the first of the Varyon Series. The guest is Cindicaor’s Co-Founder and CTO, Yuri Lobynstev. In this episode Yuri talks to our seavangelesse about the key concepts at the core of Cindicator, such as hybrid intelligence and its future global strategy. Yuri also explains what role does collective intelligence can place in decision-making on sasteads and why he decided to become advisor of Blue Frontiers. The talk also navigates through what intention represents for Yuri and how he became interested in concepts related to the mind and human psychology.    –––VARYON PRESALE––– https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/varyon   –––JOIN US ON TELEGRAM––– T.me/bluefrontierscommunity   TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro0:39 Yuri fall from a motorcycle1:44 What is Cindicator3:24 Cindicator on the Moscow Stock Exchange4:16 Cindicator: 100.000 financial analysts & 160 countries4:37 Hybrid intelligence5:04 Cindicator’s App5:50 Machine learning algorithms to correct human mistakes6:39 Cindicator’s Global Strategy: creating the Global Brain14:05: Hybrid intelligence on seasteads17:42 Cindicator’s ICO selection process20:56 Intention: Yuri’s trajectory in the realm of dreams, the human mind, psychology, the human brain and computers35:27 Cindicator and Blue Frontiers 40:04 Blue Frontiers’ Insiders Access Week in Tahiti & French Polynesia42:58 Yuri’s & Cindicator's role as an advisor of Blue Frontiers, the Varyon & the smart contract47:11 Why contemporary world is so special49:57 Advices for CEO’s doing ICO’s 53:29 Closing –––––SUBSCRIBE–––––iTunes: https://apple.co/2DD5f4uStitcher: http://bit.ly/2DwaIuK –––––LEARN MORE–––––https://www.blue-frontiers.comhttps://twitter.com/bluefrontiershttps://www.instagram.com/bluefrontiers/https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Frontiers-255004088265639/

TimestampsThe guest of this episode of the Floating Architecture, Engineering & Design Series is Rutger de Graaf van Dinter, a civil engineer with a very special vision. In this conversation with our seavangelesse, Rutger speaks of how floating architecture can make human societies more resilient. Not only at an engineering level, but also in terms of better governance. Engineering will make us free! Free from bad governance is the conclusion of this podcast between Rutger de Graaf and Nathalie Mezza-Garcia.    –––VARYON PRESALE––– https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/varyon   –––JOIN US ON TELEGRAM––– T.me/bluefrontierscommunity   Timestamps: 1:02 Introduction to Rutger de Graaf and his PhD thesis 1:43 Harnessing complexity in sociotechnical systems 4:07 Transition management 4:36 Why building floating structures 5:00 Water management in the Netherlands 6:22 Algae fuels 6:45 Land scarcity 7:48 Sea level rise 8:33 Resilience and adaptation 10:48 Vulnerability of centralised systems 12:23 Decentralised water management 12:57 The robustness of decentralised and distributed systems 13:49 Achieving political independence with decentralised physical infrastructure 14:55 Governance on the commons 15:37 Autonomy and self-governance of utility infrastructure 16:58 Public/private partnerships on seasteads 18:00 The limitations of traditional legislation for technological innovation 19:20 Can engineering make us free? 20:10 The value of experimentation 22:20 Monitoring as a mechanism of control and learning 22:45 The weakening of the nation-state 25:10 Space at Sea, a project between Blue21 and Marine in the North Sea 26:10 City states on water 27:18 Floating Special Economic Zones   29:40 The impossibly of knowledge 28:37 Learning from ecology 29:53 The failure of hierarchical management for organising societies 30:20 What has changed in the past ten years 32:58 The visionary municipality of Rotterdam 34:30 The municipality of Rotterdam   34:20 The power of young innovators and the role of luck in success 36:30 The limitations of innovation steering by governments 37:20 The value of failures 39:38 A future full of seasteads 41:00 The impact of Joe Quirk’s book 43:29 Rutger childhood’s dreams 44:36 Indymo, water monitoring with underwater drones (Indymo) 48:33 Underwater sensors (algae monitoring, temperature, turbidity, salinity, nutrients…) 51:00 Rui Lima, the global expert in underwater drones for monitoring water quality 52:18 The intrinsic value of nature 54:25 How floating structures can help create new underwater ecosystems 56:45 Monitoring water in the Floating Island Project 58:30 Floating Futures Conference   –––––SUBSCRIBE–––––iTunes: https://apple.co/2DD5f4uStitcher: http://bit.ly/2DwaIuK –––––LEARN MORE–––––https://www.blue-frontiers.comhttps://twitter.com/bluefrontiershttps://www.instagram.com/bluefrontiers/https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Frontiers-255004088265639/

