Aug 19
287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?
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 t ... Show More
52m 30s
Aug 12
286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery
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 a ... Show More
48m 24s
Aug 5
285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining
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.Y ... Show More
1h 1m
Mar 2019
SLP61 David Bailey - Refocusing on Bitcoin
David Bailey, CEO of BTC Media (yBitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network) joins me in this wide ranging conversation about Bitcoin over the years, and Bitcoin media: Journey over the years Getting into Bitcoin media Problems with ‘enterprise blockchain’ The ‘path b ... Show More
58m 1s
May 2020
SLP171 PlanB & Saifedean Ammous – Bitcoin S2FX, S2F, and Evolution From Collectible to Financial Asset
PlanB (pseudonymous Bitcoin quant) & Saifedean (Bitcoin economist) rejoin me to talk about PlanB’s latest work on S2FX, and some of the debates being had on S2F modelling as well as addressing some of the criticism. We will also talk about Bitcoin as it goes through phase tra ... Show More
1h 36m
Aug 2018
SLP8 - Bitcoin Monetary Evolution, with Murad Mahmudov
Murad and I explore a range of economic thought about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in a fascinating interview discussing the path to Bitcoin as 'monetary winner'. As a prolific writer and analyst in Bitcoin, Murad is very well read and articulate. We discuss: His articles, how Bi ... Show More
52m 51s
Aug 2018
SLP16 - Keeping Bitcoin Simple, with Beautyon (Akin Fernandez)
Akin (Beautyon_) and I discuss what led him to Bitcoin, his Bitcoin business Azteco, stances on Bitcoin and regulation, the importance of keeping Bitcoin simple, Open source software versus closed source software, and Samurai Bitcoin wallet.
56m 58s
Dec 2020
SLP237 Saifedean Ammous - Fiat Standard & Fiat Propaganda
Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard rejoins me on the show to talk about his upcoming book, The Fiat Standard. We chat about how the fiat standard started, and the propaganda that they use to maintain it.
Saifedean links: Site: Saifedean.com Twitter: @saifedean
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1h 5m
Jan 2019
SLP47 Giacomo Zucco - Custodial LN, Altcoins, Financialisation, Attacks on Bitcoin
Giacomo Zucco, well known Bitcoin advocate, Supremo of BHB Network, and bitcoin consultant/teacher joins me in this episode. We talk: His Bitcoin 'rage quit'! The recent trend of Lightning Network custodial wallets, and whether this is on net a good or bad thing Thoughts on altco ... Show More
1h 15m