THORChain Weekly Live Matt Carano - Brave The New World: THORChain Podcast #185
Mar 31, 2026
Matt Carano, a liberty-focused podcaster and writer behind Brave The New World, talks first principles, voluntarism, and the non-aggression principle. He explores sovereign technologies like money, AI, energy, and the risks of centralized control. Conversations touch on Starlink, militarized robots, local AI models, crypto’s role in resisting state power, and visions of agent-driven economies.
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Parler Example Shows Infrastructure Capturability
- Matt cites Parler's 2020 takedown as an example of single-point-of-failure platforms being shut down by infrastructure providers.
- He argues hosting on centralized services makes projects capturable and vulnerable to shutdown or pressure.
Sovereign Hardware Is The Foundation For Trustworthy AI
- Provable sovereign hardware is the foundation for trustworthy AI because it guarantees the OS can't be corrupted by outside forces.
- Matt suggests such hardware exists in niche apps now and will be the base for sovereign AI and robots.
Canadian Truckers Protest Exposed Financial Censorship
- The Canadian trucker protests and subsequent bank freezes awakened many to financial censorship; Matt and hosts cite mass withdrawals and political pressure as a wake-up for normies.
- This episode spurred interest in crypto as money the state can't cut off.