What is the Billions Network? | Free The Money Ep. 26
Evin McMullen @provenauthority, Co-Founder & CEO of @billions_ntwk, joins Free the Money to discusses decentralized identity, AI agents, privacy, and the future of the internet.
Evin explains Billions Network’s mission to “save the internet” in the age of AI and how the company is using zero-knowledge proofs to help verify trust online without exposing unnecessary personal data or relying entirely on centralized systems.
We also dive into the risks of centralized identity projects like Worldcoin, the push for age verification laws, AI regulation, and why accountability in the age of autonomous agents may become one of the defining debates of our time.
Plus, we explore how platforms like TikTok are already using Billions’ technology, what the future of digital advertising could look like with AI agents, and whether there is actually a middle path between total anonymity and a full surveillance state.
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0:0 Evin’s background , how she got into the decentralized identity space
3:47 What is Billions Network & why its here to save the internet
5:29 Dead Internet Theory
9:14 Zano
13:19 Who’s responsible for agents behavior?
18:36 ITrustCapital
20:38 Privacy vs. surveillance and the middle path forward
24:56 Billions Network vs. Sam Altman’s Worldcoin
30:35 Real-world use cases for decentralized identity
32:40 TikTok using Billion’s client-side proving libraries
34:26 How AI agents could change digital advertising forever
35:50 Protecting healthcare data with zero-knowledge proofs
39:43 What happens when digital identity changes over time?
42:34 BILL token on Coinbase
45:16 AI regulation, deepfakes, and digital identity
48:00 Balancing regulation, privacy, and personal autonomy
51:25 The necessity of trust in digital interactions
57:30 Book recommendations
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Ep. 22 | Free The Money | The Fight for Digital Integrity with Alexis Roussel
In this episode, I sit down with privacy activist @alexis_roussel who is the co-founder and COO of @nym Technologies to explore one of the most important ideas of our time: the right to digital integrity. Alexis argues that in a world where our lives are increasingly online, personal data should not be treated as a commodity to be collected, bought, and sold—but as an extension of the individual. Drawing from his background in law, the United Nations, and digital rights advocacy, he explains why protecting human rights in the digital age requires a fundamental shift in how we think about data ownership and privacy.
We dive into how governments around the world are tightening control over the internet, from shutdowns in Iran to deep packet inspection, black-box surveillance systems, and forced apps in Russia—and why even EU regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation may be “broken by design.” Alexis makes the case that once data is treated as something that can be collected it opens the door to exploitation. Instead, he’s actively working to enshrine digital integrity into law—pushing to amend the Swiss Constitution so that extracting or misusing personal data without consent is recognized as a violation of human rights.
We also explore what comes next: the role of encryption, the dangers of metadata surveillance, and how technologies like Nym’s mixnet aim to make privacy the default. From mesh networks to censorship resistance, this conversation challenges the idea that surveillance equals safety and instead lays out a future where individuals retain control over their digital lives.
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0:00 Intro
1:04 Alexis’ background: law, open-source roots & path into privacy
8:43 Co-founding Bity: early Bitcoin brokerage in Switzerland
10:58 Meeting Harry Halpin & joining Nym in Neuchâtel
12:23 Why control of network infrastructure matters: censorship, mesh networks & “anonymous by default” internet
21:09 How governments censor the internet: Iran shutdowns, Russia’s DPI, black box & man-in-the-middle attacks
30:59 Russia’s “Max” app: state-backed super app for surveillance & control
32:29 Europe’s surveillance creep: ISPs storing metadata, backdoors & “Chat Control”
36:34 Privacy vs law enforcement: why mass surveillance doesn’t stop real crime
43:02 Nym Mixnet explained: hiding metadata & why “we kill based on metadata” matters
53:55 Palantir infiltration
56:22 The Right to Digital Integrity & the Cambridge Analytica scandal
1:00:37 Why General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is “broken by design” & treats data like a commodity
1:06:23 zkNym: unlinking identity, payments & network usage
1:13:42 Switzerland’s surveillance laws: VÜPF & BÜPF explained
1:30:07 Book recommendations: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, The Sovereign Individual & Petite Poucette
Edge CEO @paullinator breaks down why he supports @zano_project. Zano’s lead dev Andrey Sabelnikov developed from scratch CryptoNote implementation(which later was used as origin for many projects, most known is Monero). Paul also discusses the added utility of private tokens on Zano. He explains why @Bridgeless_com was such an important piece, allowing assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum to be bridged into Zano’s private blockchain. On Zano, not only are the sender, receiver, and amount hidden, but because multiple private assets can exist on the chain. #privacy #zano #privacybydefault #xmr