Description This episode is the second part of the podcast with Joseph McKinney, CEO of Nuhanse Network and the Startup Societies Foundation. The chat is focused on the Startup Societies Summit at the George Mason University, organized with the purpose of creating a consortium about how can blockchain technologies help rebuild Puerto Rico after the hurricane. Joe does a great job in describing what are the goals of the consortium, who are the speakers, the relevance of the Puerto Rican participation in the event, and the action-oriented focus of it. Joe also speaks of the open source legal system ULEX, by developed by Tom W. Bell, which won the Dragon’s Den competition in April 2018. You will also hear here why the promotion of experimentation of governance at the core of the Startup Societies Foundation and Blue Frontiers is so important, thanks to a conversation that Joe has with our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, about self-organized commons and the relations that anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism have.    –––VARYON PRESALE––– https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/varyon   –––JOIN US ON TELEGRAM––– T.me/bluefrontierscommunity     Timestamps 0:00 Introduction to the podcast and Joe McKinney 1:17 Startup Societies Foundation and Nuhanse Network 1:38 Institute for Competitive Governance 1:45 Part 1 of this podcast 2:38 Startup Societies Conglomerate 3:12 Sharing information across startup societies 3:45 Ethical principles for startup societies of the Startup Societies Conglomerate 4:37 Elysium, Startup Societies HQ in Malta 5:00 The role of the Startup Societies Foundation 5:55 The concept of startup society 6:10 Why is Joe not a Libertarian 7:40 Startup Society Summit about Puerto Rico at George Mason University #dontarguerebuild 8:55 Puerto Ricans in the consortium (Friends of Puerto Rico, Foundation for Puerto Rico, Colmena 66) 9:35 Greg Delaune, Joe Quirk, Lotta Morberg, Crystal Rose, Tom W. Bell, Adelle Brown, Rahul Chapra, Eduard Stringam, Derek McGill 10:40 Action-oriented project of the Startup Societies 11:15 Startup cities in Puerto Rico (Joe’s goal) 12:35 Consortium with Restart Week, Puertopians 13:32 Puerto Rican and Spanish-speaking participation in the consortium 15:08 Dragon’s Den competition won by Tom W. Bell’s ULEX, Institute for Competitive Governance 17:57 Open Source Journal for Startup Societies with Patri Friedman and Tom W. Bell 19:55 The role of geography in the ULEX 21:00 Restart Week West & Tribalize 21:35 Libertarian ecologists and communes 22:24 Nathalie’s PhD research about heterarchies, seasteading and the Floating Island Project   27:27 Strategies for creating startup societies 33:57 Liberland 35:15 Negotiating and partnering with nations and governments 36:41 Is taxation theft? 37:41 Anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism 39:01 Self-organized institutions for collective action 40:40 Post-ideological world 40:50 Avoiding the tragedy of the commons 46:18 Goodbyes   –––––SUBSCRIBE–––––iTunes: https://apple.co/2DD5f4uStitcher: http://bit.ly/2DwaIuK –––––LEARN MORE–––––https://www.blue-frontiers.comhttps://twitter.com/bluefrontiershttps://www.instagram.com/bluefrontiers/https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Frontiers-255004088265639/

This episode of the Blue Frontiers Podcast is the first of the new Blue Frontiers Global format, where we will showcase friends of seasteading and Blue Frontiers. The guest of this episode is the legendary economist David Friedman, the father of Patri Friedman, the intelectual parent of seasteading. The recording of this chat took place in Belgrade, Serbia, at Liberticon 2018, thr conference organized by European Students for Liberty. In it our Seavangelesse, Nathalie Mezza-Garcia, had the chance to interview David about his ideas, his son Patri, his early career in physics, seasteading, anarcho-capitalism and even anarcho-communism.    –––VARYON PRESALE––– https://www.blue-frontiers.com/en/varyon   –––JOIN US ON TELEGRAM––– T.me/bluefrontierscommunity   Timestamps 00.50 Introduction to David Friedman’s tour across Europe 3:23 How David feels about the reception of his ideas 5:20 The origin of the name Varyon 5:57 How David feels about his son Patri 6:50 Private courts on seasteads 7:50 The importance of trial and error in forms of governance 10:10 The origin of Special Economic Zones 11:20 Anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-communism 13:40 Families as communist institutions 15:20 David’s upbringing of his children 14:25 The importance of no blueprints 16:50 Nathalie’s PhD research about David Friedman’s work and Elinor Ostrom’s 17:30 Seeing like a State and The Art of not Being Governed 22:30 Legal Systems very Different from Ours (David Friedman’s