The Bitcoin Standard Podcast
Saifedean's The Bitcoin Standard Podcast is the place to discuss Bitcoin and economics from the Austrian school's perspective. Listen to the weekly saifedean.com discussion seminar, where a group of learners from all over the world discuss the website's online courses, as well as a wide variety of economic, political, and social issues, and occasionally host special guests for the discussion. The podcast also includes the most interesting interviews conducted with Saifedean on other shows.
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The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard money, restores savings, long-term vision, and civilization. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several lang
Fiat"s superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS, where you can also find the full lecture notes available for fre
The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’s precise, irrevocable private-key control. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifed
Lecture 4 of The Fiat Standard explains how fiat is mined through credit creation, incentivizing everyone to get into debt, causing prices to rise, which is covered up with the nonsensical CPI. Saylor"s explanation of prices as a vector is far better for understanding inflation. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audi
Lecture 3 of The Fiat Standard explains the underlying technology behind fiat: a centralized network where money is created from credit expansion, devaluing existing holders" wealth, externalizing default risk onto society, & undermining savings, trade, & capital accumulation. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiob
This is Lecture 2 of Saifedean"s online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. The course began last week and will include all 18 lectures. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or audiobook in several languages on saifedean.com/TFS, where you can also find the full lecture notes available for free do
