Oct 27

349. The Gold Standard - Presented at the Property & Freedom Society

At the Property & Freedom Society, Saifedean presents his latest book, The Gold Standard, an alternative history of the 20th century where hard money ended WWI, made governments compete for citizens & enabled free trade & self-determination.Sponsors:BitGo: Institutional custody, ... Show More

37m 4s

Oct 20

348. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Lecture 2: Money

Lecture 2 in The Bitcoin Standard explains the problem money solves, how the solution shapes the desirable properties of money: salability across scales, space & time; why the latter property, expressed through hardness, is the critical feature of money & how it can be measured.J ... Show More

41m 49s

Oct 13

347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

Starting this week, Saifedean will be sharing a new online course on The Bitcoin Standard, revisiting the book almost 10 years on. This first lecture covers the prologue: how Bitcoin started, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.BitGo: Institutio ... Show More

34m 53s

Jun 2014

Bitcoin

The new economy based on bitcoins, the computer-generated crypto-currency, is the subject for discussion. What can you buy with them and as the market fluctuates wildly, can investors hold their nerve? The programme will look at how the bitcoin craze began and whether the world r ... Show More

28m 4s

Aug 2018

SLP13 - Bitcoin as Ultimate Asset, with Fernando Ulrich, Austrian Economist

In this episode, we talk through emerging market currency crises, and his new 5 part article series on Bitcoin as Ultimate Asset. We contrast differing monetary views, why it doesn't make sense to spend bitcoin right now, Medium of Exchange vs Method of Payment, and fallacies of ... Show More

50m 25s

May 2021

SLP272 Peter St Onge - Bitcoin Energy Double Standards & Why Robots Are Not Taking All Our Jobs

Peter St Onge, Austrian economist and fellow at Mises Institute joins me on the show to talk about his thoughts on Bitcoin Energy use, and what Deflationary growth will look like. We chat: <ul> <li>Bitcoin energy costs</li> <li>Fiat standard costs</li> <li>Costs of rec ... Show More

1h 13m

Jul 2020

SLP189 Ragnar Lifthrasir Should You Spend Bitcoin Now?

There’s a lot of heated discussion about Bitcoin HODLing vs Spending,  the circular economy, and what actions build on Bitcoin’s censorship  resistance. Ragnar Lifthrasir of Guns N Bitcoin joins me for a  discussion on this topic. Ragnar links:</s ... Show More

38m 47s

Nov 2020

SLP228 OKCoin’s Bitcoin Developer Grant Program with Hong Fang

Hong Fang, CEO of OKCoin joins me to talk about: <ul> <li>Her pathway to learning about Bitcoin</li> <li>Bitcoin’s current status in the market</li> <li>Funding Bitcoin development</li> <li>Focus and priorities for development</li> <li>Identifying talent</li> </ul> ... Show More

1h 4m

Jul 2024

MI Rewind: Why Buy Bitcoin w/ Andy Edstrom

Clay Finck chats with Andy Edstrom about why Bitcoin should be considered as a part of an investment portfolio, how Andy thinks about valuing Bitcoin as an investment, how investors can potentially keep themselves from ‘buying the top’ in Bitcoin, the 14 characteristics of money ... Show More

1h 31m

Mar 2017

50 - Steve Hanke on Hyperinflations

Steve Hanke is a professor of applied economics and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at ... Show More

1h 3m

May 2021

BTC026: Bitcoin Mastermind w/ Lyn Alden & Jeff Booth (Bitcoin Podcast)

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN: What Elon Musk's impact will be w/ Bitcoin Bitcoin energy concerns Bitcoin centralization concerns Bitcoin Payment times Stanley Druckenmiller's comments on the dollar losing global reserve status How are corporate boards viewing the Bitcoin volatil ... Show More

1h 14m

Debating Professor Hanke on Bitcoin's va...