book) 23:07 Why Friedman would never run for president 23:48 David’s intellectual trajectory from classical economics to libertarianism 25:50 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, one of David’s favorite books 26:50 David’s early life as a physicist PhD student writing about economics 23:00 James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock 31:20 David early research positions, his wife 32:10 Compensation of enforcement 38:20 David’s PhD thesis on a mathematical understanding of elementary particles 38:50 Econophysics 39:50 Goodbye   –––––SUBSCRIBE–––––iTunes: https://apple.co/2DD5f4uStitcher: http://bit.ly/2DwaIuK –––––LEARN MORE–––––https://www.blue-frontiers.comhttps://twitter.com/bluefrontiershttps://www.instagram.com/bluefrontiers/https://www.facebook.com/Blue-Frontiers-255004088265639/

This is the founders series of the Blue Frontiers Podcast. Today we have Randy Hencken, managing director and co-founder of blue frontiers. In this podcast, Randy tells the story of all the previous seasteading attempts that were necessary to reach the point where we are now, after having signed an agreement with a national government to build the Floating Island Project.       Introduction to Randy & Seasteading [00:00] Randy Hencken is the co-founder and managing director of Blue Frontiers as well as managing director of the seasteading institute which is the non-profit company that is building the floating island project. Randy started in 2011 and within a year became the executive director and for complicated, legal reasons – is now the managing director. Seasteading is a plan to develop new communities, new cities and new nations at sea that float and are modular, can grow organically and allow people opportunities to explore new forms of society that cannot exist in land based communities. Birth of the name for “Blue Frontiers” and it being a non-profit [03:20]                   Nathalie and Randy talk about “Blue Frontiers” being a non-profit that has somehow gotten funding despite the large sums of money required for the project. They explain that the name “Blue Frontiers was thought of by another co-founder Ian Raijicov who wanted to stress the opportunity the sea possesses. Peter Thiel [14:04] Randy explains that Peter Thiel is the man that invested the initial funding but it is not his only investment – Peter has invested in hundreds if not thousands of projects and he is the ultimate venture capitalist. ..and in 2008 a friend of Peter’s invited Patrick to come over for lunch and tell Peter about sea setting and at that meeting Peter said this is a great idea I want you to pursue it and he pulled out his cheque book and gave Patrick a $500 000 cheque and said I want you a non-profit  and explore whether seasteading could be a reality or not (16:30) Club Stead [08:24] Randy mentions that it has been nine years since the seasteading institute was created and briefly alludes to Blue Sea – another project that’s a part of Club Stead. Blue Sea was a project that was canceled due to its exorbitant costs required to build a submersible hotel that would float steadily off the coast of Southern California. Well to construct one alone is going to be about a hundred and but about 200 million dollars to build it and you have to do operations of it and then you would have to anchor it and then you would have to you know maintain it and oil rigs are made to last for about 20 years before they come out the sea you know rust out so yeah [10:40] Seasteading events and parties! [11:10] The Seasteading Institute started an event back in 2009 or 2010 – a party to encourage the future of seasteading and basically get people excited about seasteading. He explains that the idea was to start small up in Sacramento delta – get a bunch of plie woods and barrels that construct floating platforms together! The platforms would then eventually come out to the San Francisco bay and move into the open ocean. For a long weekend party – people dressed up like pirates etc. They discuss that event is still happening to this day. People actually own big giant barges that they rebuild and change every year – the whole thing is very interesting, actually. You could even get your own silent island with no music or go to the party island if you’re into that kind of stuff! There was also even a casino! It is indescribably fascinating how such an amazing thing is yet to be explored by a big chunk of people. Randy’s decision to start focusing on international waters [15:15] Nathalie and Randy discuss the Charter City movement. It’s a start-up-city movement and the idea for this movement is that they give you a section of land and you can import new rules on it. I’ve seen people get really attached to their land and believe in it with great aspirations. But t