Bungocast Episode #4 - @zelinarxy

In this episode @zelinarxy and I discuss his book “The Right to Transact”.

Recorded 2025-05-20. Released 2025-08-27.

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Timestamps

  • 0:00 - Intro
  • 1:56 - Aloha!
  • 2:20 - “The Right to Transact” summary
  • 3:53 - Why don't we talk about the right to transact?
  • 5:17 - The right to transact is fundamental
  • 6:37 - Threats to the right to transact
  • 9:17 - Central Bank Digital Currencies
  • 17:01 - CBDCs and surveillance
  • 22:19 - CBDCs have barely been addressed in fiction
  • 25:28 - High Modernism and the urge to know and control
  • 38:42 - The ineffectiveness of KYC and AML laws
  • 42:11 - Inevitability and the need for a technological solution to a technological problem
  • 48:37 - What would you add to “The Right to Transact” since it was published?
  • 50:08 - We are already losing the right to transact
  • 51:09 - Canada is done
  • 54:29 - Trees are nice
  • 55:21 - What does “Zelinar XY” mean?
  • 1:02:35 - Buy book!
  • 1:04:38 - Aloha!
  • 1:05:00 - Outro

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